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Standing by their demands the president Alexander Lukashenko his resignation ever since he was declared the winner of last months disputed election thats what they want they want him to go critics say the vote was rigged more than 10000 women defied a government crackdown to rally in the city on saturday for the 35th consecutive day. Correspondence to boston is in the thick of it we will try and establish communications with clearly we have no internet link telephone lines are maybe a bit questionable as well we will go to service and just as soon as we establish comms with her well stay with these latest pictures well also talk to correspondent in moscow alexander go well what kind of reception do we think mr lucas will receive when he arrives in russia to meet mr putin. Well you see the relationship between these 2 between the belorussian president Alexander Lukashenko and the russian one Vladimir Putin has never been an easy one it was a complex relationship of love and hate to where look at schenkel was before these elections and before he started having so such a big problems in his own country he was sort of trying to play an upper hand sometimes winning it sometimes losing it so because he got this so much needed support from russia and from its president Vladimir Putin it is clearly who has the upper hand is this these negotiations now and he got support of russia as one of the few countries that recognize him as the winner of the disputed elections and russia is clearly stating that yes he is the president and this is the and that they are that is internal matter of what is happening in belarus and that it is not the oppositional Council Members the ones that sure anyone talk to actually there saying that there is countries meddling in this elections and warning everybody off from that present what it even said that there is a reserve unit prepared if things get really out of control reserve unit here in russia that will be sent as a help to belorussia if needed if certain a red line of crossed a so what we do expect tomorrow is that these are going to be negotiations that in which the upper hand will be and the cards will be in the hands of putin now what has been. Pushing for finalizing or wrapping it up the Organization Called union state between russia and belarus that are asked which question court was quite resistant to finalizing it and theyre doing that now week with the here this organization mentioned numerous times saying that they are supposed to protect each other the constitution democratic rights and so forth to end the so on so easy expected by some analysts here that russia might be pushing now that it has the opportunity to do so for some sort of integration with belarus and though here they are denying the use of such word or a merger week with here but in kremlin theyre saying no its not about that these are going to stay to southern countries whatever whatever happens ok well leave it there xandra sooner bitch go for the moment alexandra thank you very much we have established communications without as yours correspondent. Who 1520 minutes ago she was in the middle of what was going on not what youre looking at right now she was with the demonstrators going to the Central Point in minsk for the protest step just take us through whats happening. Im here in the middle of the 1st boston suffer a protest us right now marching out towards one of for a look of shock us to residents its always possible areas with not so sure police and military on guard but because this is such a large group sorry hard to estimate how many people are here but its so many fans a 1000 fold police and military have so left this group alone despite the fact that in the beginning of 2 so rally. 200 cars we changed not sure on the streets present also in a time by mash mine and im actually watching here too lots of group of the women say also wearing the same mistake masks i see the policeman do just to make sure i protest about it its gotten to people here that this is like cool but this is not part of trust how balogun stupid beating people should not be taken clear and being intimidated being swept just a series and go on to a life you say walking on the space may be false be carrying a flag so people are pretty angry but to the moon its very upbeat i have to say theres a lot of music and people are certainly impressed by the fact that the sides. This tensions and the bridge pressure we see in the last week that there are still manage to gather that now singing clean well when we know so far they will perform so this is the moment and its also children here older people people come to me all walks of life i gather in here now as you were finishing off that on so that we cut some pictures of a young female demonstrates it being taken away and piled into the back of what looks like a lot of me i thought she was going to be pushed into the side of the back of a blue v. W. Van that was actually being take. And further away from the Vantage Point of the camera as you were explaining what was going on there we were looking at a shot clearly taken by somebody on a cell phone a mobile telephone looking down at this huge. Turning road with several 1000 people on its way im going to assume step in amongst all the people weve now rewrite the pictures were looking at those heading towards one of mr lucas incas residences in minsk if hes in that building and they know hes in the building is there potential there for that to become not just a protest but a confrontation and a flash point. Definitely something i hes been very worried about. My concern is some day when d protesters also having had a small say so residents just as the palace here he actually showed up in the d body armor carrying her kalashnikovs when he was 1st arriving in a highly softer across the crowd and i suppose a small experts here analysts who are seen following this career and also been writing a biography about him and they said that that was definitely a sign of fear so you said we worried of course that this crowd trillo will go for him but so far and there has been clashes this only run over again their meetings are peaceful theres never been any real violence guns by these protesters except from what i saw showing some plastic bottles there has not been any time to really turn this movement into silence once because they know very well that this does happen that thats exactly what mr shank and also one shot might be waiting for and thats a sign for them too is the fear. A 6 of. Some here fascist. Why. Suddenly theres none to make money. We have already announced as we have the pump indians are ready on the other side of the border. Any moment this situation is under. So i mean one is very aware of this and the people that we still have. At the moment im just a lot of people. Who are carrying cash i mean children flapping their hands thinking. That the mood right now to those demonstrates is that you know marching with were not marching with them step you are reporting on their protest to they know the internet is being caught but we dont have a sony kind of thats why im speaking to you on the phone and the reason is of course because these demonstrations have been directed by social media there are telegrams channels that are posting the information for the 1st time when they know where they can gather and thats why its more of. The you can have every sunday to make sure that theyre not gathering together but. This is a manageable. Obviously we are now reporting that this channel step the Internet Provider was aust by the government to shut down the internet we dont know how long a fool but is there an expectation there that you know its autocracy want to one isnt it if you want to make sure try to make sure that would doesnt get out of the country about what youre doing or what youre about to do you shut down internet but the irony is somebody will always spend the money on for geo 5 g. And then reporters like yourself you know theyre talking to us on an Old Fashioned telephone. Exactly theres always a way out and thats also how this is that a gram generally is operating they managed to have a baby insert into that location for some reason for thats why you can still see footage coming and video material thats actually filmed by by a citizen who robin sending this footage to us about a big old boy it cant be spread around so its very hard to block out this because before he fled to perth thank you we had a look at santa has been accused of living in the car that his idea of the poor are always somehow they think you know has its own separate mentality and that the economy of the country your girls are still run in the soviet style that is not suitable for this time anymore and thats exactly why these people here they want to let go until justice is sort of shown which is more modern and have more opportunities. Ok so do stay close. Thanks very much for getting us up to date on whats going on there if you just joining us here on the news what youre looking at a mishmash of the latest pictures coming to us with people risking capital minsk you can see the Security Forces have been deployed to either try to cathal away from the main thrust of the protest in the protesters as they make their way in their thousands to one of the president ial compounds the president of course being Alexander Lukashenko he says he won the election for 5 weeks ago the protest to say no you didnt they say it was rigged was it free and fair impossible to know because as weve been reporting again over the past 4 or 5 weeks. Neutral election observers in certain situations at certain times in the run up to the vote and on the day of the vote were not given proper access to that vote so we have not had an authoritative trust with the statement from anyone who you would trust to say yes the election was free and fair they want him to go they are marching in their thousands now towards one of his residences and a step boston was saying that one of the issues is they know mr Lucas Shanker knows that he. It is not looking forward to that situation to put it mildly where hes in his residence if hes in the building that they are walking towards. Thousands or tens of thousands of protest us outside because both sides are digging in here in the state with the latest pictures and bringing peace zalmay effies joining us on skype from kiev in ukraine he is the executive director of the eurasia democracy initiatives welcome to. Just take me through your reaction to what were seeing happening on the streets of minsk well were seeing a culmination. I would say of what 3 of 43. 00 weeks actually a month a truly Popular Uprising that has as its game has its aim as its sole aim the ouster of a man who has ruled this country with iran fist for a quarter of a century there are the people that are out on the streets have not been protesting against the kremlin they have not been appealing to a new European Values which is distinguishing this particular revolution we were witnessing from bad that happened in ukraine 6 years ago there wan goal the protesters have is to get rid of the guy and do it doing it in a spectacularly democratic fashion with no single leader with their leadership dispersed and with a truly kind of popular. Its a Popular Uprising the likes of which delegates has never witnessed. Why is that though you know were 45 weeks into this process now why is it though no side is either winning or no side is on the other hand of that debate giving in to the other no one seems to be able to deal a killer blow here on the part of either the president or the demonstrators. Well its a very good question and. On the part of the whole were seeing bad. He is able to hold on just enough simply because he has read between the loyalty of his Security Services that has not wavered with few exceptions did big on no remains wooden who has sent contradictory signals but is yet from what we have been able to see on willing to contemplate a victory by a street protest which d would create a very unpleasant precedent for russia and for putting a rule when it comes to the protesters i think were witnessing truly that the belorussians are finally waking up after their 70 years of the so get real look at 25 years of this guy they are willing to shake their fear but for right now they approached us has been peaceful and big big debate is whether they will you know consider taking a militant action against the question and there are indications now of dad certain defense brigades as theyre called are being formed so before long we may see an unarmed uprising and in fact i mean in that situation all bets are off d and lucas and discounting on. Introducing troops to quell the uprising ok so give me if im signing this piece of but are you saying unarmed uprising because the Security Services basically stage a coup. They stopped fighting with their own weapons alongside the protesters are you saying thats a possibility it. Im saying that the protesters themselves are arming when they beat balik the cocktails sticks stones. You know Light Weapons so we are going to be seeing some of that simply because there is that. Sort of standoff thats not moving either here nor there as you mention. And as there is often the case in such situations these things have a tendency of being turning violent you know and i think theres also a scenario you cannot discount and thats you know you would have russian or look at shands got. Sort of. Trying to come across as protesters and inciting violence so that lucas. Has an excuse to welcome russian tanks in order to quell the uprising but once again we are not certain as to what lighting republicans moves here im not so sure hes be there is going to be willing to support a very unpopular president so he is just like anyone any of us experts who are now guessing whats going to happen next i will get you put in himself is daily calculating the odds of this desk move on his part he does not know whats going to happen himself the situation is very unpredictable and combustible at the same time and also you cannot of course discount the possibility of a tool that you mention but for right now we are not seeing those signs yet ok. In kiev in ukraine great to get your insight on this well talk again im sure in the future for the meantime thank you very much joining us on the phone out of minsk is yet. Hes formally a russian president ial candidate mr roman welcome to the news. When you see the pictures my pleasure to be with you thank you so. When you see the pictures were broadcasting when you see thousands of people demonstrating again for mr lucas to go when we see young old men and women being bundled to the ground and bundled into the backs of vans again when we see hundreds of women peacefully demonstrating once a week again what goes through your mind at that point. Just back from another demonstration and thats joy that is happening is the determination to get rid of the dictatorship for the peaceful and orderly nature i do not see that it would turn violent unless it is. Turning into using weapons instead of just watching and grabbing demonstrators yesterday we had over to about 300 persons the way detained by police today i think that the demonstrators began with detentions so that some of these are using these tactics to start to detain people before and right after if people like do not not perform because. 1 of course everybody is waiting for tomorrows meeting between putting a look at just. Putting definitely that across route because he would. Use the systems the he would a look a sense in the military and problem military way but that would. Be fury to belarusians and definitely more. Resistance to russian aggression what would you call aggressor alongside with the crime and dont want it to happen thats why it wants. To somehow start a dialogue but. He still is adamant that he believes that he could go on without any dialogue and that he would the reappoint himself as. For the presidency once again so theres a deadlock but the determination the of of the people of both genders not dying out and i was in grodno yesterday the same kind of spirit i was impressed a week ago the same kind of spirit so its not on that means get the whole country is against the regime and its i think its a matter of time before the has to give up and start a negotiation on the transition of power ok lots to on. Back with what youve just been saying to us there mr roman shop lets talk about that meeting tomorrow 1st off as we continue breaking down these latest pictures of mens so mr walks into a handshake photo up conversation with. How does that conversation go. From the terms to put it by idly look at. The campaign for a long time against the kremlin again it would seem that putin and russia are all trying to. Have a political merger between russia and by the rules. Especially to look at sceptical broke plans to stay in power for another 60 years i mean where you put your back to 1 the day it comes to issue a referendum on the relations between bother with that russia on the longest possible level in trade terms in that integration terms so there is like cold and the market we all called friendship between them but i do think time there is no like different points of view in russia on what to do general. Reporting look at because theyve been working with him for a long time people who do we can all make policy definitely dont like to have any military any intervention into politics realize. Hes the guy who would never keep you in the work you promise ok you dont like mr mitchell but im going to interrupt you for a 2nd so theres i want to apologize but i do just want to get to one final brief point the protesters a say is going to go youre saying look this is going to go mr putin may say to mr youve got to go. Mr lucas that makes him so supremely unself aware of how the people see him. Major factor is that he could not have failed to resist evil and here that