Announced that he and most of his supporters will boycott that election and he has called on all of the opposition parties to join him in a united front to do that so clearly the response from president model is to make one is to agree to one of the main demands of the opposition and as long been one and that is the release of the Political Prisoners however this is not enough to convince certainly why the law and probably many of the other opposition parties to to actually take part in this election which is incredibly important for president legal last mughal he needs it so that he could it could be recognized as legitimate theres no point in having an election that you win but with no opponents taking part so that is what this is about even even russia and china are pressuring me to hold elections that will at least bring on board some of the internationally recognized mainstream opposition and not just those who are called opponents but who are really under the pay or the control o
Its 3 weeks since the disputed election that the balor russian president claimed to win with 80 percent of the vote. No one here believes that and theyve been protesting against luka shank ever since ready. Im here to express my disapproval at the rigging of the elections and to be in solidarity with everyone he was detained i am for peace i am for belarus but the. Protesters have been peaceful from the outset and after initially violently attempting to suppress earlier demonstrations the Security Forces have taken a step back in the past couple of weeks. Some protesters are being detained more than 125 according to the couple and many journalists have had their accreditation revoked that was on sunday what witnesses described as the largest deployment so far of Security Forces who blocked off access to some main streets. One of the countrys largest mobile phone operators said it had reduced mobile internet capacity at the governments request. And tanks roll down a road closed because
Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats really very flexible we we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day require week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do you need to know more about what the penetrance is there so if we do the kind of testing we were doing and testing will always be associated by identifying cation isolation and contact racing and you find after a pe
Also announced a 38000000000. 00 economic rescue package shamed at helping Small Businesses weather the impact securing the essential medical supplies has been made i dial the task that the Health Minister has been leading together with the industry minister and other ministers across the cabinet. And in foresee the social distancing keeping i will be physical distance from one another. The sea is one of our most if not most important with or against the spirit of the corona virus which means we can side lives and we can save livelihoods singapore plans to ban all short term visitors from entering all transiting through the country to control the spread of corona virus was to 80 percent of the citys states new infections over the last 3 days have been imported and thailand has reported its largest ever daily increase in corona virus infections up 188 cases today only 600. There are reports of protests at a number of prisons across colombia at a prison in the capital bogota there were 5
Distance from others to the pandemic of zeros lawrence lee has more from london on the situation across europe. Its the exponential rate of rise thats really alarming 2 days in a row now where theres been well over 400. 00 deaths each day if you if you extrapolate it clearly and it stays at that level youre looking at the best part of 3000 deaths a week and thats really terrifying stuff big rise 2 in spain the problem in italy seems to have been brought about because they reacted see late because the hospitals and fall people are getting sufficiently ill while still at home that its too late to do anything for them when the by the time they got to hospital and so its the countries that are behind the curve where italy is now the supposed to be looking at this and thinking well perhaps we should be reacting differently to the way that its a lead ins when it mismanaged this at the start so germany for example is now suggesting that at the weekend if people are refusing still to abide by