Bonney is not the 1st russian dissidents to fall ill under suspicious circumstances other victims warn that poison is just one tactic in the kremlins playbook for dealing with domestic opponents plus. The snow so the show must go on thats the spirit in venice where the 1st major Film Festival since the pandemic hits is underway this years competition features a Record Number of entries from female directors. Hello im terry martin welcome to the program one of the leading figures in the better Opposition Movement maria has been detained trying to leave the country and cross into ukraine thats according to a spokesman for the border force the official said 2 of her allies were able to leave the country. So thats the cover has been leading mass protests against president Alexander Lukashenko on monday the Opposition Movement said mass been pushed into an unmarked vehicle in the capital minsk and drove away. Another mass protest in the city which more than 600 people were arrested. For the
From hong kong. The practices of now being cleared off the streets of hong kong where they blocked guys main highways on march 5th in the Central Business district which is where we are now and traffic has returned to normal now these protests were initially just about the anger of the extradition bill but that bill has now been dumped altogether but the anger of the message is now broader these protesters want beijing to withdraw restraint pull back from its tightening grip on hong kong now we have more rallies planned again next weekend i should also say there was a separate incident last night in a place called good long which is in the New Territories where we had a group of people wearing white we targeted those protesters returning from yesterday as much as another the mob wearing white they were holding up big metal devices and they beat those passages i think janice and they beat politicians who tried to escape from the trying to avoid these violent confrontations and now. The