disturbing. the german government is even calling it disgraceful. and the interview itself is quite difficult to watch. you do see that roman protasevich, at times you can see that he has marks on his wrists, which could obviously come from having had handcuffs on before being lead into that interview room. in the interview itself, protasevich is essentially saying that he's repenting. he says he pleads guilty to organizing some of those protests that took place in belarus. he also says he doesn't want to conduct political activism anymore in the future. he essentially says that he respects the dictator alexander lukashenko. the belarusian opposition, of course, not buying any of that. in fact, the opposition leader in warsaw called for tougher sanctions against the belarusian regime. and there are indeed some new sanctions that have just come into effect. the u.s. is sanctioning nine state-run belarusian companies. minsk is reacting to that. they are now saying they are going to limit the amount of personnel that the u.s. is