The president. Great to have you with us. The belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several arrests of strikes and demonstrations gripped the country. Dispersed protesters outside the track to factory on wednesday morning dozens of people gathered near the entrance to greet and support workers who were on strike demanding president Alexander Lukashenko resign protests over the disputed election and now into the 11th day heres what some of tuesdays rallies both for and against the president look like. I. Think. The situation in our country is very serious unrest in our country i want to say one thing i stand here. Valeries our president we do not condemn the christian disappearance for the position so why should they condemn the us the. I came here to support the protest because the only way to win is to keep getting out and keep showing our disagreement with the results of the election or is this im here to show solidarity with my people as i also want changes the dictatorship that has lasted for 26 years has finally been weakened and our country is now moving in and democratic direction their positions Coordination Council for the transfer of power in belarus held its 1st meeting on tuesday promises to maintain friendly mutually beneficial relations with the e. U. Russia and ukraine also criticizes the role of the Security Forces in governing valorise isnt looking shanker those line the councils being nothing but an illegal attempt to singhs power. And then in time a number of Foreign Countries have challenge the legitimacy as president rejecting the Election Results he used confirmed that its drawing up sanctions against russian officials who are suspected of Election Fraud and violence against protesters artist and hawkins delves into why the former soviet republic is on so much international attention. Just a fortnight ago many western viewers may have barely heard of belarus that will change the thousands paul out of the streets in protest over the disputed president ial election is the countrys geography which between its big east the neighbor and europe sees the interests of International Players intertwine and clash. Officially the e. U. Is dismissed the elections as neither free nor fair. As persona nongrata and already begun drawing up new sanctions lists citing Human Rights Violations in the wake of Police Violence closer to home withheld e. U. Why discussions on sanctions against those responsible for Human Rights Violations how these sanctions will be organized and whether there will be further restrictive measures depends on the further actions of the bully russian authorities. Condemnation was perhaps predictable but there is no shared view of what comes next the Baltic States and poland have been the loudest critics of looking while hungary has stopped short of outright that l. C. A. Sion others still have sought a balancing act the e. U. Cant turn a blind eye neither can it risk having it be stabilized neighbor state on their doorstep and confrontations with moscow a longtime ally of minsk are getting tiresome. So its no surprise putin has been busy on the phone holding talks with merkel mark kroll and the European Council chief we all see russia as an actor that can help influence or regulate the situation a better roofs is russias closest historical alloy a vital economic and military partner and the buffer zone against nato over recent years have seen their relationship strained to say the least nevertheless moscow would surely rather put up with look at yours to the west than risk chaos on its borders the russian side emphasized that any attempt at external interference in the internal affair. Years of belarus which could lead to a further escalation of the crisis would be an acceptable. For many years but it doesnt exactly been a top priority for the United States in 2006 they slap sanctions on minsk for you guessed it undemocratic elections and in 2008 the countrys expelled each others ambassadors but earlier this year things began to change for the 1st time since 1904 minutes got a visit from the u. S. Secretary of state. Generously offered to meet all of energy needs and extended a helping hand get out of 6 wants to help the reuss build its own sovereign country this leaves washington with a dilemma should they carry on befriending look who may be interested or put their bets on the opposition and its the uncertainty in minsk one thing is clear washington has its own interest in belarus the possibility of another u. S. Friendly state on russias border could be a game changer and as protests grow in a country suddenly thrown into the International Limelight and with multiple interests at stake all actors involved hold their breath as they play out their next move the e. U. Is holding an emergency summit over the political crisis in belarus president look at. The bloc what he sees as being meddling in his countrys affairs peter oliver takes closer look. The Virtual Summit which will get underway to around noon brussels time will see leaders dial in Via Video Conference germany holds the rotating presidency of the European Union right now when chancellor Angela Merkel held talks over the phone with russian president Vladimir Putin heading into this summit and which its important for the e. U. To speak with one voice. 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 thats prisoners must be released and that there must be a National Dialogue to settle things peacefully in belarus to lift the way and poland have been particularly vocal in their support for the opposition in belarus said lana ticket of sky is in selfimposed exile in lithuania and she said that the e. U. Should make a statement rejecting the recent election in belarus this is taking place right now in the needle hero i call and youre not to recognize this fraud when elections. Mr quest center has lost all the legitimacy in the eyes of our nation and the wall but theres a balancing act to play for the e. U. Alexander lukashenko has already claiming that foreign interference is behind the only rest in the country and in fact hes put the military on standby because of it this. Statements have been made very some western countries who dont even know where bill is and have no idea what is happening here but nevertheless they make these statements we have reacted to this and deployed combat army units on our western borders and have brought them to full combat readiness. So what can we expect coming out of where these days you saw that we can expect clarification on who will be targeted by e. U. Commission sanctions most likely its going to be belorussians curity forces and election authorities could also expect a statement of support for the opposition however for now at least the e. U. Will be looking to tread lightly. If the new specialist benares believes the crisis is a major concern for both russia and the European Union. A few days ago a look at. The kremlin and said that he was going to us puts in quotes supports the suggestion was that the present was reaching out to the russians or d in a significant force the riot police beer troops in order to quell the protests by brute force and its raised the question will russia invades. That russian where theres been a lot of speculation navy terms that people have thought of the situation closely and that idea has been pretty written off putins unlike stu that 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 if putin came in and crushed the. Demonstrations by force and kept the percent go in office by force then the entire population would then suddenly turn against russia and putin and then youd end up with another ukraine situation which the kremlin doesnt want so because of these fears youve got macron 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 that there should be no west in in the domestic politics of. The u. S. Democrats have officially nominated joe biden for president in a virtual vote during day 2 of the partys Virtual Convention despite efforts to attract Younger Voters with a star studded lineup for some events proving a bit of a bore. Without a doubt it will be the most boring repetitive adult meanspirited convention in history of. The d. N. C. So far feels like one long on you tube usually skew. This convention so far makes me think the democrats are the party ready to lead america into the. Party crowd im dying of which indians messages goodbye to 2. In the mean time both democrats and republicans are making a raft of Campaign Promises including about American Military interventions joe biden says he wants to see and for other wars his track record on pace to be decided explains. Donald trumps surprising 2016 election victory had a lot to do with one golden promise and americas endless wars i am proposing a new Foreign Policy focused on advancing americas korda show interest to avoid endless wars that were caught up in the current strategy of toppling regimes with no play and for what to do the day after only produces power vacuums that are filled simply by terrorists we now know he didnt deliver on his promise but Many Americans still long for that a waste of peace and in 2020 the opposition understands this all too well democrats know its time to bring nearly 2 decades of unceasing conflict to an end and left wing right wing it doesnt even matter polls are showing that 3 out of 4 americans want troops withdrawn from afghanistan and half of them want to see cuts to the military budget when it comes to u. S. Foreign policy the vast majority of americans are fed up with never ending war and yet the democrats are supporting joe biden as their candidate a man with a track record of supporting conflicts. Lets start from 2002 when joe biden jumped right on the weapons of mass destruction bandwagon and supported the u. S. Invasion of iraq clearly be more secure without Saddam Hussein in position of weapons of mass destruction almost 5000 american soldiers dead thousands more iraqi civilians killed a catalyst for the rise of the Islamic State i wouldnt say any of that fits into most peoples definition of peace and security in my mind. Not having it. There are no you. As brock obamas v. P. Biden cheered on americas longest war in afghanistan he called it a success and promised to bring the troops home that strategy is succeeding and as a consequence the president is making good on his commitment to bring our young men and women home right on schedule well here we are 2020 and so little has changed it just goes to show Us Operations in afghanistan are more about dysfunction than success what are we trying to do here we didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking if the American People knew the magnitude of these dysfunction syria libya pakistan yemen the list of countries that were bombed while joe biden was Vice President is very long so are we supposed to believe that hes going to put an end to years of endless war you decide well biden was there he was in the room where it happened as you say he was there for 8 years of obama so he cant divorce and so were obamas war mongering policy pretty rich for the democrats to pretend now that theyre the peace part of the because we had 8 years of president obama starting more wars i think in any president in decades before hand before him more drone strikes more bombings more killings under president obama oh but it was all for everyones own good when in fact just last month when president truman announced he wants to remove 12000. 00 troops from there he wants to remove troops from afghanistan so the Democratic Party that controls the house actually teamed up with liz cheney daughter of dick cheney to try to block and they actually passed legislation to try to prevent the end of the longest war in u. S. History so for them to now say we want to end endless wars it really is a farce who knows that the voters will buy thats nonsense. U. S. Senate intelligence. But you can use his body im a person a person ordering the heart of the Democratic Party in 2016 a story after the break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in this spearing Dramatic Development only personally im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Ok lets turn to a developing story now the organizers of the military mutiny in mali say that they will hold fresh elections under uphold all international agreements. Losses if this is really in a Civil Society and political movements are invited to join us to create the best conditions for a transition towards credible general elections to exercise democracy and part a roadmap to the foundations of the new mali. Or the countrys president appeared on state t. V. Announcing his resignation after he was detained on tuesday during a military revolt in bring him back of a car cater said the decision to leave power would avoid bloodshed in the country. But i would like to inform you of my decision to resign from my position with immediate effect and with all the legal consequences this entails the dissolution of the National Assembly and of the government. Will choose those uprising began with a shootout at the military camp close to the Capital Group of soldiers detained their Senior Officers before marching on bomber co and storming the president s residence mutiny was swiftly condemned by the African Union the e. U. And the head of the un neighboring countries to close their borders calling for sanctions against revolutionaries who follow several months of protest in mali which have seen the opposition demand the president s resignation over corruption allegations and a deteriorating security situation. People here jumped for joy to say a final farewell to mr walker kate hes no longer our president. Nothing is going well in my opinion were all suffering but the does not suit us we must advocate for dialogue above all. Is to enjoy old home claims that the roots of malis latest insurrection can be traced right back to nato intervention in libya 9 years ago. This. Was basically a result of the 2000. Tragic overthrow or never more market libya into nearby the United States of america and its nato allies particularly britain. That. Murder of gadhafi led to leakage of tons of weapons into neighboring mali which got into the hands of religious zealots who call themselves muslims who since that time had been waging a brutal and bitter war against the soldiers in bali been killed as a result this in turn has led to a French Military intervention backed by the United States of america and its also helped to generate unrest and instability this might be on the verge of seizing power in bomb which could have a negative knock on effect throughout the neighborhood not least in the wall in guinea. The u. S. Senate Intelligence Committee has released the final part of a report on the alleged russian meddling in the 2016 election the document accuses putin of writing the hack of Democratic Party service if you hope to find a smoking gun in the report in likely to be disappointed this kind of morbid explains. It is the 5th and final installment from the senate Intelligence Committee regarding allegations of russia and trump and the 2016 elections now the report is over a 1000 pages long it takes us to quite extravagant places from the Ritz Carlton Hotel to the Miss Universe pageant and the ultimate conclusion of the report the long awaited conclusion is that russian president Vladimir Putin himself werder the hacking of the Democratic National committee server take a listen the Committee Found that russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the russian effort to hack competes networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president do they offer any proof well no they just simply state they have high confidence this is an Intelligence Community assertion that the russian government is responsible and that lattimer putin himself ordered the hacking of the d. N. C. And phrases like high confidence show up throughout the report for example the phrase likely is used 139 times furthermore the phrase almost certain shows up 23 times and the phrase seems shows up 39 times however despite all this high confidence and almost certainty the Russian Security services are blamed for the hacking of the d. N. C. Server take a listen to this passage from the report beginning in march 26th seen offices of the russian Main Intelligence Directorate the g o u successfully hacked competes networks but long into the Democratic National committee and the Democratic CongressionalCampaign Committee and the email accounts of Clinton Campaign officials and employees including Campaign Chairman john podesta the report claims that Russian Security services in gauged in spirit fishing and this gave them. Access to the d n c server now at this point the main piece of evidence that they put forward to back up this claim is testimony from the tech firm known as crowd strike crowd strike youll recall was hired by d. N. C. Lawyers to look into the matter now crowd strike has come under a lot of scrutiny crowd strikes president ex f. B. I. Official shawn henry testified that they saw a quote activity that we believed was consistent with activity wed seen previously and had associated with the russian government in the same testimony and we also testified that crowd strike never had any evidence the data was actually exfiltrate it i. E. Stolen from the d. N. C. Servers but regardless and not surprisingly we see wiki leaks also thrown into the report wiki leaks activity sort on played a key role in the Russian Campaign and very likely knew it was assisting russian intelligence influence efforts from jill in a sanches long denied these allegations and said he is simply not a russian operative however the allegations persist Many Americans looking at this report as well as many people around the world have got to be asking themselves how much longer is this russia gate story going to keep going is this final installment really the last report or will they find a way to get it back into the news once again. Right to charles will tell gave us his reaction to the intelligence report. Whether one or another country may be interfering in our elections i think people are tired of that frankly and in tired of the endless investigation of the same issue 20 only to rush i have seen so 4 little evidence its not no evidence. And on the balance of probabilities again when i say the way from looking to those 16 children couldnt read an atrocious campaign thats why she lost youve got to look at 16 and understand that Hillary Clinton went out of her way to offend a large percentage of the voting population she did not campaign effectively key states she looks very ill on september 11th 2016 she was operating with her husband a corrupt foundation has been since 1997 where hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars have gone missing their similar questions of all the joe biden and his family those are the big issues that are going to alienate voters in this country. An incident on tuesday night on a berlin motorway is being probed as a possible terrorist attack Health Authorities say a series of crashes may have had an islam is motive 6 people have been left wounded 3 of them in Critical Condition the suspect an iraqi born man was detained he apparently deliberately rammed his car into several vehicles a Community Reporter also claimed to have explosives in his car but that turned out to be false suspect is expected to face 3 charges of attempted murder. And i bring you right up to date this is all to International Thanks for your company join us for updates. On the demick no certainly no borders. Nationalities. Has emerged with the we dont look like world peace to. People. Judging. Commentary classist least. We can do better we should know. Everyone is contributing way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is grateful to respond. So many good people are helping us. It makes us feel very proud that we are in it together. An entire village in alaska has had to move if another country threaten to wipe out an american town. We do everything in our power to protect. Water then escaping Climate Change poses the same threat right now alaska has seen some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world. About 30 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. His back and that means the river is 35 closer to the power than was. I think were part of a 1st for. A low end welcome across top where all things are considered computer limbo it appears a new cold war is in play this time waged against china what are the terms of engagement what does it mean to win this conflict and is all out war possible how did the u. S. And its alliance oh i just find themselves in this situation. To cross up this and more im joined by my guest when he came in london she is a policy. Analyst and senior lecturer in Chinese International political economy and in washington we cross to ivan is a senior fellow at the independent institute ok im going to good you 1st in washington i mean if you look at the Mainstream Media as it was russia gate seems to wind down the banks have come out for china and some of the groups some really very very harsh editorials are being written there in the Washington PostNew York Times and they Canadian Press and even in the British Press here is this a new cold war and if it is how is it different on the up with from the one that was against the soviet union go ahead and wash. Well i think its a bit its a bit of a stroke and say its a cold war yet i mean i think this is all actually nearing frankly end but you know Foreign Countries sort of been historically have realized in the last president ial election years especially candidates you know attack Foreign Countries. And try to stir things up. Especially if theyre in trouble in other ways and i think our current president having difficulty with his response to the virus and also the economy the economic ramifications of course which other countries are