angela merkekel laid out her policy. >> it was the moment that defined angela merkel's response to the 2015 migration crisis. it was the german equivalent of this. >> yes we can. >> i was there five years ago when desperate migrants in hungary set off on foot toward germany, just hours later, angela merkel single-handedly decided to keep germany's borders open. the scenes of an open, welcoming germany went around the world. five years on, this raises the question if germany made it. and at what cost. in 2015, many in angela merkel's own party were against her open armsms policy. his key concern was losing control. one has to prevent the impression that there is a loss of control. we need a european solution to these problems. instead of more europe, national reflexes kicked in across the country. mackle's -- the far-right alternative for germany. the aft support had been fizzling out until merkel's we will make it moment ignited the party's rise to become a fixture of germany's political landscape. the open border policy helped propel his party to parliament. >> we did not make it and

>> this was a strong statement from angela merkel. it was a plea for restraint when she said that the solve entry of belarus -- sovereignty of belarus has to be respected and police forces that vladimir putin was talking about would not be deployed. she stressed that the people of belarus can take to the streets. they can protest as they wish without any interference from any side. when one of our colleagues asked her about the riddle line of the belarus security forces not only against demonstrators but also against journalists, she said this is not acceptable. she tried to talk to mr. lukashenko. she tried to reach him on the phone, but he declined. >> the chancellor was also asked about the russian opposition leader who is currently being treated in berlin for suspectctd poisoning. >> we will do our best to find out what happened. our ability to do that here is limited. once we are clear about what actually happened, we will strive for a coordinated european response. not just responses by individual states. this is not just a germ

well french president emmanuel mccracken and germany's chancellor angela merkel have both offered help to no vonnie they've been holding a summit in the south of france and the crown went as far as to offer asylum to the kremlin critic here's what he had to say this is don't we are ready to provide any necessary support for alexander never only and his family there for his health for asylum and for his protection this goes without saying and we discussed it at length. when earlier moscow bureau chief you're a shadow it gave us an update on alexina condition. one of the doctors at the clinic in peoria when i've only is currently being treated that his condition had stabilized a little so he did allow himself a glimmer of hope that all his doctors are already pushing for a transfer to europe and that there reportedly has even been talk of the shot they take clinic in germany in delhi and that's cute or that would be your idea to treat the volley there are media reports about the special airplane from germany that would bring the valley to berlin soon obviously the main concern here is no

he met with angela merkel. she also offered help to the kremlin critic. and germinate recording its highest number of new coronavirus infections in months as coronavirus cases spike all across europe. and in the united states, the democrats most unusual division enters its fourth night. joe biden will formally accept the presidential nomination later this evening from his home state of delaware. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers around the world, welcome. activists in germany are planning to send a rescue plane to bring russian opposition leader alexei navalny here to berlin for medical treatment. he was on a flight from siberia to moscow today when he lost consciousness. he was last seen drinking tea at the airport before boarding the plane. tea that a spokeswoman says was poisoned. afterward he became so ill the plane had landed early. he was carried off the planes in the city of home skin and taken to a hospital. he i is considered one of president vladimir putin's fiercest critics. he has repeatedly been arrested at political demonstrations. frech pr

yes arik apologies back in 2015 we know the german chancellor angela merkel told the country we can do this looking back was she right i think we sorrow all are off the 'd field back to where i would say we are on a good way i could say after 3 years and this is what our reports are looking at 3 years after you watch immigration into germany it's we love 'd at the end of the integration process so we have reached a lot there are still areas where we still have to do more accurate stick integrate in pretty girl or female refugee east jaw to really get a good education for children and adolescents and also for our other adult refugees so i would say. partly yes we should. we should could team you always all our efforts because it's still too early to say well we. thank you so much for joining us to share that assessment catarina head of the department for education and family at the german institute for economic research we appreciate it. and there is more information on the fallout from the migration crisis 5 years on on our web site t w dot com in other news european football's newly c

well today german chancellor angela merkel met in berlin with climate activists gratitude barrett and louise annoyed by our they discussed concrete steps to mitigate the effects of climate change and they talked about how to keep the public's attention on the climate despite the coronavirus pandemic. it's been 2 years since we dish climate activists claim to to my bag went on strike from school for the 1st time to call for more action against climate change since then her activism has led to worldwide school strikes but the global current virus pandemic has kept protesters at home a 90 minute meeting with german chancellor angela merkel on thursday provided a chance to refocus attention on the climate change crisis we want people to listen to the science and to act on the signs to act in line with the science. that is all we also that's also in our demands that we should establish annual binding call them budgets based on the contest available science and then of course based on the budgets which gives us the best chance of staying below 1.5 degrees of global average temperature rise

>> that this man be sitting in angela merkel's office next year? the current vice chancellor and finance minister has seen his popularity rise over the past months. his handndli of the cocoronavirs pandemic and his grafting of germany's multibillion euro recovery fund have been hailed by his colleagues. >> to be able to handle a crisis , that is a v very impoportant quality that a german chancellor must have. >> no one has proven more that he is capable of decisive action in a country during the coronavirus crisis, he can also lead the country out of the crisis. >> with his nomination, they are trying to fill the gap left by angela merkel. >> a new era is beginning. not only in the sense of the time after corona, but also that the next decade will be about how we can manage the future of our country. how we manage the future of europe. and who has s the best plan. we are firmly convinced this is the social d democratic party. >> for now, he seems confident, but he will have his work cut out, reversing his party's poor showing in the polls. brent: l

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and german chancellor angela merkel tells president lukashenko a bill will rue said his government must release political prisoners and stop using violence against peaceful protesters. it's. good to have you with us we start with breaking news from mali where soldiers have arrested both the president and the prime minister of the west african nation this comes after shots were heard earlier in the day. a military base trucks carrying muteness so drew is were met by cheering crowds as they drove through the capital bamako now both the president and the prime minister are thought to have been sheltering in the president's private residence when they were detained today the u.n. security council plans to hold an emergency session on wednesday to address the crisis in mali. journalist a moment to talk healy is covering developments for us in boma co he gave business update from outside the presidential residence on the developments in the capital. to prisons has been. and what a prime minister so you can even hear like gunshots going on it's just talk it so they're shutting in the area just

german chancellor angela merkel has called on russia to investigate the suspected poisoning of russian opposition leader alexina vali doctors treating him and berlin say that they have found evidence of a toxic substance in his body he was brought here on saturday after falling ill in serbia with the russian doctors saying it was a metabolic disorder ramping up security at the sheraton hospital in berlin alexina valley is being treated here for what his supporters say was a case of poisoning the shower taken from the doctors treating putin's most prominent critics say he probably was poisoned. it's said clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of color no store is inhibitors it's not clear exactly what the substance was some call in australia's inhibitors are used as a treatment for alzheimer's disease but chemicals from the group can also be used as a nerve agent chancellor angela merkel and foreign minister heiko mass are demanding an investigation in view of most in the valleys prominent role in the political opposition in russia the authorities there are

this is deja vu news live from berlin germany's angela merkel steps into the fray and urges a national dialogue and calibers and she warns alexander lukashenko that his government must avoid using violence against peaceful protesters these political prisoners this feature of foreign policy spokesman. also coming up the u.s. democrats launch their national convention with some straight talk from some big name if we have any hope of ending this chaos we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depended on it. the 1st ever virtual convention culminates thursday with biden's nomination and donald trump's challenger in november. and lines form in south africa as alcohol and tobacco go back on sale the government is easing coronavirus restrictions after a 5 month lockdown. i'm serious i was going to quote you could join us german chancellor angela merkel has urged the government and bella ruse to avoid violence and started a national dialogue with the opposition this as the standoff over disputed elections between belorussian president aleksander look i shan't go and the growing public

angela merkel has called on moscow do -- to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account. novotny is -- electing a bony is in a medically induced,. doctors say his situation is serious but not life-threatening. the longtime opponent of president putin collapsed on a plane on thursday. all he had to drink was a cook of tea -- cup of tea. a german medical team detected a substance in his blood. these types of drugs can decrease commune case in between nerve cells in the brain. sometimes they are used as pesticides and are toxic to humans. he has been treated with the treatte that was used to the russian double agent and his daughter who were poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in salisbury, england. following development in berlin. the suspected poisoned has very few civilian applications. >> the doctors treating alexey navalny have been categorical about what is the cause of his ordeal. they say there is a poison in his system that has laid him low. they say they don't believe that this is life-threatening now but they can't guarantee he is going to be able to recover from

this is the news live from berlin chancellor angela merkel warns against foreign intervention in belo roosts with russia clearly in asides merkel says for the russians should have all the freedoms other nations take for granted without external interference from any soft also coming up. donald trump takes aim at his democratic rival in a fiery excepted speech he calls joe biden a destroyer of the american jobs and calls november's vote the most important election in u.s. history and japan's prime minister shinzo obvious stepping down because of poor health his announcement comes just days after he became the longest serving holder of the office and. a pianist in the ruins no longer we hear the story of us who fled syria and found sanctuary in germany 5 years ago. has welcome to the program german chancellor angela merkel has warned that the sovereignty of must be respected there should be and should not be any foreign intervention merkel said traditional someone who's gone. friends in berlin where she discussed a broad range of topics with german and international journalists on the m

merkel has called on moscow to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account. donald trump has been formally nominated as the republican party's 2020 presidential candidates on the 1st day of its national convention event has been scaled back because of a coronavirus pandemic and is being held largely online. and the national guard has been summoned in wisconsin after violent protests rocks in the city of commercial with a police shooting of a black man jacob blake is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot several times in the back on sunday. now the opposition coordination council in batteries says that it's committed to the goal of forming a transitional government despite police detaining several of its members around 220200000 protesters defied soldiers deployed in the capital minsk on sunday to again dumon the resignation of president alexander lukashenko he's been in power for $26.00 he is and is accused of rigging the election early this month that handed him another term well maria costa in a call is a member of the coordination council and

merkel has called on moscow to identify the perpetrators and hold them to account evolving remains in a medically induced coma after being transferred to berlin from a hospital in siberia on saturday doctors say his situation is serious but it's not life threatening the longtime opponent of president vladimir putin collapsed on a plane on thursday colleagues say all he had to drink was a cup of tea at tomsk airport before he fell ill. well a german medical team detected a substance from a group of colon s. to raise inhibitors in the valleys blood these types of drugs can increase communication between nerve cells in the brain and this sometimes used to ease dementia symptoms but some types of colon estrace and have it is a used as pesticides in a toxic to humans the valley is being treated with the antidote atropine the same drug that was used to treat set of a scrip all of former russian double agent and his dorsey yuliya who were poisoned with a nerve agent in 2018 in salzburg england where i was there is dominic kane is following developments in berlin and says that the suspected p

merkel was convince the country because. we've managed so much we can do it but many refugees have struggles to build a new life. in 2015 we accompanied the sunday months on their long journey from syria to germany now we want to find out more about how. it's just off to 6 am on the sunday monday has already begun. to sit. still needs to brush his teeth mustapha son a man and his wife getting their 4 children ready for taking am school. says he's

from angela merkel and emmanuel macron that we had yesterday, saying despite a resurgence of cases, they will try to work together as a team to make sure they cannot go into full lockdown again so that a transfer still happens. that was a very important message because it will have an application on markets. tom: not a usual summer friday, folks. the news flow is absolutely extraordinary. we are going to get ourselves around what we are going to be doing with the democrats now moving to the republicans and the president, the usual convention cadence of august in an election year. but that is not the headline item today. the headline item is 13 consecutive hours in our -thon.llance francine will be with us through the morning and through our simulcast as well. i really look forward to it. this news with the slowdown in france and emmanuel macron is not a small item, francine. francine: i'm also looking

merkel's conservative christian democrats party. india has bolstered security in kashmir as it marks one year since scrapping the disputed regions semi autonomous state as well the government stripped john ruined kashmir india's only muslim majority state of its special rights last august well mr new render modi's a government said the move was necessary to spur economic development and to better

emmanuelle: angela merkel reacted quickly and strongly. she said those responsible in navalny's case must be identified and held accountable. and together with the foreign minister should called for moscow to fully and in a transparent manner investigate the poisoning of navalny, because of his status as a political dissident. the eu diplomatic chief also called on russian authorities to provide an investigation in a transparent investigation on the case, so very strong statements from the government and from the european union in light of what appears to be the poisoning of alexei navalny. brent: that is the political part. what about the medical? what are doctors saying? emmanuelle: alexei navalny was probably poisoned by the exact substance has not been identified yet this is a substance usually found in decides but also in nerve agent -- usually found in pesticides but also in nerve agents. tests have been done several times and laboratories and the hospital indicated that even know alexei navalny's health condition was serious at the

germany's angela merkel has spoken with russia's putin but said lukas shanker wouldn't take her calls for middle income and only mediate if one is in contact with all sides but we will do everything we can from our side to promote a national dialogue. security council meeting the talk was of no talk. to the leaders of the western countries offer us negotiations conversations and at this time they continue to push their line we can see it we understand it but we do not accept it i want them to hear that solution. but those filling the streets across balor us day and night are desperate for dialogue one of their leaders told g.w. they want everyone to help. if it is possible that the e.u. states the russian federation and ukraine can help us to organize a dialogue within the country and with external partners so that the transfer of power happens and we listen to each other i would always support it this is a decisive moment for us. we must be. decisive not only because putin has remained tight lipped but decisive because they have the support of the european union and decisive because

the bit of russian president vladimir putin received phone calls from german chancellor angela merkel and the e.u. leaders on tuesday merkel said political prisoners in belarus must be released and there must be a national dialogue to settle things peacefully. but according to the kremlin putin's reply was to tell them to stop meddling in belarus where the powerful neighbors get involved or not the bellary see an opposition is planning their next step to bring lukas shanker has rule to an end. and let's get more now we are joined by. shadow who is following developments for us yuri another evening of protest and manske are the opposition and the demonstrators gaining ground grout always see as the opposition but there is definitely acting more and more professionally more and more coordinated and goal oriented given that just a few weeks ago there was almost a no united to position what's happening today is it really a future success for them the opposition created and coordinating council that announced yesterday the concrete aim of its work to hold 'd a new presidential elections an

in fact, today angela merkel of germany and macron of france were the ones who spoke to vladimir putin saying lukaschenko needs to assure that folks like these don't end up in jail. guys? >> and those are word you've not heard from the president, by the way there, but remarkable, too. the sort of people power

angela merkel and emmanuel macron saying they oppose new lockdown. with more,g us bloomberg new economy forum editorial director. fascinating work that you have done. you look at these sort of massive shocks to the world from pandemics and found they have deep changes. hello, i just lost you there. joe: you have done some work looking at the impact that historically pandemics have had. they end up changing our relationship between the government and public. andy: indeed. out, has beenurns a godsend for autocrats and authoritarians all over the world. it has given them the perfect

the years ago german chancellor angela merkel made a famous claim. when germany opened its orders to refugees. 5 years later we take an in-depth look at what happened. and the consequences that we're still facing. our topic on the television is. to know that 77 percent. are younger than 60 pot. that's me and me and you. and you know what it's time old boys. on the 77 percent to talk about the issue. this is where you cut. the 77 percent this weekend on d.w.i. . if you must have a son a man and his family fled the war in syria to germany along with hundreds of thousands of other refugees 2015 was a challenging is it him many but chancellor angela merkel was convinced the country would cut. we've managed so much we can do it that's many refugees have struggled to build a new life here. in 2015 we accompanied the sunday months on their long journey from syria to germany now we want to find out more about how they fare. it's just off to 6 am on the sunday monday has already begun. to sit. still needs to brush his teeth. and his wife getting their 4 child

when you look at angela merkel the tone was severe, saying we need to find out what happened here. russia has to be very transparent. members are saying if you're an opposition lead for the russia it's a very difficult, tricky situation but you have to factor in that a similar incident happened already in the u.k. in 2018. prime minister theresa may was in office at the time and didn't get many answers from russia. also factor in the relationship with germany is particularly complex because it is still business transactional germany still very reliant on russian gas. so again a complex situation when you look at the politic bus also just the business transactional aspect of it. annmarie: what about what's next from the e.u.? what can we expect? maria: i think we're going to hear from the european commission today no question at mid day when they take questions from the press. there's going to be a lot of talk about maybe extending sangs on russia, whether we're going to get new ones whether a new formal investigation triggered from the european union not just germany and of course

and german chancellor angela merkel has a national dialogue in battle roosts as the country is gripped by the rest she tells presently his government must avoid using violence against peaceful protesters and were released political prisoners. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us and u.n. back tribunals has convicted a senior member of the lebanese militant group hezbollah for the assassination of the country's former prime minister rafik hariri a court in the hague said salim orchestrated the 22005 operation to kill riri with a massive truck bomb but the tribunals cleared 3 other defendants finding they had no links to hezbollah leadership or aries assassination up ended life in lebanon setting the stage for years of unrest. a suicide truck bomb blasts ripped through beirut some valentine's day 2005 an explosion so powerful it was hurt and felt across the city 22 people lost their lives that day. including the targets of the attack. lebanon's former prime minister rafiq hariri it was an assassination that transformed lebannon removing an influential sunni muslim leader and a

what did angela merkel say about that? i: she says we should not be expecting in the easing of restrictions in germany, that we should expect to get it under control. she says the virus seems to be brought under control, germany was already requiring people traveling from certain areas to be quarantined when they get back. she said fines may need to be levied that people who are flouting the social distancing rules. germany really needs to be vigilant. that the virus is still here even if it is not visible. much,ne: thank you very our dani burger with the latest on the virus after that brilliant interview on quick stick with dr. anthony fauci. at 10:00 this morning london time, will get the final cpi reading for the euro area. at 9:00 a.m. comment leaders will meet via videoconference to and also atrus, 3:00 p.m. to review strategies for compliance when it comes to oil supplies. and the focus shifts to the u.s. for conversation with the richmond fed president on the economic outlook. in the meantime, european stocks are hi

she fled the country after the election fearing for her safety german chancellor angela merkel today urged the government. to avoid violence and start a national dialogue with the opposition and more and more the european council will hold a video conference about the roots i spoke with russian president putin today i once again make clear that there must be freedom of expression the freedom to protest the prisoners must be released under house to be a national dialogue that enables the situation to be resolved peacefully and ballerinas who will just does not further tomorrow. earlier we spoke to de w's nick conaway who's following the situation for us in minsk we asked him how strongman look i shan't go was handling the protests let's have a listen he's just in survival mode now i think the individual promises or the individual details of these heady days in minsk are less important than the mood the mood is something that really has changed but it was a few times over the years and you really sense. disappearance of fear people are openly challenging this government people discussi

merkel and foreign minister heiko moss are demanding an investigation in view of mist in the valleys prominent role in the political opposition in russia the authorities there are now urgently called upon to investigate this act fairly and to do so with full transparency alexina of on the is not the 1st russian critic of the kremlin to be poisoned the former spy alexander litvinenko died in 2006 off to he drank poisoned tea before her assassination journalist anna politkovskaya said she had survived an attempt to poison her and the opposition politician barzan them soft was gunned down in 2015 and now this suspected attack for politician norbert wrote ken it's clear who's behind it these are this latest attempted murder and the threats and intimidation against anyone linked to the opposition has once again revealed the true face of the regime and in particular vladimir putin could sort. doctors say alexina vellum these condition is serious but not life threatening the findings by the doctors and berlin contradict an early examination by russian medical officials who say they found no

taking on debt that was a milestone also pushing angela merkel much closer to french president. they see a lot more i to why under this pressure at the same time there's a whole laundry list of conflicts that they need to tackle together molly the eastern mediterranean and also libya just to name a few and they're both countries have different approaches but they've clearly demonstrated here that when they see eye to eye. they can at least take the lead sets the tone for the e.u. to act at the same time they know that they need the other leaders to agree in the end and that is still the biggest stumbling block within the we character of chief political editor thank you. honest take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president obama's former chief strategist steve bartman has been charged with fraud federal prosecutors in new york allege that mr ballen and 3 others orchestrated a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands of donors who gave money to an online crowd funding campaign to build a wall along the u.s. the southern border. south korea's i

german chancellor angela merkel speaking there well this week we are looking back at events in the summer of 2015 when europe faced its biggest migration crisis since world war 2 hundreds of thousands of migrants fled their home countries in search of a better future on the continent most of them crossed from turkey to greece by boat often and flimsy rubber dinghies small than 750000 migrants landed on greek shores that you hear from there they took what became known as the balkan routes travelling north through macedonia and serbia into slovenia or hungry then on to austria other e.u. countries including germany. and america declared an open door policy for refugees from syria as a result of germany talking about a 1000000 migrants although not all of them were qualified to stay while those who did qualify was i have a lot here's a story. his songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also hope 5 years ago pianist a how mass murder fled syria specifically the yarmouk refugee camp for palestinians . back there he played music to counter the nightmare scene of bomb craters and ruined build

merkel that he has no appetites to talk with her is there any surprise there. it's important because it means dubbs look as a woman to give to put into russia duros of mediate your. eyes in a certain way belarus is linked strategy can be with russia even if there are complete gated relations between most going minsk and that he's engaged on the outside and died he will not. go directly to western powers and especially people germany so it's a way to recognize mosco is now the main part of that arose as you're saying a belarus and russia are connected historically economically and whatnot and yet here we have the saying that they're at looking at sanctions on the russian officials they're having this emergency meeting why do you think they're taking such an active interest in the domestic affairs in bellerose right now. i think doc you know western powers are not still united because just sanctions they are talking about for them over and they are mostly symbolic so it means it looks like there is a strong pressure within the e.u. especially. bro american allies

merkel has called on russia to conduct a full investigation. ramping up security at the sheraton a hospital in berlin alexina valmy is being treated here for what his supporters say was a case of poisoning the shower taken from the doctors treating putin's most prominent critics say he probably was poisoned. it's said clinical findings indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of colon noster is inhibitors it's not clear exactly what the substance was some call in australia's inhibitors a used as a treatment for alzheimer's disease but chemicals from the group can also be used as a nerve agent chancellor angela merkel and foreign minister heiko mosse are demanding an investigation in view of missed and of on these prominent role in the political opposition in russia the authorities there are now urgently called upon to investigate this act fairly and to do so with full transparency alexina valmy is not the 1st russian critic of the kremlin to be poisoned the former spy alexander litvinenko died in 2006 off the he drank poisoned tea bef

the german chancellor, angela merkel, says russia must investigate the suspected poisoning of one of president putin's most outspoken rivals, alexei navalny. he's been moved to berlin for treatment after falling ill on a flight to moscow last week. medics caring for mr navalny say they've found traces of a substance which disrupted his nervous system. the bbc‘s jenny hill is in berlin. well, doctors today in effect confirmed what mr navalny‘s supporters suspected all along. they say there is clinical evidence to suggest that he was poisoned. he is still here in hospital, being treated. he's in an induced coma. doctors say his condition is serious, though not life—threatening. they have not been able, they say, to find out exactly what substance was used, but they believe it's part of a group of what are known as cholinesterase inhibitors, which may have damaged his nervous system. in fact, they say they can't guarantee a full recovery. it is quite one thing to establish the cause of mr navalny‘s collapse. a very different thing of course to determine who was responsible. mr n

well the end of this month will mark 5 years since chancellor angela merkel made her famous assertion here shuffled us we can do this a statement that made was made at the height of the migration crisis that saw germany take an unprecedented 1100000 immigrants in 2015 while many of those refugees had fled the civil war in syria and the air how much was one of them. because songs tell of pain and a lost homeland but also of hope 5 years ago pianist fled syria specifically the yarmouk refugee camp for palestinians. back there he played music to counter the nightmare scene of bomb craters and ruined buildings and created beauty to fight despair. it was hungry or so i don't can't feed my family but i was keeping playing piano we die anyway we will die from hunger in 56 days when i don't die play piano at least it's held me i don't think music it's feeds people or helped people really it's held the mentality to see at least some of the why it's quite a place in the in all this got us through off in the. neighborhood of damascus it was under constant siege from i asked troops for years peop

send a message to german chancellor angela merkel to ask her not to meddle in the internal affairs of. him he added that say he doesn't he doesn't want to have any direct conversations with any european leaders meanwhile right now looks like a moscow has become a mediator between the european union and bella ruse sendhil earlier russian foreign minister sergey lavrov also made a statement where he warned against external interference in the internal situation and delivers. what he's going to issue. we are deeply concerned about what's going on right now and reuss we are concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing béla groups to interfere in them from a brutal and it is not just meddling it is aimed at imposing rules that outside actors consider beneficial everything we're hearing now from the european captions specifically from the both countries poland and the european parliament has nothing to do with alexander lukashenko human rights or democracy but only with geopolitics . now moscow is also calling on all parties for a genuine dialogue between the autho