A Group Critical of the monarchy. And waiting for justice we meet there again to refugees desperate to return home 3 years after me a most brutal crackdown. Now santa how much not have all the support the bron james puts in a big performance to put the lake is just one win away from the western conference semifinals. Greece and turkey are carrying out rival military exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean escalating a dispute over Gas Exploration in those contested waters right now germanys foreign minister is in greece and hell travel to turkey later on tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions turkey has been operating a Research Vessel accompanied by warships to survey the seabed for gas and oil deposits greece says the ships in an area which overlaps its own continental shelf. This shows the exclusive Economic Zones of greece turkey and cyprus as defined by the un it accords greece 71 percent of the aegean sea and turkey 8. 8 percent but this is how turkey redraws the same mob claiming much of greeces waters as its own and this is the area where turkey has started looking for oil within itself to find waters but that infringes on greeces Maritime Territory according to the e. U. And the u. N. Ok lets go live to John Psaropoulos in athens john talk us through what greece is position is with regard to all of this. Greek so is making 2 basic demands they are saying that they would like the negotiations on maritime jurisdictions to take place on the basis of the United Nations law in other words the basis of the 1st map that you showed that means that all parties must agree that the United Nations convention on the law of the sea which 168 of the uns 193 members are signatories to should form a Legal Framework secondly they would like the talks to pick up where they left off when they petered out in march of 2016 because by that time the greek and turkish delegations had had 60 meetings during which they had made a number of informal agreements. And achieved a certain understanding. The turkish side initially asked for these talks to start on a clean slate. It is my understanding from diplomatic sources here that both of these terms have been agreed to initially at the end of july. By both the greek and turkish. Had that however it was thrown up in the air on august the 6th when greece announced that it had reached a maritime agreement with egypt which enraged turkish president tell you at the un and caused him to return to the explorations that hes carrying out in the areas of the east mediterranean where the greeks do not want him to be because they consider that their continental show now we should find out this week whether mr. Is willing to return to the table there are signs that hes left himself a back door to deescalation because he initially. Marked august the 23rd now its august 27th as the terminal date for these explorations thats just shy of the e. U. Far as corran ministers meeting on friday and it is hoped for that mr. Inter tends to climb down from that position. It is also a week during which the Greek Parliament is going to wrestle shortly both the maritime agreement with egypt that has so enraged turkey and a similar maritime agreements with italy that was reached earlier in the summer both of those are drafted on the basis of international United Nations maritime law and greece intends to sit at the negotiating table with these 2 powerful legal documents demonstrating that the country trees in the region all uniformly draft their maritime borders according to that law sunset openness in athens giving us that update on the great greek situation on monday turkeys president s visit to and had this warning for greece. You know hes done a good turn on most women only not a lot of greece is throwing itself into a chaos that it cannot get out of as of now greece will be responsible for all negative developments that may take place in the region and it will be the only country to suffer damages it would be useful for greek neighbors to know as we know that those who throw greece on the past of the turkish fleet will be nowhere to be seen tomorrow in the event of trouble that may emerge. Ok lets cross over to sin and cos you know whos live for us and istanbul soon and were hearing very strong words there from. Day one but also of course the turkey is sending a Research Vessel accompanied by warships into this disputed waters this seems to be a ramping up of the situation by turkey what is turkeys stand in all of this. Well robert you know when it comes to the seas its always showing off making the scene for many countries especially with big ships big wrestles of course turkey is trying to protect its a snake west of the aura trace with the warships as. The system acquire cell a was attacked by the greek vessels more than a week ago for turkey the main dispute as john also explained is the boundaries for the maritime zones turkey has submitted its. Maritime zones the. Territorial waters to the u. N. Years ago and the u. N. Hasnt projected but. Opposed to the other countries turkey hasnt signed any exclusive Economic Zone agreements with any countries in the region and turkey rejects the great claims that because greece is trying to create new maritime zones based on the islands it has this is what turkey rejects this is the main dispute actually between the 2 but when we come back to our dance point of stance. Turkey has declared now text not text is an Information System in maritime saw that all the trees special was doing suspects that these in the area but the spike the turkish wrestle it was there in greek authorities also announced a declared null text which is impossible according to maritime law when you speak to the experts and thats why turkey it take it personally as greece is trying to. Show off and agree greece is actually trying to provoke proc the Mediterranean Sea and from one chorus perspective this is not a by this is not only a by literally issue between turkey and greece because turkey sees Eastern Mediterranean issue as a whole and turkey has signed a deal merits. Time zone deal with libya a couple of months ago which sparked a lot of report questions a lot of reactions from other countries and especially greek side think with greece siding with france and especially the u. A. E. United arab emirates is also seen as greece is trying to provoke turkey to do something in the Eastern Mediterranean this is on course perspective and ankara says. Uncle actually believes that greece is the spoiled child of the e. U. But of course today. Has or has been making calls on some deescalation. Losing detentions also german chancellor is also in the scene today iran and 77 oclock 7 pm local time German Foreign minister will also come to the turkish cups of ancora and everybody is expected to see more more reasonable that go between greece and turkey but of course time will show it is time for both countries to show musses in this in the mediterranean whether it is going to be it is going to become a real tension a military tension is still on them or whether is its going to stay like this while were going to be following those meetings that germanys foreign minister home os is holding both things on in. A cinema thank you very much indeed sinon costello in is something. The European Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee is meeting to discuss the political crisis in belo reuss theyre talking to Opposition Leaders for atlanta to kind of sky out whos in exile in neighboring lithuania on monday police in bello loose detained several leading opposition activists protests calling for president Alexander Lukashenko to step down have been growing ever since the disputed elections earlier this month the demands of the risk is simple and free and. Action. This is the demand of the protesters on the streets this is this log on of the people on strike in your respect or is across the country bill rose has woken up re on the lot of the oprah zation anymore we are the majority now one of the above has been following that meeting for us from london whats the message from the new. Well rob this should it should be stressed that this is the message not from the e. U. Officially but from the various groupings in the European Parliament directly elected body so they have diverged on some point since last weeks meeting of the European Council the heads of government of the Member States so they repeated what the council said which was that basically it doesnt accept the results of the bell or a selection as free and fair they dont recognise Alexander Lukashenko as the elected president of belarus they did china with a message from the Online Meeting in brussels previously saying that this is not a bipartisan issue and the street protests have not been pro e. U. They some of the European Parliamentarians noted the lack of the u. S. Flags neither has it been a pro Russian Movement and they are in their numbers called for the involvement of russia in fact one of the European Parliament speakers said that if things dont change in better us now in terms of another election for example there must be a strategy on the part of the you how to progress in belarus involving direct talks with moscow some speakers suggested using the organization for Economic Cooperation and development more similarly though they were spoken to you just heard a clip from spec liner taken off sky or online from lithuania there wasnt a dialogue it was just a message that shed given to them and she repeated that that the protest movement is not pro or anti the European Union all russia its a National Movement calling for true democracy now she mentioned the arrest of some members of the national. The Coordination Council that you were just talking about she regretted those arrests called for all Political Prisoners and protesters to be really. As did many of the European Parliamentarians but interestingly she hokie phrase was we are not the opposition now we are the majority so clearly feeling that momentum is behind her but still how will that translate into political change and to call for new elections which she says his her really key demand her only demand she says she doesnt want power herself its still very unclear. In london bringing us up to date on the situation with the European Parliaments Foreign Affairs Committee which has been talking about bello reuss well lets talk about the situation inside bello whos joining me live is alexander story and that should go through it a journalist based in the russian capital whos been monitoring the situation for us lets talk about the situation with regard to the opposition 1st of all we saw some members of the Opposition Leadership who were being detained yesterday whats the latest with that. Well rob this crackdown on the leaders of the brought this on leaders of their position is that continuing the 2 members of the Court National council which were detained yesterday are today facing the Administrative Court court which if this case for them doesnt turn into a criminal case they will probably be fined 3 other members of the nation will counsel have been called to report himself for questioning to the police one of them is literature prize we never settle on a alexander of each and they are called for questioning in regards of craving a case regarding the warming of the court nation or council itself other leaders of strikes in the big belorussian factories were detained yesterday as well a so. That there is also a threat to the teachers that the ones that are not falling in the official line will be will be fired from their works well all the strengths and all this information doesnt seem to be working with the people of belarus that are protesting there are going to be gathering today again one group in front of the ministry of education so there beyond tress or intimidation in the meantime the situation in belarus is going to be main topic today here in moscow between the deputy u. S. State secretary steven begun and the minister of Foreign Affairs of russia missed that a lot of this meeting is some to start and previously both said basically of the same thing that it is up to the people of bell or us to determine their own fate that there should not be any influence interfering or meddling from the 3rd parties and behind it this similar wording is sort of a different message because the u. S. Investors are. Here in russia said that it is russia that is influencing situation in belarus and that it that is an acceptable from russian part we heard previous days that it is foreign influence that is pushing belarus and lets remind that russia is one of the few countries that recognize disputed elections on 9th of august and putin himself congratulated that look at shankar in his week that in what were seeing days is that hes getting support from moscow in different ways it sounds as though out of the school for bringing this up today with the situation in from moscow thank you very much indeed. But more ahead on the news hour including its being hailed as a Historic Deal changing the face of politics in the middle east find out why there are signs the u. A. E. Israel deal is already sounding. And all busy the investigation reveals how more than a 1000 russians have bought cypriot possible its in the last 3 years including those wanted for corruption fraud and money laundering. It was known as lightning bolt the worlds fastest man talks about fears hes been struck down by coronavirus. The Police Shooting of a black man 7 times has brought protesters back onto the streets of several u. S. Cities crowds have come out in new york minneapolis and the city of kosher wisconsin where the shooting happened on sunday. The gas has been used to fire forced back crowds who have defied overnight curfew orders in the city than a state has of also set fire to cars and garbage trucks used to block roads the National Guard was brought in earlier in the day after violent protests on sunday 29 year old jacob blake who was shot in the back as he lead leaned into his s. U. V. John hendren reports from can osa. Think about the body once again a local mayors struggles to answer for the put my shooting of a black mayor. How you are. The shooting captured on mobile phone is difficult to watch jacob blake apparently unarmed walks around his s. U. V. His 3 children unseen inside seeming to ignore the Police Following behind at the door an officer grabs him by the shirt his back to police. Police fire 7 shots. The shooting set off a night of protests in the streets the city blocking roads with garbage trucks demonstrators set them on fire leaving behind charred chances including a neighboring car lot and a message on a courthouse wall and be clear this was not an accident this wasnt Bad Police Work this felt like some sort of been dead a being taken out on a member of our community the officers daily actions attempted to take a persons life in broad daylight the shooting drew condemnation from president ial candidate joe biden who issued a statement saying the nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another black american is a victim of Excessive Force these shots pierced the soul of our nation. Blake survived and is in stable condition jacob blakes lawyer says he parked his car and got out at this corner in order to break up a street fight and as he sought to deescalate a conflict police for reasons that remain unexplained treated him as a threat. The shooting of jacob blake adds to the anger over Police Brutality that erupted following the death of george fluid in minneapolis. And Briana Taylor in louisville kentucky the outrage that reverberated across the u. S. Now engulfing canoe ship ellis is now lost somewhere i sobbed. I just have to say gather my thoughts for a moment i cant speak for the carcase the Community Maybe its surprising to me its not surprising to me despite a curfew in the arrival of the military troops of the National Guard to control the streets protesters are continuing their demonstrations demanding an end to a cycle of official violence against black americans in confrontations with police that could have ended peacefully but didnt John Hendren Al Jazeera can no show wisconsin. 4 prominent activists in thailand have been summoned by police on sedition charges as the government cracks down on a growing student led Opposition Movement the Police Question human rights lawyer and student organizer part of chilled act known to his supporters as penguin more than 30 opposition figures have been arrested since the antigovernment protests began last month demonstrators are demanding a new election a constitution and reforms to the monarchy