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Welcome to the program has been a 7th consecutive day of mass protests calling for longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down after last weeks disputed election tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital minsk today but the mood was also subdued in cases as people laid flowers and lit candles at the site where a protester was killed in clashes with police by the russian Authorities Say the 34 year old died when an explosive blew up in his hand but opposition supporters saying he was. Shot by police one of the protester is also known to have died while in custody the demonstrations are the biggest challenge to lukashenko nearly 3 decades in power initially triggered by allegations of vote rigging in a telephone call with the russian president led him a person because she said the 2 were hoping for a swift resolution to the countrys problems well al jazeera stepped boston has been following the story from minsk. A mere pushkin. Metro station where the 34 year old car mechanic was killed on monday and night its still unclear how he died but its for should have he had an open. During the night and also nights in the week. So also here where a lot of remains. Rubber bullets we have found in the last 6 people have been streaming in. Put the. Car mechanic but also as a sign of protest and defiance thousands of people also carrying children. Around. Its a very euphoric atmosphere i have to say earlier in the day when there was a one minute silence for the victim there were a lot of people crying holding. Making a peace sign. Remarkable scenes here today again in minsk where protests are not stopping and only growing bigger the protesters are just. Waiting theres no police there are no Security Forces around for the last 48 hours i have to say. When the people were marching towards independence square. In front of the Government House lowered their shields to remarkable scenes with women. It was some riot police also standing by and there were also reports about trucks military trucks are moving into the city. Despite the fact that some people here have been trying to create that Everyone Needs to be very careful because riot police can come any minute we havent seen a sign of. This atmosphere of freedom that people havent felt here for decades. Or protesters in an eastern russian city have shown solidarity with their neighbors in paris many carried signs saying long live battery steering rallies on saturday activists have been protesting for weeks and her barofsky against the arrest of the regions former governor sarah gave her girl was detained last month hes accused of murder 15 years ago but he has denied the charges. Well i get more on the story now with julia. She is an associate professor at University College london joins us now via skype and this is really an unprecedented mobilization were seeing against the government in better rose isnt it people saying theyve not seen anything like this since came to power nearly 30 years ago what are people inside the country telling you. Good evening miriam. Its a pleasure to be to do you. Know and speaking to my friends actually family is. Really really lies and those have been turned in korbel stories of actually violence happening during the 1st 3 days after the elections took to the east in the complete information vacuum. They couldnt actually communicate with themselves to see who is still alive how to continuous is considered ition and quarters and also even on a bill to connect to our friends and family today we learned about a telephone conversation between Alexander Lukashenko and the russian president we know that in recent years there has been this kind of escalating geo Political Economic tension actually between bella recent russia hasnt there what might want from president putin now. Obviously. The talks actually are our claim to come have been confronted only by the bill or russian side not by russians yet they couldnt as a formal russian officials. In such talks actually the issues all secure in further support in order support from russia will surprise basically ours a protestant to store basically the crisis which is holding out in belarus at the moment. There are also some additions that. It may be. Poor that claim support would come at sikorsky deep integration this russian but these are only speculation because as asserts as there hasnt been any formal contamination from the russian side i mean even if that was a concession that you know is was willing to make you know maybe there would be concessions on sovereignty in return for Russian Support is there any indication that the russia that know moscow want to get involved in that way. In my opinion actually russia would know what one tool actually engage in. Providing support for the for the russian authorities at the moment even sad will be highly risky to bring. On dont fall. Into the in. These busy case because 1st of all its a conflict is. Definitely brings attention and has attention of the International Community and the school actually to has a sanctions introduce against russia as well as and they already facing all internal conflicts and problems. Started out of scams that supporters are there already for 40 nearly 40 days and now theyre also striking to support the bill or russians saw eve as a reason expression for support to an interviewer and bill are a success now then i. Expect. This strikes will rule the whole country so and its what putin does not want to do so the risk of too high thank you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us and your insight on this story junior associate professor at u. C. L. Thank you thank you. Now our other top story this hour the u. S. Postal service has warned millions of mail in vote might not arrive in time to be counted on president ial election day as expected to be a huge rise in mail and ballots as a result of the crown a virus pandemic but the service says it cant guarantee the or posted votes will arrive for counting on november 3rd i did your caster has more from Silver Spring maryland. This is not the scene u. S. Public Health Officials want repeated on november 3rd when americans elect their next president amid a pandemic. But the alternative to have large numbers of people vote by mail may also be risky thats the warning the u. S. Postal service has issued to 46 states and the district of columbia. The government run agencies states must require voters to request mail in ballots at least 15 days before the election or those ballots may not be counted on time we could see a dramatic increase in the volume of mail of people returning their ballots which we would absolutely determine has to be done in a timely fashion so here ruins vote is counted historically mail in voting has turned out more democrats than republicans and polls show President Trump trailing behind his challenger for the white house joe biden thats led to allegations from democrats that trumps battle against mail in voting is for political gain theres a collapse of trust broadly in america right now in government in these institutions in the white house in congress those that are opponents of. President trump who are going to turn out at polls and are going to turn out at mail in ballots and those that support President Trump are going to support him enormously. In washington protesters accusing trump of Voter Suppression gathered outside the home of lewiston joy the former republican fundraiser appointed by trump to be u. S. Postmaster general in may their joy has removed some Mail Processing machines and cut workers hours citing the need to slash costs the post Office Inspector general is now investigating and lawmakers of both parties have voiced alarm theres no doubt that the Postal Service has a long term financial challenge. And those do need to be dealt with but now its not the time to be cutting back services. Earlier this week trump said he wanted to withhold funding from the Postal Service because he didnt want to see the money used for mail in voting now the president has backtracked saying he will agree to fund the agency but despite requesting a mail in ballot for himself trump continues to claim without evidence that mail in ballots will lead to massive voter fraud in november. Joe castro al jazeera maryland. Well former u. S. President Barack Obama Says that hes why the trouble ministration is trying to kneecap the Postal Service issue he said this saying everyone depends on the u. S. P. S. Seniors for their Social Security veterans for their prescriptions Small Businesses trying to keep their doors open it cant be Collateral Damage for an administration more concerned with suppressing the vote than suppressing the virus for more on this we can speak to Jennifer Victor shes a professor of Political Science at George Mason University and joins us live from washington d. C. Via skype what does this what could this warning from the Postal Service mean that for the the election in nevada. Well i think its too early to say alarms have certainly been raised between the president s public messaging and tweeting that hes doing about the post office and the shake up in leadership that hes made at the agency there are reasons to be concerned but there are a number of reasons to think that there is very much of robustness in the system this is were talking about a National Service that processes millions and millions of pieces of mail and packaging every day and so the election related mail is a fraction of that and so even with some disruptions its not clear that it will have an effect on the outcome of the election i think its its more accurate from an analytical point of view to say that what the president is doing is very similar to what we saw in the run up to the 2018 election in the United States that was a Congressional Election in which the focus that year was on the threat of these migrant caravans coming from Central America that the president painted as the in dangerous and threatening to the country and that was a way of stoking fear and anxiety and uncertainty and thats essentially whats happening here in a very different way and with a different message but the general idea is to sow discord and a sense of uncertainty about a National Election. But and then also we were just that tweet from back a bomber is interesting because of course the former president has really avoided criticizing condemning President Trump but here you have a former president and other democratic lawmakers accusing the president of the United States of Voter Suppression and sabotage what is the what is the significance of that. I mean it is significant its i mean were not just talking about mail service that were talking about. The the National Election which is the most fundamental feature of any democracy its literally what defines democracy if you have new elections its not a democracy and so making sure that there are free and Fair Elections is one of the things that the United States has a stance of league on around the world to promote but now it looks like this year the United States needs a support and it ensuring that that is in fact the case here its its unsettling sign to get this type of messaging from the president who appears to be doing it in a way that he believes would be advantageous to him its unclear whether or not it will be whether or not the message of uncertainty will resonate in the same way that hes tried to do in the past and and whether or not this kneecapping of the former president s words will in fact the effective one i guess i mean i guess there is the uncertainty for voters but then also its about the impact it could have on key swing states places like pennsylvania for example i mean i think trump won that in 2016 by less than than one percent of the vote i mean that could have i mean if if thats going to be pivotal for this air isnt it and if those ballots are returned after election day thats it i mean they dont get counted. I mean in reality the 2016 election was won on an incredibly narrow margin and it was pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin that ship the Electoral College for trump and in each of those 3 states the margin of victory was really a few 1000 in the 10s of thousands of votes less than one percent and so if the 2020 alexion were as close as that election then absolutely an issue like the mailing of ballots could be the thing that turns the election its not clear that the 2020 and election will be quite as close as the 26000 election and the other thing i would say mike just to disagree a little bit with the intro that your reporter provided the evidence that ive read the research that ive read doesnt suggest historically that there is a partisan advantage in the island balloting republicans and democrats have both relied on it in the past so there is still the possibility that the president s message could back but backfire on his own party all right well thank you very much appreciate it Jennifer Victor pressor of Political Science at George Mason University joining us from washington the. U. S. Secretary of state has finalized a deal with the polish defense minister to redeploy troops from germany to poland might sign the agreement in warsaw a 1000 more u. S. Troops will be added to the 4 and a half 1000 current base in poland and to get announced last month that 12000. 00 soldiers are being withdrawn from germany and a half of those is set to be moved to other countries in europe a u. S. Government watchdog is saying the appointments of 2 top Homeland Security officials by the tribal ministration were improper report by the Accountability Office says that the acting secretary chad wolf and his deputy were appointed in violation of federal law since they didnt face confirmation hearings findings could prompt legal challenges to recent changes in u. S. Immigration policies a crackdown on immigration has been central to President Trumps time in office. Youre watching the news hour life from london more still ahead small scale coronavirus outbreak among children becomes a big concern for doctors in peru. No longer made in hong kong now increasing tensions between the u. S. And china are directly affecting the city Small Business owners. And a horrifying fall for the race favorites in the jiro along bardia peter will have those details a transport. Pastors have gathered in west jerusalem near the official residence of the israeli Prime Minister to call on him to resign demonstrations against Benjamin Netanyahu have been held on saturday evenings for several weeks now testers are angry at the governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic and also massing on his ongoing trial for corruption hari force it brings us the latest now from west jerusalem. Once again this is another major protest not far from his residence at a square in west jerusalem thousands of gathered again the local reports suggest its a little bit small the last 2 weekends when the numbers were excess of 10000. 00 and the majority of those there are concerned with the coronavirus Pandemic Response and that and you know whos a corruption trial which is due to start in earnest the evidentiary phase in january but there are others as well those not just from from the through going to zation is theres a group of doctors there there are groups representing self employed people whove been hit very hard by the economic fallout of the pandemic and for all of the of the diplomatic coup that has been trying to push this week in terms of the deal signed with the u. A. E. There are people here saying that that doesnt matter for those whove been hit so hard by whats happened during the pandemic. U. S. 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