Today and always. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. For viewers in the new cayenne around the world viewers in the u. K. And around the world. Mask strikes spread across belarus as the unrest over the president ial election grows. The president warned of the Financial Hardship people will face if they dont return to work. You should explaino people, this is the only chains only chance to save your company. You will be able to feed your family. In the capital, 10,000 protesters to send on a government building. Eu Foreign Ministers consider sanctions against belarus. A desperate dash as britains a scramble to get home before the new quarantine measures on france come into force. President trump stokes a false theory that Kamala Harris does not qualify to serve as Vice President. Hello and welcome. European union Foreign Ministers have moved closer to imposing sanctions on belarus. They reported to have agreed to draw up a list of belarusians to be targeted as thousands of people have taken to the streets demanding resignation of the president. Unrest has been fueled by accounts of torture from protesters who were detained earlier. Speaking from exile, the main opposition candidate called for weekend strikes and protests against an election she claims was rigged. The bbc sent this report from moscow. This is now a mass walkout. They havbeen shouting for the president to go. He claimed there were two dozen or so strikers, but there are 16,000. That is just one factory. It is what police did to protesters that has infuriated so many. They have been emerging from Detention Centers and talked of torture. The men in particular. They beat everyone, this man says. Women, men, and children. There were teenagers. Another disgrace, detainees made to sing the National Anthem and shout that they love the rights police. This group of teachers protesting against the violence and sending the president their own kind of message about his suppose it landslide win. 80 equals a lie, the teachers tell him. It is no wonder he seems rattled. He even had to deny rumors that he died. I am still alive, he says, and i have not fled the country. The mood has shifted against him. Crowds are now declaring they voted for the opposition. She is in exile for her safety but today reemerged to call for the peaceful transition of power. We need to end the violence on the streets. I call on the authorities to end it and enter into dialogue. I asked mayors of all cities to organize peaceful Mass Gatherings on august 15 and 16. Where the president goes from here is not clear. His Security Forces have stood firm so far but the crowd is demanding change and growing all the time. Anchor im joined by the belarusian journalist, he fled the country due to security concerns and works with oer journalists in ukraine, collecting and verifying footage of the protests. Thank you so much for doing us. For joining us. Your thoughts on the demonstrators, what is the general mood amongst people . How far do you think they are willing to go . That is spectacular, it was impossible to predict even one week ago. If i were to ask on monday if belarus could strike, i would say definitely not, we do not have such tradition. We see now that war than 20 Different Enterprises are striking and they demand for a new government. I think that they are very serious about this and they will follow to the end. Anchor what is it this time that has pushed people across that line to start striking, to start pushing themselves further . People are tired of this system, authoritarian system. It is similar to 1989 before communism has fallen in belarus. People want to change, and the change. Employees of factories, medics, doctors, teachers have joined the protest back then in 1989 and now, similar situation. All the social groups want the president to leave and they hope this transition will happen soon and to be nonviolent but western support and western sanctions can help prevent the president from shooting people, from torturing people in order to have nonviolent transition, president must stop using firearms. Anchor what about russia . What is russias role . Russia did not expect such revolution. I think rsia was not prepared. There is no Russian Political Party nor organization in belarus. Russia is following and if the situation wil get unstable, or the president would get too weak, there will be a vacuum in the power, russia can stop in. Can step in. Russia cannot come and put their own guy to be belarus. Anchor how do you see this playing out . There are three scenarios. The president will definitely leave the president ial chair soon and there are three scenarios how it can happen. When he flees the country and goes to russia. Second, popular revolution what he is arrested and sentenced in belarus or somewhere else. The third, he takes over from inside, someone near the president arrests him until new elections are announced. Anchor thank you very much for talking to us from ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of reddish holidaymakers are trying to return home british holidaymakers are trying to return home after quarantines are king Effect Tomorrow morning. Travelers will have to selfisolate for 14 days the french Prime Minister acknowledged the number of coronavirus cases was going the wrong way. The current rate of infection in france is 34 cases per 100,000 people. In the netherlands, one of the other countries to off the u. K. Corridor list, the rate of infection is 41. 6 cases per 100,000. He mulled also removed from the list, the rate is 84. 1 cases per 100,000. The u. K. Has 17. 3 cases per 100,000 people. Reporter faced with a new bit of normal, no cues in calais today, no chaos. Everyone we spoke to had a space reserved on a shuttle or fairy, some had already done their cueing online. It was 15 or 20 minutes. We were 852nd in the queue. Our friends were in the cottage behind us, within 15 minutes, there were over a thousand in the queue. Reporter their worst fears have so feen avoided. All trains are fully booked but thanks to anxious next to extra shuttles, traffic is flowing well they were she is traffic is flowing well. The extra travel restrictions in may meant this woman missed her mothers death by a day. The new quarantine rules now make little sense, she says. I think we are in the same boat, if we had hardly any cases, i would understand why you want to protect the country, but i think we are all in the same boat. Reporter the u. K. s decision on quarantine was not unexpected. Many tourists had factored in the possibility that they might have to oscillate when they got home. The euro tunnels as many customers are choosing to stay home to stay on until the end of the holiday. People decided not to travel. Ey are going to say. Itasnt stopped travel and the other direction. We see people coming to france. Reporter france says it regrets the british decision and will reciprocate. It declared the regions around paris high risk zones. The National Infection rate has risen to 34 cases per 100,000. Many holidaymakers who have canceled their trips say it is not the risk of coronavirus that has put them offut the effects of quarantine. Part of the case from last night, it was going to put the cases in the car and then got the breaking news, knowing that we will have to quarantine. From an insurance perspective, there are coerns around insurance. We knew there was only one decision to make but it is disappointing. Reporter some of those who have canceled their visits say a National Quarantine is to blunt a tool, that smaller towns in france are safer than parts of britain. Others accept the price of their holiday now includes stringent new rules. What israeli strike what is really striking today it was at is what has not happened. The nightmare was that tens of thousands of people would have converged on cala, blocking the roads to the shuttle. That does not happened but they do say if there are going to be problems, it is going to be from the early evening onwards as people from down in the south of the country arrive in the north. Anchor germany has extended its requirement for people to quarantine after returning from spain to cover all of the country apart from the canary islands. They u. K. Had imposed similar restrictions. It comes as the number of infections in spain continues to remain high despite orders closing bars and nightclubs and restricting smoking in open areas in some regions. There have now been nearly 21 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. 760,000 people are known to have died. We touched on how the virus is continuing to spread in europe after cases had fallen but the Fastest Growing areas of infection continue to be in south asia and americas. Peru went past 500,000 confirmed cases. While the search for a vaccine continues, many countries putting in huge orders for something which they hope will work. In the u. K written has put in requests for 340 million doses of six different vaccines, but at this stage, it is unclear whether any will work. Here is our medical editor. A Coronavirus Vaccine would be the solution to the pandemic. A way to protect the vulnerable, to end social distancing. I feel fine. Such is the pressing need. Countries are placing orders before trials are finished and they know whether any of the vaccines will protect against the virus. The u. K. Is set to have one of the worlds biggest stockpiles of Coronavirus Vaccine. 340 million doses have been dered from six different vaccines. The latest deals are with a Belgian Company and a u. S. Biotech. Even though most of the vaccines require two doses, it will still mean there will be enough to inject everyone in the u. K. Five times. It is a recognition that most vaccine trials and in failure. Vaccines are ace are a force for social good. The woman in charge of buying vaccines for the u. K. Says the government has to hedge its bets. We dont know if any of these vaccine formats that we have acquired will work. There are no licensed vaccines for any human coronavirus. Our priority is to ensure that we have sufficient vaccine for the populations in that u. K. Who are most at risk from coronavirus infection. Britain h a strong record in supporting Global Health but one of the worlds Biggest Charities is concerned that developing nations could lose out in the scramble for covid vaccines. Is important that countries that cannot afford to self finance these vaccines have a way of accessing those early doses. If we deliver maximum public healthmpacts around the world, countries must not secure too many doses for their own citizens. Went will be know if we have an effective vaccine . Early signals might come at the end of the year. More trials are due to start soon. The more people who sign up, the sooner we will get an answer. Anchor stay with us here on bbc news. Still to come, as japan prepares to mark his 75th anniversary of the end of world war ii, our correspondent asks why the conciliation in the region is still hard to find. It the crowds became bigger at the time of the funeral approached. As the lines of fans became longer, police prepared for a job of crowd control. Ugandas former dictator has died at the age of 80. He has been buried in saudi arabia where he lived in exile since being overthrown. 2 billion people have seen the last total clips of the sun to take place in this millennium. It began off the coast of canada, ending three hours later when the sun set over the bay of bangor. Anchor this is bbc news. Strikes read across belarus at unrest over the disputed president ial election grows. At a virtual meeting, freund ministers moved closer to imposing sanctions. There have been quds that the French Border as britons scramble to come home. President trump has weighed into a fringe theory that joe bidens running mateoes not qualify to serve as Vice President. Many see the theory as racist. A member of joe bidens Campaign Said the move was unsurprising given donald trump a National Leader of the racist Birther Movement with respect to president obama. Harris was born in the u. S. To a jamaican father and indian mother in california in 1964. A conservative law professors has questioned her eligibily, something the president highlighted during a press conference. I heard it today that she does not meet the requirements and the lawyer that wrote that piece is a highly qualified, talented lawyer. I have no idea if that is right. I would have assumed the democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for Vice President. You are saying that she does not qualify because she was not born in this country . She was born in this country but her parents did not receive their residency. I just heard about it, i will take a look. Anchor the professor the president was talking about studies constitutional law at Chapman University in california. He wrote an article for newsweek on the issue and tweeted, is Kamala Harris eligible for the office of Vice President . My short answer, it depends. The article focuses on whether Kamala Harris is eligible under the terms of the u. S. Constitution. He cites that what amendment which states that no person ineligible to the office of President Shall be eligible to that of Vice President. Article two specifies that no person excepa natural born citizen shall be eligible to the office of president. He also cites the 14th amendment stating that all persons born in the u. S. And subject to the debtors diction thereof our citizens may make her ineligible. He goes on to suggest that it is unclear if Kamala Harris qualifies as a natural born citizen because she wa born on u. S. I o. His argument hinges on the idea that she may not have been subject to u. S. Jurisdiction if her parents were on student visas at the time. Critics, including other constitutional law experts, have labeled the theory as nonsense in a racist trope. Joining me to discuss this is a White House Reporter who jointly from washington. We have been here before with President Trump, with president obama and that birther theory. Reporter this is h whole playbook but it does not seem like it has a great chance of success because most people believe th obama is an american and it is more with Kamala Harris where she was born in california and Many Americans have more important things on their minds like the pandemic and that economic toll that has resulted. Few americans are going to see what donald trump said and say, im notoing to vote for Kamala Harris now, that settles the issue. There is no issue. It is a distraction from the failures of the pandemic. Anchor as we get closer to the election, President Trump is going to have to start setting out his stall, explaining to voters where he is different, where he is going to improve things, and this seems to be something to divert attention from that. Reporter they dont have any great plan for the second term in terf actual policy, and most americans are sad and negative towards this administration in terms of the pandemic response. More americans by a few Percentage Points trust trump on the economy because he is a businessman and has done a great job in terms of the Economic Growth and job growth before the pandemic, but donald trump said he wanted to keep the death toll to 60000 and now it is over 160,000. Anchor this kind of rhetoric, is it a sign that things are going to turn a little bit dirty in this campaign in the runup to november . Reporter i think he is they have not found a good message go against Kamala Harris, either she is too libal or to moderate and liberals are matter are mad at her. She is almost a perfect mice president ial pick for joe biden in that she does not have much baggage. The Donald Trump Campaign is trying to figure out how to hurt her, but they are not finding a great strategy to do so. We can expect a lot of spaghetti thrown against the wall in terms of messaging as the conventions start next week. Anchor thank you very much indeed. Reporter thank you. Anchor saturday march 75 years since the end of world war ii when japans emperor announced his countrys surrender. Even after so many decades, reconciliation remains elusive with many japanese seeing their country as a victim of u. S. Atom bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki. China and kea view japans postwar apologies as incomplete and insincere. Our correspondent reports. Reporter the brotherhood has come to bow to the spirits of japans wartime leaders. August is a busy month for these nationalists. First, they try to get to Japans Parliament but the way is blocked. They crank up the speakers and begin shouting abuse. The liberal Democratic Party is useless, you are idts. With more troops landing, pushing towards reporter japan committed many crimes but the worst was an engine massacre. After the city fell, tens of thousands of chinese soldiers and civilianwere slaughtered. But not according to talk euro is already. The massa