A protest against coronavirus for. An intolerable attack on democracy. And in formula one as champagne performance for Lewis Hamilton the belgian grand prix another win puts him one step closer to the title and. Welcome to the Program Police in the capital arrested more than 100. 00 antigovernment protesters they were taking part in another mass demonstration to demand president Alexander Lukashenko step down the protesters started after lucas claimed an overwhelming reelection victory earlier this month but observers said the poll was neither free nor fair. Go away go away they chant tens of thousands hit the streets of minsk on sunday the 3rd week of protests doing their best to avoid a Massive Police presence. But not always with success. Thousands have been detained in recent weeks opponents of the regime and of president Alexander Lukashenko. I came here to express my disagreement with the results of the election and my solidarity with the detained people i stand for peace for belarus but not for lukashenko. Lucas chink of his dog in his heels since the protests began he says belarus is threatened by foreign powers not the military reports that nato has deployed their forces for drills right on our border what am i supposed to do. And he says hell soon meet with russian president Vladimir Putin who has offered to send in Security Forces to quell the protests. Telling him lets see what we can do with low draw up sundays protests came up those perthshire the crowd marked it their own way with another chant. Happy birthday. Ever more on this were joined by dean connelly. Nick how did the demonstration go today. Well these are extraordinary scenes for a 3rd weekend in a row something people could barely of imagine just a month ago this kind of numb these kind of numbers of people out in the streets time off the time here in minsk the weather wasnt really helping they had to wrench the rain for much of the often people hiding in Shopping Centers at least where i was but the sort of thing was that that didnt really stop the kind of festival atmosphere people were out there kids with their dogs and their friends and people sitting even in Shopping Center which was singing. I think the thing about this is that these protests have become part of the culture this is not something that just happens on certain days in certain places that the police can surround and arrest people this is become something that has taken on a life of its own it doesnt need specific protest leaders it is becoming its very widespread at least here in minsk where im standing now is a place where several journalists were detained on thursday and again we saw police going off just trying to crack down on the coverage of these protests it is a totally open situation we have no idea where this is going but for day for today it definitely seemed like the people of minsk were not scared of the threats that are being put out by the government in recent days and what has the president been doing in the face of all of this. Well today again we have an extraordinary photo cole. In front of his president ial palace wearing a flak jacket and with a gun will be no ammunition the same as last week and. If that was meant to be a show of strength a definite back you saw people in the crowd cheering those pictures looking at them on their phones and laughing i think hes a bit of a loss here hes this is something hes never really experienced in 26 years in power the political position in this country has always been pretty marginal hasnt really been able to mobilize these numbers of people and for now hes definitely avoiding any kind of dialogue seems to think that would be a show of weakness has been talking to russia Vladimir Putin but that is not without dangers its a 2 edged sword and has made no secret of his intentions to draw closer and to somehow maybe even incorporate some kind of union state with russia that something had been trying to avoid but now if he needs russian help to put down these protests they have to give something in return and nick youre talking to people there how do they want things to evolve ideally. Its very difficult to say people are convinced that these protests will continue when you offer them or are you scared of these threats are used to people being arrested they say yes but were tired of being afraid. Of hiding todd not saying what we think well know the hand as i mentioned the governments making no sign of trying to engage these protesters there is no roadmap there is no clear path forward the russians as you mentioned also have prepared these Police Forces this kind of. Backup if you want to need it but for now it doesnt seem like theres any call those in said this would happen if there was widespread unrest these protests were notable for the peace ability people weve been collecting rubbish people getting flowers to the troops on the streets so for now this is a standoff with no clear and people committed to keep on going and showing no sign of willingness to stop coming out on the streets to use final minutes thanks for that. Time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. Lebanons president michel aoun has called for the proclamation of a secular state during a televised address he said such a state was the only way to protect and preserve pluralism and to create real unity among monday the country marks 100 years since the state of lebanon was declared. Global coronavirus cases have surged above 25000000 this weekend india has had a record for the highest single day rise the country reported almost 79000 new cases as the government continued to loosen lockdown measures to try to help the economy many countries are battling new code 19 breaks. Authorities in spain have evacuated almost 2 and a half 1000 people due to a wildfire in the Southern Region of andalusia the blaze broke out in the mountains on thursday and has scorched nearly 100 square kilometers 2 dozen planes and a helicopter have been deployed to battle the inferno. Germanys president has condemned the far right artist who tried to storm the German Parliament building on saturday evening it happened alongside a demonstration that drew nearly 40000 people to the capital to protest against germanys coronavirus restrictions that protest was broken up by police but a Smaller Group of demonstrators later reconvened outside the rice stag lawmakers from across the political spectrum have called their actions a disgrace i have far right extremists pushed through police lines to the top of the rice talks steps. They shout resistance. And this in this fire we are the people. The black white and red are the colors of the old imperial german rice used now by neo nazis. In front of the rice tar that makes the shocking symbolism. Is. Its not acceptable and it cannot be tolerated that some appear with symbols from a terrible dark past flags that have nothing to do with our modern democracy and they show up in front of the ponders time building the rice tank building the most important symbol of our democracy the parliament the mall of them occurred to does parliament of the demonstrators who filled central berlin on saturday were no longer the center of attention. Many remained on sunday though and how the small day after rally at the Brandenburg Gate they focused on the corona skeptic message and dismissed the previous days aggression as you prosecuted what happened here was chaos in some small groups who wanted to take advantage of the situation and wish we do support the corona demonstration want to have nothing to do with. Yet the far right were confident the case in berlin and we can. I meant the rainbows and peace flags of other demonstrate his undercurrent of skeptics didnt seem to have a problem with them being there and for more on this im joined by the reporter joel delroy joel what happened this weekend it was as we saw several 100 people broke away from the coronavirus skeptics demonstration and they made to the steps of the reichstag where they overcame the very few police that was stationed there and stay there for quite a while before reinforcements could arrive and the police could use pepper spray to disperse the crowd they did not actually manage to get inside the building and germanys parliament was not actually city but it was very symbolic because as the interior minister horsey hoffa said this building really is the hot of german democracy the building itself has played a Critical Role at several junctions in germanys histories for example 933 the building was burnt down and out of hitler use that as a pretext to seize power and so you suspend Civil Liberties then the russian army invaded at the end of world war 2 and it was very symbolic the building was spectacularly renovated and reopened in the ninetys as the home of the new you know unified German Parliament right and that that particular design is one of a lot of praise because its got this gloss dome anyone can walk up and look down and see whats going on in the parliament and thats one reason why what happened yesterday is upset so many people because as the president from voltage time i said this was an attack on the heart of democracy if people want to be heard inside that building they can use democratic channels to do so but thats one thing that this coronavirus skeptic Movement Really lacks the moment is some kind of democratic legitimacy opinion polls show that around 90 percent of germany germans do not support the demonstrators and in fact rather the majority of os they support the German Government and its efforts to curb the current of ours just look at the mechanics of what happened how could they get so close to the seat of german democracy was that a failure security questions are being asked as to how they could get so close there was some 3000 police on the streets of berlin yesterday out. To control that demonstration of tens of thousands of people which was happening just about a block away from the reichstag building so it really is surprising that they could get so close now as the Police Spokesman said they cant be everywhere all at once the police were busy arresting about 300. 00 people in another part of the city the end of the police the senator in charge of the police in berlin has also said that he tried to ban this demonstration but that demonstrate that ban was overturned by a court well now there are some of the questions being raised as to whether the interior. Intelligence services had any knowledge of the far right groups infiltrating this demonstration and the bundestag zone Advisory Committee says that the whole security concept needs to be reworked ok and just briefly joel we had some some of the flags up here right behind me for instance cause a lot of discussion help out but help us understand this we saw all these black red and white flags being waved on the steps and theres several versions of these flags but they they stem from the german by the imperial period up until the 1918 and some of these flags are also used by the nazis so they are symbols of the far right but he can be a group called the rights which denies the legitimacy of the german state and thats one reason that the foreign minister said that it was shameful for this flag to be waved in front of this building ok. Thanks for that insight. Sports know and formula one defending champion Lewis Hamilton has coasted to victory in the belgian grand prix to increase his lead in the Overall Standings the britain is now just 2 wins from matching Mikhail Schumacher mark of 91 race victories. The best chance to catch Lewis Hamilton in this race was at the start this spacek it is fast as a tight turn at the 1st corner always gives would be challenges a glimmer of hope so when hamilton held off his miss a these team excel 3 process the writing was on the wall. The wall was where these 2 ended up the safety car cooled out on lap 10 after antonio jovan thats the last control of his alfa romeo. Jaivin that season tend to tie a careering into the path of George Russell in the williams. Thankfully both drivers won homs. It was another disastrous weekend for Ferrari Sebastian fatso overtaken by what should be a slow alpha remain and just left to fight to teammate shell a class 3 measly 13th place up at the front hamiltons biggest fights was with his deteriorating tires but he cant tending in the right direction crossing the line for his faith when in 7 races this year and edging ever closer to a record equalling 7th title. And you are watching deed of your news live from berlin coming up our documentary series doc looks at how the coronavirus time that is changing the world and theres lots more news and background in 30 languages on our website d w dot com and also follow us on twitter and instagram handle is at each of the news on exposure and only about the half days and 45. 00. Life on earth you want to cling to and. Try to coincidence. Were going to go happened. So the bit like winning the lottery