Presence there to monitor turkeys activities in what are the disputed waters. Good afternoon from russia life martin to nationals World News Center here in moscow my names kevin though in here for the next 30 minutes or so with all those stories and a lot more detail if you stay with me to 1st then belarus has started releasing protesters who were detained during the unrest that followed sundays disputed president ial election these are the 1st images of by the russians walking free from detention some people have been held for 4 days that the interior ministry has pledged to release all detainees today friday around 6000. 00 were arrested during the 1st 3 days of the unrest and ambulance doctor released overnight described to us what she says she witnessed inside. As it was the women were lying on the floor and the men were in the next out they were constantly so badly that they just how long it was a terrible how the blood froze in my veins just what we heard every night it was terrible the Prison Guards were saying whats wrong is your life thats bad. Said it to act as we live work here because of some nonsense what kind of doctors are you youre not doctors i dont know what you are werewolves thats the sort of thing they shout it and a lot of swear words that i dont want to repeat they were also saying this when you were 1st held in the street everyones riding by was shocked doctors and white ropes on their knees with a machine gun to the head. However the interior Ministry Representative insists there was no mistreatment of protesters in detention. I think i have the if you think about it for your 1st interview but he didnt use the buses to yell out that you feel that you have lets be careful here. Is the official protests against Police Brutality been held across europe including outside by the Russian Embassy here in moscow for double quarter earlier this report this morning. Well its still early in the day here in moscow and the protests in front of the bella Russian Embassy behind me have typically been taking place in the evening but by the looks of things the abnormal brutality with which the Ballarat Police is using to handle the protesters seems only actually to be strengthening the belorussian opposition yesterday we saw protests called lines of solidarity of women dressed in white Holding Flowers and portraits of loved ones that were arrested since the beginning of the on rest we also saw workers from some of the countrys several major factories going on strike so the sheer scale of this protests in bellerose has definitely grown massively since the beginning. Youre. Right you shouldnt be here to know were not so. Good to who you are. I dont know. What was so bored. That it was just that. It was going to do very. Very. Serious. Weve also seen protests in front of belorussian embassies in a number of Different Countries in kiev for example we saw protesters throwing orange smoke bombs at the building and here are the protests in front of the by the Russian Embassy weve seen belorussians as well as native muscovites to a form to protest against the Police Brutality and president Alexander Lukashenko is a legit election raking now lets not forget that russian journalists were among the many who have been arrested in these protests including arties. Responded in minsk and a number of ruptly workers now we did hear from the belorussian minister of internal affairs who apologized to those who were injured and were not violently protesting lets take a listen to what he had to say. Some took to the streets before the voting had even finished they decided beforehand that they would protest on the 11th they put up barricades using ripped up benches from bus stops and flipped over flower stands was that a peaceful act of protest in any mass confrontation when dealing with widespread violations of public order bystanders would inevitably get caught up in the action as commander i take responsibility and apologize for the injuries to people who receive them for no reason so with these protests intensifying and no sign of the government really looking to give in to them well definitely keep watching this story and give our viewers the latest developments as they become available and reiterated what was said earlier on commenting on claims of violence against journalist belaruss ministry of internal affairs is no pledge to investigate every allegation earlier we spoke to economist Jaroslav Roman choke he told us that while the 4th day of protests in belarus went relatively calm many people he said are far from. Close to it said peace for people. But theres a lot of joy and all but their gender change the last drop that broke the camels back was the mass joining the problem is the state enterprise dozens of different big commercial entities joined the protest saying that we demand not perks from the government we need need for elections look at himself put in the position when he did not deliver on any dialogue with any meaningful social group and the way that election commissioners deliberate fraud and election and vote now definitely ignited that kind of protest and anger because nobody believes in butler that location got 80 percent of. The big sort of a small United Arab Emirates and israel of agreed to normalize relations the deal brokered by washington includes a promise by israel to delay the annexation of palestinian lands in the west bank the palestinians though it reacted angrily with the israeli Prime Minister saying eventually an extension is still on the cards and shoot sure there is no change in my plan to implement our sovereignty in today and some are in full coordination with the United States im committed to it its still on the table. Palestinian leadership rejects what the United Arab Emirates has done and considers it a betrayal of jerusalem and the palestinian cause however some suspect the deal between the u. S. And israel actually targets another regional players kellam open explain. Israel and the United Arab Emirates have formally agreed to establish diplomatic ties now many see this as a historic move as for many years arab states have not recognized israel as a country this is a monumental step to forging to a corporation in the middle east donald Trump Supporters say he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for arranging this but the palestinians arent exactly thrilled with duce new arrangement the deal between. United Arab Emirates and israel is a betrayal of the palestinians given the historical. Relationship that israel has had with the arab states in other words no peace. According to the old formula no peace was possible until the palestinian issue was resolved and the palestinian issue is not resolved the Palestinian Authority is now formally withdrawing its envoy from the United Arab Emirates they say recognizing a country that is occupying them is simply unacceptable now in the diplomatic fallout of this deal were starting to see what this is really all about aside from the u. A. E. Israel and the United States there is a 4th country that is now showing up in a lot of the conversation surrounding the deal iran peace between the arabs and the israelis is romes Worst Nightmare and no one has done more to intensify the conflict between the arabs and the israelis of iran what we see today is a new middle east the trend lines are very different today and we see the future is very much in the gulf and with israel and the post is with the Iranian Regime it clings to power on the basis of brute force. Iran often labeled as israels largest regional opponent has denounced the deal the Islamic Republic of iran is confident that history will show that this was a mistake made by israel and this dagger that has been unjustly thrust by the United Arab Emirates into the backs of the Palestinian People and all muslims will lead to strengthening resistance and the unity of the muslim people against israel as well as fuel confrontation in the region when donald trump visited saudi arabia he spoke of building an arab nato that would work as a coalition in the region opposing iran and fighting terrorism and it seems now this you story deal is being revealed not so much to be about getting recognition for israel or protecting palestinians from annexation but about targeting one of washingtons most longstanding opponents in the region there is definitely the pattern isnt toward iran and i think the timing is ideal given whats happening in beirut and the fact that hezbollah is now under pressure in lebanon with the government having. Resigned there so we have a Coalition Building disagreement rather than easing tensions in the gulf within the arab states will. Harden stances or at least continue to maintain the antagonism that we have. The. Tensions are escalating in the Eastern Mediterranean with france is building up its military presence now itself to turkey starting to oil and Gas Exploration in what are the disputed waters there and raging at the same time greece and cyprus so paris says its to ploy meant as a temporary measure for now designed to monitor the situation but relations with ankara at the ready been strained penske picks up the story. President matt corn has signaled the along as tensions continue to rise between greece and turkey the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean is worrying turkeys unilateral decisions on Oil Exploration are causing tensions these must stop in order for a peaceful dialogue between neighboring and nato allies to take place but this seemingly didnt stop the french president from reinforcing frances military presence in the mediterranean its confirmed paris will send to referee and fighter jets and the naval frigate lafayette a move welcomed by the greek Prime Minister i think president mccraw on for his cell a dirty Emmanuel Mccraw on is a true friend of greece but also a fervent defender of European Values and International Law the greek pm bill this as an act of solidarity but you only have to scratch the surface to see that there is more going on here in recent months process also found itself clashing with turkey in the mediterranean. These past few days we have seen turkish warships deliver syrian mercenaries to libyan soil this is a serious and explicit in french moment of what was agreed upon in berlin i must reiterate the prerequisite for any political solution in libya is the cancellation of this document but with that incident still rushing from his mind it appears to have been keen to show solidarity with a fellow member in this case greece last month makan even cool for sanctions against turkey over these purported violations in the Eastern Mediterranean now the arrival of turkeys new seismic civvy vessel this caught the attention of the e. U. The latest developments rick stream the worrying what is needed to be done is to engage in solving all the open issue. With principles of good neighborly relations International Law and positive engagement with fronts now bolstering its military might to aid greeces plight greece is perhaps are feeling in bold and its place its military on high alert recalling naval and air force personnel from their holidays turkey for its part says it will protect its rights toys and interests in coastal areas and with france now wading into this pact turkeys president is accused of provoking regional players into taking wrongful steps there is concern that this action by fronts rather than to fees in this situation could in fact escalate it charlotte t. V. R. T. Paris. People in beirut are still of course reeling from last weeks devastating explosion that killed over 200 injured thousands left up 2300000 homeless buildings as far as 10 kilometers from the blast site the center were destroyed well weve been there bringing you stories of people whove been so affected next the story of one lebanese design of that who some to rebuild his whole lifes work from scratch. Like i was always so happy we were facing the port i always sort is very artistic and inspiring because its industrial enriching details now everything is ricks look at the destruction the wreckage i dont know how much time it would take to be rebuilt. There are no words to describe what my team and i are feeling but we cant but thank god that were all alive and well no one was hurt we left this building 10 minutes before the blast hit and thank god no one was hurt thats the most important thing. Both of the hard work of 20 years was destroyed in mere seconds it was because of this doomsday explosion which went off just across the street. This is another challenge for us how we can get our hands on funds to rebuild they say there will be compensation but thats not certain and this isnt something we used to 11 and i hope we can get compensation to rebuild. This and thinking of coming out with a new collection inspired by this very heartbreaking incident my team and i are really picking up the pieces of really want to come out with a collection inspired by beirut the suffering of beirut. Every time we saw those pictures a riff it was that this is Art International thanks for time today coming up this friday from moscow students in germany were talking about after the break youve inadvertently been funding the radical taif activism group. With a chewie shouldnt feed the trail of it. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing Dramatic Development only really im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Again so as we talked about before the break the students in germany have been fronting the anti Food Movement without knowing it it transpired that some of the chu issued fees paid to Cologne University but actually ended up in the controversial activist groups and for years heres our 1 europe correspondent peter all over on the money trail. The anti fascist organization have received a lot of press in 2020 with even the president of the United States chime in the United States of america will be designating and as a terrorist organization here in germany they havent received that type of criticism but there is a controversy surrounding begin University Students fees from cologne to go towards a contribution to the group for the 2020 to 21. 00 winter semester each student at the university of cologne pays 280. 00 euro and 0. 95 for 205. 00 euro and 0. 95 goes to the Student Council and is meant to pay the transport discounting workers salary and for the departments work out of the 10000000. 00 euro the council will take in around 8 and a half 1000 will be paid to the Student Branch and to take its delicate because while auntie far on demonised here the way they are in the us a report by germanys internal Security Service the beer file has some pretty strong things to say about a cake and the groups its associated with conservative student groups in turn and not so happy that they have to contribute to a case without choice it shouldnt be that every student has to subsidise a group that has been classified as extremist by the office for the protection of the constitution we regularly demand that the funding of n. T. For a k. Be cut the majority of students who spoke to r. T. Said they had absolutely no problem paying a contribution to our k. I dont know how much the payment is but im sure it is not enough and it should be higher i think its good because its important to support the social organisation and deeply is dealing with many board and social issues and theyre less you know we ended. Well being. I think its a good idea to support though and. I think it does make sense and i think it is important and why political spectrum is represented and i see no problem that it is fine and from the student piece a k. Has received funding from students at the university of cologne since it was set up 15 years ago neither the student body that doles out the funding nor the students themselves see any reason why that should change any time soon but while the name until far continues to be mentioned in trembling tones by those in power the group may find themselves coming under more scrutiny peter all over r. T. Who just like facebook than facebooks been accused of illegally harvesting the facial recognition data of users of its social media platform instagram a class action against the tech giant could cost the company up to half a trillion dollars once facebook captures instagram users protected by metrics it uses them to boast or its facial recognition abilities curse ulf its products including the facebook application and shares this information among various entities facebook does all of this without providing any of their acquired notices or disclosures required by illinois law so its plain facebook violated the privacy rights of 100000000. 00 of its users under the current Law Companies could be fined up to 5000. 00 for each individual reckless or intentional violation therefore means if you total up the total foreign could potentially reach 500000000000. 00 just last month facebook offered to pay 650000000. 00 to settle a similar case when the company was accused of illegally collecting biometric data through a photo tagging tool however it contains it maintains rather its face Recognition Systems are not used on instagram. The citys baseless instagram doesnt use Face Recognition Technology if we introduce Face Recognition Technology to your Instagram Experience we will let you know 1st and you will have control over whether we use this technology for you privacy activist and Technology Expert bill new believes despite the controversial nature of the law there are potentially big risks if facebook really is collecting uses biometric data. This is to a large extent a claim that is being brought on a speculative basis because we dont know whether instagram used facial Recognition Software for sure and we dont know the extent to which it used to now many users to a large extent the law being used here is the one in illinois which is the strictest biometrics of security or privacy law anywhere in the world and is being brought on behalf of us users which are a significant proportion of the. Facebook is collecting facial Recognition Software without any form of consent then this is of real abuse and could be ripped equally damaging because it then loses that dates all or fails to protect as it has started another instance its then all of the people its collective pleasure information from could be vulnerable to Identity Theft to the rest of the leaps. With lives Matter Movement gaining traction around the world since the killing of george floyd some of the Biggest Companies from Silicon Valley to wall street have publicly been denouncing racism as you know their efforts may be in vain though as a recent poll has revealed that very few people actually think these statements now are sincere survey out found that 7 out of 10 americans believe the empty racism messaging coming from Corporate America is simply due to public pressure rather than actual concern for black communities it also found that people are divided over whether or not such messaging is necessary at all. Thats why black americans set out to make their own tracks. But its a quote political commentator and logan is one of those who thinks that companies are supporting the b. L. M. Movement just to keep their profits up. These companies are just trying to be virtuous in the eyes of their consumers and they dont want to have any kind of cancel culture or to cancel coming your direction they dont want to get your stories they dont want to have a negative representation so to go out there is a thing as i always support black labs black cloud matters is all about jayce p. R. Company relation is trying to appear virtuous in the eyes of those that are out there protesting d and also and of those that are out there sympathetic towards the protesters if a company had a reputation of being pro social justice and pro you know black labs and anti police for loans then it would make sense for them to have this stance now but if youre not that kind of company if theres a company that sells hamburgers or dogs i mean theres no reason for you to go out there and talk about anything political at all no reason whatsoever there is no reason to pick. A show you go you know if you use either which way on it thank you for watching this across so much what were talking about today at all if you dont come on a very social media is 26 minutes past made time so but i must say goodbye for now about with more in just over half an hour reporting from moscow cavanagh in wishing you a great day. And illegal takeover of the government a small group. Rather than the revolutionaries also just thats the operation when you have a tiny people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us dont get together and. These are sacrifices. Laid. The capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things like Voter Suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices for well in that world are well into. Question. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle with good reason Public Discourse is focused on addressing and finally containing the coded 1000 pandemic now the focus is on devastated economies were in a recession will it morph into a depression will the recovery be a u. Or an l. Shaped across the uk economic recovery im joined by my guest Benjamin Cowen lubbock he is the director of the Free Market Institute professor of economics at Texas Tech University as well as a senior fellow with the independent institute and in los angeles we crossed 2 by ian he is an independent economic and geopolitical analyst as well as a former commodities trader all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciating lets go to los angeles 1st here i said about my introduction i guess probably the most important question there is as we come out of this. Pandemic and its all going to be about the economy and its everything were going to think about for the next few months if not years is about recovery so infer a very simple question will it be a v a you or in hell go ahead well weve been in an l. Shape depression since the 2008 financial crisis i mean only that true Economic Data on unemployment inflation g. D. P. And the like have been warped or hidden outright while the fed pumped up the stock market to give the appearance of a genuine economic recovery and weve been in a structural downturn rather than a typically cyclical recession and those arent easy to get out of all of us since february is essentially marking to market if you will of collective economic metrics as the fake money pumping charade is being wrapped up in favor of a longer term plan monetary paradigm shift our right and i remember the last time we spoke we were talking about the turbulence in the oil market the oil price that that seems like a kindergarten play to consider considering whats going on now ben let me go to you the same question a you or an l because that will really dictate what kind of policy is necessary to get out of this lump go ahead ben well i think policy has a lot to do with what type of shape it is so right now were in a flat line and thats because we have a shutdown orders that are essentially telling people not to produce so the question is when shutdown orders are lifted what is normal Economic Activity and recovery look like