Short of providing. An infection spiking in many european nations governments across the continent are really imposing safety restrictions. One minute past 10 pm in athens in jerusalem and here in moscow this choose the august welcome to our to international my names you know me. Thousands of people are now amassing in central minsk on day 10 of protests against the ballot russian president opponents accuse Alexander Lukashenko of rigging the recent election and theyre calling on him to resign right now there is a very limited security presence on the rally appears to be largely peaceful the initial demonstrations were marred by a heavy 100 Police Response to russian interior minister said its some responsibility for the way the crisis on folded the russian factory factories have been brought to a standstill by ongoing strike action the crowds in the streets they are vowing to keep up the pressure until demands are met this was the scene in minsk on monday evening. I was i was i. I was i was several kuntar protests are now being held across bella reuss the largest is in the eastern city of mughal e all of far as you can see people are waving the red and Green National flag adopted in 1905 the year after Alexander Lukashenko came to power in contrast to the red and white fly used by opponents of the president people have been speaking out in support of mr lucas shinku one saying the only risk needs to still. The situation in our country is very serious so we have come out here to show our support for the president we are against unrest in a country. House there should be new rights we should find compromise says we do not condemn the support for the position so why should they condemn the us and want to say one thing i stand here preval or is our president for our prosperous and beautiful country will never give up to anyone. Well earlier in the day the leaders of france and germany contacted president putin to discuss the crisis in belarus heres our teaser among cultural. Rallies in support of whats happening in belarus have been happening in front solve the countrys embassy in the russian capital for 10 days straight weve seen different turnouts here with the largest probably the past we can probably see the protesters so will supporters of behind me carrying flowers and Holding White ribbon meanwhile protests continue in belarus as well where on cheese that weve seen both pro and anti look at schenkel rallies all over the country present look at shanghai held a meeting with the countrys Security Council where he criticized like he said oppositions plans to damage their relationship with russia and its nato and e. U. Aspirations however the Opposition Holding those statements issued their own saying that their falls have nothing to do with the reality and it sounds at manuka lation and they also said that they plan to on or all of the existing agreements with russia and other partner countries as well as here with the shanghai had to say it is statements have been made very some western countries who dont even know where the roof is and have no idea what is happening here but nevertheless they make these statements we have reacted to this and deployed combat o. Me units on our western borders and have brought them to full combat readiness meanwhile top european political figures continue seeking the kremlins stance in the issue in a bill or rousseau European Council president Charles Michel said that he spoke to blood may putin on tuesday and said that the e. U. Began working on personal sanctions against all those responsible for Human Rights Violations against Peaceful Protesters michelle added that there should be. No outside interference in this matter now in 2 separate cell phone calls and shes day and they shaded by bernie and paris let him is installed to his counterparts Angela Merkel and emanuel necron and he said that any at south by outside forces to intervene in the internal political crisis in bella roosts is counterproductive and he stressed that placing external pressure on the officials in the bill of rights is unacceptable now a german chancellor Angela Merkel also outlined germanys position after the phone call with a lot of my position lets have a listen to issue and help today as spoke with russian president putin and made it clear once again that freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate must be guaranteed that prisoners must be released and that there must be a National Dialogue to settle things peacefully in belarus he will continue to discuss this to more all these talks with the russian leader are taking place as head of the European Union summit on bella ruse the a. G. U. Leaders up planning to meet Via Video Conference on a wednesday and meanwhile no matter the resolution its clear that the European Union one says is in no rush as in the internal situation in belarus well weve been getting reaction to the situation there including from Eastern Europe specialist benares who believes the belarus crisis is a major concern for both russia and the e. U. A few days ago look assange go. To the kremlin and said he was going to us because in that supports the suggestion was the same as reaching out d to the russians or d you know significant force riot Police Troops in order to quell the protests by brute force and its raised the question will russia invades. With has been a lot of speculation now if you choose the people to flee to the city. Gratian firstly that idea has been pretty written off putin is unlikely to do that and the veteran population has actually warm image of russia and see them as friends and they fought so hard to oust look the shanker that it person came in and crushed the. Demonstrations by force and kept the present go in office by force then the entire population with then suddenly turned against russia and putin and then youd end up with another ukraine situation which the kremlin doesnt want so because of these. Macro and merkel d reaching out the e. U. Has been very aggressive they said theyve warned russia that there should be no overt or covert interference in the domestic policies under the threat of facing new renewed extremely quote unquote heavy sanctions if its seen to do that but i think its going to come back with exactly the same argument in fact and he did say explicitly to merkel this morning in that telephone that there should be no west in in the domestic politics of. More of the e. U. All this talk of values and said ideals will not actually do much to help but in the short term even if there were she did ask for help that programs the role that matter a few 1000000000. 00 a year they come with a lot of strings and theyre implemented very slowly the natural ally that a russian in order to help in this time of need and struggling economy hope it crisis everything on top of each other is russia which will come in rapidly help with bailout money with investments lots of russian businessmen would love to expand their businesses there and would do so very quickly and have some World Class Companies as well. Orus meanwhile the German Government hers confirm that its been in talks with the leader of the bella russian opposition to call up sky fled to lithuania soon after the election arties done you hawkins takes a closer look at those main challenger. But the roof is at boiling point its streets and squares remain packed with thousands of voices of discontent its people determined to be heard they feel the president just isnt listening they dont mind a new leader a symbol to unite them at a time of crisis for the law to cut off has become this symbol yet im not a politician my husband surrogate economically wanted to become the president of valorous hes now in prison for that almost unknown at the end of maine the humble english teacher and interpreter to lead a quiet life until her husband the set again took off ski a popular blogger and president ial candidate was disqualified from the president ial race and thrown in jail in an act of protest she took up the opposition husbands name and announced she would stand she said herself that she didnt want power at one point telling supporters shes more comfortable frying cutlets in her role as stay at home mom youre just as good as i want to become president in order to restore justice in this country my Campaign Program one be familiar to everyone the main point is new honest and fair election. Took an oscar was just a woman with a grudge like many you couldnt predict the crowds would turn her into a symbol misconceived the bridge our constitution is not for women our society is not mature enough to rule for a woman but as things got heated it seemed but i was ready perhaps not specifically for to cut off but for change yet despite condemning the results as false protests gaining traction she fled the country putting. Family 1st. I have probably remained the soft woman though i originally was i know that many will understand me many will condemn me and many will hate me but know this god forbid that you faced a choice that i had to face the children are the most important thing that we have in life for some in the west she really is one step away from the presidency with the German Government already confirming its held talks with the exiled opposition figure in our shoes no longer the english teacher mother all week one she described herself days later she claims shes ready to step up to the plate as head of a transitional government. I am prepared to act as a national leader. Others could have been in her shoes but as opposition figures fell out of the picture taken off her was left as the last woman standing the accidental candidate with her latest announcement shes upped the ante time will tell whether she can meet the expectations of those that want her to lead that change. Governments across europe are bracing for a 2nd covert 19 wave again rolling a popular restrictions but the public is growing increasingly fed up paper over reports. As europe tries to tiptoe back to normality a 2nd wave of covert 19 seems set to derail those hopes here in germany daily infections cost a 3 month peak last week the Health Minister in the country says this is partly due to soma in general people coming back from holidays people attending parties and other celebrations now it in spite of it and its very difficult to make people stick to the rules after theyve had 2 or 3 beers at a party such events make it especially easy for the virus to spread so maybe we should stick to smaller family gatherings for a while longer germany has labelled most destinations in spain including extremely popular destination of york as high risk it another blow to the already stricken spanish Tourism Industry but i think i mean i think the measures theyre taking are a bit drastic we thought we had good prospects for september but now with travel companies sending people home its getting very difficult its good to be cautious but the situation here looks fine to me and now with no customers i dont know how long we can hold on to them on a plane has taken tough measures against crowded 19 social distance in masks as you can see we dont have outbreaks but the virus is everywhere you never know where you will be safe and where you can catch it let people travel because were here we depend on tourism and if we dont have to or its will sink neighboring france has also been breaking records for all the wrong reasons marking a post lockdown high of over 3000 cases seen metropolises like paris and mall say expand outdoor areas with face coverings a mandatory while work spaces are also set to become mosque only zones so. It is a good idea but it wont be easy to make people respect the rules especially at work because they will have to spend the whole day there with a mosque on vision. I wear a mask it work every day and i think its normal so for me nothing will change you know more person is a surge of cases in france and all the other countries so i know its necessary to wear a mask i wear one every day at work a spike in cases among young people has seen the Italian Government step in to shut down discos and night clubs theyll also be a reintroduction on rules insisting that face coverings be worn in outdoor public spaces at night its a pity that we did not see this government response before in my opinion everything should have been closed sooner the i sympathize with those who own nightclubs its not easy finding the balance between the interests of entrepreneurs and Public Health what will prevent going to be honest i dont think the club should have been reopened it all should have remained closed because the clubs are not essential and closing them prevented new cases both the number of cases in year up rises so does anger over code that prevention measures was was. I was. Right. No one wants to see a return to full lock down and that places those in power in the on enviable position of having to try balance freedom with fighting cope with it as we try to work out which restrictions we want to be imposed and where the virus is determined to reimpose itself across the whole of europe these are all over our bill in. The u. S. Senate Intelligence Committee has released the final part of a reports on alleged russian meddling in the 26000. 00 election the document accuses love him or putin of organise treating the Democratic Party serve as a claim the russian government has repeatedly this mist killam up and takes us through what was on failed. Well this is the 5th and final report it is over 1000. 00 pages and it takes us some quite interesting places to the Ritz Carlton Hotel the Miss Universe pageant but the culmination of the report the ultimate final conclusion the long awaited conclusion of the report says that apparently the d n c hack hacking of the Democratic National committee server was personally ordered by russian president Vladimir Putin take it was. The Committee Found the russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the brush an effort to hack competes networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and i campaign for president now do they offer any evidence for this shocking conclusion no they simply say that they have a high confidence that this is the case and terms like high confidence seem to be all through the report the word likely is used 139 times in the report phrase that the phrase almost certain is in 23 places in the report weve also got seems seems used 39 times however despite this high confidence and almost certainty and these terms that dont seem to indicate they actually know what theyre talking about they do blame russias Security Services for the acting of the Democratic National committee server take a listen. Beginning of march 26th seen offices of the russian Main Intelligence Directorate the g o u successfully hacked competes networks belonging to the Democratic National committee and the Democratic CongressionalCampaign Committee and the email accounts of Clinton Campaign officials and employees including Campaign Chairman john podesta now the report claims that russian Security Services in gauged in spirit fishing and this got them access to the Democratic National committee server however the only source for this is testimony from the tech firm known as crowd strike now crowd strike was actually hired by d n c lawyers and now we also have the testimony of ex f. B. I. Official shawn henry who has testified that crowd strike never had any evidence to back up their claims now of course not surprisingly wiki leaks gets thrown into the report as well. We can leaks actively sought and played a key role in the Russian Campaign and knew it was assisting russian intelligence influence efforts the Committee Found significant indications that Julian Assange and wiki leaks have benefited from the russian government now julian assigns has long denied the claims that he is somehow a russian operative but regardless we now have this 1000 page report the final installment we hear from the senate Intelligence Committee so a lot of americans and people around the world have to be wondering is this the last were going to hear about this russia gate stuff is this finally over is this the ultimate conclusion of this story or will they find a way to keep it going. Lets stay in new york and cross the line to investor underwriter charles or tell charles good to see you again the report is you know its a 1000 pages long it was 3 years in the making but the key findings while the all time very familiar in this Election Year do you think voters are going to pay any attention to this given i suppose Everything Else thats going on in the u. S. Well you know i think this self reinforcing left hand side of the equation in the Mainstream Media is going to be all over this and demand new investigations before the election but i think we need to understand this 1000 page report the Mainstream Press must have had a news articles must have had it on bargo they had a chance to look through it i looked through it this morning after it was publicly released i mean what i will what i knew about thought i knew about and theres an awful lot of redaction and theres chatter in the commentary and the press. In those days has well learn more that various witnesses did not cooperate for example christopher still did not cooperate we know theres a lot of information thats been held back through this process that might change. The conclusions the tentative conclusions reached in this report my take away from all this from the very beginning in 2016 i cant recall again and again lets have an investigation for potential meddling not simply of russian actors but of all foreign actors and indeed it would seem now of the Obama Administration itself thats the biggest story here this has done in trouble it isnt with the obama gate pronouncements it seems as possible the president states the former President Joe Biden the former Vice President senior members of the American Government attempted to interfere not only in the Election Results of 2016 but afterwards once donald trump was elected lawfully to interfere immediately before the inauguration and then afterwards it with this presidency to this present day so we know that there are big stories here perhaps elements in russia it metal but id be a bunch more interested in understanding who inside this country meddle than interfere whos trying to cover this up and more importantly just how involved was the u. K. Government by m i 6 and other means attempting to tip the scales in the favor of Hillary Clinton and then working with the resistance to obstruct the Drug Administration thats what i want to know whats your take on the fallout from it what practical consequences do you think there could be from the report in terms of policy could kind of be used to justify new sanctions against russia for instance. I doubt it i mean i think what this is highlighting is that at during the debt during the Democratic Convention now we thought of 2016 that it was impossible for a democrat to run a worse campaign than hillary did now were seeing it and joe bidens for 4 months it is possible to be far worse you have to look 4 years back you got to look at 16 and i understand that Hillary Clinton went out of her way to offend a large percentage of the voting population she did not campaign if the. He states she you know she looked very ill on september 11th 2016 she was operating with her husband a corrupt foundation has been since 997 where hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars have gone missing there are similar questions of all the joe biden and his family those are the big issues that are going to have an 8 odors in this country whether one or another country may be interfering in our elections i think people are tired of that frankly and tired of the endless investigation of same issue 20 only to rush charles as always thank you for your time and your thoughts investor and writer charles r. Tell live on the program. Ok lets move to africa briefly because soldiers in mali have captured the countrys president and Prime Minister in what the army has described as a mutiny the news just be confirmed by a Government Spokesperson lets show you some of the latest images we have gotten from just outside by mccoll at the capital of the west african nation this all started with a shoe size of a military base earlier in the day a group of officers then the tane their Senior Officers theres still plenty of von certainty there on their own filling situation and its on clear whether this is a coup attempt it follows several months of civil on rest in mali with opposition members demanding the president s resignation of a corruption allegations. This is our team josh next watching the hawk starts in moments stay with us. Greetings and salyut ation. Well hello hello hello and welcome back everyone to a brand new week of hawk watching and my goodness is the august news cycle started off with a bang a quite literal and deeply tragic bang for the people of lebanon over 200. 00 souls and counting of lost their lives to an Ammonium Nitrate explosion in the port of beirut in the aftermath and fall out of this tragedy the peers to be the dire results of government negligence ignored warnings and failed infrastructure it is now being reported that the lebanese government is resigning amid all of the outrage over the blast there resigning meanwhile here in the land of milk and honey in coded leaders of the United States of america are still deadlocked in the goshi ations negotiations over how little they should have to spend on the care and safety of u. S. Citizens in a time of pandemic and how much they can funnel to special Interest Groups and corporate bailouts instead of u. S. Citizens but thankfully over the weekend u. S. President donald trump finally took action from his underground bunker on the 9th hole of the Trump National golf club in bedminster new jersey from up on high the president signed a series of executive orders and proclamations that well according to the hill extend Unemployment Benefits suspend payroll taxes and offer federal addiction and Student Loan Relief well woohoo this is wonderful this is great great new. Sort of kind of not really you see despite all the legitimacy a ball room full of Golf Club Members brings you many legal experts and news outlets are questioning whether trumps executive orders are actually constant. Illegal the New York Times is reporting that it was not clear what authority mr trump had to act on his own on the measures or what immediate effect if any they would have given the given that congress controls federal spending even the wall street journal got in on the game their Editorial Board chimed in writing mr trump is commandeering the power of the purse but the constitution reserves for congress. So my friends while lebanese leaders are resigning in shame for their failure to protect their citizens from tragedy u. S. Leaders are governing from golf resorts while brandishing Election Year bandaids for an empire in collapse. I think thats a good place to start watching the hawks. If you want to go on a city u. Street you want to. See that this is joyce state. Graves see this least systemic deception is complete show which. Some things are just as. Well go to watching the hawks like i robot and im well well well let me look at this brand new slate of executive orders dont really know if they really will amount to anything but lets dive in and see what theyre all about show absolutely. Its interesting because republicans these executive orders that trump did over the weekend are getting kind of attacked from all sides even republican sides republican senator ben say its so nebraska he called them the pen and phone theory of executive lawmaking called it unconstitutional. Slop but its a pretty hefty thing to mount and i think that one of the most interesting things that you point out is that trump is taking fire from both sides on this because congress doesnt like being overstepped. So you have people on the democratic side a lot of house members who are taking trying to task but you also have a lot of republican senators who feel as though they are no longer part of the conversation what trump has done in this and i think that you point to some interesting things here. He is using this to basically circumvent congress and congressional powers but also i think to bolster this authoritarianism that he personally believes that he thinks that the buck stops with him and hes fine with doing that this is the same president who when obama was in office talked over and over again tweeted over and over again about his use of executive powers about him signing so many executive orders and how much of a problem it was and now were seeing him do actually more than what obama did and he is trying to make sure that. He basically sizes things up for this election he knew that it was going to take a long time for anything to get through congress the deliberations were not anywhere where people expected them to be and i think that he is using this to say ok well maybe im doing something with an American People even though that something is outside of his powers in the exact something of the great forget about executive you know executive orders there and theyre not laws theyre not passed by congress theyre not things that every citizen has to obey or every u. S. Business has to but in truth theyre really just for Government Employees at the end of the day theyre really just like heres the president s kind of idea of the direction the this government is going to go in but and that does eventually filter out the citizens but theyre not like youre going to get in trouble lets say with the ticktock ban thats a private company