A refugee rescue boat and the tributes pouring american Actor Chadwick Boseman who has died off to a 4 year battle with cancer it was 43. Bozeman including formula one champion. The difficulties latest poll position for the inspirational arts. Hello welcome to the news hour our top story thousands of women of marched in baton rouge to denounce state violence against protesters since a president ial vote 3 weeks ago theres been a crackdown on Peaceful Demonstrations they have also been hundreds of arrests and as mounting evidence of torture and treatment in Detention Centers now the authorities have started withdrawing accreditation from journalists with some of them expelled on saturday but it smith reports now from neighboring lithuania. The triangle looks like a crackdown on dissent in belarus these women chanting we wont forget we wont forgive a part of what they call a peacekeeping force designed to stop the intimidation of peaceful protests thousands marched in the capital minsk since Alexander Lukashenko was reelected as president earlier this month officially winning 80 percent of the vote there have been daily demonstrations several people have been killed and hundreds more injured and now the authorities have started withdrawing the accreditation of journalists working for foreign Media Outlets the government says the move was recommended by belaruss counterterrorism unit Opposition Leaders of atlanta chicken off in exile and if the way nia says shes worried about the government targeting the media on saturday she said quote the only way it will attempt to cling on to power is by fear and intimidation there was also a strong reaction from western embassies in minsk in a joint statement they said we condemn the disproportionate use of force and urge the belorussian of dorothys to stop the violence and the threats to use military force against the countrys own citizens and to release immediately and unconditionally all those unlawfully detained intimidation and prosecution based on political grounds need to stop we call on the bell original dorothys to respect the countrys International Obligations on fundamental democratic and human rights. The crackdown on journalists comes a day after e. U. Foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on 20 senior bella russian officials this sanctions against certain list of individuals who are guilty of Human Rights Violations about the groups that is an important step and this will impose some sort of a hassle for those people on the list but the regime considers this as the cost of doing business and this wont stop them from further intimidate bellers. The e. U. Has urged russia not to intervene in belarus after president Vladimir Putin promised military support for Alexander Lukashenko. But theres no sign those in power are ready to change their approach to the opposition. When its made. The news. Well were now joined by Derek Mcdowell hes the head of your earth and central asia maple cruft a global Risk Research firm how important was it to have women out on the streets today in a women only much particularly in light of these accusations by the government that this Popular Movement is being fueled by foreigners in extremis. Well i mean women have become the symbol of this uprising or rebellion or protest movement. We saw early on of the president ial elections. Became a candidate almost by default you know she didnt put herself forward into the political limelight originally. And you know some of the the initial spark of this movement has all come from from women in female leaders and so i think thats more this is what this is been used to demonstrate its also harder to crackdown on a march about kind with severe force what did you what did you make of the police response. I mean that the police in galleries have been pretty brutal in how theyve been trying to suppress these protests so far but it does the it does look like theres a limit to what they can do the fact that theyre you know arresting thousands and still they havent really slowed down the protest movement shows that theres you know theyre coming to the end of that part of the strategy authorities in the country of also have to tighten their stranglehold on the media by revoking accreditation to journalists who are watching for foreign Media Outlets does that suggest that a broad dead deep crackdown like imminent absolutely i mean thats the 1st thing that you would do if you were planning to intensify the violence i mean the reason. That theyve been somewhat restrained so far is that you know the eyes of the world are upon them and there has been a lot of very good reporting coming out of a ruse that has been showing whats going on and has put the. Election on the global agenda and if you cut off that information you make it that much easier for it to slip off the agenda for people to start ignoring the others again does that mean that Human Rights Violations and crimes wont be documented if technology is disrupted and people are isolated. Precisely and also the people responsible wont necessarily be held accountable part of the reason reportedly that this is been enacted is that members of the Security Services are worried about being identified or worried about being filmed. And so this is just one more way to make it more difficult for the opposition to coordinate with one another to to get Accurate Information on the situation in the country and to potentially carry out here human rights abuses when the protest movement initially started after that disputed election there was a lot of anger and frustration in the country it really seemed as though the downfall of the lucas i think government might might actually happen but now is it perhaps can we expect there to be this prolonged period of protests perhaps in varying degrees of clamp down without any sudden change in the country. Its very difficult to say at this point one of the important factors is that the country is running out of money. The Exchange Rate is under severe pressure a. T. M. Is immense grrr emptying out in people or getting their hands on as much hard currency as they can and this is a real problem particularly in the midst of the economic damage done by the coronavirus pandemic now russia can assist in this regard and its also. Offered assistance in the form of these police. That you mentioned but you know even if that does happen this you know means be other reasons effectively going to be a dependency of moscow. Who will be in office but not really in power so in a sense you know the protests already have. Ended his presidency as it once was the question is now whether this external support is going to be enough to stem the protest movement and prop up the economy. Or whether he will be ousted before that can be done thank you very much Jacqueline Dalziell joining us thank you. Only on the story weve been following closely today general pace having halted a munch on the capital but then protesting against the governments coronavirus matches they say they were forced to act because people went abiding by social distancing guidelines which organizers had agreed to as a condition for them not to take place domenic kang has more from ballen. For weeks the daily number of new Coronavirus Infections in germany has been rising yet for these people in berlin what matters most is their right not to observe any restrictions not to wear masks not to follow social distancing and to show their anger at the politicians who have imposed them because of the killing is illegal eilis is illegal the whole government is illegal everything is illegal and corona is just a medium to heavy flu pandemic that is being used to enslave us humans. That view is not shared by the police who tried and failed twice on friday to persuade the courts to ban the demonstration saying the protestors posed a serious risk mentioning d. M. Of and of me was going on and that these are people that we can assume as coronavirus skeptics have taken no precautions in recent months in a time when infection numbers are increasing we dont believe these gatherings to be responsible. The protesters are made up of many different groups some from the political fallout of society some from the far right what unites them is a sense of injustice and rights being lost demonstrations like these pose this countrys politicians a serious ethical dilemma forcing them to balance on the one hand the rights of individuals to protest against government measures with which they disagree and on the other hand the rights of the Wider Community to be protected as far as possible from the risk of coronavirus infection. Its a risk ministers say is growing believe is. The problem is the numbers are too high too early given that winter is coming and we dont currently know what effect it will have and hell the flu and other illnesses will affect it the numbers are too high at this early stage. Thats why they all fortys have tried so hard to prevent seems like the us and why they are so fearful of what effect so many people might have when theyre in such close proximity to each other without masks dominic kane sera berlin. Much more still ahead on this news hour well tell you about an encounter between turkish and Greek Fighter Jets in contested as space in the Eastern Mediterranean. Also dolphin deaths and environmental disaster anger in russia so over the handling of a massive oil spill. And n. B. A. Basketball were turned off to social justice protests but the players say a still a lot of work to do. In tallinn coast guard has picked up 49 Vulnerable People from a charity rescue in the mediterranean after it sent out a distress call crew aboard the m. V. Louise michel said they were no longer able to move the vessel after rescuing more than 200 refugees over the past couple of days the boat is funded by the british street artist banksy well as a frolic is a member of the michelle support crew and she spoke to us on the phone from me at valencia in spain. The reason that. To move was because they were telling these to life raft alongside not overcrowd to fix too much and also to have. 5 a place for the body that was unfortunately found in that boat in distress. Arrived on the scene and now people are being disembarked finally after almost 24 hours on 2. Coast guard vessel. The situation is getting if it. Is a lot of people on board. Ben again the only other ship in the area that might be willing to take them on board is that and. d so again its not. The job. Catherine maloney is the global spokesperson for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees joins us now via skype from new york and of course that banksy boat is getting a fair bit of attention isnt it but there are still hundreds more people who are stuck on boats in the mediterranean right now what what do you know of their condition and you know youre absolutely right as of this morning what we knew was that there was a very dire a very. Preventable in a very unacceptable situation going on in the in the mediterranean right now we know that there are more than 400 individuals people who have been stranded at sea on different vessels we know that 27 individuals are in fact on a commercial tanker and that includes a pregnant woman and and children as well. By no stretch of the imagination can we say that a commercial tanker is a safe or acceptable place for people to be stranded at sea without any solutions for more than 3 weeks so theres the situation continues and thats why we continue to call for the immediate disembarkation of these individuals so that they can access safe land so that their humanitarian needs can be assessed as well as their asylum claims and its important to highlight the fact that there are no lead search and rescue boats right now these vessels like the one that weve been talking about funded by banksy our commercial and their ngo boats and whats even more interesting is that being penalized. Youre absolutely right you know human nature is deeply deeply concerned by the continued absence of search and rescue or search and rescue vessels and search and rescue capacity on the mediterranean and as you rightly point out its almost ironic because you have these and geo boats who continue to conduct life saving activities on the mediterranean and theyre being criminalized theyre being penalize and so thats why you are asking for those restrictions on these boats to be lifted so they can continue to conduct their lifesaving work but also for the e. U. Program for search and rescue to come back we also need to understand that you know more needs to be done by the European Union and european Member States to help responsibly share the situation at hand but what can be done realistically to pressure brussels to do more absolutely i mean the Member States need to provide more solidarity to the states that are on the front lines of receiving refugees and migrants and the bottom line is more can be done to show solidarity by providing. More spots across states to take in to take in refugees and these individuals who are in need of International Protection need an excel aerated process imagine being stranded at sea for weeks on end only to reach dry land to then have a stalled process for your asylum claim to be processed more needs to be done and we have to recall that you know these are refugees these are people who are fleeing conflicts from around the world who are in need of safety and the situation in europe is manageable. Well thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this story with us United Nations high commissioner for refugees Karen Mahoney joining us staff catherine moni forgive me for joining us there from new york thank you thank you hundreds of refugees and migrants meanwhile are stranded on a Railway Track in Bosnia Herzegovina one province ban them from entering and try to push them into another which also then refused even people stuck in the middle charlotte reports on a road to nowhere hundreds of migrants in bosnia a truck 20 police and a changing political times the blurry ghost. We are not human here we are just a football they say they are being kicked between police into neighboring bosnian provinces in a sauna kent on announced last week it would ban migrants in tring in movement the rulings in a galaxy has been questioned migrants were pushed back to the province of republic of soups which refused to accept them these were away tracks so the only place they find amnesty. While there is 17 you know that its this video hard life here is going to hard. They rely on aid agencies to bring food water and medical aid to the tracks. No food no water nothing. Anti migrant seem to mind is increasing in bosnia people in one town suit up roadblocks this summer to stop migrants who still see increased after a Regional Health minister announced 8 migrants who tested positive for private 19 the infected were taken to a local hospital and 2 escaped during further anger from residents. It is certain we have hundreds in fact thousands of migrants in camps where migrants dont follow any norms any regulations and none of our guidance there are simply people who dont respect anything the uns Refugee Agency says as of last month there were 9000. 00 refugees in bosnia accounting for 60 percent of refugees in the western balkans the vast majority are from pakistan and afghanistan 600. 00 arriving in bosnia each week up from 50 in may. Even migrant camps are full. They keep coming every day it would be ok if they were inside camps but they keep coming from everywhere coordinating their movements by phone and then they try to walk to the croatian border just 3 kilometers that way but get turned back to us. Became a bottleneck for thousands of europe migrants and 27. 00 tane as other migration routes closed up resulting in a 34. 00 would increase of arrivals these migrants are finding themselves on the wrong side of the tracks charlotte ballasts. There is. Now on an increasing sense of anger among locals towards the refugees. Citizens of b. Cards are gathering for the 9th time to protest and the reason is still the same like it was for the last 3 years they demand all levels of authority here in bosniaherzegovina to do some urgent actions and to help them with this migrant crisis they want migrants and refugees to be deported from the entire Bosnia Herzegovina they say that it would be the best solution for everyone. They are also stating good that theres a lot of concern with people here in because because for the last 10 to 15 days theres thousands of by grins without any shelter out in the street in the open or in abandoned buildings and theres been reported more and more violence and fights between migrants so they think that this is not safe environment for people who live here their families and their property they are also stating that they have support with this protest from the mayor and as well from surrounding cities and areas who are also under a lot of burden since they also have the same problem with this migrant crisis for several years. Turkey says it stopped an attempt by 6 Greek Fighter Jets from entering contested as space the incident happened on thursday as tensions escalated between the countries in the Eastern MediterraneanCockpit Video released by and chris Defense Ministry is said to show a turkish f. 16 chasing unlocking its guns on to a fighter jet but greece is saying its jets were simply flying back to base incident happened over a part of the mediterranean both claim a