Awful becomes the 1st ever u. S. Company to be worth 2 trillion dollars we look at the soaring wealth of the tech giant since the start of world war i the Big Companies especially the tech giants and the rich the new leg that needs to be under public scrutiny and to perform at a higher level and providing innovation rather than be monopolistic in there. Just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow and its the weekend saturday august the 22nd welcome to our to international. Rallies kuntar protests swept bella ruse for a 13 d day in the wake of this months disputed election throughout friday large crowds gathered in support of president who in the countrys west. Was among them. Its really really loud here what is playing behind me right now is the National Anthem of the republic of the us a little bit of context right so whats the name of the country in the city of rest a lot during the time the 2nd full. The great well see what your guess is as good as mine here when it comes to scale but i would say theres about there stephanie thousands of people maybe close to 10000 basically people who have to look to a number of them and their message is some of them one dont want to but none of them want to listen ukrainians and to be played out in their public also a lot of people are making a huge point about the flag you can see how many better russian flags official by the russian flags are behind and just around me essentially they have been saying that white red and white flags the colors chosen by the opposition they resemble. The shoes by the sea collaborates historic the 2nd world war they have a huge problem with that because a lot of people in. History those are huge and there was Huge Movement here to get. Your will. They take it seriously so even those who may have support your position. Was what was the century the flag the colors of the law. Was what. Broke the camels back. I came here because i want to give belarus the way to i dont want unrest im a mother i have a small child i want him to grow up you know peaceful and beautiful but nobody forced us to come here everyone has their own opinion and we should not prevent each other from expressing our views. Im from belarus for peaceful use im 60 years old ive been working as a drive all my. I have a life and ive traveled to europe i have not seen the best the country been ballerinas and i was outraged that your position provoked our Security Forces to violence i saw it myself im for peace in our country and we just need to Start Talking to each other. So this is the man they are supposed to do you know you government is not only an example. And they have come here. Just from here not just to the city they will come from neighboring cities as well this is now this sort of an open limit open mike going on around him anyone from the ground can get in the spotlight can be in the center stage and speak their mind meanwhile this was the scene outside minsk people standing alongside a highway into the capital carrying red and white flies used by opponents of the question that line started on its side a Detention Center where demonstrators arrested during the early days of the unrest were held but elsewhere in the city there was a very different picture arties cults and pretty pileo. Took a ride with the belorussian motorists getting behind the press. Off the as you can see im now in a car its a convertible this convoy in support of the government has just set off people are driving their cars around the capital waving these official red green belorussian flags to be honest i didnt have an opportunity to count all the cars but i can tell you its a huge line. I couldnt find the organizers of this event i thought it would be great to get an interview but i went up to several people asking if they could tell me which car the organizers were in and they told me that there are not. Somebody just created the chat and more and more people joined it wanting to participate so the guys are telling me thats whats great about this event is that people have done everything themselves they bought the flags themselves can you see this flag thats actually not a flag pole its a spade handle. So as you can see many cars waving red and green flags this is how minsk looks right now another thing thats interesting about this convoy is that opposition was planning a completely opposite of vent they wanted to block the roads of the city. But as you can see they didnt succeed but i dont think many people would be disappointed about this you can imagine the anger of ordinary people if the roads were completely blocked. Position leader has given her 1st Media Conference since fleeing to lift that law to. Use the opportunity to tell Foreign Countries to respect the sovereignty of belo groups earlier she addressed her fellow citizens in a new video message urging them to keep up the pressure on president lukashenko with more workplace strikes because of us thought get up so you can join entirely legal and powerful weapon against the regime and they know it thats why they intimidate you leave the fear mongering to the dictatorship remember you are not alone im asking you to keep on strike who will make the college hear our voices the voices he has stolen from us the spite those calls for industrial action most employees are going about their business as normal over the last few days there have been no protests that fuck trees most enterprises are fully functioning thats in contrast to earlier scenes that we saw we spoke to some workers. Yes just get them out its us you know i view it negatively a couple of people from my team went to the strike stayed there for 10 minutes and came back. They were not interested in what was happening that they didnt like it but i will let you. Go by dealing with those who support should have shown that they are the majority by taking to the streets it would have been a different picture now if only they had shown up at the antigovernment protests we should have started rolling earlier in support of the current president almost 2nd question you dont see basically everyone has a negative view of the strikes because this is a key enter price and the well being of the entire city depends on its stable operation there for such actions of the plan itself our next up to. A last go based political scientist Artur Gen Chuck told us how he thinks looking shanker will seek to end the crisis. In such case its battle to im dissipate future demands of the opposition that dissipate crisis and to try to. Set up some instruments for dialogue maybe like public dialogue roundtable discussion about the future of develop Better Research biology cannot development about social and Political Development and somehow to incorporate. Moderate opposition into political process try to maybe not sharing power but drive to allow them to participate in Decision Making at the local level of regional level that maybe at the National Level so that they can express the ideas and interests of those who are intending to make sure their present well he doesnt want to maybe do our direct negotiations with the council because they are self appointed people so all the legally they do not represent the present population so its not clear who they are representing in this and this court in a Good NutritionCouncil Bought i think that he is a very large container agreed to have dialogue with labor unions with local local leaders legacy to me. Local officials. To headline stories russian doctors have given the all clear for alexina bali to travel to germany for emergency treatment the opposition figurehead is in a coma and medics have ruled out poisoning f. The cause of his illness reporting in the 3 f. A national. The doctor is in charge of treating alex st of ali in russias siberian city of almost now agreed to allow his tourist protege sion to a clinic in germany this is something his family has been repeatedly calling for with his wife julie or even appealing to president why them are putting the medics say that the vine is still very weak and hes not stable they smallman hes not Strong Enough for travelling but they say theyre ready to allow these trust potations at the german doctors and the families risk. We are not in favor of him being taken anywhere from this hospital but considering the requests of his family we will help organize the transportation earlier the russian doctors after discussing the vollies house with their german colleagues who came to all my earlier on friday said that air transportation could be specifically dangerous for aleksey because this is what caused his condition in the 1st place just to remind you of the scene of violent felt very ill while on the plane on his way back to. He felt ill no one could understand the reason it was very very sudden. And almost immediately after that a video emerged in the internet where we could hear alex cena violently crying and shouting and in distress and in pain. But. Earlier we also heard from the russian doctor is that tough to testing alexander violations blah than urine samples absolute no traces of any talk 6 substance have been found this is the conclusion they came to the room with the team of doctors concluded that since we did not find any toxic materials in his blood he had suffered immense about disruption with a reduced glucose levels during the drop in pressure while the plane was taking off. Well alex cena vile is known as a prominent opposition figure here in russia and of course. The situation with his health attracted a lot of International Attention in the veneer if you demo bones mist in the valley we of course extremely preoccupied and saddened by the situation of alexina valmy we heard this morning what happened to him and i want to see here that we give all our support his family his loved ones for a prompt recovery and we send by their side hopeful intervention or through to us i hope and wish of course that he will recover as quickly as possible we will of course offer him all the medical help he needs and he can turn to german hospital. And invite you to be reporting to me despite what the russian doctors say about toxic materials we still here are saying that violence supporters talking about poison and we have to remind you that this is not for the 1st time just last year there was a very similar situation when alex saying the violence suddenly felt ill and there were very quick to say that he was poisoned but it turned out later that it was just an allergic reaction maria for National Well as soon as the news of the volleys in this broke western media rushed to speculate on possible kremlin involvement several cases were cited when the russian government was accused of poisoning people but they go a list dimitri believes the poisoning rumors do not stand up to scrutiny. Of course he has support this will not be convinced they will believe that this is a poisoning. I am at a loss who could be interested in such a poison and it became a kind of duty its a cliche for the west on media and the western News Agencies to blame rashi mediately after something happens basically there are many questions on it and the western media is not seeking answers to these questions instead is just so much easier to blame russia putin personally i want to speculate if it could be don that by russian government agents with all of which inseparable with. Is just safe to make it has a chance against russia because its much more dangerous to really investigate and to see probably the role of all the exodus borth in the story all. The story all the whole. Lebanon is facing a threat of the deadly blast earlier this month the strong brain silo storing most of the countries we supply badly damaged beirut poor twitch received 85 percent of the countrys food imports but locals are doing their best to help those in need. Basically. This initiative. That weve decided to that we have to do something since and the government doesnt care and doesnt do the government job of. Room. That poor packaging full of boxes where you see plenty of donations found people in the country and also from people abroad everything that this consulate thats what the family you know i. Saw she had never seen worse times never been live to move would have never gone hungry even during the war we had shelter there was food every way we had bread and meat vegetables but now god save us still even had a. Little. It really is a genuine place people who work because they want to its not because they have a political agenda or someone is paying us to do this work we just do it because we have this little humanity and knows. That. Apple has seen its share price skyrocket since the start of world wide locked on we look into the rubble for cations up by financial and social power to go after the break. This is. Why theres. A residential gas explosion has killed at least one person in a russian apartment block and its feared the figure could rise with 28. 00 people on the counted 4 including one child the blast occurred on friday evening in the city of located around 250 kilometers to the northeast of moscow it caused 3 floors to collapse in one section of the apartment block destroying several residents have been evacuated from the building search and rescue teams with sniffer dogs are on the scene looking for people who may be trapped under the debris a criminal probe has been launched into potential violations of safety. Its a lucrative time to be a shareholder in up all the tech giant this week became the 1st ever u. S. Company to be worth 2 trillion dollars its value puts it on a par with Major Economies surpass the g. D. P. Of brazil canada russia korea its market capitalization has doubled over the past 2 years and most about growth since the start of the pandemic experts know estimate that if apple were in a cult to me it would be classified as the 9th richest in the world and edward hall and jeffrey took their share their views only 2 trillion dollars valuation with me earlier. Does it seem as if something felt quite right when millions are losing their jobs or close to it on a tiny number getting insanely rich. That is exactly right and i have to correct language you say because of the pandemic its because of the lockdowns all across the world and especially in the us governments have been bankrupting small and be medium size businesses and forced closures and stay home orders and closing schools closing borders stopping travel its been an outrage and of course who benefits its the Big Companies especially the tech giants and the rich meanwhile in this country the the poor and the middle class are suffering and medium Small Businesses are going under because of the lockdowns not because of the pandemic obviously theres an end plenty of encouragement for Companies Like apple which have received public funding. From their very get go and we really need to see far more diversity at the grassroots of the economy to to channel that kind of innovation and it seems that. Large Companies Like apple once they reach a threshold like this they need a lot of public scrutiny to keep up with that kind of responsibility of being so Large Company a leg that needs to be under public scrutiny and to perform at a higher level and providing innovation rather than the monopolistic in their aims last month aapl along with Google Facebook amazon were questioned in the u. S. Congress and were told they have quote too much power under a danger to the American Economy have they become too powerful i dont want to blame apple and google and amazon so much as oh i just think the rules should be applied fairly and evenly to everyone so everyone has a chance to get to get big and wealthy and serve the Community Consumer to excellence i think thats most important thing and theres a thats the essence of what we mean by Free Enterprise its supposed to be equal rules for everyone and that is not the situation today people making the point that Google Facebook for instance have more influence than than most governments but is there anything wrong with that why should governments have a monopoly on power. Thats such a fascinating question as governments become centralized in any fashion there is opportunities for collusion with with businesses that are succeeding at a certain level thats when we start having this stratified rule set the rule of law starts to break down in any country and once company can overtake him and work with the politician is supposed to be protecting the public then you can get some you know problematic behavior thats unaccountable and then the rule of law breaks now. A court in germany how sentenced the woman to 21 months in prison on terrorism charges the 30 year old dual citizen of syria in germany was falling guilty of sending several young women to syria to become brides of Islamic State fighters the prosecutor was asking for 3 and a half years in prison however the court to tell the defendant had spent in a turkish Deportation Center noted the alleged short time she had been a member of the particle less than one year additionally the sentence took into account the defendants 4 Young Children. When someone distances themselves from terrorism as she did then you have to give them a chance this could set a precedent for other trials for other people who wish to reintegrate themselves in our society that the state gives them this chance so. Were not convinced by how display a radical change in how ideology we believe this is tactically thats why we are skeptical. Journalist adel darwish told the program earlier that case as a former as law makes state members successfully reintegrating into society are rare. We have big problems because the. Defense has been. Errant defenses xperience money. Only with your mind where it is. Thats not enough evidence or as the defense. Pleading germany is that the. More was convinced that i havent actually come across many of them who have entered into society in fact on the commissary ev