Bringing you the top stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment. This is the weekly R T International hello and welcome. We begin in belarus where there is no letup in the wave. Big crowds gathered in minsk calling on president lukashenko to step down accusing him of rigging the august election. 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 thats 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. That was. Alexander lukashenko there greeting Security Forces a couple of hours ago they had sealed off a perimeter around the president ial residence during the protests in mens crowds were earlier moving towards the point. Arrived at his residence in body armor and was seen exiting a helicopter with a gun in his hand he was accompanied by his 15 year old son. Of the loose as being left deeply divided by the election the week that followed it was dominated by opposition protests but on monday supporters of the president began holding a rally. If you want doc my hearts bleeding and i cant believe this is happening in bell. And i love i love the. Thanks it is 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 i think their thirties are wrong the Election Results are a complete lie its very sad the more the authorities deny ever 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 now justify what people decided in the election they have been heard now they will have to listen every day to whats going on here. On saturday meanwhile fison showed up for a prolific shanker rally in the western border city of grodno the president himself delivered an emotional speech he reiterated his belief that the political turmoil gripping the country is being stirred up by external forces r. T. Was able to speak to him right after his appearance on the stage. Yes 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 where being bullied are being pressured to attack russia they see as a springboard and we have to wipe it out well meanwhile a number of Foreign Countries have challenge the legitimacy as president rejecting the results of this months election the e. U. Has in fact confirmed its drawing up sanctions against russian officials who are suspected of Election Fraud and violence against protesters are to hawkins now 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. Roofs that will change the thousands paul out of the streets in protest over the disputed president ial election its the countrys geography which between its big east the neighbor and europe sees the interests of International Players intertwine and clash. Officially the e. U. Is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. As persona nongrata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing Human Rights Violations in the wake of Police Violence in closer to start number were told e. U. Why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for Human Rights Violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether there will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the bully russian or thorough. Condemnation was perhaps predictable but theres no shared view of what comes next the Baltic States and poland have been the loudest critics of looking 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 to yours that 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 will. Been 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 democratic 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 energy needs and extended a helping hand it out of 6 want to help build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending look 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 down the organs meanwhile the e. U. Foreign policy chief has urged caution in dealing with belarus you said burrell said europe cannot allow the country to turn into a 2nd ukraine and the mints does not have to choose between europe and russia Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov also warned against a repeat of the 2014 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 and better use which is normal and peaceful to a path of violence to provoke bloodshed and create another ukraine scenario. 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 by the russian but in english her target audience is in the west and its possible but i 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 belorussians Security Forces who are not touching anyone right now and not intervening against peaceful demonstrators we think this is criminal. Russian opposition figure alexina vilely has been admitted to a burglar in hospital for emergency medical treatment he was airlifted on saturday from the siberian city of. Been in a coma since falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday our europe correspondent peter oliver has 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 had been chartered by his supporters landed here in berlin and arrived at the hospital flanked by a column of blue flashing Lights Police motorcycles and other vehicles accompanying the the ambulance that he was in 2 to 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 thursday the pearl in place of also put out the same and saying that they are here in increased numbers due to mr van. Being in this hospital now we arent expecting any updates really from the hospital until maybe monday morning. Lex in the familys wife is here so would 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 valmy 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 teeth 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 a 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 in the kremlin of the hind that 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 travelling he had to germany that any delays in transportation had been due to the concerns 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 picking up on that latter point as soon as the news of volleys in this broken 5 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 boys inning. I am at a war so 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 unanswered and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia putin personally or to speculate if it could be done by a russian government agents without which inseparable with potence approval is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because its much more dangerous to really investigate and to see broadly the role of our the exodus both in the story or. And or in the story or. More of the stories that made headlines this past week in our own 90 seconds and counting youre watching international. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race is clearly a Dramatic Development only mostly and. I dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. The world is driven by shaped by. Military thinks. We are here to ask. Minutes into the Program Welcome back the Fatal Police Shooting of a black man in the u. S. State of louisiana spark wide scale protests a video of the moments leading up to his death has gone viral a warning you may find at the store. Make. The confrontation happen in this city. Was caught on camera as well 31 year old trafford pursued by police. Station people in the background of the video can be heard saying he has a knife the month several officers caught up with him at a Convenience Store half of the suspect was tasered but officers said it was ineffective so he was shot the video was posted online on saturday crowds gathered to protest. I hundreds of people marched to the Lafayette Police station demanding justice for mr pellerin the situation escalated to wards evening with clashes breaking out riot Police Moving in Police Promise to investigate the deadly shooting which has been condemned by the American Civil Liberties union horrific the case follows months long protests over alleged Racial Injustice and Police Brutality following the death of george floyd in minneapolis and i discussed the case with journalist. At the police overreacted theres a consistent pattern pattern of brutality blacks are treated very badly by the criminal Justice System its a very bad racial situation thats only getting worse not to justify the officers actions trigger helping actions as well in any way but do you think running from Armed Police Officers is ever a good idea people are afraid of the police black people are afraid of the police with good reason they are afraid that if they d are that they surrender to the police they will be killed the months of b. L. M. Protests in the wake of the George Floyd Killing the calls to defend the police of the protests actually achieve anything what what have the achieved theyve achieved that certainly brought the drop and dramatize the problem. Theyve theyve and pressed they much of the population there really is a serious problem but the american political structure is as unresponsive as their birth the chasm between rich and poor is is enormous and its getting worse by the by the or american Political Institutions by certain measures are more racist now than they were 60 years ago for example so the American Government is is actually in some ways more distant 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. Germany france the u. K. Russia and china have all rejected the us request to reimpose sanctions on iran they socalled snuffbox sanctions can be triggered as part of the nuclear deal but only by signatories to the pact killam up and picks up the story. 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 lifted 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 u. N. 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 this was west to you and where did the concerns at 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 we can all countries to resist and i stress once again that the u. S. Plans are in low full. The United States has withdrawn from 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 u. S. Unilaterally seize 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 o a related activities he cannot therefore be considered to be 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 scene 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 u. N. 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 the slum a group public 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 and the intriguing additional aspect on this is that Russias Deputy envoy to the United Nations said on thursday about the u. S. Had declined to hold a Security Council session the issue of sanctions against iran long time Foreign Correspondent research they told me americas actions are designed more for a home audience. The u. S. Has no legal grounds whatsoever to pursue this its 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 procedure iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way to venezuela are perfectly legal the u. S. Claims the unilateral right to post its interpretation of sanctions anywhere in the world against anybody it wants. But frankly rather than a sign of strait i think this is a sign of weakness because the u. S. Is unable to get support any other country in the world for these. Actions including britain france germany and staunch u. S. Allies are completely rejected by the companys duration on this issue and its a sign of desperation frankly that theyre hoping something will happen between now and november and turn things around and trump hopes to use these efforts to gain reelection i think frankly its quite the opposite. Just before we go and just in case you missed it the u. S. Democrats this week officially nominated joe biden as their runner for president in a virtual vote out the partys Virtual Convention but despite the efforts to attract Younger Voters with a star studded lineup for some the event is proving to be a bit of a bore. Without a doubt they will be the most boring repetitive told meanspirited convention in history at. The d. N. C. So far feels like one long have to on you tube usually skip. This convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the 80s. Its. 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