to the streets of minsk and other cities for another historic day of activism that they've been stretton side demanding president alexander lukashenko is resignation accusing him of rigging elections 2 weeks ago. was ruled developers for some 26 years says nato is trying to split his country in response he's ordered the army to mobilize sang bella burst. was at the risk of imminent attack. can i. go away it's the rallying cry of thousands of protesters in the streets of minsk this sunday and it's also their biggest demand they want president alexander lukashenko to go away to resign from office until then people say they will continue to protest in the future that this is a dictatorship because there is no respect for society for a people call for freedom and i hope we will keep an afrikaans. side while and see if we can be an. overthrow the government type of self-reliance is going to. go away that's also what authoritarian leader alexander look i would like the protests to do at a military exercise on saturday claimed again that enemies are at the border that western countries inspire

belarus is going into in difficult economic situation in any case through these unrest and through the stretton closure of plants and enterprises if we listen to what. was said at the moment at the moment so it is a balancing act really there the 2 sides moscow on the one side and the diff 2 big powers must go on the one side and brussels on the other side as sort of showing each other their weapons moscow knows that they have to change the soldiers basically and the european union holds the purse strings they have the money and they really can hurt both parties in this game they can hurt belarus and they also can hurt putting it economically so we are a big step away from that but the question now is to resolve this in the key seems to be in moscow more or less and that is what was under market eludes to when she talks about no foreign interference they need to find their own way it's an implicit way to talk to that image putin again and tell them let them sort of do their thing do not sort of cut this off at the moment. how big of a step was it for chancellor merkel there to say. we as the eu