Blocking extra funds for the Postal Service to help handle the ballots. And. Gets things stuck on Athletico Madrid to go further than they ever have in the Champions League well bring you all the action. A market its nice to have you with us the e. U. Commission chief ursula funnel line has said she supports sanctions on bell russian officials who violated Democratic Values or abused human rights e. U. Foreign ministers are holding talks at this hour to discuss if and when sanctions could be imposed the government in bellows says 8 now has released 2000 of around 7000 people who have been detained. A Police Crackdown following president Alexander Lukashenko disputed reelection this apparent concession comes on the back of growing pressure both at home and abroad and more disturbing reports of abuse of protestors at the hands of security official. Protesters freed from custody look over you manny bearing injuries they say were inflicted by officers or were they were detained while spending fury at what they call a right to lection in favor of president lukashenko. Was. Generally arrested everyone beat everyone girls or guys children who were 151413 years old there was a grandpa who is around 70 when everyone got to taint even if they just came out of a shop to see whats going on for was just. The start of it they made people saying the National Anthem and Police Trucks they beat those who sang wrong yesterday they beat people up brought them in and made them shout we love riot police. The reports of Police Brutality are fueling opposition to the regime. Opposition leader. Fled to lithuania early on tuesday fearing for her safety she emphasizes the need for peaceful protests. We have always said that it is necessary to defend our choice only by legal nonviolent means but the authorities charged the peaceful citizens protest into a bloody massacre. Bellerose his interior minister has apologized for some of the violence against those who quote didnt get out of the way in time saying that it was unfortunate that innocent bystanders were harmed. His words are unlikely to calm the anger. A fight is in sabella russians who are tired of what they see as a corrupt and oppressive regime. Dozens of workers are holding a strike fos people in the streets are piling pressure on the government to step down i. Joined from mince pie journalist. And from brussels by our correspondent. Who is following the Virtual Meeting of the e. U. Foreign ministers on the situation in belarus 1st you hanna what is the situation in minsk right now. Well again thousands of people came out to the streets and theyve been just marching right now as the speak on the main streets on the road actually and they been drained by workers of the main manufacturer all to maker. In minsk so its like last time and Something Like this happened all Major Enterprises when they went on strike across the country was basically 30 years ago so its unprecedented its historic and this is happening just right now. The pressing question on this side of the border is is the e. U. Going to increase the pressure. Increasing the pressure that was where exactly the was of the German Foreign minister ahead of this meeting he made clear like a number of of his counterparts in the European Union that he hopes that a new sanction regime will be put in place however the Austrian Foreign minister has also made clear that these measures will not be formally adopted they will be discussed today and ministers will look into a list of individuals who where either involved in further cheating in those elections or in violence against Peaceful Protesters whether they will be put in who will be put on a list so it is a meeting off symbolic value for the moment today sending a clear message. That the actions of the past couple of days are totally not acceptable for the European Union well the. President look at chicago held a meeting with Construction Industry officials today and we have an interesting sound bite from that meeting a lets take a listen. First of all i would like to say that i am still alive and not abroad as some well informed people here say the president has left the country. Today is oldest the 14th. And we are here to discuss the work of the Construction Industry. And i want to go to you whats your take on what is change here it doesnt sound like hes likely to give in. Well yeah i mean today are the final results of the election where announced and according to those results 80 percent of the wall given to so nothing has changed. Only 10 percent of the bolts so apparently is ignoring well basically the whole country that has been protesting. Also well what he said to do in this meeting with the Construction Industry today he basically said that there went only 20 workers at those major factories major plans. And told who wanted to express their opinions but they then they just turned away and came back to work and it wasnt true and well apparently the whole country now knows that this is not true and this workers have joined street protests this right now so its very hard to ignore my strikes that are happening across the country we have about 30 seconds here if the e. U. Agrees on sanctions against what could those look like. Its likely to be a list of people that will be selected like i said a list of people who are either with a fraudulent election or west been directly involved in violence against protesters and what is likely today is that the European Commission will be given the task to put together that list the formal decision can only be taken at one of the next meetings of the Foreign Ministers announcement that the commission will look into this affair is likely today. In brussels and in minutes really appreciate your insights. Now look at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour. The United Nations says the death toll from last weeks massive explosion in the lebanese capital beirut to nearly 180 some 6000 people were injured the agency says the blast has affected operations at hospitals and clinics in the city and damaged schools 50000 students. Police in thailand have arrested a prominent prodemocracy activists. Known as penguin was charged with instigating and breaching coronavirus regulations in the wake of a protest last month. Arrests ahead of new demonstrations scheduled for sunday against the militarys militarys involvement in thai politics. Thousands of british citizens on holiday in france are rushing to get home before new rules go into effect overnight some 160000 residents are believed to be vacationing in france the country has seen a rise in factions prompting london to add france to its list for mandatory 14 day quarantine on arrival 3. Brought dramatic changes to the way the 2020 president ial campaign is playing out in the United States gone or the large scale rallies and close up encounters of 2016 physical distancing also poses a logistical headache for polling day one reason voting by mail is in focus but the mail in vote has critics including President Trump as we hear from. Poll. Over 2 thirds of the u. S. Voters will be able to make their choice by either mail in or absentee ballot in the 2020 election more than ever before in the history of the United States this is what this years election battlefield looks like sounds ridiculous well donald trump has politicized mail in voting in absentee voting because he fears that this might lead to a great awarded her knowledge among democrats according to President Trump made in voting is more susceptible to voter fraud even though theres little to no evidence for this he has already announced that he might not except the outcome of the 2020 election undermining the most crucial tool of democracy the right to vote. He is unfortunately turning into an authoritarian figure and. He doesnt like democracy so much anymore it seems like so i think its really important for all of us to exercise our right. And im teaching that to my children to know. How people want to exercise their right to wode looks different from many in this years election due to the coronal 5. 1000000 tonne lapus a professor at crimson Pac University of connecticut and he has been teaching constitutional and criminal for decades id rather vote in person im used to doing that ive been doing it for 50 years but because of the pandemic i just dont want to go into a polling place where people are standing in line where im dealing with people who could be in fact have to cut your Voting Machines other people may have touched so im very much in favor of the absentee voting this year at least. Academic has a very different take from the republican president compass being sowing doubt about the reliability of this years Election Results from the beginning of his tenure. The biggest risk that we have is mail in ballots because with the mail in ballots called universal mail in ballots its much it it is a much easier thing for a foreign power its much easier for them to forge ballots and said the man its much easier for them to cheat. The president s statements raise concerns that he might not accept to defeat and might try to remain in the white are concerns about even if the president doesnt refuse to leave it remains to be seen how its followers are going to take this they have already been primed to believe that if he loses this was an unfair election and that could easily lead to mass resistance even to violence in the street. The pandemic damages many aspects of life even the integrity of the democratic process itself. False information surrounding covert 19 has been responsible for hundreds of avoidable deaths and nearly 6000. 00 hospitalizations in a 3 month period around the world that is a conclusion of a study published in the american journal of tropical medicine and hygiene the reporter. Has been looking into this story for us and joins me on the set now oleg its good to see you tell us about the studys conclusions and how exactly they got there right so the scientists here have been monitoring social media news outlets and Fact Checking platforms looking for rudeness looking for conspiracy theories and the stigma all related to the pandemic and they say they found what they call an infant demick off a false information the room is for the most Prevalent Group you must have heard some of them before for example the drinking bleach strong alcohol so if its an 8 hour 700 people diet a few months back in. Iran because they drank toxic methanol because of these rudeness in india youve had rumors of cow urine being effective treatments similarly camel urine in saudi arabia people who got ill from drinking that on the stigma and the stigma group one of the big ones is that people of Asian Heritage or of chinese heritage have been have been physically or verbally attacked including health care because now this is because of the because of claim and unproven claim of course that the people of chinese heritage were the ones spreading this virus of course you also have the conspiracy theories that this is a planned this is a planned pandemic that is a biological weapon and of course the big one that bill gates is behind the whole thing to sell vaccines of course its important to say that these have all been debunked now the study identified more than 2300 reports of false information and this is just in the 1st quarter its in 300 yeah well now this research was gathered earlier this year but clearly theres sense of this information is still out there right it certainly is now one example that just just to pick one that has been making the rounds recently is that when you go and get tested for the corona virus the swab that they stick up your nose they pass it through into the brain to open it up to other Infectious Diseases and ive had to test myself it did indeed hurt but i dont think you need to be a medical professional to debunk that theory but away from that what we can call the tinfoil hat part of the internet you have much more powerful culprits out there one of course is donald trump just last week he he retreated a post from his own Reelection Campaign faming that children were virtually immune to the decease a claim that is no way proven and just a couple weeks before that video went viral in the u. S. Tens of millions of you use of a group of. Doctors again claiming that the malaria drug hydrox of chloral queen is a treatments for coated which again has not been proven that was retrieved by dont some son donald jr that was taken both of these streets were taken down by twitter now some new things are happening over at facebook they say they have taken down 7000000 posts with false information about coded just in the 2nd quarter of this year and they have also put warning labels on 100000000 or nearly 100000000 posts in that same period of time now this study by the American Society of tropical medicine and hygiene they conclude that it is really up to the governments to International Organizations to tackle this problem but of course the social media giants will have to do their job too and this seems to be a way to go that im struck and and just shocked by the volume of misinformation out there so that millions of people are listening to a leg or else a car right now thank you and the pen demick means some aspects of public life are restricted here in germany and that includes public swimming pools theyre only allowed to admit a fraction of the normal visitors so its Little Wonder that a recent heat wave is sending residents here in the capital fleeing to the cities surrounding lakes but that freedom comes with its own challenges. Berlin in the summer and the living is easy swimmable lakes are just a subway ride away stand up paddling afterwork no problem an august heat wave with temperatures over 35 degrees and strict visitor quotas on city swimming pools have sent people flocking to the lakes. Its great you can go in the water without freezing with this heat its a nice way to cool off. Berlin doesnt get that many really beautiful sunny warm days so when its nice out you have to take advantage of it and that makes life more stressful for the people who enforce park rules like here at the lake usually their job consists of Walking Around and making sure people are all getting along but now they also have to make sure visitors follow park rules. Id say were overstretched on busy days there are 6 of us and 40 or 50000 visitors that gives us plenty to do its still early afternoon on a weekday the park whartons have time to remind people to maintain social distancing. Or maybe move up a little bit so youre one and a half metres apart the park wardens already have their hands full with preventing forest fires protecting nature and resolving conflicts. On this one. The number of swimming accidents is also rising after doing around they report to park manager. The record coronavirus added a lot to our workload we cant just stop our Fire Protection efforts but there can be a lot of aggression between visitors we have to mediate that and also deal with corona so we try to combine everything and we appeal to everyone to exercise self discipline and responsibility. Discipline to build up and the park wardens do what they can they hope that berlins legendary and say named one of the worlds most beautiful swimming spots by c. N. N. Doesnt earn new notoriety as a coronavirus hot spot. So the sport now in the Champions League quarter finals are underway leipsic stunned the experts and beat the favored Athletico Madrid 2. 00 to 1. 00 to advance to the semifinals they opened up in the 2nd half like danny omo put the bulls ahead with a header in front of goal 20 minutes later a hard foul by cost them provided athletico a chance which felix converted to even the School Winner came minutes before the end of the game substitute tyler out of this became the 1st u. S. Spends player to score in Champions League quarterfinals leipzig advance to the semis to face p. S. U. So whats the reaction like when a team like leipzig pulls off such an upset sports journalists and he may ease on the ground in lisbon. Leipsic you only formed 11 years ago they are very much the Underdog Team along with that so lance it would beat some by perry. They are the story they off through so that 1st ever Champions League semifinal they were playing in that 1st quarter final so its an extraordinary story union noddles men that coach is actually younger than leader now messi use hoping tonight to be going for a place himself in the semifinals of the competition i saw a big game with some fans of sporting last night they are the Underdog Team of this city lisbon the capital of portugal behind the big rich a team of 10 feet or so of the supporters of sporting in a very small bar near the stadium with a match to place the josie ill fill out their home they were very very happy at the at the end leipsic have made it through to the last 4 of this competition its an extraordinary moment for them as they aim to become a german champion and maybe well see byron as well perhaps doing the business later. Well no doubt many soccer fans would prefer to see behind munich and barcelona battle it out in the final and not in the quarter final but such was the luck of the draw the match takes place in lisbon and is close to the public because of the pandemic of course but with the cream of the crop on the pitch there is still plenty of buzz in the city. Its not like there arent any fans in lisbon welcoming their favorites some were camped outside the Hotel Barcelona players are staying at supposedly the next best thing if you cant get into the stadium. Byron munich vs barcelona should be a celebration of soccer instead its a muted classic to be played behind closed doors it pits not just 2 great squads against each other but its also a meeting of superstars such as arguably the worlds greatest player barcelonas leonel messi versus the deadliest striker in europe this season byrons robert leaven dosti with 53. 00 goals to his credit including many of those scored in the Champions League and. Half this level i dont think there are favorites. Yes we can count on having the best player in the world. But live and offs he has 13 goals in the Champions League this year. While he is so high on both teams that either one can win. By the doing of it can always all will approach barcelona with the necessary respect well analyze them as we do with any other team we know our strengths and we will try to use them as much as we can on that the office who is all in this behind supplying it all comes down to this winning the coveted Champions League title this is a giant version of the cup which is set up in downtown lisbon where fans view as they are can come together and also watch the games on t. V. Set up by local restaurants but this is where theyd really rather be at the study or deleuze inside. Vendors is among the worlds best known film directors paris texas and wings of desire are among the many movies hes made in a long and illustrious career to celebrate his 75th birthday a new documentary looks back at his contribution to the art house film movement. Portrait of him vendor in the style of a vin venders movie the producers of a new documentary sent the legendary german director on the road to the locations of some of his best known films each shot could be event us out take. Us. With started on this journey without knowing exactly what would happen when we actually shot in the way venders makes his movies. Every vendors film is an adventure he starts shooting with actors and a camera not knowing where the story will end then does is fascinated by the idea of america the wild west the wide open spaces and the endless search for the american dream. What it does beautifully is put together the images with sound and light and music that are that once you see them they stayed with you forever in the late 1990 s. Venders reinvented himself as a documentary filmmaker it was a perfect fit to his improvisational style when a Vista Social Club sparked a worldwide renaissance in cuban music. Where. His tribute to dance choreographer pina bausch was groundbreaking shot in 3 d. The film gave the audience the direct experience of live performance. Salt of the earth a portrait of photographer Sebastiano Salgado was just as powerful venders received Oscar Nominations for all 3 documentaries. Then does another passion is photography the. Rector is a digital film pioneer but his photos are analog only his pictures are exhibited around the world. Last year vendors turned his lifes work into a monumental installation at the go home polly and paris. In wings of desire vendors masterpiece the sad angel gazes down on a divided berlin. His movies are like paintings. But why are they modern classics i think because they are portrayed and painting with cellulite and light vendors has made indelible images for the screen and inspired a new generation of filmmakers. Youre watching news coming to you live from berlin coming up after a short break eco india including a look at how the country is educating its workforce to harness clean energy weve got more now web site d w dot com as well as our twitter and instagram. Well be back with more news at the top of the hour. Eco india those who love to eat seafood made fish calendar of course. Overfishing breeding seasons bio diversity. Which fish can people eat anywhere without damaging the ecosystem. Know your fish the 1st sea foods the state ability to guide india. India. Next on d w. I thought her. Car culture. Hair. Superman. Superfood stylish doggone dont let os. Life style youre a hero. On g. W. 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