Of parishioners threatened by an ecological disaster grafted japanese time in danger of spread up breaking up and polluting even more of the pristine coast. Im phil gal welcome to the program the opposition candidate in belarus his president ial election has left the country felt not to kind of sky has joined her children in neighboring lithuania shed sent them that before the vote and before accusing president Alexander Lukashenko of rigging the result germany has called on the European Union to consider imposing sanctions against bellerose u. S. Secretary of state my palm post said the vote had been neither free nor fat but russian president Vladimir Putin has congratulated president. On his way so a lot spent longer to come a skier had given given no hint that she was leaving the country. Proud of the president on sunday in minsk for the election. By monday she was gone her whereabouts on earn her tame unable to reach her kelly now svetlana taken off scalia has reappeared with a somber message online. To set the companion. On you know what this campaign really toughened me and empowered me that i could withstand anything. New but perhaps im still the weak woman that i was in the beginning. The opposition candidate has fled to neighboring lithuania as confirmed by the countrys foreign minister taken up scios says she was not forced out of her country and the government also insisted that she left on her own accord. I made a very difficult to sit in for myself and ive made it absolutely independently the its in the ne in the game in europe a moot many will understand me many will denounce me and many will hate me. Is that you but god forbid anyone should face the choice that i faced because i was here. Her departure came after she refused to concede defeat in sundays vote the election official said authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko won his 6th term in office with a landslide 80 percent of the verdict took another scale one only 10 percent but has dismissed the results but full fleeing she submitted a formal demand for a recount. Thousands of belarusians have also rejected the results taken to the streets for a 2nd night of protests demonstrators in minsk were met by Security Forces who deployed stun grenades rubber bullets and tear gas injuring dozens. Foreign officials have also expressed doubt about the election outcome. More deeply concerned by the valorous out president ial election severe restrictions on Ballot Access for candidates prohibition of local independent observers at polling stations intimidation of opposition candidates in the detention of Peaceful Protesters and journalists have marred the process german officials have called for the European Union to discuss 3 imposing sanctions on fellow writers but for now with the backing of russia and china president lukashenko remains defiant all got there in dover can tell us more about this she is from the university of bremen Research Center for east European Studies and welcome to the you lets start with this suspicions that spent long out to kind of sky was pressured into leaving the country and what do you think well it looks like in reality because. Actually her Team Election key in the united won to the recent media that she was taken out of the country by those in authority is not. In fact we know that he went to the Central Election Commission to prague and claimed it means thats a vacation of elections when their shifts called for about a couple of hours and we dont know who here who should talk about and when but ive been highly possible that she was talking live the Security Services are now the rules and if its true or worse then its also possible that they tried to make psychological pressure on her anyway look how when you see how she looks at the videos theres also another video another wanted to show but show the video where shes sitting on a sofa in the building of central and actually something she thinks shes just reading something from the live search so she doesnt even look at the camera and say were ready to head so these cases before or after the election is bellerose and a positional candidates wait some papers their way rooting for them by the secret service so i think its quite possible that she was just pressed and in one of her statements to kind of sky a call for the protest to cease do you think they will. Oh well its difficult to know because i mean we dont we still dont have enough information on what is happening about respect i think its also important to understand that she was never calling for protests so all the people that weve seen on the streets and in the last 2 days there were not in the protests there were not in the streets because the housecoat called them to protest she was actually against any violence within society but people just so organize themselves also or via social media i have various telegrams channels so its not that you cannot ask i mean and of course people who lost their leader so to say and maybe a lot of them would be. Would be not satisfied with that decision approach but anyway people understand what happened in belarus and any people are not because of her personality on the streets i mean she is not even a clue titian Everybody Knows that people are against such alive that they have people are against politically occasions and people just want to have a new resident and thats the. So they have the president very hard for the last 20 odd years well what will the president look at franco do next. Well if anybody knew i had no idea that the things that i observed from here from germany from burnley show meant that there are no signs that could be ready for any kind of dialogue so we see more violence every day coming from the Police Forces in face level of violence sexual unprecedented even for better or worse belarus theres a no talk risk. Have already been know you know repressions good or bad not with very values of care and you know. What are and is blind in grants and so on like injuring people its quite difficult the senate will say you know we thank you for that analysis so ill go there in dover from the Research Center for eastern European Studies at the university of probably. Germany has told the us to mind its own business over its nord stream to gas pipeline from russia the german and Russian Foreign ministers declare the decisions to be theirs alone as u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei who began the European Tour in which the pipeline is unlikely to be a source of friction one life is already running under the baltic sea now a new one north street too is nearing completion the u. S. Contends the new lie will make germany too dependent on russian gas nordstrom to has been a major bone of contention between washington last week u. S. Senators threaten to impose sanctions against a german port where the Central Building materials for the project are being stored. This ferry from the Danish Island of bornholm could soon be stalled by u. S. Sanctions the ship is destined for muck around port and therefore has business ties with the Port Authority port on the island of ruben is a pivotal importance in the construction of the nord stream to pipeline 2 special russian ships or dock here once they have been equipped they are supposed to layer the final 160 kilometers of pipeline but if u. S. Senators have their way the harbor management all Business Associates and even local authorities would be affected by the sanctions gas market expert heiko loman feels this signals that the americans are again taking drastic measures against the project. You know when going to one side in the all the see unlike the new sanctions especially show that the american side is looking at this very closely and is willing to impose an obstacle with every move of the project enterprise or the russian side i believe the sanctions have the potential to at least postpone the project for a very long time as the end on its side so if its. Neighboring poland also wants to hinder north stream to it runs its own l. N. G. Terminal on its baltic coast and plans to receive liquefied natural gas from qatar or norway. Warsaw fears that russia will further expand its power with north stream to ultimately use it as a political weapon and economic leverage against the e. U. The us and poland together are pressuring germany to halt the project. To skittles like poland and the baltic countries are fundamentally opposed to the north stream to project as it endangers Energy Security in Central Europe we hope that the u. S. Sanctions will halt the project and that germany will return to European Energy solidarity nord stream to damages European Energy solidarity. The new sanctions could have severe economic consequences for more crime port for example if International Insurers refuse to insure incoming ships. Lets take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now south in egypt which has opened a Border Crossing with gaza for 72 hours allowing people to leave the densely populated palestinian territory for the 1st time since the start of the covered 19 pandemic the rafa crossing was closed in march as authorities try to avert a major virus outbreak. Cubas reimposed its coronavirus lockdown after registering a Record Number of new care. He says nearly 100 infections were recorded on monday with the capital have the neighboring province worst hit of artists of suspended public transport an order of people to wear masks. Russia has declared itself the 1st country to register a vaccine against corona virus president putin made the announcement saying that one of his daughters had already received an injection of the russian vaccine was approved after less than 2 months of human trials raising concerns about its safety. Meanwhile the number of confirmed covered 19 cases around the world has surpassed 20000000 more than half of those are in the United States india and Brazil Health officials believe the number of people infected is likely to be much higher as many countries especially in the developing world have only limited testing and Scientists Say nearly 40 percent of infected people show no symptoms lets get more on this from John Campbell hes a Health Analyst a nurse and educator from carlisle in england welcome to day w 20000000 cases worldwide a number that has doubled in just 6 weeks so is the rate of infection around the world increasing. Well this increasing number of people becoming infected yes theres more people who are infected theyre going to pass the virus on to more people so we do get this exponential growth where the acceleration in the number of cases is actually accelerating the greater the number the faster the rate of growth and i think thats what were starting to seeing quite a few places now weve seen this for some time in the United States and as you rightly say brazil and india and russia and south africa are unfortunately not far behind as well so increasing cases in all of these areas now there has been some leveling off theres been made a lot of its been theres been a lot of publicity about the amount of leveling off in new cases in the United States for example but this is the lead this is a leveling off in the number of new cases that are increasing so the actual cases the still a lot of cases them but the rate of increase is not quite as high as it was but globally we are seeing many cases and as you rightly said there feel that this is this is really only the tip of the iceberg the real number of cases are going to be perhaps 10 times higher than this we know this from syria logical studies in the u. K. The office for National Statistics goes out and takes a representative sample of people and theyve estimated about 2. 8 to 3000000 people in the u. K. Have actually had coverage 19 infection right and thats way higher than the official numbers we see in these numbers around the world the u. S. Brazil and india accounting for half of all cases. Why is there something beyond that just being more brazilians russians and americans. Yes very good question i think a lot of it is the way this pandemic started off how there was a small sort of cluster of cases and how they would dealt with in the early stages so in a sense were paying the consequences now for what was done probably way back in january or february so for example to take an extreme case new zealand had a small number of cases around about that time but were able to isolate the various. Actively whereas in the United States theres probably a degree of denial about how serious this virus was and how transmissible it was and what sort of burden of morbidity and mortality it could carry india and brazil are probably slightly different in india and brazil although the one different continent you do have quite a lot of common problems that you have relatively Poor Health Care infrastructure you have a lot of poor People Living in fairly close environments perhaps several people or even a Family Living in room one room you also have quite a lot of Multigenerational Families as well so theres a lot of close contact Drug Initiative and that allows that we can number of cases to increase quite rapidly in those countries but i just want to get your reaction to todays news that russia claims to have approved a corona virus vaccine how reassured should be bay by that news briefly if you wouldnt mind. Yes i think the answer is not very reassuring i mean the u. K. In europe and the United States is being going absolutely flat out on these banks in Development Since since the coronavirus pandemic became an issue and we are still have only a few sample vaccines and what we call phase 3 Clinical Trials i think theres 4 vaccines now of phase 3 Clinical Trials and this means are we a large number of people with a vaccine a large number of people with the placebo and then we see how that happens now the simply has not been enough weeks and months of past to do such a study in right so youre sure it just you just havent been the time or its perhaps been rushed in russia for. Character well youre wondering how is any question about this is the sort of the level of reassurance and validity and safety testing and efficacy testing that we would expect in western countries for a new drug or a new vaccine to come on line they simply has not been the time to do that good talking to you thats very clear thank you so much John CampbellHealth Analyst and educator. Well the coronavirus pandemic has changed the lives of students parents and teachers around the world as theyve grappled with the consequences of schools being closed for months its been a particular challenge for young people preparing to go to university some countries went ahead with exams counsel them and use different methods to assess students but opinions on how to assign grades family have diverse and thats caused a political robbing scotland for more on this were joined by d. W. Reporter pablo foley welcome pablo so tell us what happened in scope of scotland is a little bit of a mess is whats happened in scotland essentially actually in the past few minutes this afternoon weve heard the Scottish Government has referred to this decision which resulted in students as a result i actually had been revised down because of the way the assessment process to work because lets not forget that in scotland they actually didnt sit exams what happened was the teachers provided you know they gave their assessment and they essentially said right this is what we think this student should get and this is the final result then they integrated as well have the school did which resulted in over 100000 students having their results graded going down and then others had their results that went up which resulted of course an outcry because many felt that it was very unfair and nicolas sturgeon the 1st minister apologized for the whole mess and actually lets hear from her 1st and then well discuss this a little bit further or the exams decision we reached nearly a stage is broadly the same decision the other governments in other parts of the u. K. Have reached this is not uniquely scottish issue but weve listened to and have the contents expressed that we had to tear meant to try to create those and i actually think particularly tames of cases that might be in more normal times as well for governments to act that way is perhaps something that we should welcome in cut its more well there you have it the scottish 1st minister apologising for the way the high. All situation is being handled and of course its the students who are the ones who are always disadvantage in these situations and the reason why they decided to go against the decision that they essentially took was they realized from from all the protests was that it was particular students from lower incomes those from minorities as well in particular who were