Reduced to ruins in beirut following last weeks catastrophic explosion in the city the following a russian team of medics lending a helping hand. Hello good evening watching out international it has just gone 5 oclock in the russian capital now tensions in the belorussian capital of minsk continue to saw today citizens have already started to gather in the city center again vehicles reported to have moved in as well it all comes in the wake of sundays disputed president ial election which has plunged the country into chaos our correspondent reports now from the city. Yes its just that here there were less wars to be honest its quite difficult to describe to you whats going on in victory square in minsk on the square there are women with flowers in their hands and you can also see the women dressed in white with flowers in their hands remaining along independence avenue cars and buses which are passing by a honking their horns in support of what they call the solidarity action the solid
A look plus also on the way with hospitals reduced to ruins in beirut following last weeks catastrophic explosion in the city we follow a russian team of medics lending a helping hand. Hello there are 6 pm here in the russian capital youre watching the International Tensions in the belorussian capital of minsk continue to soar this evening citizens have already started to gather in the city center Armored Vehicles are reported to have moved in as well it does come in the wake of sundays disputed president ial election which has plunged the country into chaos our correspondent reports from the city. This is just the where there was only a 6 quite difficult to describe to you whats going on in victory square in minsk on the square there are women with flowers in hands you can also see the women dressed in white with flowers in the hands remaining along independence avenue cars and buses which are passing by honking their horns in support of what they call the solidarity actions the solid
Following last weeks catastrophic explosion in the city we follow a russian team of medics lending a helping hand. Get even with our International Just on 7 oclock here in moscow tensions in the russian capital of minsk to continue to saw citizens have already started to gather in the city center and Armored Vehicles are reported to have moved in as well it doesnt come in the wake of sundays disputed president ial election which has plunged the country into chaos our correspondent reports from the city. Because moving extremely slowly literally in 1st gear all the drivers are honking their horns and waving marathons there are lots of flowers serving as though it says something unimaginable is going on in the center of minsk this is the way the people are driving the women is standing alone independence avenue well if Something Like that. But ill swear in belarus these are the images from inside western city of brest where people formed a human chain there to show their support to the p
I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam, as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. I am glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this facetoface, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, harry truman, and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisors around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond, a lot of historians read potsdam backwards. That is to say they read it as a start of the
Continent of snow and ice. In 1911, the norwegian Roald Amundsen became the first person ever to reach the south pole, the last region of earth that was still unexplored and uninhabited by humans. In 1959, 12 nations signed the antarctic treaty, pledging to use the region only for peaceful purposes, and particularly for scientific research. Today, there are around 80 research stations in the antarctic, used by 4000 scientists frorom all over the world. We wanted to know what its like to spend months in the cold and ice, and so we headed there, starting at the airport close to the russian Polar Research station, novolazarevskaya. Reporter approaching antarctica from the air. On board thihis aircraft are scientists from m ten differet countries. Theyll be spending the polar summer doing their research here. This y year, the team from belas is especially large. Aleksey belarus has very big program for science. Biologists, cosmologists, and geophysicists. Now, were building our station. Re