Waters we says its a positive 1st step. Changing habits for changing times how the coronavirus endemic has inspired a move to a plant based diet in some parts of asia. But welcome to the program our top story this hour at least 250 people have been arrested in the battle russian capital minsk following an escalation in violence against protesters. The. Police have been seen beating demonstrators and forcing many of them into military vehicles about 100000 people flooded the center of the city today in defiance of the deployment of riot police making their way to one of the president ial compounds the government has now shut down the internet activists have been demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following that disputed election result last month aljazeera step vos and has been with protesters in mens consent us this update. The spike hundreds of detentions at the start of this rally thousands of people have managed to still gather despite the roadblocks by police and military theyre now heading to a location where possibly the residents of look at shanghai is thats what they announced in the 1st place but so many roads are blocked so theyre basically circling the city right now showing their their their presence again like they have been doing in the last couple of sundays this is the 5th sunday of a mass rally and previous sunday so were more than 100000 people on the streets but this week it was particularly difficult repressive many people have been detained vans are driving around the city with masked man snatching people from the street just like that carrying people carrying a flag or just walking on the streets so its a lot of different a different atmosphere damn it was a couple of weeks ago but people are still going strong and they still want to shout out that look at shankar has to resigned. Earlier we spoke to. Director of the clubs policy Institute Think Tank she says protesters are determined to continue with their action against president lukashenko and they will be long term consequences for the country. Its a stalemate and the governments has no intention to give in to the demands of the protests thirst neither are the protestors have. Abandoned their rebel low spirits and go into the streets i do not think that the protests today will change something in the short trial or immediately but nonetheless this is a very important sign of the government to look for himself that contrary to what was predicting of the protests have the result of concern you know theyve already been continued for over 5 weeks and they are determined to keep going not which means that look at shank does not have the luxury to go back to business as usually and he also will have to deal with a population that currently knows how to organize and how to take things in the face into their own hands and how to bring in change but arent people who will be paying a heavy price even though they might not realize its full yet that finitely in terms of a quantum a but definitely also in terms of political integration well in all the developments elsewhere millions of people in russia voting in a series of local elections and deciding on members of regional parliaments minister pattis and govern as the vote follows major protests and claims that the kremlin ordered the poisoning of the Opposition Leader alexander vonnie something the government has tonight and in baba has more on the story. If these elections are being watched more closely than ever its because of a rising sense of discontent among parts of the public tens of millions of russians have been voting for local parliaments and Regional Governors weeks after the German Government said Opposition Leader alexina valley had been poisoned. Novelli still in hospital in berlin he fell seriously ill last month as he left siberia where hed been campaigning germany says it was an attempted murder and his supporters claim it was ordered by president Vladimir Putin novell needs team is advocating smart voting in other words backing whoever is best positioned to defeat president putins United Russia Party whether the candidates from the valleys own movement a nationalist or a communist here in tomsk in the valley highlighted local corruption in this Campaign Video he refers to blood sucking creatures. Natural use it but im strongly if ive already started travelling around cities in the country to declare war against united russia he says here its clear this place should be one of the 1st because its sorely needed in this war and its a message thats making inroads among some voters ok were at the point of the slow its kind of a given that everybody thought eels but its one thing when someone abstract is stealing and another when its someone specific right here among us and someone you could put pressure on through voting. In the far eastern city of qatar offs there have been large demonstrations for the past 2 months prompted by the arrest of a popular local governor while the rallies may have surprised the kremlin nobodys predicting anything other than a nationwide win for the ruling united russia but this election does present a new approach from Vladimir Putins opponents what theyre trying to do is to chip away at the kremlins image and intense ability that the kremlin completely controls elections if through start very soon about he and his team can demonstrate that there is scope for competition that there is scope for opposition success then that might lead to a snowball. Effect and thats something that the kremlin is incredibly worried about. As in the past there have been complaints about irregularities the social media video appears to show officials stuffing ballot boxes in the rostov on don region aljazeera cannot independently verify this footage but once all the results are in they should provide an idea of the main battlegrounds for next years parliamentary elections the aljazeera. Authorities in greece have started moving refugees to a new site only island of last boss after that can burn down about 12000 people have been sleeping rough since the mori account which was europes largest was reduced to ash refugees are demanding humanitarian assistance and want to be taken to the greek Mainland Police fired tear gas to break up dozens of protests on saturday well Stephanie Decker has more now from last boss where shes been speaking to some of the people that. There is no coherent aid operation happening at all then were almost you know 4 or 5 days since that fire. New camp thats right behind us theres been a drip of people coming here around 500 now have been moved here over the last 2 days so theyve been testing everyone for corona coming in to the camp from what we understand 10 we have more specific numbers in that but tens have tested positive of course this started with 35. 00 refugees having tested positive and they then mingled with the rest of the population so this is of course a concern but yes i think more importantly how are you going to provide shelter food water and a future for these people going to bring in our guest. And she works for the ngo stand by me. Youve been here for a very long time youve seen the situation you saw the fire yourself tell me a little bit about now what are the issues now how difficult is it what are they facing exactly like youre saying still a lot of people are missing food theyre missing woodard missing shelter and also theyre missing medical treatment and psychological treatment which is also highly important in this situation i mean were talking about people who are dealing with no minimum of 4 traumas being their home country did journey more to the fire on top of right now i think this is the fault of everyone and people need to find new solutions in regards to providing aid like for example ourselves we were able to provide aid already today after despite not being able to enter them we just meant. People the people who couldnt get out they met those stairs so we met in between we found new solutions to provide aid weve been talking to the refugees they want theyve been here for years many of the waiting for papers to be processed waiting for an answer one of them told us we just want an all star yes or no and then you know whether that means we have to go back but its this limbo that has taken a huge toll do you do you have tens of thousands of people in refugee camps. With their lives on hold with their cases pending with question marks of whats going to happen so i think you know in that sense at least its an important debate but certainly nothing has been resolved the greek authorities have made it very clear to the people here who want to leave the island at the moment they would be leaving anytime soon. Or a ship carrying more than 270 rescued migrants is waiting in the Mediterranean Sea for a port to allow them to disembark migrants were pulled from small boats in 3 different operations in the past week the owners of the spanish rescue ship are appealing for the overcrowded vessel to be allowed into a port more than 18000 people have now lost their lives in mediterranean crossings since 2014 well in all the developments a Turkish Research vessel is return to the countrys shores after mapping out possible oil and gas drilling prospects in a disputed area nato members turkey and greece have overlapping claims to continental shelves and rights to potential Energy Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean tensions flared last month when ankara sent a ship to the area turkey insists it has not given up on its rights in the region but greece says the return of the vessel is a positive step in easing tensions. The return of or trace an ontology is a positive 1st step i sincerely hope that this will continue i said yesterday that the end of the provocations should be the beginning of conversation we never hid the fact that we want to talk with turkey but in a peaceful atmosphere without provocations and without unilateral actions. Well James Collins a is a visiting professor at the London School of economics and specializes in greek. He says current tensions stem from outdated territorial rules. But you said this doesnt change anything it doesnt change its claims in the mediterranean and of course greece is go its this action but i think the hope will be that maybe theres out might open up a trot whos the thoughts of each other 100 years ago the country sorted out the borders its going to change you know when they set those borders in margin 23. 00 margins once Reform International Law was in a very different place and we could explore what the quarter century is all doing the greece butchie one only. Actually costs all these access so to claim a lot of resources in the Eastern Mediterranean i mrs essential is all about talking so you can issue reclaim what its saying look we have every right to claim this is all rome and greece obviously say oh well look were happy to talk about it but we wont talk about it while youre threatening us in this way. The 1st direct talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government are ongoing after a day of ceremony on saturday but as the talks began in the Country Capital doha there were multiple attacks taking place in Afghanistan Government says they were taliban attacks and 18 provinces on saturday and the taliban is saying that there were 10 government assaults which took place all despite these accusations the sides are being urged to seize an opportunity to secure peace a few chet generations tens of thousands of afghan civilians have died at charing decades of conflict in a country. Well so how is shaheen as a member of the talibans negotiating team he reiterated the belief that it will take time and patience to overcome deep differences with the Afghan Government including the quips insistence on an islamic system or vision for the country but he said nonetheless he was optimistic. Of course. The other one obstacle when laura started to talk. With the americans about. The draw all of us to swim one is on ending the occupation but after 4 talks in the i use in the. Long discussion he chose a solution and be harder. To give me in sign but if you dont think you know unfit witty and i am hopeful that well be moving prompts in the. Right wendy reach a solution thats going. Well a member of the afghan team says she hopes the adverse race can try and build trust during the talks. It is lack of trust of course its its common for every peace talk peace negotiation this lack of trust can be happen but unfortunately of course the evidence no. Evidence from taleban side to say that its a proposal. Because we have the evidence we have the fired that happened today or day. Blasting or or conflict saw but anyway we have yesterday weve got some a positive gesture it can be a step forward for building the trast. And with al jazeera live from london much more still to tell you about another delay and more confusion for iranian charities jailed intact ron. And blessing her head down and has sent a message to the wildly remarkable u. S. Side anyway. However the High Pressure dominating the weather across much of year clear skies lots of lovely warm sunshine out everywhere still the showers around central parts of the med seen some dust storms just around the stamboul little area of cloud has some thunderstorms as well picking up the winds still quite a brisk wind further north just pushing across the British Isles heading towards scandinavia some heavier rain just pushing into where norway as we go through monday then but for the most part you can see lots of fabulous warm sunshine 28 celsius there in london the 34 there for paris well up into the twentys too weird to vienna and into this year a 31 for belgrade there are those showers into the central med just nothing down towards malta towards the far north of africa but you push out into choose dense very similar picture will love the sunshine coming through for the most part lots of sunshine see for the most part across northern parts of africa as i said we have got those showers just around this year the far north east of algeria now go to shell is just trying to push a little further south was still there just around the same hell so even into sit down south sudan Central African republic through chad seeing some live showers the heavy showers continue across the gulf of guinea some rather wet weather into a good part of west africa. But. All i would just stay with my is. State where why arrest internment and mass indoctrination of we were children are now the process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance were being complicit in the human rights abuses that are occurring in an australian investigation into chinas systematic repression of the weakest tell the world on aljazeera. The and the. The earth. Looking back just a look at our main story this hour at least 250 people have been arrested in the better russian capital minsk after 100000 protesters defied warnings and riot police to gather in the city center earlier the government shut down the internet. Are the headlines authorities in greece have started moving refugees to a new site on the island of less bost after they come down about 12000. 00 people have been sleeping rough since the mori account which was europes largest was reduced to ashes. And a Turkish Research vessel has returned to the countrys shores after mapping out possible oil and gas drilling prospects in a disputed area of the Eastern Mediterranean tension flared last month between nato members turkey and greece are the competing claims to potential Energy Resources. Now somali the countrys main Opposition Group says the military gent is trying to cling to power after last months coup saturday the military and political groups agreed on a plan for the countrys future which included an 18 month Transitional Government to civilian rule but the opposition is now distancing itself from that announcement that. The m 5 are a few denounces be intimidation antidemocratic and unfair practices goby of another era against which the fight for change and Re Foundation has been breached the desire to grab and confiscate power for the benefit of the trungpa cannot justify the methods used which weaken the transition process. Now to form a british Prime Ministers have to m. P. s to reject a government bill that will overturn a bracks it withdraw agreement with the e. U. Tony blair and john major say oras johnsons proposed bill is embarrassing the nation and threatens the irish Peace Process johnson is proposing to alter an agreement on the movement of goods and people between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland it was put in place to avoid a hard border off to practice that the e. U. Is threatening legal action of the proposal an islands foreign minister says it has tainted the u. K. s reputation as a trusted negotiating partner the British Government in my view is behaving in an extraordinary way and british people need to know the us because outside of britain where where this issue is being discussed know the reputation of the u. K. And britain as a trusted negotiating partner on important issues like this is being damaged in a very serious way and earlier on we spoke to Alison Campbell who served as a spokesman for the former u. K. Prime minister tony blair it thinks its extraordinary that politicians from across party lines are united in their criticism of farce johnson. The country im afraid elected a complete charlatan as Prime Minister and i think the country is beginning to see that perhaps more clearly i think