Seriously wounded. Good morning just turned 11 am moscow time my name is kevin owen live from the r. T. International World News Center here for the next half hour stick with me to is a take you through todays headlines in the developing story that. Switches witness to free lance stuff working for arties Ruptly Video Agency they were detained on sunday will cover the disputed president ial election well lets get across this with roman culture of our correspondent there you know we talked about this last hour it just came in so to recap a few more details out now these star for among some others as well from other organizations caught up in what was going on there providing election coverage and the protests over it since sunday but whats happened to them since the. Well we have been talking extensively about journalists who were detained during mass protests and mass rallies in that bill or is there were at least 50 according to official figures and many of them i were working for a Russian Media now some have been deported from the country and theyre already in russia they crossed the billers suborder however until this morning freelancers working for a Ruptly Video Agency were still unaccounted for they were detained on some day soon after polls opened in belarus and we havent heard of from them for days on wednesday we received a message from one of the strangers who was detained and released a little bit earlier all in all though for up the strangers and 2 of them were released earlier and 2 of them at this thursdays will she said that the cell where she spends a few days of was mens 4 x. 6 people however there were 37. 00 women there and and so in the mens block which was also meant for 6 people or 50 minutes she said that they had to take turns sleeping and there was no food and only wants out water this time it looks like all of a ruptly freelancers have been released and finally they joined their loved ones now interior minister a bill or roofs while he claims that. These reporters with proper papers proper identification should not be touched the 17. Hands of journalists is my essential position apart from cases where they stand between Law Enforcement and. Well protests. Continued for a 5th day in a role which last 4 days weve seen quite a lot of violence with police using all sorts of crowd control equipment will see what will be happening on thursday the 5th day of the protests and bring you up to date as soon as we get it. From where we are you are there well here in moscow outside the embassy there been 4 consecutive evenings of peaceful protests campaigning for change most of the russians working here in russia some are locals joining in solidarity to on monday to focus their attention was to demand the release of russian journalists in baton rouge as weve been hearing from rome and theyre allowed to correspondent there was also briefly detained him and talk to us through his experience as well. You know speeches. Of right Police Officers and the route was blocked and if i could go through they said no its not come with us they twisted my hands but the loving to put my phone in my pocket we had lee enough they care a lot about phones so that people dont break them it was really uncomfortable my hands were twisted my head was down and i had to walk like this but charles as were falling off a Police Officer from the back was pulling on them it wasnt painful it was uncomfortable they pushed me into the vehicle and put a plastic 20 k. On my hands it was difficult to breathe suddenly we stopped the door opened my surname and said to go out whats next a riot Police Officer said just go out and make sure we dont see you again and he smiled i could see from his eyes above his mask. So the disputed election in belarus is now also saying members of the Security Services say theyve had enough never probably been making their feelings clear online in verified videos being shared on the Telegram Messenger up. When asked for. Thank. You because. As for the long standing president about a roselle exam look hes been in charge since 1904 but this years election has been his most challenging double quarter next look at the apparent shift in peoples support for their leader. In bellerose having the title go or daddy means youve got the most populist position in the entire post soviet sphere and for the recently reelected president alexander look at shank oh hes held the position for decades. The russians have to hold on to look to even in the most critical situation theres a tremendous mad we cant just stroll that you just took my racing to be 90 percent to the roof it will be with you like we all know it is no not for you to decide. I envy myself but i am the last and only dictator in europe. And. Im not going to hold this position for a lifetime as soon as the people refuse my services ill take my bag under my arm and im going lucas shank i was on board the populist train before it was cool before politicians like steve bannon and donald trump probably even knew the meaning of the word one of his most recent populist stunts involve the dismissal of bellerose his agricultural minister after the ministers cows failed to gain lucas shank those approval why did you bring me his so i know its all the Security Service to put through him hank coughs person does most of the stuff that this is and you put him in charge of the holding you do this on the stands you at school. Go as a man of inspections meetings with bureaucrats and reprimands of government officials when the cameras are watching of course this puts a smile on the faces of ordinary people who struggle daily with bureaucratic red tape its also the main reason why they call the shank obama for many baka is also a strong man who created an enclave of the soviet union. Within europe its been a popular stance for years but now look at those image is facing some big problems. Sure local shango claims he won the election it seems like the Security Forces are on his side and for a while he only faced small pockets of pro western opposition but based on the brutality used by the police to control the situation arrests made of journalists and the death of a protester it seems like the entire countrys view of the government is definitely turning sour. Its possible lucas shank goes recent anti russia statements alley and made it his main base of support those who want closer cooperation with belarus is eastern neighbor going to we need to address the russian mass media and also the not to say nonsense if you are guilty you need to get out of this situation with dignity no guilty good we have no goals to discredit the country close to us arresting russian journalists didnt help the situation either. For the west hes always been europes last dictator even look at shankar himself said he knew people would dispute the Election Results whatever the case the belorussian president will need to father more support if he wants to remain at the head of the table. The director of the Council International relations things the situation may be reaching a critical moment indeed. But we have at the moment is partially the result of several really big mistakes his government government made over the last years but most. Take only the way the government truly the Coronavirus Crisis is this situation has us collate to very very dangerous level and reporting just seeing seems to point to that where soon approaching a critical point where its either going to be. Kind of military or state of emergency was wired and that will be the only way for the government to deal with the situation or. New negotiations should be against. Next years democratic president ial hopeful joe biden raised a record 26000000. 00 for his Campaign Funds within 24 hours after picking his running mate Campbell Harris is the 1st black woman to run as Vice President biden the she could be the peoples v. P. But there are a few doubts over choosing the former california prosecutor given the reputation right now of Americas Police were on it from caleb maupin. From rival to running mate joe biden is hoping that Carmel Harris will be a powerful weapon in his arsenal as he selected her as Vice President as he prepares to go to battle with donald trump for the white house i decided that comma harris is the best person to help me take this fight to donald trump and mike pence and then lead this nation starting in january 2021 i need someone who understands that were in a battle for the soul of this nation and that safeway going to get through these crises we need to come together a new night for a better america come and i gets that but unity it seems is not the word on every democrats lips. Biden going with the strategically brilliant move of picking somebody for v. P. Who is despoiled by both the right and the left where in the midst of the largest protest movement in American History the subject of which is excessive policy and the Democratic Party chose a top cop and the author of the joe biden crime bill to save us from trump the contempt for the bases. At perry katie and to a movement for black life is someone who helped put that a 2 of them up regime well letting the powerful in the Silicon Valley and wall street is like steve knew change with impunity had to 2020 lets not forget that for the past few months the United States has been gripped by a wave of protests against Police Brutality sparked by the killing of george floyd. Her. So joe biden has selected kamel harris as his Vice President ial running mate and with her jamaican and indian roots she is the 1st woman of color to be selected by a major us Political Party as a Vice President ial candidate this may sound like a smart move generating enthusiasm among the democrats base among africanamericans however the polls are suggesting otherwise we protest build more schools less jails put the money into education our prisons. Theres a fundamental problem with that approach i agree with that conceptually but you have not addressed the reason i have 3 new padlocks on my front door kamel harris has got a resume full of working with the police locking people up and being unnecessarily gleeful about doing so she even took the move of jailing parents of children who were truant from school as californias attorney general Camila Harris fought against moves to release nonviolent offenders even after the Court Ordered her to do so as san franciscos District Attorney she secured the conviction of over 1900 people 1st moping marijuana these folks got a life long criminal records and often jail time however she then joked about the fact that shes a pot smoker herself have you know smoked i have ok and i had and i have my name and i didnt have. A long time ago. At a time when police are not necessarily the most loved among rank and file democrats a certain catch phrases spreading across social media. Kamel harris has done a lot in recent months to try and clean up her image shes gone to Police Brutality protests to shake hands and take photos shes published an autobiography that presents herself and her career as a prosecutor as if she was fighting against racism on behalf of the downtrodden but some people just arent buying it i watched a poll numbers go alone boem boem down to almost nothing donald trump has indicated that he is not too worried about Camila Harris as she is not polling very well around the country however many are jubilant about the fact that a woman of color has finally joined a major president ial ticket in the United States but many of the people expected to vote for Camila Harris in november have got a pretty Big Questions here with martin artsy new york well its a person who has a lot more of color will say about goes maine time back to more the news of the day of the break were focusing on by a route again by a group battling to treat thousands of agent this such a mess just over a week ago on even though more than half of its hospitals are out of action a lot of the stuff as well they have caught up in it we follow a russian medical team sent in to help after this. When else seems wrong. Why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape out just be active. And engaged with equals betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spirit Dramatic Development the only sleep im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. Again dealing with the aftermath of beiruts chemical explosion transit is seeing the Health Service that stretched beyond its limits at the moment the World Health Organization says that more than half of the citys medical facilities a completely non functional after Building Sustained heavy damage and with many stuff themselves injured in what went on beiruts 3 major hospitals are out of action the ones that are left overwhelmed last weeks port blast killed more than 200 people and left thousands injured countries have been rallying to send aid to lebanon with russia were among them he goes to an office spent time with a team of russian medics flown in to deal with some of the most urgently needed surgery. Were about 7 kilometers outside of the roots in the mountains here is one of lebanese main hospitals and we have come to witness the work of a top Surgical Team of russia they have come here to help lebanon deal with the traumatic fallout from the blast in the port. So russian surgeons with the help of the lebanese colleagues have just finished administering and his teacher here and have begun the surgery im being told this woman has a lot of bones in her face broken and they are not in the right places this is the primary thing that doctors here are dealing with right now also she has a severe head trauma. Is leading the medical team overseeing the surgery they have decades of experience between them specializing in treating the injured from natural disasters and was syria palestine indonesia new media just some of the places where theyve been saving lives here in lebanon and the groups worked alongside local doctors in more than 200 cases but some of the most difficult procedures like the one we saw earlier they have been taking on themselves or the local centerboard is the most difficult surgeries that our team carried out here with the severe cranial traumas and face skull fractures one patient had there all with bones completely fractured but the surgery was successful everything was reconstructed and the patient is feeling better and. Their work here has been made possible thanks to russias official aid agency Russell Trood and just up by larry says that being deployed to trouble spots can sometimes take up to a couple of weeks this time it only took around 24 hours a remarkable difference and a swiftness thats likely saved lives. During surgery russian medical aid also arrived at the hospital we received this donation from the Russian Humanitarian Mission we thank them a lot for this generosity and we want to say Russian Cultural Center because at that moment for the because you know nowadays. We have a crisis the explosion that. Happened and we need every every help we can get from anyone many injuries like this require complex delicate and lengthy procedures during a break away from the operating table the surgeon tells me everythings going well broken bones are reset stitches are applied the start of a healing process for a girl whos seen more than enough trauma in her young life because diana from lebanon r t. Next over incarcerate got the story of a young mans death from a normally survivable condition shine a light on deadly decisions in treating palestinian patients in Israel General fear was 22 it waited a month for treatment on referral israel initially rejected the request citing his mother as a Security Risk but then by the time approval was finally given it was too late joels father talked as through his sons final weeks. Condition was discovered in mid january we noticed his face was turning yellow we hospitalized him and after a few days of tests they found out that he had a plastic anemia after 3 and a half months he got a referral to go to the hospital until his from there at that time his condition was deteriorating and he needed a blood transfusion every couple of days on sunday at 10 am we were told that the application for the patient and his escort had been rejected by the israeli authorities for security reasons finding an escort wasnt easy because the corona virus was spreading across israel finally my cousin agreed and she was accepted but the time was after 9 pm and the border was closed on sunday a week after the initial application was scheduled we were arranging ambulances both in gaza and in israel we were still doing that until july died at around 1 pm his heart just suddenly stopped any patient can have setbacks at any moment so these delays played a key role in his death well i was only 22 years old he was a palestinian who lived in gaza he graduated from university with distinction and had plans to become a teacher at the uns Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees israeli officials maintain that death was not a result of their decisions. Giles 1st request was approved for july the 16th but this permit was not utilized for reasons unrelated to the israeli side on july the 16th any request was received to coordinate the patients exit foreign ambulance after his house deteriorated to choose dispersion of coordination by the civilian committee the Organization Made the request was asked to provide the missing details on july the 19th the missing details were received and his exit for treatment was approved immediately the angio physicians for human rights says access to Israeli Health care from gaza has been limited after Security Cooperation was halted since june since that only urgent cases have been processed but in june and july out of 195 urgent patients seems only half of those requests were approved by israel so those families say the feeling of helplessness is the biggest burden for them right now. It was hard not to feel helpless condition was worsening and we couldnt do anything about it we could only give him pain killers he was always happy to see me we used to stay up late in the hospital and have fun and laugh he used to ask me to take him to the beach for a few minutes to cheer him up jaw was a very social person loved by everyone he wanted to build a house and get married and wanted me to get married to him to become his neighbor i wanted to become a teacher in the un relief and work agency for Palestinian Refugees he even managed to finish his College Education but it wasnt gods will. Sick people who get rejected pose no threat to israel but these measures are taken to torture people this is one of the ways of the siege in gaza these past days since his death were the hardest days of my life i never had a situation this hard in my life i was a helpless father unable to help my dying son even though we had all the papers to do it even when in a very bad condition was still talking about getting married and having a happy life in any other country this would have been a simple transplant. Some of europes biggest banks are being called out over the green credentials despite publicly backing calls to deal with Climate Change seems a few are also bigger recently Financing Oil extraction in the amazon which environmentalist say endangers its fragile ecosystem in indigenous populations were on it from Charlotte Dube and ski. Banking institutions such as the m p 3 bad Credit Suisse and i n g say they are committed to backing action on Climate Change they also say they hold themselves to account on issues such as social responsibility but now with these european banks being accused of double standards a new report claims despite their pledges these banks are Major Players in the trade in oil from the amazon rainforest millions of hectors in the amazon sacred headwaters region are now on the imminent threat due to the expansion of fossil fuel production since 2009 private Financial Institutions have provided trade financing for approximately 155 minute barrels of oil from the amazon rain forest in ecuador to refineries in the United States worth about 10000000000. 00 they say expansion of fossil fuel production means more drilling that not only impacts the bio diversity of the rain forest but also indigenous populations in april an oil spill in ecuador contaminated hundreds of miles of 2 rivers affecting some 35000 people in the local communities are the steelers easy u. S. Huge Information Administration as well as ecuadorian exports. I would say here is the amount of oil in dollars and barrels these youre in big stuff i mean its over the last decade this equates to over a 150000000. 00 barrels of oil worth about 10 1000000000. 00 u. S. The report says these banks are skirting a thin line instead of financing projects to develop oil wells and extract fossil fuels they are instead trade financing this means putting the capital to move the oil gas from where its produced to refineries rather than the dirty work of actually drilling but one. Goes hand in hand with the other foreigners think of as a crude Oil Commodity trades the banks provide their clients with indepth knowledge and expertise of the supply chains and liabilities and a proven track record of supplying the credit needed to get oil to u. S. Refineries some of the banks named in this report say that trade financing doesnt fall under that standard pledges in regards to sustainability essentially meaning that while they are happy to hold themselves accountable they are not responsible for those they know money to the report refers to our oil and gas policy and mentions requirements that apply to project related transactions with respect to Indigenous People and areas of high conservation value however these policy requirements to not relate to trade finance services while others outright questioned the credibility of the report the lack of explanations of the methodology and the aggregation of data whose provenance cannot be verified make any analysis. We do not recognize the calculations of aggregate exposure in the report but standoff and is on watch see the banks are not clipping up to the spirit of their own environmental and social responsibility commitments they are calling on the banks to hold all over latest activities in the amazon saying its time to change course and to play a more responsible role in advancing life over profits finances asians are morally responsible for what their money is used for because of the flow of commodities that are highly out in on the other person. There are you merely on the surface so you can look at it like you might reach you know maybe there you know in the past the space were going to enjoy you know that. There are some places so the invalid if beings are very simplistic. Industry on Indigenous Peoples on the east a gritty of the streets and shouted youve been reporting on the mixed messages from the banks there about it but set for now at 1130 moscow time in the morning keep across so much more from online and r. T. Dot com to various social media teams there were can 24 sevenths for you as the news breaks youll be the next to know about it for now here in moscow this thursday morning kevin owen reporting but with more in just over half an hour im ready to did run the world thank you for it and have a great day