I hear it from ukraine even she ripped up her passport to prevent her being sent to ukraine so tell us a little bit more about now what happens to the Opposition Movement because i mean see this is a very prominent figure who was leading the protest against sankoh. Which is definitely a prominent face of these protests shes a symbol shes someone whos very media savvy and very good in gauging different groups of people but she isnt the only leader and i think shes more symbol than a leader of these protests these protests become so big now you know hundreds of thousands people coming out in a country of only 10000000 people that even without active engagement these protests will continue people are organizing themselves on their own with some kind of hierarchy you see students organizing cells you see the residents in 2 districts coming out not tonight staying on their pots and pans in the yards of that building organizing various kinds of protests graffiti hanging out all kinds of things even if the government would put her and more people behind bars that will not be enough to stop these protests nickname time we have the Opposition Leader. Is just addressed the council of europe shes asking for more International Pressure to be exerted on the regime. What measures could the opposition regarding this point. Its a really tough one i think the main thing for the opposition the main important step was the fact the your team didnt recognize the results of these elections as cast by the looks i think a government beyond that this is a government that has come under sanctions time and time again over the years and it has survived them and even seen those sanctions withdrawn without them doing much in return i think if there is a section proof regime in europe or at least in this region that is this one i think this is about symbolism right now showing that the outside world is watching but there the success of this movement will be decided on the streets of belarus and not with the help of sanctions they can only umansky thank you next moscow has summoned the german ambassador over statements that the German Government has made about the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexina lonely berlin has warned that it could end its support of the 10000000000 euro nord stream 2 pipeline which is set to double russian gas deliveries see europe is russia fails to investigate than a volley case on monday of only woke up from a medically induced coma in april in hospital german doctors say there is unequivocal evidence that he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent or the case it draws parallels to another russian opposition figure who was poisoned 2 years ago he says that the use of no indicates that of all these poisoning goes all the way to the top. Correspondent yury russia reports. Is fighting fit but 2 years ago the activist was left fighting for his life struck down by a poison the situation was similar to the volley but unlike no volley there were no signs of the now no v. Chalk. My poison wasnt as bad as his i was able to recover more quickly i was already able to speak in the 2nd week of recovery but navi chalk is an extremely strong point and we were it doesnt make a difference that he want to hurt someone or kill them. Chocolates perfect for committing murder or. For the corby way its. Like not only was treated that balance Charity Hospital no one could confidently identify the substance that had been given to him his symptoms prompted doctors to suspect poisoning but was never. Says there is no doubt. As the fact that not because what used clearly points to the russian president up there was that or one thing is only secret agents have access to this specific poison. Your call this operation could only have been carried out with the approval of la dimia pretty much. Were going to put the. Other opposition figures have been targeted with less deadly means among them the independent politician dimitri could called one year ago he was barred from standing in the Moscow City Council elections and jailed for 36 days. When he was just. Another. An independent local politician and a prominent figure in the mass protests in moscow one year ago she still faces charges for participating in demonstrations. Going to lets get that live in an authoritarian country in a dictatorship began when Vladimir Putin was voted into office with thousands. Of Strong Enough human rights arent part of the equation here freedom and justice dont exist here you can be jailed every time you call for people to join a protest. In the face of until. Refuses to stay silent since his recovery has become politically active again im not despite the fact he has a young daughter and her just to work me. I want my friends my family and my daughter to live in a wonderful country without him and his disgusting system that im sure we can achieve this goal when we do this to him. Or would let his daughter go out alone at night and every morning hes by her side on the walk to school. Lets have a look at some other stories making news around the world attention is thats collating between india and china over there disputed border in the himalayas beijing has accused indian soldiers of illegally crossing the frontier and firing warning shots violating an agreement barring the use of firearms india says the chinese guards fired into the air a border clash in june left 20 indian soldiers dead. Firefighters are tackling a 2nd blames on an oil tanker off the sri lankan coast days after the 1st was extinguished the vessel is carrying nearly 2000000. 00 barrels of crude Oil Officials have warned of potentially massive environmental damage if there is a leak or the ship explodes. Official campaigning has begun in japan to replace shinzo abbay as leader of the governing Party Obvious close ally chief cabinet secretary yoshi hyde asuka seen here as is the top candidate and likely successor to lead the government 3 candidates will face off in an internal vote on september 14th. At japans olympics minister says that the tokyo games will happen next year at any cost the olympics were postponed by a year until next july because of the coronavirus pandemic and there had been media speculation that the event could be scrapped but the commissioner said that japan owned it to the athletes to host the games no decisions have yet been taken on how many spectators will be allowed to attend officials are considering over 200. 00 proposals on how best to deal with the virus. 2 australian journalists have now returned home from china after being in broyles in a 5 day diplomatic standoff between beijing and australia and Michael Smith of the Australian Financial review and build burgos from the public broadcaster a. B. C. Had sheltered in Australian Diplomatic Missions following the raids on their homes before their departure they were questions by chinese authorities about the case of an australian t. V. Anchor working for Chinese State t. V. It was feared they would be arrested as political pawns in the rapidly worsening relationship between the 2 countries smith and birtles were the last 2 representatives of australian Mainstream Media in china. And for more now we are joined by bill byrd also one of the australian journalists who left try to welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us if you could just outline for us the events that led to you leaving china. Yes sarah thank you this was a pretty unexpected situation just as i was preparing to break the story of the other of the time to stray and chung like last monday my bosses here in sydney received a call from a stray as Foreign Affairs department sighing we have good reason to think that i and other journalists in shanghai need to get out quickly and for the 1st couple of days its pretty hard to get slots cut so while rights were surveying my we were also questioning where those advances coming from you know being journalists were pretty cynical and we want some details but on wednesday night it became clear at midnight when 6 state Security Police plus a translator sound up on my doorstep the most curious thing was they werent there to tie me they were there to tell me that im involved in a National Security case and therefore im not allowed to leave the country they said you still have freedom of movement you still free to go around and do your duty or whatever your business. Said we will call you the next day and we need to chasse and this sort of. Diplomatic situation where of course i went to these train embassies so whats your advice on iran and i said we think you should stay here for your safety and you you mentioned that you were going to do some reporting on the case of 10 lay thats potentially why youve been targeted here we know that she has not been charged shes being held under what is called residential surveillance at a designated location reportedly this is an anchor who was the face of Chinese State media has English Service she is an Australian Citizen what do you think happened here. Well im not even 100 percent convinced that the situation with myself and the other journalists in shanghai at marks meath is actually related to channelize case that was the pretext for a lace questioning i actually said we need to interrogate you in relation to chung lies case which they ultimately ended up doing at the conclusion of this diplomatic standoff the deal basically was. A lace will interview me and then the Chinese Government will lift its exit ban having gone through that interview im not really convinced that police thought that i or the other journalist would have any particularly useful information it seems to me this is much more related to the broader problems in the China Australia relationship and the apps we were just pawns in a much bigger situation thats beyond our control so do you think australians are then being targeted now well certainly because the only 2 australian Media Journalists left in beijing with china are the only 2 who were targeted to be questions about this case and then when we were actually questions they were really rigorous in trying to extract dances around that case. This particular news radio channel a i do know that there are people including a stray ns in china you know who are a lot better but none of them being holding and interrogated so if anything this looked like a concerted effort to target the strain media in beijing and say that is related more to the straight shot relationship and there are now no representatives of the australian Mainstream Media an in china how problematic do you see this being considering the close economic relationship that the 2 countries half. Well the relationship is is awful to be honest between australia and china at the moment its probably the worst has been in since they resumed tas back in the 1970s. Its not going to get any better anytime soon because both saw its increasingly forming a view of each other theres no trust and i cant see a way to resolve this. So in the meantime yes there were at the australian journalists there i think that does a great disservice to a strain already and says but also to china so it doesnt do china or any 5 years to have you know less information less exchange and less understanding of whats going on there now battles journalist joining us to tell your story we thank you so much for sharing that here on to the n. A. C. Lets have a look at some more stories making news around the world. Frances Health Minister of the v. A. For ron says that the coronavirus situation in the country is worrying that says the number of new daily infections reaches record levels but the Health Minister said that a 2nd wave was quote avoidable because the virus was spreading more slowly than it did in the spring. The major wildfire tearing through Southern California is believed to have been started by a fire work more than 500 firefighters are battling the blaze that started over the weekend scorching conditions are fueling the flames temperatures reached a record 49 degrees celsius on sunday. As the oldest Film Festival in the world the venice Film Festival and for its 77th edition its the 1st to brave New Territory as a physical events in the cove of 19 era there are strict rules for social distancing spares and populated theaters and a tad less glitz and glamor than usual but the important thing is the show must go on and go on it does. The 1st weekend of the venice Film Festival usually main stars on the red carpet for talk shows and film premiere and so it is this year with strict hygiene measures in place but theyre all also positive changes over 18 films in competition from female directors not quite parachute but a new record on the sunday mr moggs italian director susannah. Crimea. The film tells the story of eleanor marx a committed socialist and feminist and the daughter of color she was one of the 1st activists to speak about the exploitation of women and the situation within families i. Call show on the week of the premiere of the world should come. By norwegian director moore no small. Sorry film is set in the 1850s on the u. S. East coast. Truffaut most wives fall in love with each other and start something they dont even have a vocabulary for instance and you have to ask the lesbian affair. Those are what the fortunate receive. In the leading role Vanessa Kirby who has 2 films in competition shes already being celebrated as the face of this years festival. In pieces of a woman by a director of cornell and so kirby plays a woman who loses her child so. This. Is the room around to where we were. No. No this does or did it was a choice my daughter interesting charming intelligent modest modest home. Now we are joined by scott roxboro who is in venice watching the movies for us hes also prepared to face the elements there so scott tell us pieces of a woman getting a lot of attention what do you think of it. You know i was blown away by this movie of a very very powerful its really a wrong a look at the trauma that can result from the loss of a child not just for the mother but in this case for for the entire family particularly with this family involved because they are unable to really discuss the issue the acting in this film is excellent across the board but i was really blown away by Vanessa Kirby playing playing the mother understanding really relevant tori performance from her and shes really my pick for the best actress award here in venice and its just one example of an increase in female perspectives that we are seeing at this particular festival so tell us a little bit more about what youve seen. Yeah there are a Record Number of female film directors presenting their movies here in venice this year and what ive been really impressed by is just the range of films of subject matter of genres it really goes the spans the entire spectrum from historical romance like the world to come all the way to modern day political thrillers like the german movie thats going to be screening here later this week and to morrow the entire world in this film we follow a young woman who joins the far Left Activist Group and usually drawn into a world of political extremism so a very very topical story but what ive been so impressed by is that the women the female directors here in venice are being restricted in any way theyre really telling exactly the stories that they want to tell and doing it in exactly the way that they want to thats the way i can see scott tell us today another very remarkable film will also make its world from there its called torn oh its been shot over the course of 3 years between syria iraq kurdistan levanon what more can you tell us about it. Yes a documentary from the italian director. Who a couple of years ago one the berlin Film Festival with another documentary fire at sea that film was about Syrian Refugees trying to escape across the mediterranean to come to europe here. Goes and follows the stories of the people who stayed home looking at people trying to survive in the war zones of the middle east and what i really love about rossi is he really goes deep and he takes his time he spends years with his subjects to really get to know them and what i think this film promises is a much deeper and more human look at the refugee crisis than we could get from from hundreds of Television News stories Scott Roxborough at the venice Film Festival with everything that we have to look forward to thank you. Well how to celebrate the 250 Year Anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven in the age of cove at 19 with a few improvisations festivities planned to celebrate germanys most famous composer went ahead the berlin state opera was a case in point. Another step towards the return of musical life in berlin state opera. Under the baton of daniel barenboim. Its great opens 250. 00 of perth to this year so no surprise that beethoven is on the program pushed out is also celebrating a birthday its own 450. 00 s. Star soloist and sophie is delighted to be back on stage you have to feel. So much that i cant wait to share this great music again that records are all well and good streaming is quite nice because sitting in peru you can be part of berlin but the live experience being the lie. That. State opera for all is an annual high knights of the berlin summer a free concert. Tickets are being stepped