Bringing you the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments this is the weekly on our to International Hello and welcome. We begin in belarus where there is no let up to the wave of the government on wrist big crowds gathered in minsk throughout sunday calling on president lukashenko to step down cusick him of rigging the august 9th election arties reports from the capital. So this is what the antigovernment protest looks like right now since the last time you saw me or now weve moved about 2 kilometers away from the Independence Square to another iconic landmark of the better russian capital and it has become sort of a traditional a regular place for people to gather and vent their anger after the highly controversial elections and right now you can see that behind me this towering structure and the museum behind it are being guarded by the Security Forces they are not letting people come close but they arent trying to the road between the Security Forces and the protesters has become sort of an improvised border and people have been flocking here but this is not the final destination the final destination will be announced shortly were expecting in one of the telegram channels a very very large telegram channels with lots of followers which are being used to coordinate these protests because the its not like people its not it hasnt been spontaneous it has been organized it has been coordinated through internet for instance. The reason protesters on trying to storm the structure is because this channel has called on people not to do that and not to approach the museum thats behind those behind the structure on the on the small hill so soon they will be moving to another and we believe that the final location of todays protest and so far because so far judging by what i have seen of these people these protesters they have been following every direction given by the coordinate his. Simple. Alexander lukashenko their greasing Security Forces a number of hours ago they had sealed off a perimeter around the president ial residence during the protests in croydon where earlier moving towards the compound the shankar ride to of his residence and body armor and was seen exiting a helicopter with a gun in his hand he was accompanied by his 15 year old son. Of belarus has been left deeply divided by the election so we felt followed it was dominated by opposition protests but on monday supporters of the president began holding culture rallies. But my hearts bleeding and i cant believe this is happening in bell. And i love i love the thanks to this opposition we are strong it is them who made us united we are the people weve been living in fear for a week weve been crying all these calls for change i was buying vegetables at the grocery i told the seller i was going to attend a meeting she said you look at shankar rat i think death or it is all wrong the Election Results are a complete lie its very sad the more the authorities deny ever to the things the worse it is for the state i feel bad for the country and for the people i believe that the peoples voices that we hear him out justify what people decided in the election they havent been heard now they will have to listen every day to whats going on here. And i want to bring you back to saturday where thousands showed up for a prolific shanker rally in the border city of grodno the president himself delivering an emotional speech there he reiterated his belief that the political turmoil gripping the country is being stirred up by external forces r. T. In fact he was able to speak to him right after his appearance on. No i knew this would happen i was afraid of skirmishes during that critical period they were preparing for that they were going to work for i came out i was afraid that these people would have suffered that is why we took a break look at that there is a sea of people outside i did not expect to see that here on the western border were being bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out. Meanwhile a number of Foreign Countries have challenge look at those legitimacy as president the results of this months election the e. U. Has confirmed its strong out sanctions against bello russian officials who are suspected of Election Fraud and violence against protesters arties done youre hawkins delves into why the former soviet republic has drawn so much international attention. Just a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that all changed the thousands poured over the streets in protest over the disputed president ial election is the countrys geography which between its big east the neighbor europe sees the interests of International Players intertwine and clash. Officially the e. U. Is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. Persona nongrata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing Human Rights Violations in the wake of Police Violence because they withheld e. U. Why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for Human Rights Violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether they will be further restrict. Measures depends on the further actions of the bully russian authorities. Condemnation was perhaps predictable but there is no shared view of what comes next the Baltic States and poland have been the loudest critics of location while hungary has stopped short of outright that l. C. A. Sion others still have sought a balancing act the e. U. Cant turn a blind eye neither can it risk having it be stabilized neighbor state on their doorstep and confrontations with moscow a longtime ally of minsk are getting tiresome. So its no surprise putin has been busy on the phone holding talks with merkel mark kroll and the European Council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the situation a better roofs is russias closest historical alloy a vital economic and military partner and the buffer zone against nato over recent years have seen their relationship strained to say the least nevertheless moscow would surely rather put up with a look of shame goes over towards the west and risk chaos on its borders the russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affairs of belarus which could lead to a further escalation of the crisis would be an acceptable. For many years but it doesnt exactly been a top priority for the United States in 2006 they slap sanctions on minsk for you guessed it undemocratic elections and in 2008 the countrys expelled each others ambassadors but earlier this year things began to change for the 1st time since 1904 minutes got a visit from the u. S. Secretary of state. Generously offered to meet all of his energy needs and extended a helping hand it out of 6 wanted to help the reuss build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending looking. Who may be interested or put their bets on the opposition and its the uncertainty in minsk one thing is clear washington has its own interest in belarus the possibility of another u. S. Friendly state on russias border could be a game changer and as protests grow in a country suddenly thrown into the International Limelight and with multiple interests at stake all actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move meanwhile the e. U. Foreign policy chief urge for caution in dealing with belarus you said burrell said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and minsk does not have to choose between europe and russia Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov also warned against a repeat of the 24000 ukraine uprising. We will support any decision that the belorussian government takes to promote dialogue with its people but when western countries say that mediation can only be effective with their presence of course we all remember what happened in ukraine where negotiations with our partners failed that is why the belorussian people will decide for themselves how they want to emerge from this situation i think the clear signs of normalization that we are seeing are very important but i know that not everyone likes what is happening there are those who want to shift the current flow of events in better use which is normal and peaceful to a path of violence to provoke bloodshed and create another ukraine scenario. Sid learned. Any or declaring that she wanted to take care of her children but evidently she wasnt allowed to settle that so she started making political statements quite harsh ones demanding more strikes and protests its significant that shes making more and more statements not in russian or belorussian but in english her target audience is in the west and its possible they dont insist on this the whole goal is to ensure that they dont calm down but keep stirring up the situation some by the russian opposition figures who live in the west and are trying to influence the events in their country from abroad want everything to be different they want blood they want to provoke the belorussian Security Forces who are not touching anyone right now and theyre not intervening against peaceful demonstrators we think this is criminal. Russian opposition figure alexei novelli has been admitted to a berlin hospital for emergency medical treatment he was early after it all saturday from the siberian city of novelli has been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday or in your correspondent peter over the latest. Took a lot of wrangling between doctors in the russian city of. The family but Alexei Navalny is here in germany here arrived on saturday in a special medical plane that being chartered by his supporters he landed here in berlin and arrived at the hospital flanked by a column of blue flashing Lights Police motorcycles and other vehicles accompanying the ambulance that he was in to the shot at a hospital hes receiving treatment and undergoing extensive testing at the hospital to try and determine what is behind his illness that resulted in him being in a coma since the day the Berlin Police have also put out the same and saying that they are here in increased numbers due to mr vanney being in this hospital and we arent expecting any updates really from the hospital until maybe monday morning. Air lexan of on these wife is here so will be looking to see if theres any further statements from the family now russian doctors had objected to him moving initially they said that alexina vanny was too ill to be able to make that journey however they relented at the request of the family we are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requests of his family we will help organize the transportation alexina van the took on well on thursday on a flight from siberia back to moscow he was headed to be in some clear distress while on that flight the plane made an Emergency Landing in the city of on skin he was rushed off to hospital by paramedics that has been claims that he was poisoned with some of his team suggesting there was a poison was put into his t. Doctors say that they ran a talk screening on him while he was in the hospital in that came back negative that they were treating him under a different diagnosis if you will or the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered emitted by disruption with the reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off. Now this isnt the 1st claim of poisoning against alexina van the last year he was hospitalized from prison his team at the time said that he had been poisoned it later turned out that he suffered a severe allergic reaction and claims that there has been a poisoning and the kremlin of behind it is being strongly denied by denethor the press corps is flooding me of putins press secretary he said that the russian government to put no blocks in the way of the legs in the valley traveling he had to germany that any delays in transportation had been due to the concert and raised by the doctors he said he also wish mr in the valley a speedy recovery of the European Union have said they want a full investigation into what happened to Alexei Navalny in what seems to be a case thats demanding a lot of answers in re raising certainly a lot more questions than we have ounces at the moment a lot of eyes focused on the hospital just behind me in a case that is becoming increasingly politicized. You know just to pick up or peter was going through there a soon as the news of these illness broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin involvement several cases were cited when the russian government was accused of poisoning people. Vonnie is not the 1st to fall victim to poisoning blame for which is often a laid at the door of the kremlin former spy surrogates cripple and his daughter yulia suffered a nerve agent attack and russian defector Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoning activist Glen Amir Karim was poisoned twice and survived the tourists for allegedly using radioactive nerve agents to target Double Agents defectors and others who fall afoul of the kremlin course his support us will not be convinced they will believe that this is a poisoning. I am at the last who would be interested in such a poison and it became a kind of duty its a its a cliche for their weston media the western news agency is to blame rashi mediately after something happens basically there are many questions on it and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia personally i want to speculate if it could be done by a russian government agents without which inseparable with fortunes approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because its much more dangerous to really investigate and to see probably the role of are the exodus both in the story all of us and all in the story all the. More all the news that ship the busy week coming after the break this is art international. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. Thinks. We dare to ask. The lucia thats right we talked about problems all year and then summer time we come up with all solutions that say were just being joined by bankers churn point from your simon. Banks with your long term friend this. Just approaching 80 minutes into the Program Welcome back the Fatal Police Shooting of a black man in the u. S. State of louisiana sparked large scale protests a video of the moments leading up to his death has gone viral i warning you may find it disturbing. The confrontation happened in this to be of. Friday was caught on camera 31 year old trey 1st pellerin was pursued by police after entering the gas station people in the background of the video can be heard saying. That the man fled several officers caught up with him a Convenience Store a half. The way the suspect was tasered officer said it was ineffective so he was then shot video was posted online on saturday crowds gathered to put. Hundreds of people marched to the Lafayette Police station demanding justice for mr power and the situation escalated towards evening with clashes breaking police the Police Promise to investigate the deadly shooting which has been condemned by the American Civil Liberties union. The case follows months long protests over alleged Racial Injustice and Police Brutality following the death of george floyd and many police lets go live now. To journalist and author for his take on what happened there in louisiana good to see judging by the video how do you assess the actions of the officers do you think there was just the fixation for the use of lethal force. I cant i cant render judgment on that its difficult to say not knowing the facts but there is every reason for suspicion that the police overreacted there is a consistent pattern of. Treated very badly by the criminal Justice System prisons are overflowing with them and many of them are not. Violent offenses its a very bad racial situation thats only getting worse can i put a few to the police chase the suspect for half a mile some of the chase can be seen in the footage in fact not to justify the officers actions trigger happy actions as well in any way but do you think running from Armed Police Officers is ever a good idea surely those who want to stop such tragedy should be putting that message across time and time again that resisting arrest is a dangerous thing to do and im. But people are afraid of the police black people are afraid of the police with good reason they are afraid that if they are that they surrender to the police they will be killed. Because there are they hearing out from that theyre going to be killed. From the press from their daily experience from from well information all around them and thats my point would you not put it to the leaders of b. L. M. To be stressing the point to save a life resist arrest and then well deal with the rest of the issues the funding the police etc after that. Well that might be a good policy it might not be a good policy but if people dont trust the police its. Hard vice to pass along if people dont think the police have been or are accountable if they think theyre brutal if they think that theyre racist then running away from the police might be the rational decision in a Certain CircumstanceLouisiana Police say they will investigate the matter after everything youve been saying thats been happening in the u. S. Do you think there is going to be any public trust in that investigation. Its difficult question to answer the the answer is probably not just knowing who the political thought is are in louisiana louisiana is a deep deep south state with a long history of racism and violence against black people so therefore black people are very skeptical they are not they dont trust the authorities and so therefore they would be inclined in general to be skeptical of whatever findings a commission official investigation comes up with the scenes that were looking at just as youre speaking done deal you know really dreadful scenes rioting looting and its happening a lot in basically block communities and block them businesses are getting affected as well the months of b. L. M. Protests in the wake of the George Floyd Killing the calls to the phone the police. The protests actually achieve anything what what have the. Well theyve achieved theyve achieved that certainly brought the drop dramatize the problem. They have impressed much of the population there really is a serious problem but the american political structure is unresponsive is that perth the chasm between rich and poor is enormous and its getting worse by the by the Year AmericanPolitical Institutions by certain measures are more racist now than they were 60 years ago for example the us senate which is the upper house of Congress Actually it is less representative of blacks and more unfair of towards blacks in terms of representation than it was in 1960 so the American Government is actually in some ways more just now from the needs of ordinary working class people than it was 60 years ago. Wealth polarization is shooting through the roof and political instability is growing yeah it is obviously a highly politically charged issue how do you think the b. L. M. Movement over perceived Racial Injustice is going to affect the november election because we have seen polls before recently in fact you know theres a silent majority there are looking at those scenes and say well we dont want to the happen in our community and on includes both black and White Communities as well so you know its not going to be a straight forward is that a saying you know theres going to be a way vonte trump voting this november its going to be more nuanced like that is it not. I believe it is going to be more than once yes i think ive got b. L. M. Its made certain mistakes. That its a proto the problem has not been quite correct i think the problem is the racial angle is exaggerated i think its primarily a class problem rather than a racial problem placed America Police in the United States kill a 1000 people per year that no other country has a has a record like that and the victims of that kind of runaway placed the taliban are of all races white hispanic and black and probably. Economic status is a better indicator of whether youre likely to be killed by the police than race is still b. L. M. I think is overly racialize the problem and that might end up with the triggering of a backlash but i dont want to say that certainly theres a huge problem. With the police in the United States there are there uncontrolled there is there is there a law on to themselves. 1000 people a year as i said is completely without parallel dannielle always good to have you on the program thank you very much for your time on your thoughts tony lazzaro journalist and author thank you. Germany france the u. K. Russia and china have all rejected a usa request to reimpose sanctions on iran the socalled snuffbox unction can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatories to the pact explaining the kill american. So at this point weve got the United States essentially demanding that the United Nations reimpose its crippling sanctions Economic Warfare against the Islamic Republic of iran this is mike pompei o laying out the demand just a few minutes ago i delivered letters to both the un secretary general to terrorism to the president of the Security Council notified them that the United States is initiating the restoration of virtually all u. N. Sanctions on iran listed under un Security Council resolution 2231 did i say it will never allow the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons now essentially the United States is hoping to invoke the snap back mechanism that was part of the j c p o a conclusion of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations the Iran Nuclear Deal now the snapback mechanism was put into the nuclear deal so that if iran did not fulfill the agreement and did not fulfill its obligations broke the agreement that there would be an immediate snap back and all the un sanctions would immediately be reimposed on iran so now the United States is trying to invoke the snapback mechanism however it has virtually no support in the International Community when it comes to this demand that weve got all the other cosigners of the deal the United Kingdom germany france china russia all staying that basically the United States doesnt have the right to invoke the snapback mechanism because the United States pulled out of the deal not iran this has been the International Reaction to the United States call and this was west to you and i was aware different concerns that reckless acts by the United States could trigger a serious crisis in the Security Council our american colleagues do not seem to care about this carnal countries to resist and i stress once again that the u. S. Prices are low full that they will use in the United States has withdrawn. In the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian Nuclear issue and hes not qualified to call for a rapid resumption of sanctions by the Security Council as i have repeatedly recalled the us unilaterally sees participation in the j. C. B. Away by president ial memorandum on the 8th of may 28th in and has subsequently not participated in any j c p a way related activities he cannot have for be considered to be a j c p a a participant state for the purposes of possible sanctions not by foreseen by the resolution the United States hold out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in may of 28 seen and at this point weve got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open to renegotiating a new deal that would restrict irans activities more harshly now at this point people are reacting to the recent effort by the United States to extend the arms embargo against the Islamic Republic of iran which was roundly defeated by the International Community the u. N. Security council the 15 member body that leads the un the only other country to support the u. S. Move was the Dominican Republic and it seems with the world basically opposing washingtons moves against iran that iran actually has the upper hand this is what weve heard from some iranian officials in was calm and on which i think today its clear that the United States is size elated and american unilateralist is not supported by other countries with the reason reason lucian there was put before the Security Council the United States was defeated and the slum a group of iran has the upper hand in the International Community it seems like almost a consensus that the Iran Nuclear Deal should remain intact however washington has pulled out of the deal and they seem to be almost standing alone at this point in their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the Islamic Republic. Well Russias Deputy envoy to the United Nations said on thursday about the u. S. Had declined to hold a Security Council session on the issue of sanctions against iran long time Foreign Correspondent reece erlich told me americas actions are designed for a home audience the us has no legal grounds whatsoever to pursue this very quite explicit in the terms of the j c p o a that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back and weve seen all kinds of the seizure of iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way to venezuela are perfectly legal but the u. S. Claims the unilateral right to pose its interpretation of sanctions any