Data leads. Plus the heat waves in the arctic to be a visit besides eerie and towns very foundations are threatened by it ever harder and longer summers. Out ok. Im serious oh my god theyre glad you could join us in belarus public support for president aleksander look i shant go seems to be crumbling as more belarusians hed opposition calls to join a general strike the bush and co has consistently given a defiant response and rejected any calls for him to step down they have been growing louder ever since he was returned to office over a week ago in a controversial election. The red and white flag of the opposition has one small been right used on the streets of minsk this time by the workers a bellow rumors. They gathered outside factories and the state television headquarters. Can all go away they chanted directly at president Alexander Lukashenko who had arrived to win them over. Their protests have been fueled by the promises of their restored leader youve got to have the. Head to take responsibility and act as the nations leader during this period so the country settles down and gets back to normality so that we can release Political Prisoners and prepare a Legal Framework and conditions to hold another round of president ial elections in the shortest time possible. But of. The exiled Opposition Leader made her address from the way mia just one day off to calling for the biggest protests in bellerose yet an estimated 200000 people marched through the streets on sunday calling for the president to step down they maintain that the National Election earlier this month which gave look at 80 percent of the vote was great. To see shows were all united and that we want to protect our right to choose we want Fair Elections resits well this is a celebration of freedom weve done this dictatorship if you could look at shanker is no longer in charge of the power has been taken by those who deserve it the people of color of skin. That protest wolf look at showing their supporters who also staged a rally in which the president projected demands for revert. To a little way mia latvia poland and unfortunately our d. Ukraine and its leadership ordering us to hold new elections. That if we follow their lead we will fall into the abyss and never get out house in order to send them since. We will perish as a state agency. And as a people move they did really good this he goes ok. As the internal pressure continues International Concern grows with the e. U. To hold an emergency summit about belarus on wednesday. Lets get the latest on the story now we have our correspondents standing by for us your ear chateau is in moscow and recruit is in brussels good to have you both very i want to start with you we saw those images of workers striking in protesting but at the same time president lukashenko does not seem to be backing down at all tell us more about what weve heard from him well assuming from all official and less official statements by ticks on the shango that you have in the past few days and today one message is very clear he doesnt want to give up his power he repeated this yesterday as a rally of his defense and minsk as well this today hes appearance on during his visit at one of the most important and largest factories in the country as we just heard in the report he is determined to continue ruling no matter the prize the crucial question is how these socalled key will react more specifically the Power Ministry the Defense Ministry the secret service and the army if they all continue to stand by here in the opposition could face a further escalation of violence as they got in the coming days but as soon as the seal of the key changes their minds and take the side of the demonstrators and its on the local schenkel will be gone very quickly from the political stage of the 26 years of presidency men have come to you in brussels now because we know that the European Union is watching all of these developments very closely and the e. U. Will now hold an emergency session after already greenlighting sanctions last week so what further steps could be taken. Here with this special summit on wednesday which is a Video Conference the you wants to increase the pressure on the president of billows Alexander Lukashenko and. The president of the council has said that the the people of the roost have the right to choose their leadership freely and to choose their own destiny and future violence cannot be accepted so if you has not called for the resignation of your question because that can happen on wednesday that would be the next diplomatic step in the letter and the you could also tighten the sanctions the use in visioning now the theyre working on the list to sanction people and some companies maybe look at shanghai himself will be enclosed on that list and theres also the possibility through the neighborhood policy of the you to for those things and the Civil Society in billows yuri i want to come back to you know and ask you about the Opposition Leaders that line if you dont know sky in her exile in lithuania we saw her saying she is ready to lead the country how much pressure does she add on the question go. I think pretty much because the pressure from them is actually the pressure from hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across belarus as it has a huge support base yesterday we saw the biggest and most peaceful protest in the history of belarus cold by spit on a tunnel from the idea that support has been rising in the last weeks. However has shown in recent weeks that she is actually ready for her role as a National Leader either in or now in exile in lithuania also she isnt alone in her role as a leader she has strong support from. Who is the official or a representative of another candidate who wasnt allowed to run for presidency. Has become another face of the in the russian opposition shes in minsk right now and she has been staying in touch misfit learn that he can also go all the time there and how does this look in brussels because general sky is in exile in lithuania which is an e. U. Country and shes saying im ready to take the reins of the country does that put the European Union in a difficult position its not unusual that the. Opposition leaders of operating from the neighboring countries like poland lithuania and latvia but the u. Has to walk a fine line they dont want to give. Me putin the russian president any excuse to somehow militarily do Something Like he did in ukraine so the west should not give him any reasons for that so far below was tended to be in the russian camp but now we have to see how that works out our correspondent reporting for us spend record in brussels your chateau in moscow thank you. Lets get a roundup now of some other stories making headlines firefighters in california are working to contain a wildfire threatening thousands of homes north of los angeles the blaze has already destroyed more than 15000 acres as it rages through bush covered mountains california is currently experiencing a heat wave that is fueling the fire. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says shell call back u. S. Lawmakers early from the summer recess to deal with the crisis at the u. S. Postal Service President trump who was admitted to holding back funding for the service has repeatedly claimed that a surge in mail in voting would lead to voter fraud in novembers election. In central india a man stranded in rapid waters that a flooded dam has been rescued in a dramatic helicopter airlift the Indian Air Force was called in after several failed rescue attempts the flooding was triggered by a monsoon rains. And mexicos coronavirus death toll is now past 56000 the 3rd highest behind the u. S. And brazil but the country has eased some restrictions like allowing children to go to malls and movie theaters with their parents opposition politicians have criticized what they called mixed messages from the government. Restrictions on south africas Economic Activity will be eased from tuesday on after president Cyril Ramaphosa said covert 19 infections have peaked with more than half a 1000000 confirmed cases south africa has been hit hard by the pandemic the country implemented strict measures to curb the spread of the virus including a ban on alcohol and cigarettes sales but its lockdown has crushed businesses and livelihoods. Here people are helping themselves weve been from this area in cape town and cooking for the neighbors who are even worse off than they are nearly 5 months of lockdown has pushed many into deeper poverty than they were before. My daughter can only work 2 or 3 days a week without the people from the soup kitchen i dont know what children would eat. The women at the soup kitchen buy the ingredients with donations but like many other volunteer groups collecting enough money is getting tough in july to nations have ever have declined weve been struggling a lot. Up until today we havent had any assistance from the state demonstrates this clash with police or to protest for Better Living standards there was sometimes violence like this before the pandemic but now its getting worst aid organizations are predicting more unrest as millions of jobs are lost for ever and the support offered by the state is not enough. There is some positive news the increase in covert 19 cases is slowing and some lock down measures are being loosened. But not for the International Tourists who are crucial for the economy current restrictions on International Travel will remain in place. No more than 50 people will be permitted. The women from the sea. Kitchen dont expect the pandemic to go away quickly theyre starting to grow their own vegetables to make sure that there will always be enough ingredients for the soup. Heres a look now at some of the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic u. S. Health authorities have expressed concern that the start of the false flu season will make it harder to treat coronavirus patients on sunday the u. S. Surpassed 170000 covert 1000 deaths japans g. D. P. Shrank by a record 7. 8 percent in the 2nd quarter as the pandemic slammed trade and consumption its the worst economic drop for the worlds 3rd largest economy since the end of the 2nd world war new zealands Prime Minister has delayed the countrys general election by 4 weeks until mid october because of the pandemic the city of auckland remains in lockdown due to a new outbreak of the virus. The trial has started today of the main suspect in what could be germanys largest ever organized child sex abuse case more than 150 suspects are also being investigated in the case involving an Online Pedophile Network that shared images of child pornography critics say germany isnt doing enough to tackle sex crimes against children on the internet. The defendant hid as he entered the courtroom evidence found in the 43 year olds home led to the biggest investigation into organized child sex abuse in german history its the most recent in a series of trials against men accused of abusing their own and others children that attacked as i sat on the defendant is alleged to have sexually assaulted his daughter in 61 cases some of them are serious and he said to a film the abuse and then share the videos and check groups uncovering these crimes has proved deeply disturbing even for the most experienced investigators the suspect allegedly began abusing his daughter when she was just a few months old hes also accused of belonging to a sprawling paedophile network. Investigators found 30000 leads and have identified more than 150 suspects in germany and abroad the defendants wife is the joint plaintiff in the trial her lawyer says she was unaware of the abuse. But tyler everyone involved in this trial hopes the defendant will shed light on what happened that hope is what unites us all in this trial and its a hope shared by my client of mine amendment invention. The defendant refused to comment ahead of his trial but he has said he will testify during the proceeding for the case of york brought to light the sheer scale of sexual child abuse in germany when Police Conducted the search of his home in the town of last october the anybody would have expected that this investigation alone would net almost 900. 00 suspects and dozens of arrests up to now almost 50 children have been rescued according to the police more than 30000. 00 digital identities were uncovered so far in chat groups and on the Ground Networks if convicted yoko faces up to 15 years in prison and after that possibly preventive detention if psychotherapy fails. Mathias from heinz reporting there now temperatures across the arctic have been increasing at a rate that is about twice the global average causing a record heat wave in siberia this year a small remote town above the Arctic Circle in the russian region of temperatures that were nearly 20 Degrees Higher than the average scientists now feared that the heat is causing the permafrost to thaw spelling catastrophe for both the environment and for the people who live there do you have to use emily show with reports from their hideouts. You can see the heat shimmer even now at the end of summer a few weeks ago they had set a new record 38 degrees celsius thats the highest temperature ever recorded within the Arctic Circle people here are usually proud of a different exterior their town is one of 2 places that claim to be the coldest on earth. Were used to the cold people here cant handle that sort of heat everyone bought electric fans they were totally sold out here people had ice cream and cold drinks we arent prepared for these conditions. We swam and worked it was fine even in the winter when its minus 60 degrees centigrade here we eat ice cream so working when it was 38 degrees wasnt a problem either. Me i had discussion with them. The climate is changing every year and the ice is slowly melting people say the winters have gotten a bit warmer and the summer has moved by a whole month its longer now. The buildings in that are on stilts designed to drive down into the permafrost and give them a solid base the pillars also keep the houses raised so they dont melt the ground underneath but rising temperatures could threaten the very foundations of this town. Because the permafrost is melting houses here could collapse because theyre built on pillars our Public Utilities are built on supports which have their foundations in the ground if they move there could be accidents there will be all sorts of problems if Global Warming intense allies who she. Wants. To meet with. Russias arctic has already felt the effects of unstable foundations in late may a fuel reservoir. Are near no real school collapsed and 21000 tonnes of diesel spilled into surrounding rivers in subsoil the russian Metals Company in charge said the thawing permafrost was to blame scientists hope the environmental catastrophe and no reels will be a wake up call for afterwards. You might until this happened no one paid attention to the issue of permafrost the 1st thing that contributes to its thought is the climate and the summer temperatures to some of summer temperatures here in central yakutia so in the taiga forest has increased by 10 to 12 percent since the year 2000. This years summer may have been a novelty for people in very high yeah but it could spell an unstable future for russias arctic. Lets get some analysis on the story now we have thomas smith with us hes an environmental scientist from the London School of economics thomas thank you for joining us were talking about a place that is usually known for some of the coldest temperatures in the world why are we seeing such record high temperatures in siberia. Well its not unusual for the arctic to have a warm summer but some parts of the uk to particularly eastern siberia have experienced consistently above average in extreme temperatures since the winter so the winter spring and summer of this year the summers record breaking temperatures have been due to a combination of a regional heat wave weather related but also caused by a long lasting. Climate change which has been driving temperatures in the arctic high and other faster rate than anywhere else in the world. And that has sparked wildfires tell us more about that and what effect these wildfires have had on the region. Both in 20192020 weve seen widespread fires and. On a larger scale than weve seen in the satellite record dating back to 2003 the most obvious impact of the wildfires has been widespread smoke pollution leading some of the worst quality readings on the planet as well as carbon emissions. There are some longer term entire impacts of these fires but were yet to see those the fires have been burning in forests which should usually have a fire maybe once every 80 years or so but some of these places we are now knowing that these fires are happening much more frequent than this and that might lead to permanent changes in the ecosystem widespread replacement of the forest by screw up and so grasslands potentially to the north of the fires have been affecting the but the tundra and we really just beginning to understand what the impacts of fires are in this very remote ecosystem if we look at the region on the whole time as we mentioned this astonishing development that the temperatures across the arctic as a whole have been increasing twice as fast as the rest of the world what are the consequences of that for the global climate. Well importantly weve got the permanently frozen ground the permafrost that was mentioned in your reports now this contains ancient carbon rich soils which have been drying this last year and burning in the sea as far as releasing large quantities of Carbon Dioxide and that will drive Climate Change just the drawing of the soil even without the fire can release gases like Carbon Dioxide to me saying so permafrost melts the land can sink as well and weve seen that as a really important effect of this flooring out of the permafrost in some of the things that you mentioned earlier reports theres a Major Oil Spill inside there and thats going to have you know widespread regional impacts ok so your message to authorities what do you think needs to happen now to mitigate all the base effect. Well at a local scale we dont really understand whats causing the the ignitions of many of these fires is often related to humans and we do need to Work Together to reduce ignitions particularly during these heat waves which are becoming more and more common in these regions of siberia as far as the longer term warming is concerned only hope is concerted action to mitigate rising Greenhouse Gas concentrations in our atmosphere however whatever we do now to slow down Climate Change the impacts are needing to be felt in a number of decades the warming in the arctic will continue for now and will have to be dealing with the consequences as a result of Greenhouse Gas emissions over the past century. Thomas smith from the London School of economics great to have you with us thank you well the arctic is not the only place affected by rising temperatures thousands of miles away in californias death valley researchers have just recorded the highest global temperature in over a century the u. S. Weather service confirmed the record heat of 54. 00 degrees celsius on sunday afternoon now if that record is confirmed in a formal review it will be the hottest temperature witnessed on our planet surface since 1030. I lets move on to some sports news now and in formula one World ChampionLewis Hamilton won the spanish grand prix for the 4th Straight Year on sunday the result with that was the british drivers 156th podium finish breaking a record long held by 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 ChampionLewis 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 cruised to victory 24 seconds ahead of his closest title rival max 1st stop in the red with botox finishing 3rd. But that is good of it today this is a real surprise because he said the problem with the ties. Management was. It was very very good at this point in the understanding of what happened off the board this weekend is inevitably they would have to do that today. Hamilton celebrated his 156 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 stopping. The football now and in the semifinals of the Europa League sylvia have beaten Manchester United 21 Bruno Fernandes converted a penalty to open the scoring for united in the 9th minute but then soon so equalized for sylvia to any 6 minutes in and look the young rounded up a 21 final score 12 minutes from the end sylvia will face the winner of mondays clash between into milan and shocked our donetsk in a final. Now to an athlete who followed her heart into the waves had just learned how to surf as a teenager and soon became senegals 1st female professional surfer now the olympic hopeful is inspiring a generation of young girls to defy cultural norms and hone their skills on a surfboard. All the streets of senegal this is something you dont see every day women with surfboards its a male dominated sport here. Though that didnt discourage hodgy son now the countrys only female professional some fell in love with surfing years ago at the age of 13 black women surfers were nowhere to be found in senegal back then and some feel that void becoming a pioneer for the sport however her journey wasnt easy. What i always advise young girl missing starts a thing is to not listen to other people who try and stop them because they have. To concentrate and to keep on going ahead focus on their training and again to not listen to others because i went through this myself with people telling me to stop assessing which is why i started sniffing a bit late and so i tell them that if you want to progress in your surfing and go forward dont listen to those who tell you to stop full of stay at home because thats backward looking. Within each one teach one mentality some now 23 years old spencers spare time showing females in senegal the ins in outs of the sport some was looking forward to competing in the olympics until they were postponed because of the coronavirus until the next summer games some is sharing her love of surfing. With no plans of slowing down. Coming up next on news asia the thai capital bangkok sees the biggest prodemocracy protest in years will the Student Movement to come up force for change. And the coronavirus produces a pack up on the wanted thats the lucia we visit the shelter trying to give these dogs. To be responded to as those stories and more coming up on g. W. News asia. There saw a much more the people experiencing. Can from them. Countless cultural bridges were brutally stolen from africa and cut off to europe by colonialists. Each artifact has blood on it from the limbs that have yet to feel. What should be done with the stone or from africa. 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