ministry has pledged to release all detainees later today friday some 6000 people were arrested during the 1st 3 days of unrest and ambulance talks were released overnight describes what she witnessed. because it was lying there in booze. we cannot sell you constantly beaten so badly that i was going to just holmes to you it was a terrible. blood trails in my veins just heard every night it was terrible what's wrong is your life so bad decided to play a little boy he had because of some nonsense what kind of go to song. i don't know what you are we were just that sort of thing and

interior ministry actually went to one of the prisons and he then told the family members assembled waiting for their loved ones outside that no one inside had been tortured which of course the people who were being released they told a very different story so this is really apology i think especially considering the horror stories we've been hearing circulating on social media where videos and photos have been posted people have been talking about being beaten about threats of rape about being stacked in small rooms for hours on end without food and water without the possibility of going to the twilit so really even humane conditions and all these people are now being released and they're angry and so are their family members so the main concession of course of leaving that hasn't been fulfilled and we'll have to see whether this adds fuel to the fire or those options this point was pressure building as we're seeing the domestically and from abroad as well from the e.u. from the united states for example. well yesterday we saw almost no arrests in the protests that were happening a

ministry has said that needs to be. a wait for the official results of the investigation that has been on wednesday and has urged people to stop speculating meanwhile the lebanese prime minister has said that a probe will be undertaken and that those responsible will pay the price he says that there will be accountability take a listen. we will reveal everything regarding this dangerous warehouse which has been there since 2014 and those responsible for the explosion in beirut will play in fool. now a host of countries have come forward to assist lebanon amongst them on canada the united states jordan the united kingdom and turkey cyprus iran qatar and france israel is another country that's come forward although the 2 countries are technically still at war israel offering humanitarian and medical assistance through intermediaries we know that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has instructed his national security chief to discuss possible aid to lebanon with the united nations coordinator for the peace proce

ministry denies this. hundreds of refugees and migrants are stranded on a railway track and bosnia herzegovina one province banned them and another has refused to take them in. a decision by palestinian bid is to cut ties with the israeli government is affecting many people in new york west bank contact was blocked 3 months ago in protest against israel's threat to palestinian land you to abraham reports. imagine reporting an armed robbery to the police but they can't show up on time this is what happened to a jewelry shop owner in 10 feet in the northern occupied west bank thieves escaped to israel in june with 8 kilograms of gold police say they know the suspects but can't get to them postin security forces requires rady permit to operate in more than 60 percent of the west bank was that already complicates the work but now they don't apply to israel for permits in a political protest against the israeli government plans to annex palestinian lands they've all finian authority cut all ties with israel and

however a belorussian interior ministry representative insists there was no mistreatment of protesters in detention protests against the russian police brutality have been held around the world including outside the by the russian embassy in moscow which is where aussies double quarter is joining us now told hey the morning. calm and quiet looks like beyond you the moment pretty much like it's pretty like either of the last 24 hours of minsk has the wind to change or blown out slowly lost its force in the days after the vote was going on. well kevin no it's still early here in moscow right now so the protesters have yet if they're going to be protesting today to form behind me but it's it's clear in moscow that many believe that this the abnormal use normal brutality that the police has been using and valorous against the protesters has only really been strengthening the opposition within ballerinas yesterday in belarus we saw so-called lines of solidarity made up of women dressed in white carrying flowers and portraits of their family members. who were actually arrested since the begi

the belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several arrests in the ongoing worker strikes on demonstrations gripping the country we are witnessing an 11th day of government on rest there and there's also a growing movement in support of president lukashenko right where the state crowds have been gathering in minsk in several other cities and with the official red and green flag on the play the main message from the president's supporters being the country cannot afford chaos. we have stability there's no war thank god we have bread to eat we have jobs even if we are not rich we would like to be but we just need to work more. peaceful in our mutual. what's not to like about. you know what i'm not like that for an ace interfere in the affairs of our republic we can manage it ourselves we stand for below it's the hundreds of people are not gathering along independence avenue in central minsk during the historic red and white flag which has become a symbol of the protests people are also rallying outside the interior ministry voicing their anger over the election results and the subsequent poli

however about a russian interior ministry representative doesn't say there was no mistreatment of protesters in detention. i think ralph the way you think about it are you with us here but he didn't use the buses do you think if you heard that before there. were protests against better russian police brutality have been held across europe including outside the better russian embassy. quarter brought us this report earlier in the morning. well it's still early in the day here in moscow and the protests in front of the bella russian embassy behind me have typically been taking place in the evening but by the looks of things the abnormal brutality with which the ballarat police is using to handle the protesters seems only actually to be strengthening the valor russian opposition yesterday we saw protests called lines of solidarity of women dressed in white holding flowers and portraits of loved ones that were arrested since the beginning of the on rest we also saw workers from some of the country's several major factories going on strike so the sheer scale of this protests in belarus has defini

however a better russian interior ministry representative insist there was no mistreatment of protesters in detention. i think that you're going to come up with are you with us here but he didn't use the buses do you feel that you have let him be there forever. the official line the protests against the russian police brutality have been held across europe including outside the by the russian embassy here in moscow where we've been reporting the last few days that's where our culture is this morning as well warning tone calm and quiet again by the looks of it pretty much like it seems to have been over the last 24 hours a quiet of it has the wind of change diminished lost its force in the last few days on no. good morning kevin well it's still actually quite early here in moscow and over the last couple days protests have been taking place in the evening so we're probably going to be seeing some more on rest while protests peaceful protests in front of the bell or a russian embassy here but by the looks of things the abnormal brutality with which the police have been treating the protest

interior ministry pledge that they will let all of the detainees go by the end all for this friday now so for around 2000 people have been freed and that's approximately a 3rd of all those who were detained during the week long almost a week long rally not. among those people who were detained were medics as well let's take a listen to this firsthand account as it was the women were lying on the floor and the men who were in the next hour they were constantly me so badly great just how lonely it was a terrible how the bloody frozen my lanes were just what we heard every night in the basement was terrible prison guards were saying what's wrong is your life that's bad i decided to act out and we live war here because of some nonsense what kind of doctors are you if you're not doctors i don't know what you are where louis is that's the sort of thing they shout at people and a lot of swear words that i don't want to repeat they were also saying this when you were 1st held in the street everyone driving by was shocked person white ropes on their knees with inching down to the had a machine

ministry hours later and and see look at shango rally began that building up with our correspondent in minsk reporting that there are over 100000 people the most recent reports indicate that the city's independence square is filled to near capacity similar scenes have been recorded in other places in belarus as well as pro and anti look at shankar rallies unfolded to meanwhile nato is calling on men silat all the peaceful protests to continue and said that they're going to as ation is following the events in bella ruse very closely the statement came when right out. cira look at shank award to his supporters that's a nato forces on a building up but they are army and near the below russian border lithuania's foreign minister was quick to denounce that say that statement saying that it is indeed a lie however president of belarus site exotica shankar still announced minutes or a drills near the country's western borders. although things appear calmer now in minsk the beginning of the week was marred with on rest which left a demonstrator dead video has now emerged reportedly showing

ministry has convened an emergency meeting in response to the un rest . you did you did do was to do was. i. i said. i. was. for more on the speak to our teas done the hawkins' done a lot of frustration clearly with what looks set to be a must have election victory for the. salute lee many. hoped this election would be some sort of watershed moment a turning point for by the russian politics though a victory was always predicted for an incumbent president this has been confirmed of course by exit polls which do show a large victory for. the main opposition leaders with. coming a very distant 2nd but as those results came in people came out just a couple of hours ago there were hundreds here outside the russian embassy in moscow showing their indignation against election which they consider neither free nor fair. but what is currently taking place in the battle russian capital minsk and other cities reports of drawing crowds clashing with security forces building barricades the police responding with tear gas will to kind of flash bangs reports coming thic

the belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several new arrests in the ongoing strikes and demonstrations gripping the country has entered an 11th day of on the arrest earlier on wednesday crowds gathered outside the ministry of education holding the official red and green national flag or part of a movement in support of local shango that's been springing up over the past couple of days. we have stability there's no war we have bread to eat we have jobs even if we are not rich we would like to be but we just need to work more. for the money. leave peacefully and calmly and i want to be true it's very clean here what's not to like about it. we did not like that for an ace interfere in the affairs of our republic we can manage it ourselves we stand for below as. hundreds of people are now gathering along independence avenue in central minsk carrying the red and white flag which has become a symbol of the opposition movement people are also rolling outside the interior ministry voicing their anger over the election results and the recent police crackdown. at one end of protests in minsk on

ministry hours later and and see look at shank o'reilly began it building up with our correspondent in minsk reporting that there are over 100000 people the most recent reports indicate that the city's independence square is filled to near capacity similar scenes have been recorded in other places in belarus as well as pro and anti look at shanker rallies unfolded to meanwhile nato is calling on men still allow the peaceful protests to continue and said that they're going to as ation is following the events in bella ruse very closely the statements came when right out. sir look at shank award to his supporters that's a nato forces building up their army near the below russian border lithuania's foreign minister was quick to denounce that say that statement saying that it is indeed a lie however president bashar assad exotica shanker still announced military drills near the country's western borders. well for more on this ask us live to political analysts go but dr roy thank you for joining us on the program we saw production to rallies today and in minsk in the president himself a p

christina is a gym instructor at the interior ministry not a guard at the jail where the alleged torture happened oh they apologized afterwards after terrifying and traumatizing and threatening to kill her and her family they said sorry they said sorry and then posted another picture of another christina who might have been the woman from the story and went after and let's not forget about the bear that's coming for better or worse for a while now internet users have been sharing videos of military convoys allegedly russian that are moving towards bellerose there are 2 plausible explanations why they still haven't arrived russian military trucks are just really slow like incredibly slow like walking speed you could walk for moscow to better us in about a week the other explanation is that there aren't any russian armies moving towards belarus. they recorded these videos without realizing that they were below russian armored personnel carriers not russian and that they were moving towards the western border because we decided that we needed to take additional measures to protect the sover

on to government protests and the 4th day the interior ministry says police in the southwestern city of brest used live ammunition against protesters demonstrating against the results of last weekend's presidential vote the ministry says one protester was wounded president lukashenko claims he won 80 percent of sunday's ballots but the opposition and the european union say the vote was not free and fair e.u. foreign ministers will meet on friday to discuss sanctions. 3rd night of anger on the roster in the blue sea on capitol. protesters here are still furious about an election they say was rigged but as demonstrators rallied once more to voice their outrage police moved in to make arrests. we are all belorussians how is this possible fighting against your own people this is unfair. president look i shan't go has vowed to crush the protests and crackdown on the opposition that crackdown has now claimed its most high profile victim opposition candidate. on sunday she was claiming victory in the country's presidential election 2 days later she fled to lithuania citing concern for her c

an interior ministry representative insists there was no mistreatment of protesters in detention. medics in cities across the country have taken part in protests against the violence but as dr anastasia was the tamed after a demonstration. well you see it in the street everyone driving by was shocked the doctors in white room were on our news little machine gun by our head. and meanwhile people have once again been converging on the city center our correspondent reports from the heart of the capital. this is just the way or the way this was only it's it's quite difficult to describe to you what's going on in victory square in minsk on the square there are women with families in areas you can also see the women dressed in white with flowers in the hands remaining along independence avenue cars and buses which are passing by honking their horns in support of what they call the solidarity actions the solidarity is against annoyance and the riot police and all the recent developments. there are mainly women passing cars honking i do not know this girl this why are you here because i a

artie's ruptly agency were detained while covering the election the interior ministry has convened an emergency meeting in response to the unrest. was who was i. was. i. was. when i was walking home i got caught up in the midst of the action but i was near the sports and it seems like the main clashes with the police were taking place there i saw police with large shields standing in file and completely blocking me out and people stood and faced the 1st the police stood still then they started banging the crown with the shield police trucks pulled up right police rushed out and started gruffly grabbing entertaining people and at some point i realized they had to hide because i didn't want to get beaten up as well. for more let's cross live to our teens daniel hawkins he is outside the belorussian embassy in moscow where protests also took place dan when an intense situation there is immense frustration with what the opposition claims to be a massive vote rigging. these are scenes unprecedented in a generation the crowds of thousands are growing by the hour not only in the capital mins

the interior ministry has now confirmed a protest has been killed it's clear from the videos that many injuries do you think will throw if he's up perhaps being entirely accurate with how many people have been killed have been a measured have you see many i mean it says on the streets taking people away. ambulances are all over the place like the police they are running from one part of the city to another. part about one. death. unfortunately the level of trust collation it's. women have quite i mean hopefully not many more but at least some some more during this night but i haven't heard any other numbers confirm. how do you see the situation developing because i'm following various telegram channels here some us saying people are going home with that dispersing office saying more people are coming out barricades being built i mean a lot depends on the government's response how far they're willing to go where do you see things going over the next 2448 hours. as they said we definitely have enough here. protests happening in other parts of the country as well and in some cities and to

ends of the interior ministry himself he said that all those journalists who have occurred sation who are not who didn't put themselves between protesters and law enforcement should be a lead go right away now. stalking about journalists for all fawaz stringers that's a work for a rope for the media agency are still unaccounted for and their fate is unknown so os or their families. us once again who have been covering these protests for 4 days in a role now let's take a look at some of the footage that we've seen over the last 4 days. leave. a little bit closer. to look like. it. was not. well not throat not all of a. protests in minsk of resulted in violence early on wednesday with with saw groups of women who came out into this streets carrying flowers they formed a live link line live a chain if you will and. the passers by in cars were honking to express their solidarity and meanwhile we will remain here outside of the russian embassy to bring you any further developments. we appreciate that remark from on calls wherever keep us up to date on the situation thank you. now more than

the interior ministry commissioned propaganda films that vilified so-called anticommunist forces people who may consider the domestic enemies of the polish people's republic. one of the best known dissidents was diminished nick ok oh i remember and underground publisher. despite the government's efforts popular support for the opposition grew and it became a movement afoot change. the activists recruited young filmmakers to counter the government's propaganda and cinema soon became a venue for political protest. but of you we made a lot of documentaries but also feature films. such as an j. vidas man of marble we tried to tell the truth about the world we lived in. but it was the end that was an important message to society it expressed solidarity them. that much to mr millet our films was shown quite often we didn't realize that but we were promoting political unrest by travelling around the country with these films that's years instead. yes that means that scott. is that the guns lots of people came to see them and asked who would they would discuss the current political situation wit

well the release of better russian started a finite interior ministry pledge to let all details go by the end of today currently around 2000 people have been frayed and that's an estimated 3rd of the total arrested this week says rules for among those detained his one medics 1st time decay. the women were lying on the floor and the men who were in the next hour they were constantly so badly great just how long it was a terrible how the blood froze in my lane that's just what we heard every night it was terrible the prison guards were saying what's wrong is your life that's bad decided to act out how we live work here because of some nonsense what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are where will this is that's the sort of thing they shouted and a lot of swear words that i don't want to repeat they were also saying that when you were 1st held in the street everyone driving by was shocked person white ropes on their knees but they had a much. better because factories the track to works is partially suspended operations are for employees that down to strike

ministry had previously claimed the victim had tried to throw an explosive device at officers but it went off in his hand let's take a look now at how events unfolded during the week. just take in people that i doing i think. yes i swallowed yes q yes i had come out but i want to leave in a free and peaceful country what would mr you. know much of this mass that is going on can you take his time which. was good so. i think. that a good. many. the belarus authorities have also been criticized for failing to protect journalists 64 were detained during this week among them reporters working for our g.'s video agency ruptly who spent days behind bars. nearly $7000.00 protesters were detained across the country this week the government began not releasing them on thursday night promising everyone would be freed by friday though it is unclear if that actually happened doctors were among those held. what kind of doctors are you you're not doctors i don't know what you are where louis is that's the sort of thing they shout at you and a lot of swear words that i don't want to repeat they were

ministry denied anyone was detained saying they were driven to a police station to check they had valid accreditation with journalist andre vita riches in minsk and he witnessed what happened. at the moment time actually just some fronts of the polarization where around 30 journalists say came today before the process actually. b didn't roll concert on but also for controllers from a.b.c. billed surveillance and a.p. the votes are still the can clearly say if you're a live stop be targeted again because the. elida was short period of you know for both overall rather peaceful demonstrations said today tonight once again the sole thing 'd is that the power that the authorities 3 have they can be the ground be control all the crowds and one of the journalists called a journalist who was detained tonight it's home to me the bar is 30 minutes the journalists from sweden will press fits of even if it are so huge you can clearly see the journalists. who couldn't work and probably would be able to support pull pull with it to make a move to call them off of the presidential election avoid child

terms of thousands of russian seems to have those warnings from the interior ministry in the pictures we're seeing showing very busy part streets not all not far from the residence of alexander or exam to look at either a lot of the areas have been closed off by the military. on the police but there are still many thousands out there and the protesters were concerned as the weeks went on that they would lose momentum in the 1st $23.00 days when the protests started there was a violent attempt by the security forces to repress those protests 7000 people were detained hundreds injured and 3 were killed over 3 days as water cannon was used rubber coated bullets were used what's happened since then it seems is that the security forces have taken a step back and allowed the bulk of protests to continue and not only him in minsk but in many other russian cities as well yes there have been detentions of people in the authorities say $125.00 people were detained today but on the whole the protests have continued but if you look at shanker and his supporters were hoping they would peter out th

the belorussian interior ministry says a protester has died during class.

the belorussian interior ministry says a protester has died during clashes with police after an explosive device blew up in his hands the victim was part of a crowd protesting the results of sunday's landslide victory for president aleksander. his main challenger says the vote was rigged and as claimed victory for herself. the leaders of bella ruth see these demonstrations as a threat to their authority in minsk and other cities tens of thousands showed their support for the opposition on election night even though according to official figures their main candidate won only 9.9 percent of the vote. then the situation escalated security forces attempted to disperse the demonstrators using stun grenades water cannons and rubber bullets almost 100 people were injured in the clashes authorities say they made more than 3000 arrests for joe le doux at 1st things were peaceful people walked in a chain there were a lot of them then police vans came and started to arrest them. there were a lot of people with weapons they started shooting at people's arms and legs despite reportedly winning less th

ministry they supposedly wore given all that to enter the protest using violence if necessary but it's doubtful whether these protests we'll achieve an iffy on the one hand it shows how angry people are in the capital special in minsk how ready people are to protest but it also shows how tough. this when it deals with the opposition some of the longtime by the russian president and doesn't want to give up spyware and that that is clearly the most significant message. area state exit poll should look at shanker one around 80 percent of the vote how credible is that result. well there are considerable doubts about that this election result and of course that this result is disappointing for many belorussians but not really surprising someone like president alexander lukashenko has been in power for 26 years knows how to stay in power apparently he took every possible step to remain president at this time too and he eliminated for example all his serious opponents from the race he painted yellow rose as a country surrounded by enemies of the country that only he could defend as a strong l

ministry says another 112 people have been moved to various isolation centers across baylor use. let's get your reminder now of our top stories at this hour russian doctors treating opposition leader like that of all they say they have found no evidence he was poisoned or refusing to allow to allow him to be sent to germany for medical treatment saying it's too sick to be moved his wife says no one is being allowed to see it only took ill aboard a flight and was rushed to hospital in siberia. and joe biden has become the democrats' presidential nominee of the candidates he officially accepted his nomination against his home state of delaware during the party's national convention 5 set out his vision for the presidency by valentine and what he called a season of darkness in america. this is the interview news live from berlin don't forget there's always more in our website you know dot com or you can follow us on social media feeds our brian todd was for the entire team thanks for joining us sumi will be with you at the top the hour time for. a meal and i'm good welcome to the 2n

the bill of russian interior ministry says a protester has died during clashes with police after an explosive device blew up in his hands the victim was part of a crowd protesting the results of sunday's landslide victory for president alexander look at demonstrators insist the vote was rigged and are taking to the streets despite a violent crackdown on protests across the country. it was. a 2nd night of protests in bellerose was the streets of main squints again filled with thousands of people. the protesters were met by security forces who deployed stun grenades and rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them demonstrators put up barricades some were injured after being beaten and others were taken away by the police. protesters are still claiming victory in sunday's election which observers and the main opposition candidate say was rigged . according to the official results incumbent alexander lukashenko convincingly won his 6th term in office with over 80 percent of the vote there are doubts about the election outcome of broad as well. more deeply concerned by the valorous presidential e

ministry he had flown in peace hand but there are numerous videos published by media outlets showing that he actually had nothing hands so well that the spirit was make that it was about. people actually there arem girl there are protests the raw. rallies in other 7 cities across the country and what the security forces because of course you know we saw those images from this week out how of baby been behaving. well this is actually why it's today and yesterday as well it is perhaps although there might be many reasons for this that it is perhaps connected to the fact that this police brutality provokes a lot of anger and well basically the whole booking they shan't especially when. you know the largest state enterprises who announce right across the country and also to day. and please to the vision and to be able to strike to do in the strike and actually hundreds of them sets and there are currently there is currently right outside this building state to division and there really is right police inside the building and peaceful protesters outside the building so that's kind of the

the traffic on the after of course it was organized by a senior official of the interior ministry but who gave him the order. certainly not yet. chances the head of the secret police for the. death was a humiliation for us and it made our work more difficult says. to this day it's not been determined who ordered publish those murder but the crime brought even more people into the solidarity movement. was what. have i made a 985 there was a huge demonstration to counter the official celebrations i the opposition was now stronger than ever. to it. to him. but then events in the soviet union signaled that major political changes were on the way. in march 1905 mikhail gorbachev was named communist party general secretary he instituted a wide ranging program of restructuring and transparency the threat of soviet intervention in poland disappeared. in february 1909 solidarity and communist party officials met a villa and there was sought to discuss the agenda for a new series of round table talks. the $58.00 people took part largely comprising representatives from the government and the opp