Desperate situation following the deadly explosion in beirut. Watching r. T. International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 5 pm welcome to the program we start with bell roofs were another day of nationwide antigovernment strikes is underway despite calls for calm thousands of factory workers have downed tools with many taking to the streets across the country. That it. Wouldnt. Be that. For the details were not crossing to artists roman culture of whats the latest on this unrest and how is the president responding. While indeed mass protests continue in belarus with workers from a various different manufacturers of plants and factories deciding to go out on a national slight and dollars and im talking about said Different Industries its a multi its most of the metallurgy mining sinning just a few people have been seen now walking out from their places of employment to join others in protest and in strike their demands or a new elections with all of the candidates that were registered and not registered as an Early Release of opal its called prisoners and dismissal of all those responsible for the regen of the election and for crimes for Human Rights Violations now president lukashenko attended some of the work of the worker rallies and he arrived in a helicopter once he was on the ground he warned some of the workers that they could lose their jobs that have it as it. Just exploded if you dont want to work here fine just leave quarter to nobody will stop you only get you for that and thats a please from tomorrow just go and look of it sorry to put it in such harsh terms but its a time like this you have to be straight up with. People. Are you. Well at that point he added that there will not be a rerun of the election and he will not do anything on the pressure after that celica xanga left seeing other rallies and his departure and how that helicopter was a followed by boos whistles and angela question the slogans now at a later rally he said thats a new election will only be possible if the country will form a new constitution meanwhile on sunday at least 65000 people came in support of Alexander Lukashenko in mens alone and thats according to the interior ministry the numbers of course he spoke to his supporters at length thank you and them for their dedication and support for many belorussians their president is somewhat over a father figure who saved the country from bad this back in the ninetys however many people are still not happy with that 26 year tenure now earlier on monday r. T. Managed to speak to one of the supporters that one of the plans lets have a listen. Says we are really fed up with these people thats why we want to change this regime they beat my son when they release him and he came back he was so badly bruised that he couldnt even sit down so how should i work whats more important to me money or much children. Are. Employees of the country is a largest t. V. Network go also decided to follow the people in protest and they were followed by their colleagues from other Media Outlets in belarus as well gozo poland says that line had to go well she is it in lithuania right now she left after the election she recorded her own address saying that says she is ready to become the countrys National Leader lets have a listen. And see here. We all want to break this endless circle to go trapped in 26 years ago im ready to take responsibility and become the leader so as to come the country and lead into turns in the months and. Well the rounding support all for the protesters in belarus has been taking place for over a week a here in moscow as well were outside of the Russian Embassy right now while the 3rd out was a little the largest on saturday one such a line of protesters extended around the block mostly it was women carrying out flowers the white ribbons however there were probably protesters here as well of course well be here near the embassy to bring you the latest as soon as it becomes available to us. Our tears are among thank you for bringing us that report of. Our day of constantine prebuy reports from outside a state t. V. Studio in mits. Democrats this is going to build the building of the builtin the Rodeo Company in minutes its the state t. V. Building with several channels of banks earlier today there was a meeting between the companys management and staff who made that clear they want to report on both sides of the situation in belarus including the mistreatment of protesters by riot police theyve been talking here inside this building and now these people have come to support the t. V. Star food agreed to go on strike right now there are about 200 people here and i think that the more. They chanting slogans like tell the truth on t. V. And so minsk from the truth workers will also come within or he gets this rally is not the 1st here outside the t. V. Building a few days ago there was another with the same message into monks today people are standing in protesting against violence and some of the recent election should be declared illegitimate. For more on the story were going to cross live to our europe correspondent peter all over peter could you talk us through the news latest response to the crisis in belarus. Well last week there was a few voices wondering why there havent been some definitive statements from brussels no need to wait any longer weve heard from the European Parliament to put out a statement calling for calm in belarus but that statement from the e. U. Parliament from parliamentarians there also contained a warning for russia we call on the Russian Federation to refrain from any interference covert or overt in bellerose following the election and call on e. U. Institutions and Member States to vigilantly counter any russian actions in this regard one of the e. U. Institutions to be chipping in on valorise on monday high representative for Foreign Affairs your said bell basically the e. U. s foreign minister has also released a statement in which he said the sheer numbers clearly show on the streets this is the clear sheer numbers of people out demonstrating clearly show that the belarusian people want change he also though announced that the e. U. Would be getting involved that they would work early drawing up a list of people to whom they would be placing sanctions upon. The e. U. Is working on a new listings for sanctions against those responsible for violence repression of peaceful protests and the fortification of election results. Well these calls for russia to stay out of interfering in whats happening in belarus has come alongside calls for the e. U. To do exactly the opposite and get more involved coming from leaders of Member States the french president. Saying that the e. U. Must get involved in order to bring a real and end change to whats going on in belarus on monday it was confirmed they settle on a ticket also has been in talks with the German Government. Spokesperson for the German Government only confirmed that these talks have taken place he wouldnt be drawn any further as to what had been discussed mystical of course challenged Alexander Lukashenko for the presidency shes been she went into a self imposed exile in lithuania following the vote and has said that she would want to take over as an interim leader until better recent elections could be held well weve also heard elsewhere of accusations coming from the better russian side of interference coming from the e. U. Alexander lukashenko has pointed the finger of blame poland amongst others saying they are behind the protesters to stirring up unrest in his country so were getting a lot of different stories coming out at the moment particularly from the e. U. Side theyre saying russia dont get involved while at the same time theyre really trying to get involved themselves peter are bringing us the International Reaction there they queue for that. Now to analyze all that were joined by political analysts under will check key groups in the European Parliament have called on russia then to refrain from interfering in belarus what do you think theyre referring to there. Well 1st of all russia and be a loose have very close relationships. Was that look i. Spoke to president bush. For busy billows for busy help busy. A broad based help although it out that he can create a. Board set in concrete broke d asus this. Station that i want think i would like to. Do with will set here is that be a loose is a very peculiar very interesting place actually a Little Pocket a little cozy pockets of stability there the collapse of the soviet union it is not a failed state as it is being portrayed to media Public Transportation orks medical care. 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What were hearing from the protesters which are coming out a massive numbers every day and the strikes that were seeing theyre calling for a rerun of the election saying that they believe the results are actually almost the exact opposite of what these official numbers are saying the European Parliament has even demanded a rerun of the election do you think thats actually going to happen look at shanghais already said no. Might get the ball to basically. Oh i dont think hes going to hes going to allow it. There is a lot of positive things that could be said about him but busy something that if they existed hes a very macho but a paternalistic figure hes goal busy busy. Hes called bots which is basically a big name for that d. Busy busy good these go for the good the gold the disco of the busy disco for busy the strong but it is making him hes been criticized for it of course by the opposition but hes also admired. Many for actually keeping the. 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The lebanese president is adamant he will not resign calls for him to go have been growing since the devastating chemical explosion that ripped through beiruts port earlier in the month last week the lebanese cabinet including the pm resigned amid protests of people blaming the tragedy on government incompetence Recovery Efforts are still underway in beirut the disaster has put added strain on a country already in the throes of a crippling economic crisis are really are the International Community pledged some 300000000. 00 in aid to lebanon a blast killed 178. 00 people injured thousands and made 300000 homeless. Meanwhile the u. S. Says its own pledge of Financial Support to lebanon following beiruts class will depend on the countrys reforms to tackle corruption as one quarter explains american offers of help arent always what they seem. Massive explosions in beirut during his unrest in its wake and it got to. Lebanon the payoff capital in ruins and leaders across the world have no doubt opened up the foreign aid relief valve as a result countries like germany the u. K. And even the u. S. Have stepped in to help out but when you accept money from washington you need to read the fine print when we see lebanese leaders committed to real change change in word and deed america and its International Partners will respond to systemic reforms a sustained Financial Support of course mr hale forgot to mention that u. S. Sanctions are what many to believe the key cause of lebanons economic woes but there is always someone who remembers. You have seen some countries hypocritically trying to portray themselves as defenders of the lebanese people and expressing sympathy for the lebanese people if they are honest they should remove these sanctions that they recently passed against the lebanese government nation and people and stop this hypocrisy and iran definitely knows how that feels at 1st donald trump said hed be willing to give coronavirus aid to iran if it asked for it then when the country needed a 5 1000000000. 00 loan from the i. M. F. To deal with the pandemic washington protested for some reason even the United Nations called on the u. S. To lift its sanctions against the country only to get a big fat no from pompei oh ive heard people talking about sanctions there know that the world should know there are no sanctions that prevent humanitarian assistance medical supplies pharmaceuticals from going to iran and war torn syria its a similar story washington announced a nearly 1000000000. 00 increase in 2022 minutes tearing assistance at the very same time that it was creating a brand new sanctions regime against the country we are maintaining our maximum political and economic pressure to suspend the imposition of the sanctions the government of syria must meet similar conditions to go. For a country in crisis its not really difficult to get humanitarian aid from washington what they usually have to give in return however might not be that worth it. Facebook is under fire again after the institute for Strategic Dialogue or i s d a u. K. Based counter Extremist Organization founded the platforms algorithm promotes Holocaust Denial and unison with Holocaust Survivors all over the world researchers are urging facebook to ban this type of content this misses the reason why people engage in Holocaust Denial in the 1st place denial of the holocaust is a deliberate tool used to dealing to minds the suffering of the jewish people and the but you wait long standing anti semitic troops and when people explicitly do this you should be seen as an act of hatred research by the iowa state on earth 36 facebook pages dedicated to Holocaust Denial with a combined total of more than 300000. 00 subscribers the group also found that searching the term holocaust in facebook returned similar content at level similar criticism against twitter reddit and you tube now Facebook Says it removes false content only if it amounts to hate speech we remove groups and pages that discuss Holocaust Denial from recommendations and references to it in search predictions while we do not take down content simply for being on truthful many posts violate our policies against hate speech and are removed internet law expert here cohen says its facebooks duty to protect every member of the community. Facebook. Classifying Holocaust Denial is legitimate political conversation is quite frightening thing such as. Should be banned from social media for the simple reason that it actively promotes hate it promotes violence against jewish people it should be. Removed from any website that purports to be a website for the people of facebook is not designed for a very nice type of people it is made for the entire world for the entire community in such Mr Zuckerberg has got the duty to protect. Jewish people as well. The future of thousands of british students is up in the air amid a scandal over how their exam grades were determined this year the results are critical for entry to university and many received lower grades than expected after exams were scrapped due to the pen demick to add insult to injury there have been mixed messages over the appeals process whereby students can have their grades reconsidered with a level examinations canceled nationwide grades were based on teachers predictions they were then adjusted on the basis of a schools overall track record this lead to 39 percent of a level results being downgraded from the predictions state schools especially from poor regions were disproportionately affected by the downgrade with private schools enjoying a boom and high marks on the whole fiasco has sparked student protests across england hundreds held a demonstration in Central London demanding the resignat