November but the pentatonic means this years convention is an almost entirely virtual affair. And here in germany the trial begins at an unprecedented online pedophile case alongside and the defendant more than 150. 00 suspects have been identified and prosecutors are saying theyre investigating thousands of lead. On the call for this welcome to the show and president Aleksander Lucas shank 0 is sending mixed messages about new elections on sunday he said protesters would have to kill him before any new vote is allowed now the president said he may be open to new elections but only after a constitutional referendum this what mark a reversal for a local shango who for 26 years has resisted any challenge to his power but calls for him to resign or louder than ever look i shant go says he won reelection last week but many say the vote was rigged. The red white flag of the opposition has been raised once more on the streets of minsk this time by the workers of bell averse who gathered outside factories. The way they chanted a president Alexander Lukashenko who would come to win them over the heckling continued and the president walked off the stage and into the crowd in an exchange with a worker. Who said new elections were possible but only after the country holds a referendum. To go. President should not make decisions as a result of pressure to make the president you must find a compromise exactly thats how. We need to approve a new constitution so the opposition wont be against it it needs to be approved in a referendum because our previous constitution was approved in a referendum and based on the new constitution and if you want it we will show you elections for the Parliament Presidency and local government bodies. The protests being fuelled by new promises from the exiled opposition leader. Im prepared to take responsibility and act as the nations leader cheering this period so the country settles down and gets back to normality so that we can release all Political Prisoners and prepare a Legal Framework and conditions to hold another round of president ial elections in the shortest time possible at the. Medias go. To can of made her address from lithuania a day after calling for the biggest protests in belarus yes. As the internal pressure grows so does International Concern the e. U. Has announced it will hold an emergency summit about bella roosts on wednesday. Because if it was stuck in one bill and soon we had already agreed on sanctions against those responsible for these Human Rights Violations how the sanctions will be designed and whether further restrictive measures will be taken depend on the future behavior of the bellary seen authorities until then protests is sure no signs of resenting. Earlier we spoke to analysts concept of a god and last hour and asked him why look at sankoh has been adamant about staying in power was now open to new elections well he is resulting to a typical tactic of an authoritarian whos cornered hes trying to bite his son is trying to buy time to to to invent some kind of solution and this is probably a 1st indication of weakness which misty kind of. If she saw it up to be sure she did should read it as an opening to jack up the pressure because i think that. Basically look at shankar started on the stand that setting the oman troops the police on protesters doesnt work anymore and the fact that today all of the detained according to the bill are russian authorities were released is an indication that he doesnt want more confrontation that he feels weakened and this is to some extent probably a Tipping Point for for a look at who as you rightly said who is the w rightly said was completely adamant that hes not going just a day or 2 ago as we are the European Union is set to hold an emergency meeting on wednesday to discuss bella voce meanwhile here in germany some past and present leaders say theyre seeing echoes of their own country says story playing out on the streets of months. On the left east germany 989 on the right bellaver east 2020 in germany where memory of peaceful revolution is only 3 decades old comparisons have been drawn between the protests in the of various and those in the g. D. R. Which eventually led to the full of the berlin wall. The deciding factor will be what russian president Vladimir Putin does whether he supports Alexander Lukashenko on the rich or whether he has the wisdom and intelligence of the former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and says thats no good we have to give up this country enable democracy and enable a new partnership between russia and belarus. And move to. Some german papers are already calling the batteries protest the beginning of the end of the dictatorship but what that and might look like is the question occupy in the minds of political leaders in beilin. I believe my appeal to president look a shame to see dialogue not to use violence but to use dialogue in state. If you know and i appeal to the better Russian Military not to use violence against its own people. The people of this stricken but proud country deserve our solidarity and support. Of. Germany has repeatedly criticized allegedly raked election win as well as the violence used against protesters but politically it remains cautious with all eyes in europe anxiously observing moscow in the meantime solidarity in terms of sanctions will be the focus of the e. U. s emergency summit on wednesday. You have to make it very very clear especially the german in you comes to presidency that is not the elected president. These elections were massively manipulated. And at the same time make it very clear that the sanctions will directly affect. Voting with the feet was a key slogan of the 1989 east german protest now more than 30 years later by the recent protesters could determine with their feet the future direction of the country. Where just hours away from the start of the Democratic National convention in the United States a 4 day event is highly unconventional this year because of the penn demick president ial nominee joe biden and his running mate kamel harris will give their speeches from the stage in bidens home state of delaware the majority of the convention will be virtual with speakers and special guests beaming in some across the country senator Bernie Sanders who finished 2nd to biden in the primary elections and former 1st Lady Michelle obama are among mondays marquee speakers. For more lets bring in our Washington Bureau chief amos full inus due to the coronavirus its a Virtual Convention a 1st for everybody what can we expect. Right because its going to be really different from all the conventions we have seen and we have covered. So as you said so many of the speeches already recorded there prerecorded some of them will be hold life but i think the main thing which is missing will be this energy because normally conventions are like a mix between church and a big party which really spreads the energy into the whole country and just think about the 77 year old joe biden delivering his speech from his basement its probably going to be hard for him to really give this last month of the compare the energy it might meet the Democratic Party started into the race for the white house utterly fragmented now many say its time to leave differences aside and fall in line what the party is unified message to the American People now the science the foreseeable attacks on President Trump of course. Right i mean i think the biggest unifier indeed is this President Trump i mean this is. Of which most of the democrats probably can unite behind to say he should really leave the white house as soon as possible but besides that its their slogan really is to unify america they want to overcome the deep deep divide which is even deeper over the last 4 years they want to overcome racism they want to to overcome discrimination of minorities of women they want to overcome social injustice so really the big headline is unifying this country again the main goal of the convention though is of course to officially nominate joe biden as the partys president ial candidate hes currently way ahead of donald trump in the polls but its still early days what do you think could be the stumbling blocks on bidens way into the presidency. Right nichol and actually this latest polls showed that. Hes not so far ahead anymore i mean it always depends and we also have learned that we shouldnt trust the poll says too much but some say hes only 4 points ahead so the biggest fear of the come pain really is that joe biden might make a huge mistake on in some kind of social media when that could be kind of repeated and repeated in social media. Its a question joe biden is really able to unify his own country if he is really trustworthy enough for those who really wanted different United States because after a whole all he is in politics for so many years and for so Many Democrats he stands for and establishment for a United States they dont want to live in anymore so can he really kind of trends poured this change that people are longing for thats going to be one of the Big Questions we will try to answer over the next couple of months out right in this paul thank you very much they are announced. Lets now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour German Foreign minister heikal moscow has paid a surprise visit to libya for lynas been trying to broker peace in the country mired in a civil war since 2011 must call the recent lull in fighting a deceptive common war and the outside powers are still sending arms to libya. The Indian Air Force has deployed a military helicopter to rescue a man stranded for hours in a rapidly flowing water at a flooded dam local media say the man had been stuck in the floodwaters clinging to a fallen tree since sunday. The trial has started and what could be germanys largest ever organized child sex abuse case the main suspect is accused of sexually assaulting his infant daughter more than 150. 00 people are also being investigated in the case involving an online paedophile network that shared images of child pornography critics say in germany isnt doing enough to tackle sex crimes against children on the internet. The defendant hid his face as he entered the courtroom. It was a routine search of the 43 year olds home in a cologne suburb that revealed a Sprawling Network of men accused of Sexual Violence against their own children and the children of others. Theres a defendant is alleged to have sexually assaulted his daughter in 61 cases some of them very serious he said to film the abuse and then share the videos and chat groups. Uncovering these crimes has proved deeply disturbing even for the most experienced investigators the suspect allegedly began abusing his daughter when she was just 3 months old hes also accused of membership in a massive online paedophile network chat groups not only offered users tips on how to abuse children but also provided them with children to sexually abuse its the biggest case of organized paedophilia in german history suspects have been located across germany and abroad. Charges in 10 cases 9 suspects are in investigative custody and we have leads 130000 unidentified offenders. Its the 3rd major paedophile network uncovered by police in the state of north rhinewestphalia in the space of 2 years 130 investigators from colognes police force have been working on the case sifting through the digital evidence to date only a portion of the data has been evaluated investigators are certain the files will lead them to many more suspects. 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