A new site on lesbos but many still need food water and medical help. A controversial turkish vessel returns to port after its Research Mission in just waters we says its a positive 1st step. In the horrifying aftermath of u. S. Wildfires fears there could be mass casualties buried by the oregon. And sport world title leader Lewis Hamilton won an. The race had to be stopped twice after a series of crush of the italians. Hello welcome to the news hour we begin in baton rouge where 250 people have been arrested in the capital minsk following an escalation of violence against protesters. A police have been seen beating demonstrators tackling them to the ground and forcing many into military vehicles roughly 100000 people flooded the center of the city making their way to one of the president ial compounds early at the Government Shutdown the internet in response to the continued opposition activists have been demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following the disputed election result last month. Unfortunately the dictatorship cannot be toppled fast i think we need to go on because these protests will end if we stop coming in doing anything our hope is to continue doing it publicly so the more and more people all over the world will react to our situation. Somehow you just when you put up with i dont. Give up i do dont want to even to tell you there were detentions of peaceful people who were working in the city like we are now devotional opinion that the authorities are not doing the right thing so they try to forcibly take people off the streets so that everyone sits at home and she is the. Step vasa is inside the country right now shes been spending time with protesters in the capital minsk and center. 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 100000 people on the streets 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 than 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 resign. Also for more on this story we can speak to constantine 0 he is a human rights law professor at university of liverpool joins us now via skype so theyve already been thousands of arrests and detentions and reports of human rights abuses taking place inside better russian jails today weve seen images of people being tackled to the ground by riot police how much violence is presently prepared to use oh well print your remarks for a question it is difficult for. Ok well apologies for that bit of a shame isnt it we will try to reestablish a connection with professor. Obviously these are some of the scenes that weve been getting from minsk today there have been warnings from the government about there being a clamp down as we were saying there have been over 6000 arrests and continue detentions and also one Crucial Point is that we continue to see the arrest of opposition leaders and activists as well but nonetheless we saw tens of thousands of people turning out in the better russian capital today and of course theyve been utilizing apps like telegrams to mobilize themselves and to organize themselves this despite a Government Shutdown of the internet a little bit earlier theyve been finding ways to circumvent the sort of restrictions that you can see people protest is continuing to defy government warnings despite the deployment of riot police on the streets day in constantine. Is back with us are you. You were just saying about how far the government was prepared to go in terms of cracking down on these protests. Yes thank you very much for this question and so i hold that you can hear me now basically all human rights have already been violated and valorous and these brutal images that we can see on our screens its clearly a violation of rights not to be torches in bellerose how long a president can go in there his attempts to stay in power its so this ickle question and we all hope and not much further that he has already done in the beginning of the moms. Its so that people became just andrea and violations of human rights you cannot stay in power by force your policies are you looking at you concerned though that i mean will the protests survive more more brutality an even greater crackdown and if they did could that change the the sort of complection of the process will they remain peaceful. Its a very good question and i think they have defied the process of peaceful and the fog of process so are in favor all through and human rights this is their force there its nobody can save bear deforest used by the government in belarus is any in any way proportionate to what people are trying to do on the streets and barry has a really serious moral stand for the protesters and i think belts belts. Is also an arc to offer coverage from these people who were you concerned i mean a you can send in the face of this kind of Police Brutality that they will remain peaceful at some point do they start to perhaps fight back or to put up a different kind of resistance i hold they will theory peaceful because it is very important that russia doesnt intervene was their forces and thats going to happen eve the protest will become violent but i think that expresses. Or. Mr lucas anchor would say. He doesnt want russian through a few saw Russian Troops in belarus are as a because theyre communes that he will most supply were anyways i mean thats a saying that as president lukashenko is and is in a weird position because he is counting on support from moscow but at the same time he wants to preserve his visit his independence from the kremlin doesnt he theres no love lost between president s putin and look so how does this continued opposition inside batteries affect his relationship with president putin. This is a difficult question and the situation is so unpredictable that is hardly possible to say really any sin in what is going to happen tomorrow when put in the ears talking to walker santa but if this clear now about this situation is continuing that protests are not going anywhere despite the brutality or to some extent because of this brutality because people decided that its enough its just one thing to fake the election to the completely Different Things to beats people to put them in prison in towels and and also torture them and rape etc so like this doesnt work any talk to the tactics of reality doesnt work work yes and killers our thanks very much it was good to talk to you and thanks that bearing with a very light that dodgy connection professing my friends and yet sorry. I want to move on to other stories were following now an authority is in greece have started moving refugees to a new science on the island of lies boss off to camp down former residents of the mori account which was the largest in europe have been sleeping rough since it was reduced to ash on wednesday refugees are demanding humanitarian assistance want to be taken to the greek mainland well at the peak of the refugee crisis in 20152016 around a 1000000 people arrived in greece via boat from turkey fleeing conflict in the middle east africa and asia this year more than 4000 people have landed in this boss through that route again but it has been far fewer compared to recent is tensions have been simmering with residents though and many feel abandoned by the government in the e. U. Greece has tried to address the problem by moving 13 and a half 1000 people from the lesbos camps this year according to the ministry of migration at the time of the fire 12000. 00 people were living in morea camp more than 4 times the amount it was built for so it was overcrowded stephanie deck reports to us now from last boss. There is an image in mass human misery but everyone here has a broken dream oh problem is this they ve come here to meet one of hope through their own role one of. Messages from afghanistan he says he worries about the effect the lack of hope is having on his Mental Health problem is not about my stomach. Its about emotional its the most. Bring out future. 11 year old is too young to worry about his future but he does he is an extraordinary young boy his opportunities lost here now i dont want to stay here any more i dont want to waste my life here and i want to get i want to go to another kind of country of my family had to start a new life is not going to skill and i have a you know they were you were telling me youve never been to school i have never been to school so how is your english so incredible i learned from someone and then i started learning english from internet there is no Running Water no sanitation theyve been setting up tents and tarps woolens since morier camp burnt to the ground almost a week ago refugees of largely been left to fend for themselves the problem is theres a lot of people has like. Health condition or they have like a problem with heart with. All of us in the sense the waste and all of us we are lost we have no idea what to do we just we have to wait there is a new camp thats being set up but only a few 100 people have been transferred so far there are around 12000 that need to be or get tested for the coronavirus before they get allocated a tent there is a real fear that is spreading among the refugees most still remain on the streets in the hills of this island so off to having spent the day here talking to people we just got a phone call that the police had called to evict them because this is private property now weve been watching people throughout the day picking up tarpaulins whatever they could find some of these nets you can see a mattress here and some of the food handouts just left so again there on the streets yes there. New camp thats been set up but by no means is it large enough to house the thousands of people that need shelter we need a group of young men trying to decide where to sleep. Where shall we go now we have no idea what our fate will be if we go to the people dont want us were not welcome were displaced once again we will sleep in the orchards what the burning down of europes biggest refugee camp has done is reignited the debate and turned the international spotlight back on these forgotten people Stephanie Decker bus island greece. Meanwhile a ship carrying more than 270 rescued migrants is waiting in the mediterranean 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 other crowded vessel to be allowed into a port of an 18000 people have lost their lives in the mediterranean since 2014. With the news hour live from london much more still ahead back into lockdown for israel it becomes the 1st country to reimpose it nationwide restrictions. Could it be 7th time lucky the man who refuses to give up is again running for president in zanzibar. And in the l. A. Lakers a back in the n. B. A. Conference finals for the 1st time in 10 years. Now a Turkish Research vessel has returned to the countries shows off to 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 annular Energy Resources in the Eastern Mediterranean tensions flared last month when and chris sent a ship to the area tekkie insists it hasnt given up on its rights in the region but greece is saying 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. James collins is a visiting professor at the London School of economics and specializes in greek turkish relations he says these current spy contention tensions stem from outdated territorial rules. But you said this doesnt change anything it doesnt change its claims in the Eastern Mediterranean and of course greece has got its this action but i think the hope will be made this out might open up a trot you cant cross to talk to each other 100 years ago 2 countries sorted out their borders trying to change you know when they set those borders and 1923 margins once or for International Law it was in a very different place and we could explore the quarter century is all going to greece but she won. On islands actually cuts all these access to claim a lot of resources in the Eastern Mediterranean i miss is essential is all we know about. Reclaimed waters and saying look we have every right to claim this is all rome and greece obviously say well look were happy to talk about it but we wont talk about it while youre threatening us in this way well now to Political Developments in mali the main Opposition Group says the military gentry is trying to cling to power after the coup last month on saturday the military and political groups equate on a plan for the countrys future which include an 18 month transition to civilian rule but the opposition is distancing itself from that announcement the mc and. The m 5 r. F. P. Denounces the intimidation and democratic and unfair practices where the of another era against which the fight for change and Re Foundation has been waged in a desire to grab an confiscate power for the benefit of the gentile cannot justify the methods used which weaken the transition process in. 2 former british Prime Ministers of urged m. P. s to reject the government bill that will overturn a brics that Withdrawal Agreement with the e. U. Tony blair and john major say porous johnsons proposed bill is embarrassing the nation and threatens the irish Peace Process johnson is proposing to hold 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 after bracks at the e. U. Is threatening legal action of the proposal and 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 this issue is being discussed no 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. Only we spoke to Alistair Campbell who served as a spokesman for the former u. K. Prime minister tony blair if thinks its extraordinary that politicians from across party lines are united in their criticism. 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 both tony blair and john major tony blair he said i used the word wrong sometimes tells me that i go to over the top in my criticisms of Boris Johnson and he was held back i think in terms of some of his rhetoric about johnson but john major. A conservative Prime Minister who was doing trees amaze time although he had very different views on some issues pretty much kept his head down i think to him to come out today and combine with a labor Prime Minister and say what they have said together about the current Prime Minister about the current governments handling of the brits in the damage theyre doing to u. K. Standing around the world i think is extraordinary and the worry for me however is that a lot of these m. P. Who knew him tory m. P. s i suspect that their vision and their version of what the jury party is in 2020 doesnt bear sufficient relation to what john majors jory party did and who i think that the 2 big points that theyre making really one of the damage done to our reputation in the world when we openly have a Prime Minister and a cabinet saying that they see nothing wrong in breaking an International Treaty breaking their word there was as you say negotiated a few months ago under which he won a general election and secondly the direct and significant threat that this poses to the good friday agreement a what it shows is that john major internal black care about that and Boris Johnson doesnt. Israels government has announced a fresh 3 week nationwide lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus making it the 1st country to reimpose restrictions on a National Scale of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says the restrictions will come into force on friday meaning israelis will have to stay within 500 meters of their homes schools and places of worship will be closed as well as all but essential shops more than 153000 infections have been confirmed in israel at least 1100 people have died well promise netanyahu commiserated to having to implement a lockdown of the jewish high holidays and other sorts of human one of whom i know these measures will exact a heavy price at a school this is not the kind of holiday were used