. >> a group of citizens of the republic of belarus declared creation of a coordination council, ones of which is a transfer of power. they plan to create political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country. creating such a body is not allowed by the law. the activity is unconstitutional. a group of citizens who understand the validity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with. the activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority, as well as damage the national security of belarus. anchor: al jazeera's steph fossen is inside the country and following develop is for us inside the capital, minsk. steph: inside the sanctions center, where after the protest started, thousands were contained and badly beaten. many have been released. up to 4000 is the estimation but there are still around 3000 people detained. people are gathering here every day now to try to get their personal belongings back. that seems to be quite a struggle. there's also some unclear reports that many people are not ac

o'donnell: we turn now overseas because tonight, there are fears the situation in the former soviet republic of belarusing out of control. protesters have taken to the streets against the longtime president. u.s. allies are worried that russian forces could move in as they did in ukraine. cbs' chris livesay reports tonight from the capital. >> reporter: after 10 nights of public outrage and police brutality, an ominous warning from the president of belarus, the man considered the last dictator of europe, who protesters say rigged an election. "the unrest must end," ordered president alexander lukashenko, sparking fears of more savage parking fears of crackdowns. protesters are standing off with police. he give upower? clearly lost violence.police i'm afraid that i won't come home this day. >> reporter: there are fears among america's european allies that russian president vladimir ditin could move in to prop up his former soviet ally. as lukashenko desperately clings ur gernment us lianimals, but i leaves u becse we can't take it anymore. >> reporter: chris livesay, cbs news, minsk. >> o'donnell: and t

it's really really loud here what is playing behind me right now is the national anthem of the republic of belarus a little bit of context we are right on the western of the country in the city of brest to see a lot during the tongue of the 2nd world war as it's known here the great country don't see one beside me behind me excuse me you can see well your guess is as good as mine here when it comes to scale but i would say this about the stephanie thousands of people maybe clubs to 10000 there's a drone flying around so when we get aerial pictures with you. it will be more likely for us to get a better projection and basically people have to look to a number of them and their message just some of them one change some don't want change but none of them want to. break in sanaa to be played out in their public also a lot of people are making a huge point about the flak you can see how many better russian flags official by the russian flags out behind the just around me but essentially they have been saying that the white. red and white flag the colors chosen by the opposition they resemble the black

a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus. there is that valsin is inside the country and has been following developments for us from the capital minsk. i'm at a detention center where after the election the protests started thousands of people were detained and also badly beaten and even tortured many have been released up to $4000.00 is the estimation but they're still around 3000 people detained people are gathering here every day now to try to get their personal belongings back and that seems to be quite a struggle also there's also some

chanting shame shame but essentially what they want they want the incumbent president of the republic of belarus to step down we've seen daily action but this is it because it's a sunday and this has become sort of a traditional saying for them have to say a couple words about some pro-government action that the capital of better us has seen essentially that have been opposing actions. between both the anti government and the pro-government protesters have been boxed in so to speak because there's a line of special forces literally a few meters away from me and people are yelling at them they're yelling shame shame they're saying that you swore an oath to serve and protect this country you like and they're saying who are you protecting this country from now so essentially now this column is not being allowed to move any further and in the back very slowly from what i can see a very heavy police force is moving from the back sort of kind of cramping it in look at this sea of people and let my cameraman just show you over there look how far it has stretched out along the road and. this stella is a

chanting shame shame but essentially what they want they want the incumbent president of the republic of belarus to step down we've seen daily action but this is a very large scale protest because it's a sunday and this has become sort of a traditional thing for them right now we don't know where the crowd is going because they don't have anything planned they were planning to meet here and started here the police didn't let them do that so right now they're just being pushed back there but move security forces are awaiting for them there they're expecting them there we will be following them throughout the day we'll be covering the protests you can see some people are very passionate about it here and i have to say a couple words about some pro-government action that the capital of better us has seen essentially that have been opposing actions between both the anti government and the pro government but sunday has. come sort of again as i've already said as i've already mentioned that sunday has become a so additional time a traditional day of the week for people to gather here and now we'll jus

insists it is a threat to security group leader who is brutal who was a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus the brother of a suicide bomber who attacked a concerts in the u.k. city of manchester in 2017 has been sentenced to 55 years in prison 22 people were among those attending a concert by ariana grande day they were killed when a baby detonated his explosives investigators say is brother hashem help source materials for the bomb families of the victims spoke after the sentencing. we would like to thank judge jeremy baker for imposing the biggest s

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of belarus. belarus did become an independent country when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. they established a new form of government. they constituted themselves as the republic of belarus. they held an election for president of that republic for the first time in 1994. in that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. again, they picked him in 1994. he is still there today. i say that belarus is kind of soviet because belarus is often described as europe's last dictatorship, and he is the dictator. but belarus is both effectively a dictatorship and also nominally it's a republic. it is a place that holds elections. and those two things may seem contrary, that you would be a dictatorship but also one that holds elections. but in practice, those two things often come together. i mean if you think about it, right, basically by definition, if you are an authoritarian leader, if you're a dictator, you don't believe in like checks and balances in government, right? you don't believe in anybody else in government, anybody else in any position in your country being able to interfere with you just dictating

of belarus. belarus did become an independent country when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. they established a new form of government. they constituted themselves as the republicy held an election for president of that republic for

a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus the united nations security council has called on molly's new military just to release the deposed president abraham to the cock a to members of the african union and the regional body ico os have suspended ties with the west african nation off to tuesday's military coup it comes as the military has released opposition supporters jailed by the deposed government address has reports. mali's new military leaders released these opposition demonstrators after the spent 2 weeks prison. unjustly arrested b

a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a quarter nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus well both the french and german leaders say they're determined to keep supporting protesters in belarus emanuel mackerel has been hosting angela merkel at his official residence in the south of france on weapons day the e.u. said it rejected the elections that kept the bell of russian president mr look in office the block is also sanctioning government and security officials it deems to be responsible for brutally repressing protests against look a shrink. still to come here on the news hour we'll

a group of citizens of the republic of belarus has declared creation of a cordon nation council one of the goals of which is a transfer of power the plan to create a political body that should undertake the transfer of power from the current head of the country creating such a body is not allowed by the law their activity is unconstitutional a group of citizens who understand the invalidity of their actions has left the council and do not agree with its activity creation and activity of such a council is designated to seize state authority as well as damage the national security of belarus step also has more now from minsk. i'm added the tension center where after the election the protests started thousands of people were detained and also badly beaten and even tortured many have been released up to $4000.00 is the estimation but they're still around 3000 people detained people are gathering here every day now to try to get their personal belongings back and that seems to be quite a struggle also there's also some unclear reports that the many people are not accounted for at this momen

i urge all the countries of the world to respect the sovereignty of the republic of belarus.t you didn't want to become a politician but you have become a politician. whether we actually become a candidate for presidency if they are our new elections? you know, this question asa elections? you know, this question as a present is not even being discussed because our main objective is to obtain these new transparent fairand is to obtain these new transparent fair and free elections. thank you. next question. baltic news service. sanctions for a regime of belarus. which sanctions could be the most effective? translation: which sanctions could be the most effective? translationzlj which sanctions could be the most effective? translation: ijust would like to thank all those countries who have supported us in the situation in belarus who are providing assistance to belarusians to stand up for their rights but i would like to repeat once again that i would like to appeal to all countries to respect the sovereignty of our country. thank you. next question. to what extent can you cont

belarus capital. protest have gathered pace following a brutal police crackdown. the prime ministers of the three baltic republicsn at. our correspondent reports now from minsk. fear has been replaced by anger. thousands of people in belarus continue coming out onto the street to voice their protest against president lukashenko. people are gathering at the sideway. alexander taraikovsky, one of the protesters who died during the violence here in minsk. they are chanting, we will never forget, we will never forgive. such kind of scenes were unimaginable in belarusjust a week ago. we are sure everything will change. we believe in our victory. that is why we will come in the street every day, every single day. i was calling my parents to tell them to go to the city centre, where the girls are out there with the flowers, because you can raise the freedom for the first time in almost all of your life. hundreds of people gathered to attend the funeral of alexander taraikovsky. people sang the opposition anthem and bode farewell

and that may have more to do with the president of russia than the president of bella reuss belarus is a former soviet republic and remains firmly within the kremlin's spear of influence on tuesday russian president vladimir putin spoke with the leaders of france and germany and reportedly warned europe not to get involved in support of democracy in belo reuss europe risks going too far giving the kremlin an excuse to send in troops to turn bella reuss into another ukraine. this is not lunch time on the end of a shift this is another nail in the coffin if you can shank has credibility. because we'll catch the state run chemicals factually. threats have no power over them anymore. protestors urged workers at one of the country's famed track to factories to join them but some decide to keep their jobs. thank you as we're already outside at a rally across the industrial heartlands of balor us rejection of lukashenko regime has gone nationwide and on wednesday that rejection officially went international a clear message from the european union we are ready to accompany peaceful democratic transition of power and b

drawing up sanctions against belarus officials who are suspected of election fraud and violence against protesters already turning hawkins' delves into why the former soviet republic has drawn so much international attention. just a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that will change the thousands pall over the streets in protest over the disputed presidential election it's the country's geography which between its big east the neighbor and europe sees the interests of international players intertwine and clash. officially the e.u. is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. as persona non-grata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing human rights violations in the wake of police violence closer to. withhold e.u. why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether they will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the by the russian authorities. condemnation was perhaps predictable but there is no shared view of what comes next the baltic states and poland have been the loudest critics of looking while

the prime ministers of the three baltic republics, latvia, lithuania and estonia, have called on belaruse has been replaced —— mcafee has been replaced by anger. thousands of people in belarus continue coming out onto the street to voice their protest against the death of this protest. one of the protesters that died during the violence here in minsk. they are chanting, we will never forget minsk. they are chanting, we will neverforget a! we minsk. they are chanting, we will never forget a! we will never forgive! such scenes were unimaginable in belarus just forgive! such scenes were unimaginable in belarusjust a week ago. we are sure everything will change. we believe in our victory. that is why we will come in the streets every day. every single day. i was calling my friends and telling them, you should go to the city ce ntre them, you should go to the city centre when these girls are out there with the flowers because you can have the freedom for the first time in almost all of your life. hundreds of people gathered to attend the funeral of alexander, the protester who died. people ar

the prime ministers of the three baltic republics, latvia, lithuania and estonia, have called on belarus abdurasulov, has more. people are gathering at the pushkinskaya metro station in minsk. this is the site where alexander taraikovsky, one of the protesters, died during the violence here. people are laying flowers in his memory, chanting, "we will never forget, we will never forgive." the crowd is getting bigger and bigger every minute. people keep coming. the drivers that are passing by are honking their car horns in support. this is truly unprecedented for belarus. mr lukashenko in his 26 years of being in power has neverfaced such a challenge before and perhaps this is a sign that he has reached the point of no return. the united states postal service has issued a warning that not all postal ballots for the presidential election in november will necessarily arrive in time to be counted. a huge increase in mail—in voting is expected this year but president trump says he won't approve funding to the usps to meet the extra demand. lossmaking and politically unloved. the united states