Tens of millions of pounds if it wants its help to patrol the English Channel as more migrants make the perilous crossing to reach the united kingdom. Hello theyre just gone 3 pm here in moscow you watching r. T. International now nearly a week since beirut was shaken by the deadly chemical explosion in sharing antigovernment protesters showed little sign of abating the Justice Minister has now become the 3rd cabinet member to quit but thats not enough for protesters theyve been storming government buildings and demanding proper accountability for the 150. 00 plus deaths from a blast that destroyed swathes of the lebanese capital. I. I i i. I i. Well thousands of tons of Ammonium Nitrate ignited last tuesday leveling the port area 158 people on known to have been killed so far but dozens are still missing so it is expected that the number of deaths will rise thousands were injured in the explosion to you it is overwhelming bay ridge Health System at the moment which was already grappling with the pandemic schools of buildings have been damaged or destroyed and it is still septa through 100000 people have been left homeless the Prime Minister is calling for early elections in a bid to quell the armrest but the number of course the numbers there of course dont give the full picture of how many lives there are now changed forever its an added tragedy today for one family already dealing with their daughters cancer they were in hospital when the blast struck the father didnt survive arties been hearing that story. Forgive me if i did anything made you carry or if i hurt you forgive me i love you i know of you i love you i love you for 2 hours i used to tell him i love you oh you know you are you know i love you i love you these summer months of always being synonymous with joy and celebration for sue his family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sonny season but this year trouble started to loom on the horizon early when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer they called me in the morning they confirmed that its classical heart i knew that it wasnt informed by that time gemmas immune system had been shot to pieces but Hodgkin Lymphoma is not a sentence for children its curable and doctors have been reassuring sue her husband jihad was called by the news abroad in nigeria but couldnt stay away in a crisis like this so several dozen covert tests later he came to lebanon to be with his family we slept in the hospital the same bed the same everything me her and him gemmas hospital room was where the port explosion called the 3 of them the windows of the buildings in front of me crashing and then one by the like this. Like this i didnt see if fair i didnt see my daughter i didnt see and anything but i wanted to put his head like this i felt that all smashed all all smudged i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul leaving his body i saw it but i have a sense or i want to move on to another hospital jihad died right before his daughters eyes at only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to win cancer and coping with her fathers death she drew for me and around. Its circle she she color that was red i knew its her bed. And it was full of blood sue his heart breaks when she blames herself for letting her daughter witness all that and letting down her son by promising that his father would be at his birthday which is this week i promised my son that are me and his theyre going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone sing with happy birthday for my son its his birthday on the 30th of august. So. My love. I ask sue her if she wants to take a break from the interview she refuses adamantly theres just so much she feels she didnt tell her husband enough suhas biggest concern now is her daughter processing their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings. She told them here was listening i heard her and i prefer can i not im not im not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me. So can you imagine herself can you imagine the images in her brave passing whenever she closes her eyes. Suah finds redemption and relief in family pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we used to sleep playing our head on each other because you know whenever i put my head on his saw that i feel secured even when hes at around i dont gossip or market i dont do anything for the house to fix care of Everything Everything yes i think a lot of clothes from my shoulders now this is the last photo of their family together she shows it to me as im sitting on the very couch where it was taken this story has been gaining traction across me jean the arabic world and we were the 1st she so kindly let in as she struggles to deal with the pain of the loss in the home she herself can face yet how am i able to come back to this house through. Her. Oh am i supposed to put. This do you know and dont know. Its whatever is above your 1. 000 just to put to hard for me to put this. What im gonna. Give. When both men list grows as for not removing his clothes from the house im not going to remove them but sue her realizes that her life is not over she tells me its whole lifes mission now to limit the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with her mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children those she ordered them frozen. Unicorn because she learned about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because when youre going to take this medication your hair is going to fall down youre going to lose your hair so what i can draw this is my hair im going to give it to you so you would wear to cater on im going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the bill smiling her and her brother. Done of reporting from lebanon r. T. I would Election Results in bellary still say that long time president Alexander Lukashenko has secured a landslide 6th term with a little over 80 percent of the vote have been some messages of congratulations from other leaders although the European Council president has appealed for the authorities to respect human rights and refrain from violence it does follow a night of on rest after exit polls gave because shane co commandingly. A kook i will check i have to grab one book that. Should provide suitable yeah does that mean. I think to look i i talked i and i think i so it never means the Catholic Bellerose has seen its largest protests in the last 10 years its at 10 pm people began to gather near the hero city of leeds for the powerful local security for the offices then began to mark allison citizens are pushing back roads it was the 1st time in the history of Belarus Special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used some eyewitnesses claim a small rubber bullets being fired. While around 3000. 00 people were detained nationwide on election day according to official data opposition supporters have been swift to claim the election has been rigged Alexander Lukashenko has been in power since 1904 but this election is thought to be hes tough for them precedented scrutiny and the protest during which a number of journalists were detained including the man you can see here being wrestled to the ground before being dragged to the side of the road eyewitnesses and other accounts to say many were beaten by police while covering the armrest and hawkins reports now from outside the by the Russian Embassy in moscow which also saw some tension on sunday. Hundreds of people yesterday stayed at the embassy to show their riddick they should out of election. Fuel was rigged out of election with a few live votes were taken away that was one of the compared what was happening in but. Throughout the night Security Forces broke up protests of thousands tens of thousands probably around the whole country with people marching through the streets building barricades some of them chanting the police also even looks to use violence against protesters those pelting them with bottles now Security Forces were very quick to respond with stun grenades with tear gas water cannons. Rubber bullets the reports of multiple injuries images of bloodied and bruised protesters around the world stephen even though there were internet blackout some problems with communications across the country the protests went beyond but a russian borders there were protests out the better russian embassies in kiev and warsaw even as far afield as televisa as well. As campaign was widely criticized the home and abroad for the arrest and detention of journalist position that its activists as well come with himself said he didnt expect these elections to you was a broken voice that i should leave us free to all fair for the way theyve been handled by the russian authorities they have opened probes into these protests saying that the rioters as they call them could face between the age of 15 years in jail. Himself saying those who took to the streets to destabilize the country will face the consequences just as he should be able to rule. If youre going to go against our country or even in the smallest way try to plunge the country into chaos and destabilize it you will receive an Immediate Response from the power for the moment or the process seems to have died down whats going to happen so late that a lot you cant tell but sort lot of as we said the main opposition now that it has already said shes going to fight these results in court she says she doesnt recognize them and shes calling all police and Security Forces not to use violence against protesters to stand down reports that that has happened or how it happened last night in some cities in. Whatever the result was going to be to rise it was clear that this would be some sort of turning point for domestic politics in belarus one of the key opposition politicians he was barred from running accused of retaining power by force yes. Its clear that this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers off the top of someones head the real results are exactly the opposite we support citizens are doing because their votes have been stolen has started this campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution because its now seizing power by force he is the one who is carrying out a coup. Ok lets get some analysis on this with our brian todd hes a journalist whos been covering events there embarrassed very welcome thanks for coming on brian lets just start with the tension of journalists in batteries because i realize that the Russian Union of journalists has now come out and said that bellary should release reporters detained while covering the unrest you think authorities in battery said likely to listen to that or will it just strain relations a bit more between russian bellary think. Indiscriminate in arresting reporting arresting under 14 reporters yesterday they found a crew from americas state run Radio Free Europe and they arrested them and deported or them out of the country they also found a crew from t. V. Rain in moscow which is an independent Television Channel in russia and they were arrested violently arrested for a video that was shown on line and deported and banned the country years theyve also. Arrested correspondent or. Russian service as well so you know obviously this is not great for relations the Russian Foreign ministry had to get involved yesterday over the reporters from t. V. Rain. Relations. Great for the repeated in the country. That the reporters did the camera man didnt have a critic but i mean. Not really the point considering that russian citizens dont need visas to work and go to reduce the minutes on the Union State Agreement on a russian person is entitled to do whatever they want. But i mean it depends what happens tonight i mean that was awful violence last night including reports of fatalities in minsk you know you people were seen on social media some of the videos it looked very ugly certainly not something youd expect to see in europe in this day and age far more brutal than anything seen and you know paris or moscow or london in recent years you know the momentum is there now people are upset a lot of people feel that theyve been disenfranchised that their votes dont count theres a lot of anger. And you know if anybody. Has been there its a very very cam country normally its not. Known for protests i mean im sure our viewers could see your viewers could say that we never heard of the big protests there before certainly not the last decade anyway. You know what minsk itself is a very tranquil very well run city this is out of character for better russians theyre not violent people they certainly would only protest what they would see as something of last resort and you know it could be violent again tonight very much so it could be more violent than last night it depends on how do you respond it depends on how far the protesters are willing to go it depends on a lot a lot of factors you know. Blaming outsiders for stoking protests keep blaming russia for supporting the opposition a couple of weeks ago now hes blaming the polish the czechs the british i mean you know hes didnt say he was alleging that people working for the state department had been found in minsk and kicked out a couple of weeks ago. Were arrested. Trying to torment unrest in the country i mean it is a pretty you know hes certain to you know hes taking a white view on whos meddling in his country what impact do you think this could have on some people have suggested that. What happened. There. The government eventually. Parallels. Know that this is an entirely different situation different situation of ukraine let me explain in ukraine that was a geo political element the European Union was offering an Association Agreement and one hand and on the other hand moscow was offering a 15000000000. 00 loan to ukraine to the den president. Theres no similar situation now what you have is a certain amount people in the west talking about democracy and bringing democracy to put the freedom as they would say but but nobodys willing to offer anything theres no deal on the table for better or theres nobody saying you know were going to do this. Were going to that feel close to what happened in ukraine where the economy has completely tanked and has been Mass Immigration since that my dad in 2014 it means ukraine is very much a cautionary tale for the russians i mean nobody wants to go down that road nobody wants millions of people leaving the country obviously not as divided on linguistic lines as ukraine but obviously they live far better than ukrainians dont forget that the g. D. P. Per capita measured by purchasing power parity in better roost is 21000. 00 which is quite respectable i mean you know whereas ukraine is only 10000. 00 less than half ukraines Living Standards are extremely low compared to rest of europe theyre on a par with african countries. Another story entirely they actually have higher higher Living Standards in serbia officially their Living Standards are somewhere along the lines of mexico or thailand or those countries that are kind of middle income. Far behind russia which is on 30000. 00 per capita officially but the point is that you know that youve been russians have a lot more to lose than ukrainians theyre far more prosperous and also as i said in the beginning there are few minutes ago there is not a geopolitical tug of war going on theres no but hes saying were going to bring you into nation at the moment anyway theres no desire for it and theres nobody offering a deal with the e. U. Youve got a lot of its own problems at the moment i mean we know about that its dealing with except from economics its dealing with political problems with poland and hungary and and the brics and various other situations that didnt pertain in 20142013 so its not like ukraine at all theres also no situation and better routes where you know for example theres some kind of like majority russian enclave like meal was. Something dont those conditions just dont pertain and the rooms. Were going to leave it there were no. Thank you. Still comfy this hour code has been hard for all of us but for undocumented Migrant Workers in one west african country the pandemic is certainly blown open the scale of inequality there well have a look at the details just after the break. Join me every 1st week on the alex salmond sure ill be speaking to get all the world of politics or. Im sure ill see you there. Hello again now from reportedly wants britain to pay 30000000 pounds to help stem the flow of migrants crossing the English Channel the request though hasnt gone down well and westminster which does accuse france of not trying hard enough to been ski reports from paris. Well the clash over migrants between the u. K. And france seems to be escalating and that comes as there has been in recent arrivals from france to the u. K. Which has put the 2 countries holds the number of illegal crossings is appalling and unacceptably high the figures are shameful france and other e. U. States are safe countries genuine refugees should claim asylum there not reach their lives and break the law by coming to the u. K. France is apparently demanding some. Pounds from the u. K. Government before it says it will deal with the issue of these illegal crossings promptly on the aids. Thats left apparently westminster pretty scathing this shut down those proposal saying it wont hand any will cash and less it has a hand in how the money is spent now there are also accusations that paris is trying to milk the u. K. All while these number of illegal crossings are increasing day by day lets have a look at some of the figures now just a few days ago on august 6th 235 people made it across from france to the shoes of england now in 2020 so far more than 4000 people have succeeded in making that crossing thats double the number in 2900. Priests that weve seen now french patrols are trying to stop some of those migrants leaving french Coastal Shores and we know that the French Interior minister has all come back saying you since january its operations have stopped 5 times as many people as they did in 2019 in the same period but with the u. K. Its just north and so much so you cant exactly predict it. Downstage point with this is the appointment of contest dying channel direct command of this somebody who is going to be monitoring all the agencies that watch the English Channel for things like illegal migration somebody should be able to sort the problem out and take up with this evil suggested that it may have to use its maritime assets to deal with this we determined to stop this illegal reach been to britain for humanitarian reasons as much as anything else were talking to our french counterparts and we in order to find a solution using maritime assets as they call it to try and return votes to france trying to prevent people from leaving france in the 1st place while talks between the 2 countries are due to continue this week but the quote he is taking up the moment the u. K. Has the right and the doctor who rules this said that the Asylum Seeker is back to front but that will end at the end of the break that transitional period which will finish in december 20 twentieths only a few months away thats of course unless the 2 countries reach a deal something at the moment that seems highly unlikely if the 2 countries are not seeing eye to eye on this issue. That restrictive measures during the pandemic have varied from country to country and to some of the worlds poorest studies making life almost impossible with documentary makers redfish have been following undocumented migrants from west africa it is stream on you tube but his is a taste of what they found. That island of all mines on. Monday to fill. In for now that im missing it in sort of an. Offical way you dont really know if you dont know people but a film of the whole of africa today will. Look for the most. Worst them worst. Because. This is. The arm up im going to then after seeing. Them after me and you have to. Act ok. After sitting through you have to contrast that im going to get the country i mean. For me sunscreens used to mean everybody said oh no yeah you get their part i said. I dont get anything so we are marketed. In order and. Then after more or less than a bit. Down in our. Time is when i want to. Its making me crazy. The documentary there you can watch him full on you cheap so thats how the news is looking so far today here not so you dont forget there are always plenty of stories to at our website and you can find that at our. Well the didnt make no sense you know blood is just flying to nationalities. Because of. The sexy. Beast to. Judge. Comedy classes sometimes. We can do better we should. Everyone is contributing each of their own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been so many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that were in it together. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area rush up. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez