A president ial pardon be on the cards for one of americas most top high profile leakers of government secrets donald trump says hes playing up a reprieve for former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. And in formula one racing World Champion Lewis Hamilton has won the spanish trumpery and broken anyhow schumacher for a career podium finish. Im pablo foley is welcome to the program but a resume president Alexander Lukashenko has rejected calls to hold a new election and says moscow is ready to step in to quote save the country speaking to supporters in minsk go also accused nato of deploying military forces near the countrys border the alliance has dismissed that claim but says its closely monitoring the situation opposition protests have been growing in strength since last weeks disputed election they took to the streets in their biggest numbers yet on sunday. Opposing demonstrations in the streets of central minsk. With this man at the heart of both embattled by the russian president Alexander Lukashenko. Dear friends i didnt just call you here to defend me you came here to defend your country your independence your families for the 1st time in a quarter of a century. Go address thousands of loyal supporters on sunday after days of protest put belorussian domestic politics in the international spotlight he accused foreign powers of organizing the opposition against him that the opposition has all paid off their provocative orders who went into the crowd where are the parents of the children who went to the protest its criminals who are committing these violent acts against our riot police here and that narrative about if you look at shankar has ruled the former soviet state since 1904 and after his disputed reelection victory last week he is determined to stay in power moscow says its ready to help militarily after the crushing reached out to russian president Vladimir Putin twice in recent days. But just 2 and a half kilometers away from the main government building in minsk an entirely different sentiment has a much larger crowd of tens of thousands cordons who are rally at victory park organizers called a march for freedom. To continue we want changes and not just in the political sense we want human life to be valued in our country and thats the main demand the current authorities are in no way of supporting this if theyre only making it worse if. They say for all of this to happen luka she go has to go they reject official results that say the president won his 6th term with 80 percent of the vote and are demanding a new election and a new beginning for the people of color. Well we can now go to w. s moscow correspondent and be sure one whos following the developments in better room for us hi emily i mean what do you make of the president of the shine goes accuse ations against nato while nato is firmly denying that they are placing troops at the belarusian borders but we have heard from the belarus in the valorization army that they will be holding military drills in the coming days it seems to me that look i shant go wants to turn this internal political crisis into some kind of a geo political conflict that hes kind of inflating it giving it more importance and thats a strategy that weve sort of seen in the past few days as well when he accused the protesters of being controlled from abroad he called them chic but when you actually look at the protests that were seeing they dont seem to have anything to do with geopolitics people are demanding regime change and its important to know that we dont see any e. U. Flags on the streets of cities across bella reuss unlike in ukraine a few years ago when people were kind of demanding closer ties to the e. U. This is really not about that and the belarus in a condom me strongly depends on russia its an important partner for the country and that will be the case Going Forward even if there is an office dition government subsidy close ties there looking go spoke to the russian president Vladimir Putin on saturday and again today sunday so what can we expect from russia in this situation. Well its kind of hard to know at the moment but in recent days up until today russia has been rather quiet about whats going on in its neighboring country today we then had the russian side talking about external pressure on bella reuss and saying that it would be willing if necessary to provide assistance under an existing military agreement with bella reuss so that could mean either Russian Troops or peacekeepers but it seems unlikely to me that that will happen at the moment it seems more like this announcement that weve seen from putin today is kind of a warning sign to the west that they shouldnt meddle in whats happening in velo after all russia sees bella bruce as firmly part of its fear of influence as an important kind of buffer zone between russia and nato but the kremlin surely knows that lucas franco has lost legitimacy in the last few days and that even if you stayed he would be kind of a weak leader and thats not in their interest either. Sure when he was keeping a close. To going on in belarus for reporting from moscow thank you so much. U. S. President donald trump says hes considering pardoning Edward Snowden the former u. S. Intelligence contractor has been in hiding in russia since he leaked classified information from the National Security agency in 2013 supporters of uson snowden as a whistleblower who revealed the extent of u. S. Government surveillance but hes charged with violating the u. S. Espionage act heres what trump has to say when he was asked about a potential pardon i mean im not that aware of the snowden situation but im going to sort of look you know there are many many people it seems to be a split decision that many people think that he should be somehow created differently other people think he did very bad things and im going to take a very good look at it ok i mean ive ive seen people that are very conservative and very liberal in the agree on the same issue they agree both was im going to take a look at that very strongly Edward Snowden you know. More on this lets cross over to our correspondent carla bleicher shes covering the story for us from washington hi carla its a big shift from President Trump whats behind this move while on the one hand its a welcome distraction for president from the whole vote by mail disaster that astonied at the conversation in recent days and that saw accusations against him that hes trying to sabotage the Postal Service and its meddling in the election but on the other hand he is falling behind in the polls so this out of the box could also be seen as just throwing ever again throwing everything against the wall and trying to see what sticks so. Weve seen plenty of time from president but what an amnesty put pressure on joe biden who always took a tough stance on snowden. Yes absolutely that is another reason for President Trump to bring this issue of now to make biden look bad after all snowden was was exposing these far reaching practices of surveillance under the Obama Administration when biden was Vice President for of course and biden back then was in charge of convincing other countries not just to grand snowden asylum so this could be a move to just remind liberal americans who were appalled by the governments actions back then that maybe they dont want to vote for biden after all of course it is that the political campaigns in full swing but what do americans think about Edward Snowden and his revelations carla this is where it gets interesting you have as the president mentioned really varying opinions on both sides of the aisle so among people who are in favor of a pardon for snowden are on the one hand liberals like for Example Press freedom activists who are saying that snowden is a whistleblower and shouldnt have been prosecuted in the 1st place but you also have conservatives who believe that the Obama Administration spied on then candidates trump and that snowden might have evidence for that so thats why they want him to be able to come back to the u. S. But you also have americans both liberals and conservatives who still view snowden as a traitor for exposure exposing National Security secrets and interestingly enough 1 trump used to be among these people back and when these 13 he tweeted that snowden was quote a spy who should be executed. Ditto the washington correspondent karl a blogger thanks for all your analysis. A professional israeli ice hockey player has raised eyebrows after signing with a polish team plays for the same city where the auschwitz concentration camp was located it. Says hell play in honor of the jews who were murdered there by german nazis during the holocaust. Is a city that cannot escape its past even if it wanted to this is where the infamous auschwitz concentration camp is located and where during the 2nd world war the nazis murdered well over a 1000000 people most of them jews. And this is ice hockey player at least your share but off who says he wants to look to the future the israeli learned his hockey in Montreal Canada where he grew up hes also the captain of the Israeli National team now hes playing for bush vientiane i thats the reason why im here is to be so jewish people that even after 75 years that the holocaust happened we can succeed i cross the world and with. Times of auschwitz him and from poland will cheerfully and obviously im disappointed some criticism but i cannot blame him because every single jewish person lived the holocaust in different ways. One of the critics is american rabbi cole who wrote on his twitter page that its a bit trail for share of a top to play for a team located so close to the former concentration camp i knew i was going to make. Some kind of walking round the world and. Its your motivation for me. I just cant wait so. That season starts on september 8th for when he or she and chip will play at home against visitors cutover itself shepherd of hopes to make a good impression knowing a lot of eyes will be focused on him and on this city i want to take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 5 people have been killed in an attack on a Beach Front Hotel in the somali capital mogadishu state media say the militants detonated a car bomb outside the hotel before a gunman stormed the building Islamist Group alshabaab has claimed responsibility. Thousands of protesters have rallied in bangkok to demand political change tensions in thailand have been rising after the arrest of 3 leading prodemocracy activists the demonstrations come after years of political turmoil and failed promises to restore democracy following a 2014 military coup. To sport now and in formula one motor racing World Champion Lewis Hamilton won the spanish grand prix for the 4th Straight Year on sunday the result was the british drivers 156. 00 podium finish breaking a record long held by a german racing legend. Some of the drivers took a knee on the track before the race to show their support for the black lives matter of movement. And then they were off with World Champion Lewis Hamilton starting from pole position and his mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas also in the front row. And in a masterful performance hamilton managed to hang on to the lead throughout the race on a sweltering afternoon outside boss alone with very little drama or suspense hamilton cruise to victory 24 seconds ahead of his closest title rival max 1st stop in a red bull with botox finishing 3rd. But ready to double today is a real surprise because he had a problem with the ties management was. Was very very good at this understanding of what happened nothing could go to this weekend. Never sleep they would have to do it today hamilton celebrated his 156th podium finish surpassing the record held by the great michael schumacher. The win increases his lead in the title race to 37 points ahead of her stop. Youre watching news make sure to stay change for our next update which will be back at the top of the next hour and take your seats and. Beyond. The stories that matter to. Whatever it takes. It running
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