Police also protesters in hong kong on the day a local election was too stupid to help. Socalled excess deaths figures in mexico raise questions over the real scale of the corona Virus Outbreak that well have a live update. And im leah harding with all of your sports news clear ghastly is just a few laps away from winning his 1st formula one grand prix and 3 in a williams battles past Sloane Stephens at the u. S. Open shes still on course to equal the record 24. 00 grand slam singles titles. Tens of thousands of by the russians staging another huge mot sure the capital minsk keeping up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko whos responding with increased force hes refusing to quit weeks off the disputed elections others took him to. For help to stay in power to serious bona smith is monitoring developments for us from neighboring the few waiting up to 4 weeks of protests then despite increased intimidation out a rests what are we to make of the old. Calling in those protesters to build the number of lines in times by the government to persuade people not to protest theyve told them these protests are illegal there are still those tens of thousands descending on the streets of mens and there are protests in other cities across by the roots as well the government said it had closed off a couple of main square as in mens good football quiet around one of the october square the square was supposed to be where the protesters were meeting today but that still wasnt enough people carried on protesting going near again to the president ial palace where there was heavy security to protect from his own people the Opposition Leadership is not in the country its its there and lithuania how is it managing to coordinate and stay across all of these protests back home in minutes. There are there are still some left in mens but obviously the government is putting pressure enormous pressure on them out of the protests is just trying to split them up another Opposition Leader olga karl kovar she appeared in warsaw on saturday she said shed been she had been in jail for 10 days sentence and 10 days in jail and they came to her the end of that sentence the fortys there she said and they put a bag over and told her that if she didnt leave the country she would spend much longer in jail and she was driven against her will to the border with poland and was forced to cross than she has now called in sick she wants to go back opposite position had spent longer going to sky she is here shell go down to warsaw on wednesday to meet the Prime Minister there yes very hard for them to coordinate and they want the e. U. And the u. N. These Opposition Leaders they want even the u. N. To put much more pressure on the belarus government to go for a rerun in elections giving no indication. That but many thanks i was there as part of smith reporting live from vilnius well heres a look at how we got here president Alexander Lukashenko has maintained a tight grip on power since 1904 silencing nearly all forms of dissent but he faced unprecedented opposition earlier this year over a worsening economy and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic look at shanghais disputed reelection in early august then triggered weeks of protests and a tough response from police 2 days after that vote Opposition Leaders for atlanta took enough sky fled to lithuania and has been calling for more peaceful rallies from there president Vladimir Putin has backed his response saying that hes ready to send in Russian Forces to assist lets bring in the room though hes an expert on Eastern Europe and russia hes joining us from london to what extent. Is that last sentence there key president Vladimir Putin has backed because response. Uh thats extremely key at this point if you look at the situation domestically internally within dealer 1st off the country is rapidly running out of money and 1. 00 of the few grow sectors of the belarusian economy is the i. T. Sector that spin. Hugely undermined by the repeated internet switch off to disrupt the protesters plus a lot of the people involved in the protests are from the ip industry themselves thats just the kind of person that that sector tends to attract weve also seen a lot of strikes in the state sector as well so the dealer asian economy really is on the brink theres a question of whether itll be able to resurface its loans coming up later in the year so russian Financial Support of huge importance there but equally weve seen you know the people have lost their fear of who hes lost a lot of his authority and our money right troops hes been able to deploy to the streets this just hasnt kept people from continuing to come out and thats where this Russian Reserve really comes into place this is the kind of last throw the dice really that if he cant hold on with his own people that this is cavalry will come in and basically serve as an Exemplary Police force to keep him in power but these protests and so its worth pointing out the majority of them im not anti russian although they are there and. Why i would love to be a putin continues to buck. Despite his popularity. Well to definitively answer that question you have to ask mr goulden himself id say its due to a combination of his own prejudices and the advice that hes being given by Security Officials around him many of whom are very hawkish and anti western and see any kind of development of this kind as evidence of a western plot so while the protesters have been very careful not to geo politicized the situation if you want by by making clear that they dont have a Foreign Policy agenda or dont want to change the regime Foreign Policy. Has acted as if this is a western plot. The russians have apparently bought in to that theory or at least that. Would make the this issue ation galleries worse but they also benefit from the fact that if theyre getting who is basically dependent on moscow to stay in office that means hes little more than a russian satrap at that point so in some ways this is actually the the ideal situation for russia is then doing the minimal they need to do to keep in office but also in a position where hes greatly weakened and where he really cant say no to any of their proposals say for the political or economic integration so how do you see this playing out over the coming days and weeks. Its difficult to say as mentioned earlier the big thing that russia wants to do is to do just the minimal amount of necessary to keep living shank in power 1st off they they have their own domestic issues that they need to deal with and they dont want to be sending resources this way secondly theyre probably smart enough to know that if the michigan stays in office on the back of thousands of Russian Riot Police thats going to breed a lot of resentment towards russia among the electorate. At this point that it seems that things are going to shake out that theres going to be some sort of we can leave you shank kept in place through a russian backstop but its equally probable that that moscow could miscalculate that it could not search the resources necessary to keep the shaken power in dime and we could see the protests actually succeed in overthrowing but at this point. You know its a tight call but id say it leans towards we could be. In power on moscows blessing or tolerance is actually good to talk to many thanks to dharma thank you. Efforts to end the 10 year war in libya are underway in morocco as capital delegations from tripolis un backed government of the east coast to brook parliament are meeting south of rebirths to find a political settlement talks come ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday where countries supporting the rival sides will be a part of the talks lets go live now to tripoli observes mark ward of the wofford is where there was a press conference within the last hour what do we learn from that have these talks got us anywhere. Well trains to be seen or word of these talks will lead to specially with the fact that the meetings are contradictory to the situation on the ground as you know that all these meetings including todays meeting again will call tomorrows meeting in switzerland all meant to solidify to bring peace back to the country to. Enforce. The escalation to put the cease fire in place the ceasefire that was announced it in august by both were a vocal leaders the head of the internationally recognized government in tripoli face and the head of the pool have to use that in the speaker of the Eastern Parliament i give in last august when they both declared the ceasefire the situation on the ground is not like that especially with how far his forces continue receiving heavy weapons their advantage weapons in and mercenaries from russia along with advanced fighter jets from the United Arab Emirates until very recently only a few days ago they have been deploying forces and advances weapons of mass of fighter jets near the Oil Crescent Area now todays meeting and more of course is meant as a moral can for the mystery stated to bring the right libyan rebel factions back to negotiating table now why moral this is a whole world can initiative by the way. And moral court in a way or another is trying to say that the agreement the libyan political agreement that was sealed and so they rot in 2015 is the bays for any political settlement and libya thats why a moral court is bringing the 2 rave both factions to delegate shows from the 2 over the factions today and miracle ear to all 1st of all to continue the peace the International Peace efforts to bring the rival factions back to the negotiating table and also to retaliate that any settlement any political settlement any peace making in libya should be. Started or initiated little launched by the tool. Buddies which are the 2 legitimate bodies are presenting libya according to this whole route agreement but now on the other hand there is division subdivisions within the divisions up conflicts within the compass because the 2 did again meeting today and morkel are not representing the whole the raven factions in libya now the parliament for example is divided one in tripoli the other end total and also the tripoli based a branch of the house of representatives is not included in these talks and also the high council of a state to 24 members stated that did disowning this more and because theyre not represented in that meeting now deserves more for the of the word reporting live from tripoli many thanks indeed will rival factions and allied forces have been battling over libya since the overthrow of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi 9 years ago the un recognized government controls the areas in blue here seat of power is the capital tripoli the ward Khalifa Haftar who form the self declared Libyan National army controls the areas in red and the administration that sides with him is based in the eastern city of. Broke after us forces have been trying to capture tripoli from jna forces for more than a year lets bring in peter millet former British Ambassador to libya he joins us now live from london peter could tell you with us you know all of the people involved in these talks and today personally what do you make of it so far well any meeting between libyans is a good step and has to be welcomed i think as your correspondent has said they only represent a rather narrow group of people and if this is to gather momentum and succeed 1st of all it needs to buy in from a much Broader Group of political classes the tribal leaders this Society Leaders the municipal leaders and so forth secondly it needs to buy in from the military factions particularly have to of there have to be a genuine ceasefire you cant really have a Peace Agreement if there is still fighting going on and thirdly it needs to buy in from the entire International Community with the leadership of the United Nations but we cant have what weve seen over the last couple of years which is different groups being supported politically and then armed military by Different International players so it needs it its good that there is a meeting and its good that these leaders whatever agreement they reached but to gather and maintain that momentum it needs the buy in from a much Broader Group so what are the prospects for for the talks in geneva the get on the well monday 6. Well it again these are useful meetings and depending on whos there and depending i would like to ensure that it is United Nations who are in the lead here but that it has a much broader a group of players and sets in train a road map leading to elections sometime next year you know the irony here is that back in april 29th the all of this was set to go in a National Conference led by present salary the u. N. Envoy that was destroyed by have to and when he attacked tripoli in april last year the same sort of concept of a broad set of libyan players a broad agenda covering militant military players ceasefire political players Economic Program a progress for the libyan people that needs to be put back in place but at the moment im seeing momentum im seeing an international and domestic political will there and i hope it leads to further progress really good but a thanks and a bit of millet former provision back to libya. This is that he is still to come on the program determined to keep studying how rebel army is making sure the children are still going to school in myanmar despite a government ban cue to the coronavirus pandemic with crunch braggs it talks resuming this week after little progress so far the u. K. Warns the e. U. We wont blink 1st. In the Toronto Raptors or ousts to level things up at the eastern conference semifinals for a little later in the sport live. Police in hong kong of 5 pepper balls of arrested at least 90 protesters during antigovernment demonstrations the protests are against beijings new security law which was imposed on the territory early this year people are also angry about a delay to elections for Hong Kongs Legislative Council which were due to be held sunday but theyve been postponed for a year due to the pandemic aljazeera is adrian brown reports out from hong kong. Some of the scenes youve just been looking at are reminiscent of what we saw a year ago but this was not on the scale of the protests of last september or ghost or june effectively what has happened here today as the police have managed to block a large planned demonstration and they did that by flooding the streets of the cow lupin instead area of nathan road up to 2000 police were deployed now that didnt stop small groups of people mingling with shoppers and chanting slogans in support of hong kong independence why does that matter well those actions that contravene the new National Security lorem people who are doing not of course risk arrest as for what the demonstrators themselves feel theyve achieved well we saw plenty of individual acts of defiance on sunday and yes a lot of the protests to say our ability to stage large demonstrations have been curtailed but you know our voice has not been entirely silence the reason why there was there was anger on sunday is this was supposed to be the day that the people of hong kong went to the polls but the government cancel those elections citing coded 19 opposition groups say the reason why the Government Council the election is because it knew that the pro establishment parties would face a severe dropping as they did during the local elections 10 months ago the number of people who have died after being infected with the coronavirus in mexico could be much higher than 1st thought the Health Ministry there has recorded 123000 excess deaths during the pandemic thats nearly double the official death toll the worlds 4th highest several Regional Government off for says have run out of death certificates of Rights Groups said that a lack of protective equipment has led to more medical workers dying with the virus in mexico than anywhere else now does it was out of sight of b. S. E. Is in colombias capital bogota to talk about the scale of the corona Virus Outbreak in latin america will begin though. With mexico what are we to make of those excess deaths figures. Well this has been a problem from the start in mexico given the fact that the government there has to do a very limited amount of tennis think per 1000000 people in the country relying instead on statistical mathematical methods to try and keep a close eye on the spread of the virus the result though is that the real number of deaths could be or seems to be much higher there around double the number compared to the confirmed number of Corona States in the country we understand that many hospitals including in the capital of mexico city but with the situation being war similar of both areas of the country often didnt have the means to do testing on many people arriving at the hospitals and dying there quite quickly a lot of people have died in their homes and were never tested so thats why now were seeing such a big difference in the numbers this is obviously created control over see in the country with critics of the government accusing the government there. The real numbers