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Last sunday's ryan air flight 4978 started out as just another trip from athens, greece, to lithuania and but it was a pawn in an international incident after a security alert caused it to land in belarus. once on the ground it was boarded by those who arrested roman protosevich and the thorn in the side of belarus president l lukashenko and it was widely and strongly condemned by western nations. let me bring in hannah luibok
I was happy to talk with you about this tonight. >> thank you very much. just within the last hour i will tell you that president biden has put out a statement on what happened with the belarus -- with the belorussian opposition journalist being arrested after that plane was forced down. president biden calls it a direct affront to international norm says the united states condemns it in the strongest possible terms calling it an outrageous incident. he says he's asked his team to develop appropriate options to hold accountable those responsible in close coordination with the eu and other al...
White house says blinken will affirm our, quote, ironclad commitment to israel's security. he'll also take part in efforts to get humanitarian aid to gaza in a way that, quote, benefits the people there and not hamas. blinken will not be meeting with hamas leaders since the u.s. labels the group a terrorist organization. this trip comes five days into a ceasefire between israel and hamas after an 11-day conflict where more than 250 people were killed. meanwhile the journalist whose flight was essentially hijacked mid air at the demand of the president of belarus has been seen for the first t...
Talk to you. thanks for being here, a video of what seems to be forced confession that's emerged of roman protosevich. how much danger is the young man in? >> maybe very serious. regime was known as mild dictatorship, wasn't much protest, wasn't much violence. last year explosion of violence and protests, people tortured in prison there. ten days ago another young disadent died. it's issued threats to people who live abroad, accused them of terrorism and extremism even though they're out of the country and he's right to be
Lithuania, where this was supposed to go and just as it was about to leave, the air space had to take a sharp right turn and land in minsk because the regime sent a jet fighter to intercept the plane and forced it to land. roman protosevich was immediately arrested on arrival. there are those who fear he could be tortured in jail. he could face the death penalty if bad comes to worse. the belarusians for their part did everything according to national rules, the u.s. not buying that at all. secretary blinken strongly conthem dems the forced diversion, subsequent removal and arrest of journalis...