A flight to moscow prompting western media speculation of the kremlin to foul play even as moscow offers to send him abroad for treatment. Of broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is R G International thomas certainly glad to have you with us now it is day 12 nationwide on rest in belarus in the wake of the disputed election earlier this month large crowds on both sides of the divide are making their voices heard those who support president Alexander Lukashenko and those who want to see him gone. People here chanting for the president to resign in the city of goma well but in contrast youve got a convoy of the president s supporters driving past them with the official red and green flag antigovernment demonstrators also gathered in the capital minsk where activists lined up along a Central Avenue meanwhile in eastern. And ampitheater in vitebsk packed earlier in the day with fouls and the people chanting their support for president lukashenko progovernment marchers were seen throughout the day vera as well artys it was done of reports now from the city. Its the closest large city to the russian border and thats thats where we are and 8000 people gathered supporting the government saying that they. Do think that the country needs changes but they dont like the current that the that the protesters have taken i talked to some of them and they have been essentially saying that they indeed they do want changes but they want to make them peacefully they want a peaceful transition to Something Else not a transition old power but in the old policy if i may say so and they have been citing such examples as for instance syria or libya or ukraine and saying that well those countries they have seen some changes and while they dont like what theyre seeing there theyre sort of looking over the border across the border and they dont like it they dont want to. Watch the news and can see events unfold and as they did in syria or libya iraq and ukraine ive seen how countries have been destroyed with people fleeing and both to europe and even in migrant camps i believe who must not choose this path this is really a Color Revolution and. You our president has created conditions which allow us to think about our families about the future they can. Plants i dont want anything to change we must we have peace everything is clean and great the puppet is just want to destroy us do we need. The support fool the incumbent president lukashenko has been growing here still i have to say not as large as at least it looks not as large as the opposition protests but this could be a case of the silent majority because again who has won the election a highly controversial case but still so this similar action has taken place in other cities like in capital minsk and all across the country again people in the thousands there have been cases one Anti Government people sort of tried to crash their rallies it to crash the pro got government rallies and tackled the progovernment protesters calling them traces but again have been already consecutive days of protests. And theyre not it doesnt look like they are going to and anytime soon another issue we are following surrounding the situation in belarus prosecutors have opened a criminal case against the oppositions Coordination Council accusing them of plotting an illegal seizure of power so that it with the creation of such organizations is illegal and they were actively violates the constitution having realized down low for most of their actions a number of Council Members quit the body and reject its goals include the illegal seizure of power the council poses a danger to national security. The chief prosecutors words echoing what president Lucas Shanker said on wednesday at a Security Council meeting the so named record Nation Council for the transfer of power was established by the Opposition Leaders had learned to come of sky she is currently in self exile in lithuania the group it denies any wrongdoing and political and. Believes the Antigovernment Movement in belarus is not losing momentum due to the lack of a clear agenda. Below to show you stand the good speed in the state is fired. Some people obviously had little bitty an awful saw of this conflict. By this opposition to this uprising as it is being called the are aiming at Something Else which they really dont know what it is they are just being told and told by the opposition by the European Union that they. Have to demand change they have to change the system but you can see you know of the support for this. Kind of disappearing because people are thinking ok now for the 1st time or what is going to happen if you really. Have this change or are we going to end the ukraine are we going to. The former soviet republics which were. Through this president busy. Are we going to basically or not at least the e. U. Meanwhile has confirmed its drawing up sanctions against the belorussian officials who are suspected of Election Fraud and violence against protesters on the block has not disclosed as yet whether Alexander Lukashenko is on that list in fact brussels lifted penalties on him 4 years ago with the way in which shares a border with belarus has banned Lucas Shankar and 31 other bela russian officials from entering the country and the e. U. Has stressed that there should be no foreign meddling in. The bell russian crisis moscow claims that listening is doing precisely that awaited sanctions on the countrys leader. Russias foreign minister has contacted the e. U. Foreign policy chief to urge brussels against stirring up confrontation between the government and opposition in bellerose thats after the e. U. Unanimously rejected the results of the election and declared president lukashenko persona nongrata has done quarter comments now at the signals coming from the European Union. For the west bank it was always europes last dictator the European Union never liked the guy but they did try to play nice not anymore we stand by the people of belarus their European Union student in so we dont reteach was a piece of Better Research by skills than most benefits should on its own choose brain dependent cost of the country will follow there should be no outside interference in the situation there just often and things could no longer continue as they are in belarus now but when a dictator has come to the end of the road its best to find a way forward for the violence to suspicious in the western powers throw around words like dictator and regime usually it doesnt and well no wonder it sounds pretty alarming to moscow but its good to should be able to so you can just as we are deeply concerned about whats going on right now in better roofs we are concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing bella ruse to interfere in them from a brutal it goes without saying ballarat president Alexander Lukashenko is also concerned that in the. Western countries are openly without hiding it raising funds and sending them to beller we cannot track all of the funds as much if it is in cash but we see that we know whats going on and we will focus on this issue. The European Union isnt just paying lip service to the ballarat opposition either the millions of euros in aid it promised to the belorussian government are now being redirected to socalled Civil Society an independent media and the European Commission will mobilize now an additional 53000000. 00 euros to support the belorussian people in these challenging times we cant forget the e. U. States neighboring valorous which seem to have their own agendas for one the polish Prime Minister seems to think belarus is close ties with russia make it incapable of democracy and theres a plan to. Change that such of an economic plan should be prepared for the ruse because now it is highly dependent economically on russia poland is already presented to plan for intensive course. In the areas of independent media the Economy Investment and thence National Trends polands plan involves spending a levon 1000000 euros on scholarships for media and academics that it deems to be independent warsaw is also generously offering to open its doors to bellow russian workers just think what the loss of valor of the skilled workers would do to help democracy. Actions will not interfere with our neighbors in town the fact is we can and should extend a helping hand to the russians its a similar story in lithuania where the Opposition Leader settle on a take on of sky is in selfimposed exile and other belorussian antigovernment n. G. O. S are operating from its also where a Fund Raising Initiative called freedom 1st to go bella reuss is being organized intended to encourage the creation of a Democratic State aside from the fact that its director provided direct support to the ukrainian uprising in 2014 little is known about who is involved or where the money is coming from combined questions surrounding the oppositions shady sources of funding with the e. U. Is Cold Shoulder to lucas sankoh and you have to ask yourself who is going to really come out on top from the on rest and valorous and snowboarder russia everything that we hear in the western media coming out of the news it was because it is egypt. When that of mir speaks about. It. So its really what you think is one of the. Theyve made the 1st steps all we do here in. The russians and so far. Theyve been very patient in the. Bulls who are in charge of the e. U. If you. Believe that we all are one why one train that one direction what is the view thats been done to the lot of western thinking ever since. Mr for yama wrote his book of the end of history. Back in the community to. The us has formally requested a socalled snapback of United Nations sanctions against iran secretary of state my pompei all met with the u. N. Security Council President within the last few hours to deliver that request arties come up and has more so at this point weve got the United States essentially demanding that the United Nations reimpose its crippling sanctions Economic Warfare against the Islamic Republic of iran this is mike pompei o laying out the demand just a few minutes ago i delivered letters to both the un secretarygeneral to tears and to the president of the Security Council. Notify them that the United States is initiating the restoration of virtually all u. N. Sanctions on iran lifted under un Security Council resolution 2231. 00 that isis will never allow the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons now essentially the United States is hoping to invoke the snap back mechanism that was part of the j c p o a conclusion of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations the Iran Nuclear Deal now the snapback mechanism was put into the nuclear deal so that if iran did not fulfill the agreement and did not fulfill its obligations broke the agreement that there would be an immediate snap back and all the un sanctions would immediately be reimposed on iran so now the United States is trying to invoke the snapback mechanism however it has virtually no support in the International Community when it comes to this demand weve got all the other cosigners of the deal the United Kingdom germany france china russia all staying that basically the United States doesnt have the right to invoke the snapback mechanism because the United States pulled out of the deal not iran this has been the International Reaction to the United States call and this was my studio and i was aware difficult cerns at reckless acts by the United States could trigger a serious crisis in the Security Council our american colleagues do not seem to care about this recall no contraries to resist and i stress once again that the u. S. Prices are low for that. The United States has withdrawn from the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian Nuclear issue and hes not qualified to call for a rapid resumption of sanctions by the Security Council as i have repeatedly recalled the u. S. Unilaterally ceased participation in the j. C. B. Away by president ial memorandum on the 8th of may 28th and has subsequently not participated in any j c p away related activities he cannot therefore be considered to be a participant state. For the pipes is a possible sanctions not by foreseen by the resolution the United States hold out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in may of 28 scene and at this point weve got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open to renegotiating a new deal that would restrict irans activities more harshly now at this point people are reacting to the recent effort by the United States to extend the arms embargo against the Islamic Republic of iran which was roundly defeated by the International Community the u. N. Security council the 15 member body that leads the u. N. The only other country to support the u. S. Move was the Dominican Republic and it seems with the world basically opposing washingtons moves against iran that iran actually has the upper hand this is what weve heard from some iranian officials call me one which i think today its clear that the United States is size a limited and american unilateral ism is not supported by other countries with the reason reason lucian that was put before the Security Council the United States was defeated and the slum a group of iran has the upper hand about it in the International Community it seems like almost a consensus that the Iran Nuclear Deal should remain intact however washington has pulled out of the deal and they seem to be almost standing alone at this point in their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the Islamic Republic. Earlier we spoke to journalist and author of the iran agenda today reece elric he thinks the u. S. Push for renewed sanctions are a sign of weakness rather than strength. The u. S. Has no legal grounds whatsoever to pursue this its very quite explicit in the terms of the j. C. L. A that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back weve seen all kinds of procedure iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way to venezuela perfectly legal the u. S. Claims the unilateral right to post its interpretation of sanctions anywhere in the world against anybody it wants. But frankly rather than a sign of straightening this is a sign of weakness because the u. S. Is unable to get support any other country in the world for these. Actions including britain france germany and staunch u. S. Allies completely reject the about the trump a news station on this issue and its a sign of desperation frankly that theyre hoping something will happen between now and november and turn things around and trump hopes to use these an effort to gain reelection i think frankly its quite the opposite. The tech giant apples value has now hit the 2 trillion dollar mark surpassing the g. D. P. Of a raft of countries including russia brazil and canada after the break we asked 2 experts what that means for the Global Economy stay with us this is our international. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation unity. Are you going the right way or are you being. What is true. Is. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or in maybe in the shallows. Why youre sent. For fresh. Welcome back this is our t. International now the russian Opposition Leader. Has been left fighting for his life after falling ill on thursday during a flight to moscow now the plane made an Emergency Landing in the siberian city where the volley is in a coma and connected to a ventilator the anticorruption campaigners allies say that they believe he was poisoned while still on the plane a volley was heard howling in pain as paramedics came to his aid. You dont have to news of his illness broke supporters gathered in several cities across russia this was the scene in central Saint Petersburg people there Holding Placards with the message of live in a volley and a rally was also held here in moscow where several activists were reportedly to train the monk or sort of has more of the situation and the International Reaction. I think seeing the violent felt ill when he was on route to the russian capital from siberia the aircraft counts and decided to make an unscheduled landing and once on the ground level he was probably taken to the hospital where he remains in a coma now the. Latest reports suggest that their preliminary diagnosis is poison by neuroleptic which is more commonly known as anti psychotic drug however at this moment medics can see the testing they continue symptomatic treatments of they see a lot of the but they have already ruled out several things that meanwhile one of the they say the lot of these personal medics is already there in where she received some information from the doctors i dont know if he has regained consciousness the doctors gave me general medical information that he is in a serious condition lets hope that here gains consciousness to more on the ball has a high profile personality whats been the International Reaction so far the western media they were very quick with their headlines and they labeled what happened as the poisoning of a kremlin critic now someone as far as speculating that a russian leadership is somehow responsible and gave their viewers a timeline off a supposed poisonings of kremlin critic said lets just take a look at some of what the western media. I have to say the most outspoken critic of russian president Vladimir Putin has been rushed to a siberian hospital doesnt seem to really decide asking is the kremlin involved its all true and if so i asking not in there is you know the russians. As many towers fell out of the steam is clearly puts a blame the Government School theyre saying the place would not have been possible without husseins approval. Is a very. Silencing critics like. We always. Were being humorous examples of. Well ironically all the the kremlin has been doing nothing but call parading with that nonviolent stuff in this case and helping them as much as they can and just recently in the violin these other personal medic while he told the western media that he wants his patients to be evacuated to the European Union he added that he was even in talks with clinics in france and in germany as well while the kremlin said theyre ready to give any kind of green light necessary in order for them wanted to be transported were wherever he needs to be despite the fact that the borders in russia closed now due to cohabit 19 situation they wish to the violence to get well very soon of course and the request to visit a foreign clinic would be approved as soon as possible if there is such a request for the for russian citizens to visit other countries for medical treatment despite of the cruise board well enough on the staff had already welcomed this offer from paris golf and will now put in a request to the kremlin to help with the evacuation if it is necessary meanwhile elsewhere in the western media it looks like the cause and the blame all of this and already been attributed and thats despite the fact that everything is being done in russia for enough was made to get better soon as possible devoutness quote here. In the west and hes seen as a very powerful opponent well good team of putin so from the western border view of many western countries and hes a hero to the fit anything that happens to him will be seen as criminal or into it hopefully come from the kremlin. Nothing else would happen to him unless he could become an did you know acted and did something so thats the way the media in the west where do things now immediately point to blame because they want sensationalism they want Headline News but of course. The totally false news. We have to wait on the medical and the medical and find out exactly why he. Descended into the coma why he was hospitalized and why he was in such paid him so on but of course it makes a great story from the from the west and what have you because most of the western press is only russian. Tech giant apple this week became the 1st ever u. S. Company to be worth 2 trillion dollars apples value puts it on par with Major Economies it is now surpassed in the g. D. P. Of brazil canada russia and south korea its market capitalization has doubled over the past 2 years and most of that growth has happened since the start of the pandemic experts now estimate that if apple were an economy it would be classified as the 9th richest in the world you know neal ask the economists edward hall and Jeffrey Tucker for their thoughts on apples 2 trillion dollar valuation. Does it seem as if something felt quite right when millions are losing their jobs or close to it and a tiny number getting insanely rich. That is exactly right and i have to correct language you say because of the pandemic its because of the lockdown its all across the world especially in the us governments have been bankrupting small and be medium size businesses and forced closures and stay home orders and closing schools closing borders stopping travel its been an outrage and of course who benefits its the Big Companies especially the tech giants and the rich meanwhile in this country the the poor and the middle class are suffering and medium Small Businesses are going under because of the lockdowns not because of the pandemic obviously theres an end plenty of encouragement for Companies Like apple which have received public funding and. From their very get go and we really need to see far more of diversity at the grassroots of the economy to to channel that kind of innovation and it seems that the large Companies Like apple once they reach a threshold like this they need a lot of public scrutiny to keep up with that kind of responsibility of being so Large Company a leg that needs to be under public scrutiny and to perform at a higher level and providing innovation rather than at the monopolistic in their aims. Youre watching our 2 international be back in about 33 minutes with the full extra news. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy on sunday shouldnt let it be an arms race. Spearing dramatic to follow only closely im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. Back skies are fine it will survive they say money the bellatrix. Clutch it is it this is the central plank support diet supplements are the problem right now so stop the. Welcome to alex thomas you will be returned to the dominating story not just of the here but about like the Global Pandemic of corporate 90. It was in this very hospital as st thomas says in april that Prime Minister johnson fined by personally expedient the full Health Impact of covert 90 he pulled through but more than 41000 citizens have not been so fortunate a matter of weeks ago it was possible to feel least in most European Countries that they had to fight under some degree of control and therefore life was beginning to return to some degree of normality however since then theres been setback after setback as country after country had to face up to sustained clusters of the bias the holiday destinations of you know have been might not by crowds flocking to the beach but anxious to this heading for the cost to avoid the next low tide according. To find out where the world night stands alex turns to 2 world ranking experts on the pandemic dr chris smith of the naked scientist fame and kid of University College london intensive care unit professor hume one. But 1st lets look at the reviews of last weeks show on the liberal democrat leadership race with your tweets miss just a. Little says interesting sure i dont think the lib dems will get in power in any parliament. When it comes to it does it really matter just says the lib dems are not to see the party anymore. Bruce says layla moran will be a success both as. The weve been saying is not the sport for choice but if i were a lib dem i would go for ms moran and finally peter says what she recently interviews with vince cable really enjoyed the shows ill be but its a refreshing change well thank you peter the make of scientists for. The radio show is made crisper for that were all just in the world but i can said the president