A 43 year old is accused of abusing his baby daughter and sharing videos of his crimes with a network of thousands. Of other thanks for joining us this is r. T. And today. We will start with the roofs where another day of nationwide strikes is underway thousands of workers have downed tools many of them taking to streets across the country the workers have no financial demands but they are calling for a rerun of the recent president ial election vowing to maintain their strike until their demand is met with a defiant president Alexander Lukashenko said that there will be no fresh elections political changes may happen but not under the pressure of protests and rallies from state run t. V. Employees join the strike the others are refusing to go against the current government while the head of the opposition movements for long says shes ready to assume. On sunday minsk saw a rally in support of Location Code was the 1st public gathering of his backus since the disputed results help the president ial election were announced later in the day though opposition protesters held a huge march for freedom across the capital and of the belorussian cities they accuse the shanker of coming into power by rigging the election result is my culture of will that we. Will 1st of all love the rally in support of the protesters and builders has been taking place here outside of the countrys embassy for over a week already and for from the numbers bill roos was sold the largest certain out here just this past weekend as people voiced their anger at the results of the election in the builders and the in suing violence as well throughout the week here was saul both anti and prole shank old protesters as you can see right now its morning monday morning and a lot of people here are just the police and some reporters but we are expecting a rally here after Business Hours and meanwhile be sold in a stray sions continued in minsk where on a sunday at least 65000 people came out and support all but at xander lukashenko thats those numbers are boarding to the interior ministry look at schenkel spoke to his supporters at the length and thank them for their dedication now for many a belorussians somewhat over father figure who took the country out of the abyss back in the ninetys there was some are a not very happy with his 26 year tenure. My grandmother yes it is and i support Alexander Lukashenko i wasnt forced to come here this is my personal choice. I thought so many threats but they wont break me i bought the station with my own money no one paid me it was really to try to get you to buy support discipline in whats happening now reminds me of ukraine in 2014 everything started in the exactly the same way the young people with flowers now just dont understand what was happening here 990 s. Perhaps they want to return to 117 when people toppled the russian empire in a similar way and civil war but we want peace now just hours later and antilock a chicago rally began the building up in minsk as the citys Independence Square was filled to capacity as well as some other places in the russian capital of course a similar similar events unfolded elsewhere in bill a ruse as droll and angela the schenkel rally began spreading and now there were reports all 4 arrests however officials that dismissed all those claims so saying that so all of the demonstrations were peaceful now our correspondent said is working in minsk and he sent us this report ok. Were. Going to talk for 45 this is how the protests unfolding now in Independence Square is that people have moved from the money went to him in the morning there was a progovernment rally here. But all the people have left now in the square was free to come out in previous protests that happened here right place own guarding the house of the government there any barriers National Guard people there even sitting on this committee one office that came out and as i understand people not to sit on the barriers because its dangerous and they could pull from the ceiling and thats about all the people in chongqing live familias slogans singing the same songs i can say this. Development or change. This person has been in power for 26 years hes clung to it with his teeth and doesnt want to let go and we are against violence were defending our vote were doing the best for the future of our contrary i want my children not to live in a country which has violence where there is no voice and no freedom of speech if we start now were changing history blood was build and the people will never forget that thats why i came here i have an obligation to be here its my duty thats what this is a celebration of freedom weve dumped these dictatorship because hes no longer in charge power has been taken by those who deserve it the people of valor. The European Union is still threatening minsk with sanctions over the election and the ensuing crackdown largesse discuss what kind of deterrent but my prefer to be. There will probably never be another election with mr no question about the people that really found out that shows its very scary to see what could happen you know as a comparison with our with ukraine though the situation is completely different i dont think the sanctions would work they dont work you know we all know that but thats the only thing the European Union has so they speak of sanctions im not sure they will impose them they speak of sanctions it seems that the protests against look i think or have quite strong support from outside bailout or was if you look at the media reports in the western countries you can see a clear sympathy for the protesters against russia you see all over the claims that the elections have been raped but no clear proven evidence has been giving you can see all over the same structures the same the same procedures in all the color revolutions of the past 20 years you can see of the arts quarter fist which is like a trademark for foreign interventions rich in change operations so this is really alarming and we should look quite closely at this critical point. Whether they are what nature is for or while it will depend on both sides that would be reasonable or girl to begin doing what he hasnt done for the last 26 years and that has to be given the original course obsession some procedures close so who does of the document political document around himself whos addressed corruption thats not to say that the government is entirely blameless hasnt made mistakes and so on but the idea in the west because hes a hes a dictator he simply ruled on the other hand as we know from many countries in the world in the west in the east government. Always popular with everybody the interests of everybody supporters of the government and opposition to the government for everybody to behave in a sense the constitutional flush and cool solution about what the reason the solution that everybody can live which. The lebanese president michel aoun is out of and he will not resign calls for him to go been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beiruts airport earlier in the month last week the lebanese cabinet including the Prime Minister resigned amid protests with people blaming the tragedy on the government incompetence the Recovery Efforts are still underway in beirut the disaster is put added strain on the to a country thats already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis earlier the International Community had pledged some 300000000. 00 in aid to level the blast killed 178. 00 people injured thousands and made 300000. 00 people homeless. In the meantime the United States has said that its own pledge of Financial Support to lebanon following the port blast will depend on the countrys reforms to tackle corruption as auntie storm quarter explains the u. S. Office of help with what they see. Massive explosions in beirut during a sign rest in its wake and it got to. Lebanon. In ruins and leaders across the world have no doubt opened up the foreign aid relief valve as a result countries like germany the u. K. And even the u. S. Have stepped in to help out but when you accept money from washington you need to read the fine print when we see lebanese leaders committed to real change change in word indeed america and its International Partners will respond to systemic reforms with sustained Financial Support of course mr hale forgot to mention that u. S. Sanctions are what many to believe the key cause of lebanons economic woes but there is always someone who remembers. You have seen some countries hypocritical. Trying to portray themselves as defenders of the lebanese people and expressing sympathy for the lebanese people if they are honest they should remove the sanctions that they recently passed against the lebanese government nation and people and stop this hypocrisy and iran definitely knows how that feels at 1st donald trump said hed be willing to give coronavirus aid to tehran if it asked for it than when the country needed a 5000000000. 00 loan from the i. M. F. To deal with the pandemic washington protested for some reason even the United Nations called on the u. S. To lift its sanctions against the country only to get a big fat no from pompei oh ive heard people talking about sanctions there know that the world should know there are no sanctions that prevent humanitarian assistance medical supplies pharmaceuticals from going to iran and war torn syria its a similar story washington announced a nearly 1000000000 dollar increase in 2020 humanitarian assistance at the very same time that it was creating a brand new sanctions regime against the country we are maintaining our maximum political and economic pressure to suspend the imposition of the sanctions the government of syria must meet similar conditions to go for a country in crisis thats not really difficult to get humanitarian aid from washington what they usually have to give in return however might not be that worth it for. A child sex abuse trial is underway in germany in a case that has lifted the lid on a large paedophile ring the main suspect is accused of abusing his own baby daughter filming the crimes and sharing the videos with a network consisting of tens of thousands into all of his book. Lost or some place were called to investigate allegations of sexual abuse against a child at a home near to cologne that resulted in a discovery of terabytes of images and videos of sexual abuse of 43 year old man is on trial. The main suspect named only as a new york worked in the Hotel Industry lived in a typical street in a typical suburb near to cologne hes accused of making and sharing images of abuse online in a network of paid of files that could spawn tens of thousands neighbors of the accused have been left stunned by the claims. His house is right on my daughters way to school and shes so fraid to gartside should no longer go on supervised when shes outside out in court for hot check that everythings ok i get this is crazy especially when its your own father when he abuses and sells his children i only hope that they will be punished though judging by our german legislation in recent years the perpetrators will go unpunished while the one who was harmed will be punished thats how it is with us now its all a mess but they should publish the names of these people because that would scare them off the investigation is also had an impact on the place who had to watch and continue to troll through thousands of images and videos of child abuse 3 of the officers involved had to be placed on sick leave due to the impact of the content. I think images and videos like these i was going to leave their mark on those who watched them even experienced investigators the trial in cologne is just the 1st of what may be many related to the home search last october investigators have established as many as 30000. 00 potential identities and pseudonyms of perpetrators later this month a 38 year old man will appear in court and wiis barton charged with 291. 00 offenses including serious Sexual Assault and distribution of child pornography all linked to this case in cologne peter all over r. T. New research has found the facebook not only tolerated but actually provokes Holocaust Denial and it will bring you the full story of the short break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im sure business ill see you there. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true. Is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the. Forum made in the shallows. Come back the future of thousands of british students is up in the air amid a scandal over how their exam grades were determined the results are critical for entry to university and many received lower grades than expected after exams were scrapped because of the pandemic thats why add insult to injury there been mixed messages over the appeals process whereby students can have their grades reconsidered with a level examinations canceled nationwide grades were based on the predictions of teachers and they were then adjusted on the basis of a schools overall track record this led to a 39 percent. Downgrading of a level results based on the predictions of state schools especially those from poor regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade private schools though enjoyed a boom in high. Box of the entire fiasco spocks student protests across england hundreds of students hold a demonstration in Central London they were demanding the resignation of Education Sector governor and they accuse the system of being classist exams regulator of qual so that there was no evidence of bias in the system and Prime MinisterBoris Johnson defended the results calling them robust. Rather robust or not that serve the opinion of one student in a bun mitchum got lower grades than her teachers had predicted and your grades down down qualified quite considerably i believe downgraded 3 grades how did you feel when you got your results. J r i was very confident that i did at least get into the Foundation Course which required c. C. C. I knew i had never been a secret student so i thought id be ok at least. When i open my results and saw 3 ds i went into complete shock shock i went to complete meltdown and i thought my life was just completely over in a few days a person. What have you done and how do you see the future now is there some hope for you yeah im trying to stay really positive really hopeful and i want everyone to be aware so im trying to get my voice you know its not just me thats then affected its other students and i think eventually something will come up and students will eventually hopefully get the grades that they work for i heard you in a radio interview that also included the schools minister i believe and welcome to you should put this on your c. V. I think because you had in brussels something of merit i would say i would say that most employers would appreciate did you get any offer of assistance or an apology or some explanation of how youre going to be helped. Yes i think because of the way i spoke out to him he is now looking into further education and colleges and institutions that have been affected by it because of the way i where and how so yes he is very aware and he is working on it seems to be youre the victim of a system but a system they knew that they were putting into place whereby youre being judged not only by your own efforts youre being judged by the efforts of all the students who went to the same school you go to be 400. 00 being judged by the average performance of previous students which is clearly ridiculous and unfair and people like you are suffering. I mean how do you feel about just that as a principal they knew what they were doing when they brought it in. Well i feel obviously its unfair there are cases in in fact many cases where people dont do as well if the c. S. C. That seemed to really flourish a little so. Is this theres no theres no theres no way of knowing what that student would have got other than the predictions that they were given by the teacher and then i hear the other day that someones predicted grades like me being got 3 use so. I was never i was never see or be going student i am sought sure many other students that were downgraded were never. At working at the level of the great they were awarded on thursday i dont know if youve heard but its been reported that the exam regulator of quote has no revoked the appeals process because it seems like the exam regulator in the government disagree with how appeals should be handled does that concern you and of course is a big problem for lots of other students as well who are hoping to get the grades moved up. Well when they put out the criteria on their website off while they had a criteria now a lot of those criteria the schools and colleges wont have because they wanted the mock exams to have been invigilator and now could because of the current virus pandemic a lot of schools were able to do those marks and if they had done they would have been sitting them at home so its no way where people are even able to meet the criteria to then have the appeal so i think putting that out and then revoking it has just made even more unstable than they already do. I think its really obvious that the governments made a big mess of this and there are people who are suffering because of it like yourself. I mean youre being philosophical about it how do you feel about your future right now your dreams for your next level in education are they still alive what do you hope to do they are like theyre very much alive and if i dont get the outcome i need tremendous im very very willing to put in the hard work for another year to redo my take and do whatever it takes to get into Family Medicine that is certainly not a dream i will ever give up on whether that takes 5 years one year or 10 years so i think what i want to say to other students is well its just keep working youll be fine you believe in yourself thats all you need. Just emotionally like so youve had time to evaluate it are you still angry when you know you hear about that certain you know private School Students who go there students who want you ball will be getting their grades lifted because they go to a good performing historically establishment just wondering how you feel about. I think to me its a very clear case clear case of discrimination. And theyre denying now. So i really feel for students like me. Going to get in and a further Education College are 6 phone call it just a normal college really affected by this whereas they should have just based on the college that they go to that they have chosen to go to. You know really appreciate your time thanks for sharing your story and like you said i hope that you know that gives other people who are affected in a similar way kind of the belief that the still some you know hope are there that things will get better and good luck for the future and hopefully well see you as a one day when youre going to so much need of an image from as my guest thanks. People so survive returning back to normal being dashed across europe fresh restrictions and quarantine measures are introduced in response to local spikes in coded 1000. 00 infections arties corresponds in london is an early rounds of the european reaction. Seeing across a number of countries not least the United Kingdom that fears of a 2nd wave a 2nd rise in the number of corona virus cases but also deaths but that says the u. K. Government has revised down its own figures removing 1300000. 00 tests made available from official date citing a current double counting that comes as just a few days ago the government here in the u. K. Downgraded the total deaths figure out by around 5000 leaving some to question whether there is actually a real fear of a 2nd wave or whether its just an irrational fear however others of course questioning and say that we should be taking little measures to ensure that there isnt a 2nd wave and those include the recent imposition of the wearing of mosques indoors and shocks and places. Will have people in khost spaces similar to measures being taken in. Wearing the Face Covering not just indoors but in all Public Places is now mandatory having been at decided upon over night night clubs also in the city being forced to close their doors for fear of another spike of course its the was the country one of the countries in europe as well and that was the 1st to really experience a really high death toll and theyll be wondering whether they will be once more facing that fate and also in spain im a little caught being classified a little bit later islands being classified by germany as a coded risk zone of course spade relying heavily on tourism from countries like the u. K. Like germany and thats led to quite a strong divide division of opinion from spaniards as to germanys decision to reach that city that had been built on those. It seems to me that the measures theyre taking are a bit drastic to have by now but it will you never know where youre going to be safe where youre going to get caught by the virus in spain they take serious precautions i think many more than in germany and me and them are now elsewhere in spain in the dritte a number of demonstrators gathered against the governments handling of the corona virus demonstrates is claiming that the pandemic is either an invention or is being used by governments not just in spain but around the world to pass a number of. As they would say its ironic almost taking away peoples human rights and Civil Liberties those protests refusing to comply with rules that states that public spaces mean mosques must be born elsewhere on the consulate in a strong post lockdown peak of over 3000. 00 new coded cases in 24 hours again leading to measures being taken by french rules for its ease with powers and more states being moved into a socalled red zone when it comes to the number of cases and so all of these countries are bringing in these measures many of them revolving around the wearing face masks which a number of people have questioned for months after the main right the 1st devastating rise of coded 19 that finally these countries are green the issues that. Facebook is under fire again to the institute for Strategic Dialogue most easily more said is the i esteem the u. K. Based counter Extremist Organization found the platforms algorithm promote Holocaust Denial in unison with Holocaust Survivors around the World Research is urging facebook to ban this type of content. This misses the reason why people engage in Holocaust Denial in the 1st place denial of the holocaust is a deliberate tool used to deal with jews or minds the suffering of the jewish people and people had to wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as an act of hatred now research by the i. D. F. On earth 36. 00 facebook pages dedicated to Holocaust Denial they had a combined total of more than 300000 subscribers the group also found searching the term holocaust in facebook returned similar content level similar criticisms against twitter read it and you tube Facebook Says that it removes false content only if it amounts to hate speech we remove groups and pages that discuss Holocaust Denial from recommendations and references to it in search productions while we do not take down content simply for being on truthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed. Internet law expert yeah cohen says that its facebooks duty to protect every member of the community the fact that facebook. Is classifying Holocaust Denial is legitimate political conversation is quite frightening. Thing touches on the whole caused in our should be banned from social media for the simple reason that it actively promotes hate it promotes violence against jewish people it should be. Removed from any website that probably purports to be a website for the people of facebook is not designed for a very nice type of people it is made for the entire wall to the entire community and is such Mr Zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. Jewish people as well. And i wraps it up for this news i appreciate your company and thanks for staying with r. T. Ill be back with updates in 30 minutes. The world is driven by. Thinks. We are here to ask. Fight. This