A ceasefire by the un recognized government and fraudsters fugitives and convicted criminals analogise their investigation identifies some of the foreigners buy citizenship in cyprus. And arpita stamps with the countdown to a football showdown between europes elites was. A mixed reception for paris and german brian munich as the teams arrived a short time ago for the Champions League final. Thank you very much for joining us tens of thousands of demonstrators have defied warnings rallying against the russian president alexander look at shank oh its the latest wave of protests against his disputed reelection protesters gathered in Independence Square in the capital minsk calling for look a resignation has refused to step down turning up to the president ial Office Wearing a bulletproof vest. And carrying a rifle meanwhile demonstrators have staged an act of solidarity with opposition candidates for atlanta taken off. To lithuania more than 35000. 00 people including the lithuanian president formed a human chain linking the neighboring countries at the border tony gago begins our coverage with this report. United in one cause they gathered in the streets and in the squares of the belo recent capital in minsk since the disputed president ial vote in august 9th protesters have defied the authorities and have been gathering every day calling for an end to present ricocheting 26 year old despite the continued threats of a violent crackdown opposition supporters say they wont give up ahead of sundays rally the bellary saw me rolled into the central city streets a warning to those marching and he on rest and statues would not be tolerated and they the police would see to that. On saturday in the city of gold now in the west to the man at the center of this wave of discontent alexandr look railed against the opposition supporters cues nato of deliberately positioning its forces by the countrys western border and the army to defend its territory but the you are not the nato forces are approaching we understood this last year when they announced drills but coronaviruses slowed them down a bit now the situation from their point of view has become unstable and theyve switched back to operation and theyve deployed all their troops we can see this. Nato has dismissed the question because accusations as baseless only a few days ago strikes and protests to take place here but a heavy handed response from the authorities provoked further outrage along with threats of job losses if state employees the president s traditional support base go on strike again. The bella who says Opposition Leader spent lenity kind of sky has fled to laboring lithuania this is not a movement that is disappearing and shes urged her supporters to keep up the momentum what i know is that the russian people dont want this president the president anymore and its our people and authorities has to this year has to all this in and listen to his to hear what the russian people want. This is a protest that has taken root across the country maybe clinging on to power by any means rejecting any talk of voter fraud in his electoral win but it is unlikely that he will be able to cultivate support for his leadership in a country where many say they have had enough of his leadership. His era. And as we mentioned protesters have begun forming a human chain interlink barrow sand lithuania opposition candidates set manotick in australia and the lithuanian president are taking part in the 40 kilometer demonstration taken off sky after head to neighboring lithuania after the election saying she fears for a safety in bella rules and this comes 31 years after millions formed a human chain through the 3 Baltic States he threw a lot via an estonia to express their desire for independence from the soviet union Alexandra Steele janowicz got fry is a journalist based in moscow and has been following russias response to the unrest in bella bruce she says officials have been encouraging look i shant go to negotiate. Is that overall this saying that the way out is wide and broad genuinely Broad National dialogue with the doctor the trade unions and that was called would be ok with whatever here greens with the opposition at the same time hes a suspect in this quarter nation or a council of opposition or was formed in. The strange way saying there is a lot of people there theyre actually on good russian he went further saying that the her north korea when she came abroad was apparently under some pressure and started again doing political statements supporting and calling for a 4 protests and he also said there is a Certain Program of the colonel in which these written in belorussian said that the us should go out of your asian consulate should they should go out of the a collective security treaty and of the union state of belarus and instead go towards e. U. And eventually nato he even says that its over there that the russian language should be pushed out on the account of belarusian language calling the kind of artificial language and this kind of rhetorical we heard before and we heard it in the case of ukraine all together with the foreign factor with the foreign interference which is unacceptable as russia is pointing out and saying that it is a parts of opposition that wants violence on the streets of minsk and in belarus and they are calling for the bloodshed and that it should be up to belorussian people to decide what to do next in other world news Irans Atomic Energy Organization says last months fire at the Natanz Nuclear facility was an act of sabotage a spokesman for the Government Agency says security authorities will reveal the reason behind the blast in jew time. Comes a day before the head of the uns atomic Watchdog Agency a arrives in tehran in an attempt to get access to sites believed to be storing undeclared Nuclear Material well lets speak to our correspondent in tehran. What more are we learning about what the iranian Authorities Say was an act of sabotage at the times. Well this is the 1st time they were officially admitted that this was an act of sabotage when this incident took place in early july we were 1st told that it was an accident f. I had taken place then it was revealed that actually there was more damage than previously thought and then we were told that there was considerable damage and it could cause medium term delays for the production of advanced machines where iran said that they would compensate for any delays but creating more capacity now we dont know the exact details of this act of sabotage retold that that will be released by Security Officials at the appropriate time now this incident did take place over a month ago but was preceded by an explosion east of the one near a military base and then there were several incidents fire power plants and also factories which raise suspicions in the country now this isnt the 1st time irans facilities have been targeted in 2010 the stuxnet virus was discovered at the very same Nuclear Facility than the tons Nuclear Facility which is thought to have caused considerable damage to Irans Nuclear program now no one admitted who was behind that but its largely thought that the United States and israel were behind that virus but the specific details of this of a target how it was carried out we still dont know now this comes as the head of the i. Hoping to get access to Irans Nuclear facilities what can we expect from this. Yes well there has been some tension between the Nuclear Agency and iran they have wanted access to the 2 sites where they say Nuclear Material is stored or used in the early 2000 that was before iran signed the 2015 Nuclear Deal Iran has said that these 2 sites are military sites and theyre not part of that that 2015 nuclear deal but now the Spokesman Says that they could grant access to these sites but this is iran trying to be more open but also releasing this information about the sabotage right before the i. A. E. A. Gets to also say look we are also victims we are constantly targeted our facilities are targeted by iran has increased security around the country a few weeks ago a number of individuals arrested at institutions in the country including the Foreign Ministry and firms that work with the defense and Nuclear Agency but also the importance of this i. E. A visit is it comes at a time when the United States is trying to remain poles u. N. Sanctions against iran and any form of noncompliance with the i. A. E. A. May be used by the United States because they dont have much support to reimpose these sanctions or any form of noncompliance could be used by the United States to try and gather support from countries to show that iran isnt complying with its commitments thank you for that asset bank in tehran. Libyan war no 24 have to has rejected calls for a ceasefire by the un recognized government his spokesman called it a publicity stunt and says the chirpy administration is planning a turkish back to offensive on the strategic city of sirte. And the rival parliament in Eastern Libya has supported the cease fire has been no significant fighting for the past 2 months lets bring in mali trainer in misrata for us so what are we to make of this statement by the spokesman for have to and i mean what does it mean for the cease fire. Let me follow it this isnt the 1st time that have to has refused to sign a cease fire agreement back in january the talks sponsored by and moscow brought the warring sides together the g. N. A. S. Internationally recognized government tripoli signed the ceasefire agreement have left moscow without signing so and this was when have there was on the outskirts of tripoli since then have to his forces have been forced to retreat theyre now in sirte g. N. A. T. Forces are about 7 our position about 70 kilometers west of sirte its been its been quite peaceful for the time being but both sides have sort of been reinforcing their positions in recent weeks now we saw officials from the High State Council yesterday in a press conference say that they will not negotiate with have they consider him to be a war criminal when he was his failed camp is filled cant military campaign to take control of tripoli has caused thousands of lives thousands were killed hundreds of thousands have been displaced their homes destroyed so they dont see him as a partner in peace right now whats significant is that this is the 1st time that i get a solid has signed this agreement so whether or not its also gain traction with 4 foreign backers welcoming the ceasefire agreement does this mean that the. I have to as backers are sort of you know transitioning towards argue a smaller maybe they see that he can bring about a serious political solution with good with the jna but that remains to be seen thank you for that money trainer in Misrata Libya for us. Thats fenty more ahead on this news hour including protesters are back on the streets in southern iraq as their deadline for the local government is resignation expires fast pressure increases on mollies many terry to bring a swift return to civilian role and what happens when the widest force to jump off his model g. P. Bike more than 200 kilometers an hour he to has the details coming up in 6. And aljazeera investigation can reveal cyprus has been selling european passports to convicted criminals fugitives and fraudsters the logic of passport data to our Investigative Unit reveal serious flaws to the island socalled golden passport scheme which has generated more than 8000000000. 00 for its government they say no rules were broken at the time and theyre reviewing the passport system in the 1st saw exclusive reports on the cyprus spey prez has ever davis in london. To become a citizen of the mediterranean island nation of cyprus close more than to an all 1000000. 00 among those whove paid that russian businessman hes already served a prison sentence for extortion and the Chinese Investment tycoon junko chan who had been jailed for fraud. The cyprus papers a large data leak obtained by aljazeera revealed it to an all 1000 people from 74 countries who bought a cypriot passport. Cyprus says it checks applicants have a clean criminal record but we found multiple cases of applicants who wanted by police at the time they was sold cypriot citizenship. Was already wanted in ukraine for large scale theft of public funds in june prosecutors displayed the 6000000. 00 they said was offered in bribes to end years of investigation into his energy company. Denies any involvement his cypriot passport allows him to live out of ukraine and he didnt return for questioning. Or vietnamese businessmen fam not boo wont be using his cypriot passport any time soon he was already facing trial for bribery when he bought it see her. We found 30 people linked to criminal activity whove bought socalled golden passports allowing them in their wealth to move freely around the e. U. The passport scheme of cyprus is a risk to security in europe these passports are for high value in particular for people from countries which have a record of economic and political criminality passports and citizenship should not be for sale they are not a commodity the cypriot interior minister told us no citizenship was granted in violation of regulations and an independent committee now studies and evaluates previous applications and a new law can strip citizenship from suspected criminals. That shooting clude father and son Mullick Sabet and Mehdi Ebrahimi they wanted in iran for Money Laundering and fraud and facing similar charges in canada both men deny all charges. The cyprus papers suggests theyre among dozens who may have used their golden passports to evade Justice Deborah davis aljazeera london and more findings from the cyprus papers will be revealed at the week air and on aljazeera dot com in part 2 of our investigation will be looking at how cyprus sold citizenship to politicians and senior officials considered by the e. U. As high risk for Money Laundering and corruption as on monday from 10. 00 g. M. T. Right here on alt. German doctors are running tests on russian Opposition Leader alexina valmy for suspected poisoning he was flown to berlin in an induced coma on saturday from a facility in the siberian city of homs russian doctors initially considered too said to be flown out of the country or they change their position late on friday kane is in berlin with more on his condition mr novelli is going through the process of having a thorough going diagnostic series of tests performed on him by the doctors and nurses in the chalet to the hospital behind me here in central l. A. And no Statement Given from the hospital so far as to what the have found all we know is that on saturday they said that they would be performing this battery of tests and until they were in a position to inform his family of what their conclusions were they would be making no statement we know that they do not anticipate any News Conference taking place on sunday one Development Report today is that mr have on these wife yulia is with him that she has gone into the hospital and is therefore with him and is able to ask the doctors what the findings have been and that sort of thing but nothing has been made public remember she is the one who alleges that those russian doctors who 1st treated mr know of our need didnt lay the release of mr no need for long enough in her words for whatever was in his system to degrade making it harder for it to be detected clearly if there is something in his system which has made him so poorly and it will be the staff here in the show hospital who will discover it so as i say you really are never naive thats his wife yulia she alleges that the delay was to allow what was in his system to become degraded hard to find the problem for all of us here is that we know its unlikely theyll be any kind of statement from any party in this of today. Protesters in southern iraq have called on a local governor to resign or risk more unrest rallies have been sponsored by a number of killings of prominent activists and people are demanding those responsible be held accountable minister mostafa cademy has visited basra to try and help find a solution to the crisis dosage of the reports from baghdad. A deadline has come and gone but these protesters still dont have what they want. They had demanded the resignation of governor over the killing of prominent activists for now they say theyll continue to protest. On saturday Prime Minister mostafa arrived in basra only hours after returning from his trip to washington d. C. He met local politicians with the hopes of calming the anger on the streets but he had a warning for those looking to cause trouble i decided to call it would you believe this is a message to all criminals and killers this is a new government that is working to establish the prerequisites of security it aims to establish security employees on crime id like to tell everyone who carries a weapon contrary to the governments law they would ski punishment on the killers will be brought to justice very soon id like to tell the criminals who us in 87 hashimi cutscene and the young female doctor that your blog will be a title for justice john a 33 year old rehab is the young female doctor Prime Minister kazumi refer to she was a prominen