A country already facing acute fuel shortages promising new jobs mozambiques president visits a resource rich Northern Region for rebel fighters have captured a key port. Hundreds of tons of Ammonium Nitrate are moved from an indian ports to an explosives factory but nearby villagers are worried. About a piece of stone with your supporters or be leipzig who makes a huge leap the gym Football Club reach the European Champions League semifinals just 11 years off to being full we look at whats behind the rapid rise. The president of brother ross says people should get back to work and the interior minister is apologizing for the treatment of demonstrators thousands of factory workers have gone on strike its day 6 of protests over last. These disputed president ial election workers are from some of the largest state run factories and theyre joining a growing movement which once Alexander Lukashenko to step down after 26 years in power hundreds of protesters have been released but nearly 7000 people have been held since sunday in a violent crackdown that seen many beaten and tortured. Appeared in state t. V. A few hours ago warning that those on strike might not be paid. The partial of what people must be told that they have the only chance to save the enterprise that feeds them only saving their factory will feed their families they can take to the streets there are thousands of them walking but there is no money or they will be paid for just 2 days opposition candidates for atlanta take on sky has failed to neighboring left the way shes calling for International Help to set up talks with the authorities and she also wants her supporters to join peaceful protests this weekend and. We need to stop the violence on the streets of by the russian cities i call on the government to stop this and to come to the negotiation table i ask all town mayors to act as organizers of peaceful mass invest in each town on the 15th and 16th of august in new Foreign Ministers are holding a special meeting in brussels to discuss possible sanctions against bellicose we begin our coverage with a report from steverson in minsk. They told of torture and abuse inside cramped Detention Centers due to the lack of space detainees who are often forced to lie on top of each other young women say they were forced to undress they were beaten and threatened with rape. The Violent Police crackdown on mainly Peaceful Protesters has left deep scars on many belorussians it has also angered many of president alex on the locals shankars former supporters the call for him to step down has resonated around. The detained everyone everyone girls guys children who are 151413 years old there was a grandpa who was around 70 with us everyone got to taint even if you just came out of a shop to see whats going on you got detained. I was pushed into a police truck they told me either you go with us for 15 days or we beat your legs and let you go the fact that im here now its clear what i chose. To call for alex on the lookout got to step down resonates around ballads after a violent crackdown this is what the president is facing more people on the streets and growing anger about the thousands detained and excessive violence used all the economists for a state owned newspaper is still looking for a 21 year old son detained with his friend on monday evening roy seems to be up to you know. When. My son is a student at the Law Department hes not an alcoholic more a drug addict i dont want our boys to be beaten they are the future of our country its very can the 21st century if they dont stop or well burn myself i am ready to go on a hunger strike. Around the country factory workers have started to join the protests at a large state owned lorry factory hundreds announce a strike demanding new elections former servicemen are throwing away their uniforms out of shame for what Government Troops have done to their own people serving Police Officer fled the country after he recorded a statement saying he wont follow what he called criminal orders to use violence. Any longer. European and u. S. Ambassadors in minsk laid flowers at the square where one of the protesters was killed we call on the authorities to allow peaceful process protests for and truly all those who have exercised this right while the protests are swelling police have stayed away many belorussians have overcome their fears of National Numbers develops and we want our country to develop and not to stay at a dead end it. Will stay here until our dictator is overthrown and happiness comes to our country more and more joining the spontaneous protest after they were beaten and chased off the streets at night protesting during the day a new strategy that seems so confused. Why look i might have been able to silence belorussians for many years this time theyre determined to have to stone him for 23 turn to them. Whilst i was also being covering the latest protests in the capital minsk and she sent us this update. Peaceful protest s. Exactly exactly whats happening here right at the Independence Square in minsk and the crowds are swelling here by the minute this all started because workers from a truck to a factory in the outskirts of minsk left their factory when they were on strike marched through the city center and then asked others to join in which they did so they ended up here which and initially led to quite a tense situation because they were marching towards the building then certainly military police came out so people were really scared what they were going to do but then very surprisingly soldiers put down their shields which led to very emotional scenes with women 100 of them and people really crying because you have to remember of course that many here have been living under a syrian rule for more than 2 decades so where this is going to lead nobody knows but its getting bigger and bigger many here at the square consider startline if you can a sky as the new president and the kind of sky herself has now offered to government to have a dialogue about this Transitional Government she says because she considers herself a widow with 60 to 70 percent of the fold but so far has not responded to this offer. Neighboring lithuania says it might welcome belorussians as refugees and humanitarian grounds earlier its foreign minister lina slick of ink here suspect to observer and he said there needs to be collective action to create a political dialogue in bellows. We decided to step in since very beginning basically we cannot take watch employees to the events in the neighborhood but since its neighborhood we cannot speak indifferent and thats always this dialogue with neighbors very complicated i would say our approaches are quite collective there are 6 months where we can find added value and progress and there are issues where you can physically and now we see this crisis and crisis is because of the actions of this holistic beyond any borders d because if they are violated violations of human rights abuse are least equal to. Possibly even crimes committed against the civilian population thats something we cannot say firing them we are demanding quite a simple thing to release those detained also also to stop violence and to start some quite deep but the stop is dialogue with own people own citizens and they need much by the way they were not aggressive they were not rushing windows so warning 1st but d the force used against them was really extraordinary and thats what remains something racist in the future and thats. Very difficult when you have no intentions whatsoever holding that right in the arena of the domestic appears of that what we what we are talking here has no borders and theres a tension and at the same time happening in europe in the continent and thats why we discussed d this issue also d today with the Foreign Ministers of European Union having this extraordinary meeting its not just with union prepared to go we have to go collectively International CommunityEuropean Union so therefore we are here action its a collective action sent here we are about to prepare possible targets within visual measures against those responsible for local electoral support of those so for this excessive use of course. One point also we discussed the quick you need to establish special fun book and with them suppression of the soso would be the best moral backup but then the also maybe some experimental support for those who suffered because of the suppressions and repent of it so we discussed very concrete measures not just the assessing situation and that in this election it says that im free and undemocratic but also d its not enough that we have any visit if you want to lay shares and thats kind. Of the situation and a lot of this was the main topic at a meeting of e. U. Foreign ministers in a farm more on thats lets speak to knead botha whos live for us and london and even gets the impression that is a growing external pressure on the government in balad was what was happening at the meeting that. Well the meeting of the Foreign Ministers happened remotely they all dialed into a central hub and brussels and basically shared their ideas on how to pull the pressure on alexander look at theres no shortage of solidarity for the better russian people and no shortage of criticism and condemnation for Alexander Lukashenko according to a spokesperson for the german chancellor Angela Merkel was shocked covering scene seems of violence on the streets of minsk and other cities over the course of the past few days and also as live on the lam the European Commission president said that there had been a brutal violation of human rights that warranted immediate sanctions and sanctions does appear to be the direction of travel the e. U. Foreign ministers together in a unified way are prepared to take but could take the form of asset freezes or travel bans on senior figures within. The leadership we could well see other forms of pinas have measures been imposed but lets not forget the e. U. Is already imposed a raft of sanctions on the country already imposed restrictions on certain officials we know the nimble arms embargo has been in place for some time now so the e. U. Is also on the pressure to see exactly what it can do to force Alexander Lukashenko into line weve had poland without the Baltic States already come forth and volunteer as mediate is in any forthcoming dialogue between look at shanker and the opposition the opposition of welcome that but look at shanker who is far from it he remains defiant so the role now for the e. U. Is to pile on the pressure and to try and open a corridor of communication need thanks very much as neve barker in london. Russias general Prosecutor Says 33 of its nationals who were detained in belarus have been released and sent home but arrested in minsk last month president Alexander Lukashenko accused them of being mercenaries sent by moscow to incite a riot something russia denies and plenty more ahead on the news hour including fears that beiruts hospitals are running out of medicines after last weeks court last report from a damaged Child Cancer Treatment Center and the sisters sizing each other up ahead of the u. S. Open to tell you which williams came out on top later in sports. Ok the u. S. Department of justice says it sees iranian fuel from 4 tankers headed to venice whether its claiming its the biggest ever such seizure both iran and venezuela are under u. S. Sanctions lets go straight to alan fischer whos live for us in washington d. C. What more is the department of justice saying about this incident allan. Well weve been trying to patch together exactly what the story is here it appears that the u. S. Was aware of a convoy of 7 ships 3 of them state ships 4 that had been hired for the occasion they were on their way to venezuela according to the u. S. They were carrying oil in breach of International Sanctions they then approached a judge here in washington d. C. On the 2nd of july with a seizure order saying that they wanted to seize 4 of the vessels the judge gave permission of that and so the belle of the bearing the pandy and the luna where seized their country on their way to houston and texas we are told by the Justice Department that there was not a military action or a naval offensive in any way the ships to say on their way to texas they were carrying 1160000 barrels of oil according to the u. S. Justice department interestingly enough donald trump has talked about this just in the last few moments he has been in the Briefing Room to give his daily updates on the covert crisis but he was asked about the ships and he said this is something that iran should not be doing so these seas the vessels the department of justice and obviously the trumpet ministration fairly determined that this fuel was from iran but i understand that iran is denying that the oil has anything to do with them thats exactly right the whole idea of entered dictating these ships is to stop venezuela getting oil but also to stop iran making any money out of oil exports you know this is part of the United StatesAdministration Policy of maximum pressure on the iranian government but the Iranian Ambassador in venezuela has been speaking in the last few hours and he says look these where ships we went sending oil to venezuela the reason we were doing this is not something that we were doing the venezuelans have got their refineries up and running. No quarrel or not and with no right now theres nothing planned because we havent had a request from our venezuelan friends as they are reactivating their own refineries u. S. Officials are experts in fabricating lies and carrying out shows in the media i ask you who is the bigger victim of terrorism the u. S. Or iraq now what would have been the seizure order is the Us Government making the case that this shipment was organized by someone with links to the revolutionary guard which of course the United States is designated as a terrorist organization so theyre saying that they dont want them to get money from this shipment now thats an interesting case that theyre putting forward and the seizure of the ships isnt where this ends the u. S. Government has still got to but go back to court and make its case before its able to keep both the 1160000 barrels of oil that seized and the 4 vessels and alan fischer talking to us from washington d. C. Alan thanks very much. Turkeys president is threatening to suspend ties with the United Arab Emirates after it reached a deal with israel to normalize relations as part of the u. S. Brokered agreement israel will suspend but not scrap plans to annex palestinian territory egypt oman and buckling have welcomed the move palestinians say its a betrayal to their cause and theyve been protesting against the deal they occupied East Jerusalem they gathered in the courtyard of the al aqsa mosque compound after friday prayers some trampled on pictures of Abu Dhabis Crown prince muhammad winds aid and the enmity flag sorry false it is in west jerusalem with reaction and more on that protest. And mosque. It was an expression of anger and repudiation of the u. S. Poet and carrying out this deal with israel which obviously is something that goes in contravention of the minutes to what he had to at least publicly if not in the background policy of having a resolution in the Israeli Palestinian conflict before normalization with the arab states there was this protest at the al aqsa mosque compound there was a smaller protest as well and hebron and the south of the occupied west bank but the real pushback even come from the palestinian leadership itself saying that this is a betrayal this is a stab in the back of palestinians according to some senior officials and they say that the u. S. Should not have gone along with this from the u. N. Perspective what theyre saying is that they have acted in a way which has rescued being occupied west bank from the threat of imminent an extension of at least 30 percent of it and that is the that the prize that they have won from israel thats seen very differently of course in ramallah which is where the palestinian issue has had courted they see this israel gaining something very valuable merely for not having done anything not having sacrificed any land not having given any major concessions its will to the palestinians. And gold is top court has sentenced the son of former president jose the model to santos to 5 years in prison who is in philomena dos santos has been found guilty of embezzlement and fraud they have been in charge of angolas 5000000000. 00 Sovereign Wealth Fund during his fathers rule the verdict was linked to a 500000000. 00 transfer that have been made to an overseas account in 2017 well the santos is just one of several prominent angolans now facing scrutiny including the system billionaire is about the santos has been accused of widespread corruption and tuesday she stepped down from the board of angolas largest mobile phone operator citing a climate of power men and conflict is often described as the wealthiest woman in africa and gold is government confiscated harass sets last year accusing her of stealing a 1000000000. 00 to companies where she and her husband held stakes the santas his personal accounts and those of the fund she owns in portuga