To slow down the spread. Berish was threatened by an ecological disaster emergency teams try to pump hundreds of thousands of tons of oil and for granted before it breaks into a pollutes even more of the company. Called the corona virus we need to start now it was abandoned movie sets for a cattle ranch because theres no work in the dream that. Im for gail welcome to the program the opposition candidate in better reduces president ial election has left the country to kind of sky is now in neighboring lithuania where shes joined her children should sent them bad before the vote and before she accused president Alexander Lukashenko of rigging the election result germany has called on the European Union to can. Imposing sanctions against better us u. S. Secretary of state mike palm post said the votes have been neither free nor fair but russian president Vladimir Putin has congratulated president lukashenko on his win svetlana had to kind of sky had given no hint that she was about to leave the country. Proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election. By monday she was gone her whereabouts are known her team unable to reach her. Now spent lot of taken off scalia has reappeared with a somber message online. To say the companion. I knew what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me that i could withstand anything. New but perhaps im still the weak woman that i was in the beginning as a nation i couldnt believe that youre in the opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania as confirmed by the countrys foreign minister taken off scales says she was not forced out of her country and the belarussians government also insisted that she left on her own accord. I made a very difficult decision for myself and ive made it absolutely independently the its in the ne in the game in europe a moot many will understand me many will denounce me and many will hate me. God forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced because of those. Who prepared the pot she came off to she refused to concede defeat in sundays vote Election Officials said authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko won his 6th term in office with a landslide 80 percent of the verdict took another scale one only 10 percent but has dismissed the results before fleeing she submitted a formal demand for a recount. Thousands of belarusians have also rejected the results taking to the streets for a 2nd night of protests demonstrators in minsk were met by Security Forces who deployed stun grenades rubber bullets and tear gas injuring dozens of foreign officials have also expressed doubt about the election outcome. More deeply concerned by the bellary president ial election severe restrictions on Ballot Access for candidates prohibition of local independent observers at polling stations intimidation of opposition candidates in the detention of Peaceful Protesters and journalists have marred the process german officials have called for the European Union to discuss 3 imposing sanctions on the elevators but for now with the backing of russia and china president lukashenko remains defiant. Well they did we spoke with bella russo journalist an analyst a front view truck and asked him whether the opposition had effectively been defeated now that its leader had fled the country she used to be the symbol of this resistance and. She was waiting at the streets yesterday today and tomorrow and now when she flat. People lost their symbol the protests became totally leaderless which creates the care and not many people will understand those people who wear targeted with guns yesterday and they definitely will criticize for us and that that is the main goal of the situation the main goal of k. G. B. To divide to create the conflict between all those on the streets with resistance within the country and the leadership represented by to hamas can. But lucent journalist of chalk for germany has told the United States to mind its own business over its nord stream to gas pipeline from russia the german and Russian Foreign ministers declared the decision to be theirs alone as u. S. Secretary of state might pump a 0 began a European Tour in which the pipeline is likely to be a source of friction now one line is already running under the baltic sea now a new one north stream too is nearing completion the u. S. Contends that the new pipeline will make germany too dependent on russian gas north stream 2 its been a major bone of contention between burner and washington last week u. S. Senators threaten to impose sanctions against a german port where essential Building Materials for the project are being stored. This ferry from the Danish Island of bornholm could soon be stalled by u. S. Sanctions the ship is destined for muck around port and therefore has business ties with the Port Authority port on the island of ruben is of pivotal importance in the construction of the nord stream to pipeline 2 special russian ships are docked here once they have been equipped they are supposed to lead the final 160 kilometers of pipeline but if u. S. Senators have their way the harbor management all Business Associates and even local authorities would be affected by the sanctions gas market expert heiko loman feels this signals that the americans are again taking drastic measures against the project. You know im going to want for anything all the see and like and the new sanctions especially show that the american side is looking at this very closely and is willing to impose an obstacle with every move of the project enterprise or the russian side and i believe the sanctions have the potential to at least postpone the project for a very long time it was the only site so if its. Neighboring poland also wants to hinder north stream to get runs its own l. N. G. Terminal on its baltic coast and plans to receive liquefied natural gas from qatar or norway. Warsaw fears that russia will further expand its power with north stream to ultimately use it as a political weapon and economic leverage against the e. U. The us and poland together are pressuring germany to halt the project. That poland and the baltic countries are fundamentally opposed to the north stream to project as it endangers Energy Security in Central Europe we hope that the u. S. Sanctions will halt the project and that germany will return to European Energy solidarity nord stream to damages European Energy solidarity notion that. The new sanctions could have severe economic consequences for more crown port for example if International Insurers refuse to insure incoming ships. Well the russian and german Foreign Ministers are meeting today d. W. Correspondent emily show in moscow has been following developments welcome emily well the German Foreign minister heiko massey didnt seem to be in any mood to compromise today he said its a sovereign right to decide where we get our energy from no country has a right to interfere in this what do you make of that statement. Well the threat of a u. S. Sanctions was certainly kind of hanging over this meeting today between Sergey Lavrov and moscow and neither of the politicians seemed willing to mince their words about that threat and they both were kind of defiant heiko mosse in the press conference after the meeting wondered out loud whether these new sanctions would even potentially potentially break International Law and set a gay lover off was even more defiant he praised germanys principled position on north stream as he said and he also wonders whether perhaps the European Partners should consider whether they really want the u. S. To be determining their Security Policy as he said he also accused the u. S. And weve heard the threat from him several times in the past of passive essentially just defending their own National Interests on the International Stage again and again so even though both politicians and germany and russia in general have differing political issues differing political views on many issues on north stream too they certainly presented a united front today so weve seen that the u. S. Threatening sanctions against germany if north stream to goes ahead all of the fears about european dependency on russia not to gas justified. Well the e. U. Is already pretty dependent on russian gas even now so in a way thats nothing new and the main political worry i think with north stream 2 was that it could mean that the ukraine that ukraine would be cut off from gas because this new pipeline essentially circumvents the country and as you know there have been huge tensions between ukraine and russia in the past and it would be nothing new for russia to use kind of gas as leverage and as a Political Tool in the region so in that sense those fears are justified there is however a new deal that gazprom made last year that could solve that problem or that seems to solve that problem at least for the next 5 years they agreed to ship a significant amount of gas through through ukraine for the next 5 years sort of solving that problem that was something that germany also insisted on but the russians of course meanwhile are saying that the u. S. Is essentially not concerned about security at all and that theyre really just defending their own commercial interests and that actually they want to sell us shale gas from fracking to the e. U. And to germany so theyre trying to kind of wipe out a competitor by stalling the north stream to project really sure when in moscow thank you. Well take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now well start in russia which has declared itself the 1st country to register a vaccine against corona virus president putin made the announcement saying that one of his daughters had already received an injection the russian vaccine was approved after a less than 2 months of human trials raising concerns about its safety. Egypt has opened a Border Crossing with gaza for 72 hours allowing people to leave the densely populated palestinian territory for the 1st time since the start of the covered 90 pound demi the rafa crossing was closed in march as authorities try to avert a major virus outbreak. Cubas reimposed its a coronavirus lockdown after registering of a Record Number of new cases nearly 100 infections were recorded on monday with a couple of vanna and a neighboring province that worst hit or 47 suspended public transport in order people to wear masks. Meanwhile the number of confirmed covered 19 cases around the world has surpassed 20000000. 00 more than half of those around the United States india and Brazil Health officials believe a number of people infected its likely to be much higher as many countries especially in the developing world have only limited Testing Facilities and Scientists Say the only 40 percent of infected people show no symptoms lets get more on this from John Campbell hes a Health Analyst nurse and educator from carlisle in england welcome to day w 20000000 cases worldwide a number that has doubled in just 6 weeks so is the rates of infection around the world increasing. Well theres increasing number of people becoming infected yes and theres more people who are infected theyre going to pass the virus on to more people so we do get this exponential growth where the acceleration in the number of cases is actually accelerating the greater the number the faster the rate of growth and i think thats what were starting to seeing quite a few places now weve seen this for some time in the United States and as you rightly say brazil and india and russia and south africa are unfortunately not far behind as well so increasing cases in all of these areas now there has been some leveling off thats been made a lot of its been theres been a lot of publicity about the amount of leveling off in new cases in the United States for example but this is the lead this is a leveling off in the number of new cases that are increasing so the actual cases the still a lot of cases them but the rate of increase is not quite as high as it was but globally we are seeing many cases and as you rightly said i feel that this is this is really only the tip of the iceberg the real number of cases that are going to be perhaps 10 times higher than this we know this from syria logical studies in the u. K. The office for National Statistics goes out and takes a representative sample of people and theyve estimated about 2. 8 to 3000000 people in the u. K. Have actually had coffee at 19 infection right and thats way higher than the official in a very effectively whereas in the United States theres probably a degree of denial about how serious this virus was and how transmissible it was and what sort of burden of morbidity and mortality could carry india and brazil are probably slightly different in india and brazil although the one different continent you do have quite a lot of common problems then you have relatively Poor Health Care infrastructure you have a lot of poor People Living in fairly close environments perhaps several people or even a Family Living in one room you also have quite a lot of Multigenerational Families as well so theres a lot of close contact Truck Initiative and. Another allows that we can number of cases to increase quite rapidly in those countries but i just want to get your reaction to todays news that russia claims to have approved a corona virus vaccine at how reassure should be baby that news briefly through mine. Yes i think the answer is not very reassuring i mean the u. K. In europe and the United States is being absolutely flat out on these fancy developments since since the coronavirus pandemic became an issue and we are still have only a few sample vaccines at what we call phase 3 Clinical Trials i think theres 4 vaccines now of phase 3 Clinical Trials and this means or are we a large number of people with the vaccine a large number of people with the placebo and then we see how that happens now the simply has not been enough weeks and months of passed to do such a study in right so youre sure it just you just havent been the time is perhaps being rushed in russia. Character well youre under that with any question about this is the sort of the level of reassurance and validity and safety testing and efficacy testing that we were expecting western countries for a new drug or new vaccine to come on line they simply has not been the time to do that good talking to you thats very clear thank you so much John CampbellHealth Analyst and educator. This is live from berlin still to come what is it james bonds done mad do when the coronavirus shuts down the movie business check out what alternative line of work. First so we go to militias where authorities are trying to pump more than 2000 tonnes of oil out of a grounded japanese ship before it breaks up or the 1000 tons of fuel of already washed up on the eastern coast polluting the pristine coastline or. Even larger ecological disaster its a race against time thousands of residents of my riches are working around the clock their mission to prevent a 2nd disasters oil spill off the picture perfect coastline devastating for one of the worlds most popular tourist destinations its very sad for us all work the fisherman the boat men theres no work at the moment its finished for us now. The japanese own vessel kushal ran aground 2 weeks ago carrying 4000 tons of fuel which started leaking last week the government has declared an environmental emergency conservationist call it an unprecedented catastrophe these satellite images show the enormous scale of the disaster huge stretches of pristine sea water around the ship now stained with thick oil sludge call reefs mangrove forest and tranquil legumes all affected along with many endangered species efforts are ongoing to empty the ship but high winds and waves are pounding the vessel experts say it could break up any time the opposition is calling for the resignation of the environment minister and many here are angry that it is taking the government so long to act. The government was acting on the advice of the company on their experts without taking the best interest of the people are just and the best interests of of what should be done to protect our country our from a potential it was a potential that china and negligence by government the spill is a not a blue to the Tourism Industry militias which is hope this it is would return to the waters after the corona pandemic. Lets take a closer look at the cash to tyler who is director of conservation at the mirage and Wildlife Foundation and joins us from port to do is so gracious welcome to day w. So you are island thats thats home to world renowned coral reefs what impact is the oil spill likely to have on the ecosystem well this is a major trust which is unprecedented in marriages and the impacts on the on the mayberg b. Which is in the south east of the island and all the islands that are found in this be there are no less than 5 or 6 and also the the impact on the 2 rums all sides one which is called the blue women are in part in the other called the when this me the wetlands is is the likely to be long lasting and quite deep you say this is a catastrophe explain to us what damage is being done by this oil. So full of the 400. 00 tons of oil has already spread across a wide area of the south. East of merchants this is an area which has good fisheries was coming back after the ban on sand mining. And now theres always always because we stayed in this leg wound for nearly 4 weeks now nearly a week and it is fractionated and its the various petroleum nasties now the posted on the coral reefs so we are going to look at coral reef destruction damage and fisheries will certainly decline or will become. Toxic intoxicated right now we have the island call it the great which weve been restoring ourselves to where we are quite afraid that we are going to lose vegetation and lose critically endangered birds and reptiles and this great is an area which is world renowned and is a textbook example of island restoration use around the world and was you know that we pride ourselves in this being an area where were going back 400 years in time before the arrival of men to the richest. And we see other side of the greed we thank you for outlining that so clearly thank you for joining us time from the mission Wildlife Foundation. Now for some more of the days news from around the world well start in lebanon which is marked a week since a massive explosion tore through its capital beirut over 170 people were killed and 6000 injured when a warehouse full of Ammonium Nitrate blew up at the citys port Prime Minister has been his government resigned on monday blaming endemic corruption for the failure to move the dangerous material. Long lines of people have bought up copies of hong kongs apple daily newspaper the show of support comes a day after the papers offices were raided achatz prodemocracy owner arrested under a controversial new security loyd posed by china in june. The world wide Film Industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic social distancing means that not only means that cinemas cant function and movies can be made there especially those including fight scenes or love scenes so many hollywood movie studios are shut down altogether leaving more than 100000 people out of work. This is the closest you get seen has been to action in a while tending the cattle on his ranch north of Los Angeles Gibson has been a stunt man in hollywood for 35 years but coronavirus means there is barely any filming anymore so great is the risk of onset infections bringing expensive productions to a halt. And i havent been on a movie so i dont know 56 months now its been terrible all my friends are nobodys working so were very lucky to have this ranch and have a little nice side income going on gibson has recently started giving rudy lessons bring him back and also rent some stables but his future as a stunt man is uncertain hygene rules are currently being developed including a 2 week quarantine before filming begins but. Ibsen is skeptical. Yeah as a stunt man fights are my bread and butter. Firework mostly fights or or plain. Ice specialize and save a few lines being a bad guy getting shot or being a cop or whatever but yeah its you know its all intimate and things are going to change. James pointed self has been slaughtered by the virus no time to die is the name of his new adventure which should have it this over split in april now the crimea has been postponed indefinitely. For you is the word the release of tenet by star director Christopher Nolan is also on hold the blockbuster needs 80 percent of the worlds film cinemas to reopen to have a chance of recovering its 200000000 dollars production costs. The dream factory hollywood is in a deep sleep most of the shooting here has stopped. Around 120000 people have lost their jobs in the american film and t. V. Industries from light came to new years to me chapattis. Sean pazin is the head of crimson studios more than 3700 square meters a current the unused normally Production Companies rent this space but they are in a dilemma explains pazin its a big gamble for them its not insurable so either they hold and things fall apart in other ways or they jump in and they could be at risk financially by shutting certain productions down due to someone getting sick or a crew member getting everyone else on the crew 2nd cast included so to me were in a very big unknown that could be very very scary. Like every crisis this one has a when ah animated films can be produced remotely and instead of going to the cinema a new sponsor ball will soon be. Arriving by a Scheming Service in homes around the world. This is day w coming up next on news asia student protesters in thailand demand a change of government and reforms to the molecules shedding tears to shed stress we examine japans new therapy people whove tried it swear by. 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Later on live democracy chaunce University Students in bangkok as they step up calls for the government to step down and for the monarchy to form but whats prompting these protests a political scientist explains