Wished chano as long as london stumps up to 38000000. A very warm welcome you watching r. T. International with me making erin our top story antigovernment protests in bella bruce are continuing tonight with witnesses reporting blasts and gunshots throughout the capital videos have also surfaced online of Police Forces beating and detaining people after the government issued a crackdown on orders on the demonstration demonstrators and r. T. Correspondent was also arrested in minsk while covering the protests but has since been released and demonstrations erupted on sunday after longtime president Alexander Lukashenko claimed hed won a landslide victory in the election. It. Was a. Moon through her. Lets cross live now to our correspondent among calls a ref among good to see you could you give us the latest developments place. Absolutely wall and the moments we are just outside the bella Russian Embassy here in the russian capital well talk about whats going on here a little bit later but 1st i want to mention something about there are about russian journalists who were arrested and later released in the belarus now all that happened after Russian Foreign ministry. Talks with the russian authorities and just about less than an hour ago. Most of the russian journalists had been released now this problem to the rest of the media prompted. Their colleagues to come out here to the. To the beloRussian Embassy to ask the authorities to release the journalists and so far it has happened now the protests say here or rather people here are standing in solidarity with the opposition members in bella ruse now theyve been here for about a boat said about 6 oclock and judging from my experience i calculated about 25300 people here now all the around me for journalists is now over and these people are i hear his side with the opposition i asked a couple of them what this is all about why why are they here and this is what they told me. Through weve come to support them. The russian people because at this difficult time they are not only fighting against the seizing of power but their own police arent supporting them you know youre muscular yesterday i was watching a broadcast of what was going on in pillar roosts and i was shocked by the violence and the better Russian Police they were shooting people and beating them out i came to support the russian people. Belorussian Investigative Committee have launched a wall several. Legal inquiries into what happened there and delivers about a legal approach as unsanctioned rallies and they said at least 80 people have been detained thats according to the official authorities of course so all the latest footage that we have seen from a bell or rousseau shows that said just like on sunday a monday again saw all the thirtys use a rubber bullets stun grenades tear gas and apparently shots were fired as well now according to the belorussian the president well he says these elections were best ever it was something resembling a holiday if you will but he says any kind of interference that happened in dollars all came from. Outside of the country meanwhile the opposition all they claimed that the election was rigged and the numbers that were awarded to preselection call were inflated lets have a listen to the opposition right now. Yes. Its clear that this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers of the top of someones head the real results are exactly the opposite we support all citizens are doing because the votes have been stolen has started this campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. Its now seizing power by force and he is the one who is carrying out a coup. And you know he didnt. Here there in the studio but so the people are chanting once again long live bella ruse asking the president lukashenko to leave his post the police here sometimes asking the people to disperse because theyre in the way of regular pedestrians who are not taking part in this rally meanwhile were following the developments in minsk very closely as the heard latest internal army is used as Law Enforcement to disperse the crowds of course any further developments will bring in 2 years and as we can. Thank you ramon we appreciate that both parties that were among. The last of spoke to a girl who claimed she and her boyfriend were detained in the streets by police for seemingly just taking a walk satisfaction for me and my boyfriend who were out for a walk and we saw several special police unit buses and men cross the road in front of them and they suddenly stopped until him to lay on the ground then they noticed us and said you 2 we were confused there were no other people around no crowds just me my boyfriend and this man we complied got on the crown and they put us in the buses as a girl i was placed alone but the guys were 1st but up and then put in a bus with 4 other people along the way we picked up more people and then they took us hit another girl that they put in with me had all of her things taken she was searched and had to strip naked after that we were put in a cell with 17 other girls the room had only 4 beds there was spend the night with the lights on. The crossing live now to Gregory Copley edison of defense and Foreign Affairs thank you for joining us on the Program Relations between minsk and moscow that just all in what they were how is this going to affect them now. Well i think the problems for president bush in cairo are only going to get worse the the genie is out of the bottle as far as the concept of public protests are concerned in minsk and. Throughout all of us so i think that president bush in go may not even see his full term and theres. Declining credibility for him at home. The people in bell roofs are seeing the examples of protests around the world theyre certainly taking heart from this and i think theyre going to give the valorous security authorities a great deal of concern and i dont believe that this is the kind of unrest which can be easily suppressed unless the president. Is prepared to take really significant steps towards changing the situation. The president is saying there is claim theres been a lection meddling from abroad do you think his concerns are justified. Well i think theres always the concern of election meddling from abroad in their elections almost in any country however the middling in the elections at home is quite evident theres no question that there have been. A use of the party of the incumbent to an excessive degree in bellerose. Now its also clear that there are a lot of people in any country who really do not like change so certainly the incumbent will get a lot of votes i dont believe that its credible that he received 80 percent of the vote so. The election meddling in that respect was. Clearly not in favor of the opposition it was in favor of the present look at shaker himself. The opposition meanwhile says its ready for the long haul but these protests when you see the situation going to think they will and deal. It seems this time the protests have some legs to them that they have some jura realty. Thats not to say that. Could not achieve a total crackdown if he wished but at what cost so the question will then become if the protests continue as to whether the Security Services would go along with the president in this or whether they would try to seek some kind of accommodation which would enable the country to transition to a new leadership prism look at sugar has been very inflexible in this and. He hasnt changed with the time so he is going to come up against a hard war i think of protesters and International Isolation which will be something even greater than that he said to bear in the past. Thanks for talking to us gregory accompli editor of defense and Foreign Affairs. Lebanons anti cabinet including the Prime Minister has resigned following last weeks devastating explosion in beirut mass protests have been held every day since people have been demanding accountability for the 150. 00 plus deaths and utter destruction caused by the blast our correspondent paula slayer reports from the area. Situation here is becoming more and more unruly behind you you see the Lebanese Police theyve managed to push protesters all the way back from the Parliament Building were now in one of the side streets but there is tear gas and were going to move forward a little bit because rocks are being thrown in our direction by the protesters now the protesters are still out on the streets despite the fact that earlier the lebanese Prime Minister resigned he resigned along with his cabinet but what the protesters here are telling me is that theyre not going to stop taking to the streets until the whole parliament itself designed so its possible that scenes like this will continue weve witnessed people being wounded again weve witnessed ambulances ferrying them to and from the scene so a lot of the same scenes unfolding as weve witnessed over the past 2 days this is violence that started on saturday night more than 700 people have been injured one policeman so far has been killed i know were getting tear gas ok at our break for a moment while i put on my mask and well show you what the last few days of violence have looked like. The time. That. Was. Now people here are calling this a revolution ive been talking to protesters and they say that this revolution is not going to be over as i mentioned until the parliament itself resigns beirut really hasnt witnessed scenes like this in many many years weve had lots of tear gas on the streets there but the camera man was injured at the same time the police are being accused of using Excessive Force and they have admitted to using both tear gas. And live but thats we going to move forward again because the 2 deaths are coming in this direction and to some even towards us but as i say the situation in baby to a lot of and a lot of frustration not only about the explosion at the port but also the whole mismanagement of the government and its failure to take accountability and responsibility. For life now to International Affairs commentator Donovan Steele thanks for joining us on the program so the entire cabinet ever has resigned does that come as a surprise to hear. Naturally this is the main demand of the just as they also want new elections and they want all of them to be ok to just well this is actually the 2nd government had to resign much of chad months. Harry reid government to resign well job last year and then hariri remainders the tragedy is that was achieved once so it may well be that house and you know remains in power is a church a Prime Minister for another 2 so youre 4 months so the protesters will not be happy with that so will this lead to any political changes at all well its difficult i mean youre going to mischaracterize why they are judged politics people vote according to their religion. Theres a going to have forces rich can be tracked people who say you know. Certainly one christian in same party you voted for one party or not theyre going to theyre against you and you will be take a long time to administer some kind of issue based politics roseline judged. Then you could get real debates of the policy options and youve got a much fairer system. These process people took the streets off to this said devastating blast no they get there theyve been calling for the government step down now they have do you think that this will satisfy the protesters will they will the protests stop or do they want more is this a bigger issue here. You know isnt there one more there when we certainly want an International Investigation of what went wrong at the moment she was president of mission iron said it would be the domestic lebanese investigation because its a violation of sovereignty and an insult. Foreigners running the investigation just as dont trust the government whether its a solution or christian government they want they want to depend and people who have some kind of reputation of credibility and continuity so thats one thing one second saying as i said here was that i think that people want a new parliamentary elections the new kind of its will emerge wont the same old problem where was the past 30 years in getting your session you the. Foreign government offering but also putting pressure on lebanon is that pressure likely to make any difference in the coming days well i think thats another big problem because the kind of reforms that necessary which he is pushing for. Getting out of contention that a lot money and its agreed would be very tough to strengthen economically its a lot of the people would come in surgeons for each of the women because that would cut Government Spending on jobs many of the jobs that people have on government jobs and if you cut them them on the street on employed service will be a holiday and youre not near liberal kind of. Promise and the americans are pushing and pushing is and it could cause a lot of economic hardships and its hard to see really limited to relaunch of the end of china lives an economic time as opposed to the political 2. 1000 still International Affairs commentator thank you for your time. They explode in beirut has changed many lives in the city forever for one family is only added to their heartache they were in hospital dealing with their daughters callous when the blast struck and the father was killed forgive me if i did anything for me to carry or if i hurt you forgive me i love you i know of you i love you i love you for 2 hours i used to tell him i loved you oh you know you are you know i love 6 you i love you these summer months of always being synonymous with joy and celebration for us to his family the birthdays of the children and husband the anniversary of their wedding all of which falls during the sunny season but this year trouble started to loom on the horizon early when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer they called me in the morning they confirmed that its classical heart i knew that it was informed by that time gemmas immune system had been shot to pieces but Hodgkin Lymphoma is not a sentence for children its curable and doctors have been reassuring sue her husband jihad was called by the news abroad in nigeria but couldnt stay away in a crisis like this so several dozen covert tests later he came to lebanon to be with his family we slept in the hospital the same bed the same everything me her and her gemmas hospital room was where the port explosion called the 3 of them the windows of the buildings in front of me crashing and then one by the like this. Like this i didnt see if fair i didnt see my daughter either then and anything but i wanted to pull his head like this i felt that all smashed all all smug i was not sure that he was alive i saw his soul living his body i saw it. And i wanted to move on to another hospital jihad died right before his daughters eyes and only 6 gemma faces 2 battles most adults would struggle to win cancer and coping with her fathers death she drew for me and around. A circle. She said she color that was red i knew its her there. And it was full of blood. Sue his heart breaks when she blames herself for letting her daughter witness all that and letting down her son by promising that his father would be at his birthday which is this week i promised my son that are me and his theyre going to be on his birthday and i broke this promise and everyone sing with happy birthday for my son its his birthday on the 30th of august. So. My love. I ask sue her if she wants to take a break from the interview she refuses adamantly theres just so much she feels she didnt tell her husband enough suhas biggest concern now is her daughter processing their loss gemma seems to be protecting her mother by not sharing her feelings. She told them he was listening he heard her and i prefer can i not im not not able to give details because they are killing me from inside me so can you imagine. Her says. Can you imagine the images in her brave passing whenever she closes her eyes so you are find redemption and believe in family pictures now as she relives the fondest of memories this is how we used to sleep playing our head on each other because you know whenever i put my head on his saw that have i feel secured even when hes around i dont gossip or markets i dont do anything for the house he picks care of Everything Everything heres a take a lot of lords from my shoulder. This is the last photo of their family together she shows it to me as im sitting on the very couch where it was taken this story has been gaining traction across me jean the arabic world and we were the 1st she so kindly let in as she struggles to deal with the pain of the loss in the home she herself can face yet how am i able to come back to this house through. Her. Oh my supposed to put money on this you know in this little room and dont know this for over is about a 1. 000 thing for him just to put to hard for me to put his arms to feel secure. What im going to. Give him the 3rd when they smell his clothes theres some mean for not removing his clothes from the house im not going to remove them but sooner realizes that her life is not over she tells me its whole lifes mission now to limit the shortage of cancer medicine for lebanese children even with her mask on i can see her smiling when she talks about her children those she ordered them frozen as our. Unicorn because she learned about this one is very special i told her you see this is my hair because when youre going to take this medication your hair is going to fall down youre going to lose your hair so what i can do or this is my hair im going to give it to you so you would wear to cater on im going to make her happy i would do whatever she wants the bill smiling her and her brother it is done of reporting from lebanon r. T. First 1000000 pound splash the price france is reportedly demanding to up its efforts to stop migrants trying to reach the u. K. The news has not gone down well in downing street which is said to be drawing up plans to deploy the navy to help ski reports from paris. Well the clash over migrants between the u. K. And france seems to be escalating and that comes as there has been in recent arrivals from france to the u. K. Which is put the 2 countries holds the number of illeg