over is right now is unknown. let's get more on the story now we can go to moscow and speak with political analyst constantine egret had constant saying so as we hear we are getting of conflicting narratives so what do we actually know about where she is and what has happened to her i think it's a fair assumption that this is kalashnikov is no in belarus and mr lucas. said in an interview with the russian media today that basically he approves of her detention. i think that it's very possible that she's inside and i think she's also in trouble because the scene you're saying she's likely in trouble she is a major figure in the protest movement and also within the opposition how significant is this. it is because a few days ago mrs kolesnik i said that she is ready to see you over all chord in the nation leadership of opposition inside bill ruse while the the they contend in the presidential election ect elections sit lot of seats on the sketch is now in lithuania and sensually having been expelled by the shankar from their own country so a kalashnikov a was a potential magnetic potential coordinator an organ the opposite of a bill reese's opposition forces and that of course may turn in court she's a well known figure she is very active on social media she is one of the faces of this. russian anjelica schenkel peaceful uprising so the definitely she is in the focus of attention of ideal russian regime as you said she's a leading figure what reaction do you think that we might see from this protest movement could we see more sewage demonstrations for example this weekend. well it seems that this movement that's been going on now for nearly and months. is not subsiding people are angry people do want chinese people do want alexander lukashenko to leave and i think that the don't russian regime sees it as a potential danger because probably they thought things are going to peter out in a couple weeks is so to speak of is definitely very important and i think that she was that the dead that minsk that the regime in wants to try to kick around to ukraine is very very probably come through it but this very problem if you look at what happened to saddam let's see how let's get the idea behind it as far as i understand be to make the protests completely leaderless to make it faceless in terms of public figures and do that without leaders without ordinator and this will end i suppose that this is a strategy that mr looks like will stick to in the forseeable future political analyst constantine accurate with tracking the latest for us there thank you so much. and the latest protests and the bellaver sent capital minsk over the weekend around 600 people were arrested police brutality has been a feature of the crackdown 2 victims have been speaking about their experience of. peaceful protesters call on the police to join the riot officers react with the torrent to violence. scenes that have played out almost nightly and belorussians fiery summer of revolt. was because of the author coming who has seen and experienced the washed of it too graphic for us to show. for. it being a collection of what they know little of what they saw the balor. i'm a blows rained on me from all of them they started to beat me right here. the coat of arms has become a potent symbol of the uprising that has seen those and summarily our breast. hundreds kicked punched and tortured. and. even threats of rape. only at the go the policeman turned my head so i could see them and he began with theatrically putting a condom on a baton. and while doing it he told me that i have 5 seconds to say my password from my phone. records go out for parole but still a former human rights groups say there are at least $500.00 active complaints of police torture among them a lot of computer program of law dimia wrote. your particular to look up and i asked to call my lawyer and another policeman suddenly kicked me in the belly with his knee i was standing in half bent position so i felt in my belly very well but then i got another 5 kicks in you know that which we could afford professional or. justice for the victims is unlikely throughout these protests as president alexander lukashenko has praised state security forces. moscow has summoned the german ambassador over statements the german government has made about the poisoning of russian opposition leader alexina vuln a berlin has warned that it could end its support of the 10000000000 euro nord stream 2 pipeline which is set to double russian gas deliveries to europe if russia fails to investigate the number on the case on monday nov only awoke from a medically induced coma in a berlin hospital german doctors say there is unequivocal evidence he was poisoned with a soviet era nerve agent the case draws parallels to another russian opposition figure who was poisoned 2 years ago he says the use of nova chuck indicate that involve these poisoning goes all the way to the top. correspondent yury russia reports. is fighting fit but 2 years ago the activist was left fighting for his life struck down by a poison the situation was similar to that of alexina vall me but unlike novell me there were no signs of the never know if we chopped. my poison he wasn't as bad as his i was able to recover more quickly i was already able to speak in the 2nd week of recovery but not the chalk is an extremely strong point and we were it doesn't make a difference that i want to hurt someone or kill them. chalk is perfect for committing murder or. like. was treated the charity hospital no one could confidently identify the substance that had been given to him. to doctors to suspect poisoning but was never theirs he says there is no doubt supports. the fact that nobody caught which used clearly points to the russian president. or one thing. only secret agent a bank says to the. specific poison. your coalition operation could only have been carried out. other opposition figures have been targeted with less deadly means among them the independent politician dimitri good called one year ago he was barred from standing in the more school city council elections and jailed for 36 days. another. an independent local politician and a prominent figure in the mass protests in moscow one year ago she still faces charges for participating in demonstrations. live in an authoritarian country in a dictatorship began when vladimir putin was voted into office. human rights aren't part of the equation here freedom and justice don't exist here you can be jailed every time you call for people to join a protest. in the face of intimidation. refuses to stay silent since his recovery has become politically active again and that despite the fact he has a young daughter. i want my friend my family and my daughter to live in a wonderful country without putin and his disgusting system that i'm sure we can achieve this goal. p.r. would let his daughter go out alone at night and every morning he's by her side on the walk to school. let's get a round up of some other stories making news around the world firefighters are tackling a 2nd plays on an oil tanker off the sri lankan coast days after the 1st. vessel was carrying nearly 2000000 barrels of crude oil officials have warned of potentially massive environmental damage if there is a leak or the ship. explodes. tension is escalating between india and china over their disputed border in the himalayas beijing has accused indian soldiers of illegally crossing the frontier and firing warning shots violently and agreement to barring the use of firearms india said chinese guards fired into the air a border clash in june left 20 indian soldiers dead. and japan's a lympics minister cycle has she moto says the tokyo games will happen next year at any cost the olympics were postponed until july 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic just as organizers will focus all efforts on developing steps to counter the virus so that the games can take place here. to australia journalists have returned home from china after being caught in a 5 day diplomatic standoff between the 2 countries michael smith of the australian financial review and bill birtles from public broadcaster the a.b.c. were forced to take shelter in australian diplomatic missions after their homes for break it before they left china they were questioned by chinese authorities about an australian t.v. anchor working for chinese state t.v. and it was fair if they could be arrested smith and birtles were the last 2 representatives of australian mainstream media in china. earlier we spoke to bill birtles one of the 2 australian journalists who left china and we asked him to outline to us the events that led to him returning to australia this was a pretty unexpected situation just as i was preparing to write the story of the other of the the time to strike and chung like last monday my bosses here in sydney received a call from a stray is our affairs department. we have good reason to think that i and other journalists in shanghai need to get out quickly and so the 1st couple of die it's pretty hard to get slots with coded so moving my we were also questioning where was the bosses coming from you know being journalists were pretty cynical and we want some details but on wednesday night it kind clear it made nice when 6 state security police bust a translated sound up on my doorstep the most serious thing was they weren't there at the time. either i would they tell me that i'm involved you know national security tice and therefore i'm not allowed to leave the country but they said you still have freedom of movement you still free to go around do your do whatever your business. said we will call you the next day and we need to chess and this sort of spa diplomatic situation where of course i want to destroy your embassy and so what's your boss all right so i said we think you should study if you cite for more on the story we can speak to stephen butler from the committee to protect journalists asia program and stevens joining us from washington what do we actually know about why these 2 journalists saw their homes raided we heard bill burton was there say they weren't sure what was happening and ultimately they had to leave for their own safety and what happened here well unfortunately we don't know a whole lot we do know that the journalist and you just mentioned china who is the broadcaster with the chinese state t.v. organization was arrested under this kind of resident i hope residential detention they can keep her for up to 6 months and interrogate her do whatever they want without charging her but today we learned that she's being investigated under suspected breaches of national security now that can mean anything we we have no idea what it is taking that she did and we don't don't really know. what they think these 2 australians who are who were forced to leave the country essentially you know might have known or might mark their relevance we do know that relations between australia and china have hit rock bottom and there's every reason to suspect that these are retaliatory measures and are in a reflection of post-war relations as we mentioned these were the last 2 australian journalists from big outlets who are working in china we also know that several foreign channel journalists have been expelled from china this year i mean how worrying is this. it's extremely rare and there are actually 17 journalists who were forced to leave china in the last year and just last week we learned that there are various directions being placed on the operations of us journalists whose visas come up for renewal they're not actually renewing their press credentials they're allowing them to stay. you know for a few months but it puts them in an extremely uncertain position i mean frankly foreign coverage the coverage of china by foreign correspondents has been decimated you know over the past year and we know we know less about china the only things we really know for sure about china now or what the chinese want us to know if even you yourself lived and worked as a journalist in china also in hong kong and taiwan for many years i mean how have you seen the situation changed recently well the chinese have become much more aggressive and openly aggressive against foreign journalists than they had then i mean there's always been a game of cat and mouse and there have been periods of opening and periods of restrictions and there are often ways of getting around the rules and doing the kind of reporting you need to do in spite of the restrictions but if you don't have a visa if you can't reside there if you can't visit obviously you can't do any reporting at all so this is really a new low ever frankly ever since china began to open up in 1980 you know previous to that that's when the u.s. began to be able to send correspondents previous to that you know australian town and other countries had journalists there but this is really a new low. you know that that we haven't seen you know for for 4050 years stephen butler from the committee to protect journalists joining us from washington thank you thank you my pleasure. philippine president we go to terre tech has drawn criticism from rights groups after pardoning a u.s. marine convicted of killing a transgender woman to terror to issue the pardon on monday to lance corporal joseph scott pemberton with been in prison since 2014 for the murder of jennifer loudly pemberton had served just over half of a 10 year sentence for the murder. and. has been looking into this for us high public bring us up to speed on the story right so basically pemberton who is then 19 met jennifer loud in a bar in the philippines. was decided to then get a motel room and during that encounter pemberton. in fact was transgender he then assaulted her and he said that when he left the room she was still alive but in fact the following morning she was found apparently strangled now what happened was he then was convicted and sent to prison for 10 years and just last week a local court granted him early release from prison based on good behavior which of course as a lot of people and in particular the family of jennifer allow there and they were in the process of an appeal so while the appeal process was taking place at pemberton was still in prison but then what happened was in a tweet. president. secretary of foreign affairs. announced that in fact pemberton was going to be released early from prison and in fact that he was being pardoned so as you can imagine the reaction to this was was great and the other issue is that he did actually spend his sentence in one of the philippines notoriously overcrowded prisons but he was actually in solitary confinement in a military facility in manila to the visiting. forces agreement which is an agreement between the philippines and the united states of the military personnel. carrier procedures that tell us more about the reaction to this pardon well as i mentioned before the family of jennifer love they were in the process of an appeal and in fact virginia now she's a lawyer for this family called the decision a mockery of the country's judicial system and also as you can imagine there was a lot of reaction on social media and actually if we take a look at some of the reaction this is quite telling of the sentiment the government is transphobia the government deems a white murderers life more important than that of our transistors and also we're seeing other sort of reactions as well which are similar this pardon is an affront to the so freeing of jennifer. and her family and rewards criminal behavior it's a big step backward for justice in this case and in our country and the thing is sumi that the pardon is renewed as well interesting interesting the anti american sentiment in the philippines as well because many people have been calling for the removal of u.s. military personnel from the country and also what's interesting too is the president to has shifted more towards china and away from the united states so it is an interesting decision that he made and let's not forget and this is the most important aspect of it all we're talking about a transgender woman here who was murdered and the number of people who are attacked or murders in fact from the transgender community is huge all across the world and this is what really needs to be highlighted and in fact in the past 18 months or so over 300 people have been killed worldwide in the transgender community and in a numerable number have been assaulted and suffered serious amounts of violence so that's what really we should be focusing on. fully alina thank you for bringing us that story thanks. now let's have a look at some more stories we're going to move on actually to another story as a pandemic has thwarted many of the big celebrations planned to mark beethoven's 250th anniversary here but with a few improvisation some festivities honoring one of germany's most famous composers have been able to go ahead the berlin state opera is case in point. another step towards the return of musical life state opera. under the backbone of daniel barenboim. kate spade opens $250.00 of birthday this year so no surprise that beethoven is on the program pushed out capello is also celebrating a birthday its own 450th store soloist and sophie is delighted to be back on stage i want to feel. so much that i can't wait to share this great music again that records are all well and good streaming is quite nice because sitting in peru you can be part of berlin but the live experience being the lie. that. straight talk for a fall is an annual highlight of the berlin summer a free concert. tickets have been stepped up but it looks poorly attended corona means attendance has been cut from the usual 40000 just 2000 socially distance concert goers but it starts. opening is in times of corona the only way to communicate with more than 200 listeners i don't think anyone really understands why social distancing is not an issue at demonstrations but when it comes to. people are so very exact almost painfully fussy 48. daniel barenboim has been at the forefront of attempts to bring life music back to berlin he said the burning state opera for almost 30 years and is of course an art and beethoven whether the composer is in bombastic or in romantic mood. this is the melancholy lyrical beethoven is not the explosive one nor the extremely virtue as a want this is very intimate chamber music actually but with an orchestra to stop. the evening ends with the 9th symphony one of the most famous works in the classical music repertoire. joining sung by a choir after safe distance. fittingly this hymns of freedom and community is dedicated to help those in the front line of the coronavirus pandemic doctors nurses shop workers and teachers were also given priority access to the free ticket a special and 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