A flight from moscow prompting western media speculation of kremlin foul play even as moscow offers to send them abroad for treatment. Of broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is R T International im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now it is day 12 of nationwide on rest in bellerose in the wake of the disputed election earlier this month large crowds on both sides of the divide are making their voices heard those who support president Alexander Lukashenko and those who want to see him gone. Oh. Poor. People here chanting for the president to resign in the city of gomel but in contrast youve got a convoy of the president s supporters driving past them with the official red and green flag and high government demonstrators also gathered in the capital minsk where activists lined up along a Central Avenue meanwhile in eastern. And ampitheater. Packed earlier in the day with thousands of people chanting their support for president lukashenko progovernment marchers were seen throughout the day there as well as it was done off reports now from the city. Its the closest large city to the russian border and thats thats where we are and 1000 people gathered supporting the government saying that they. Do think that the country needs changes but they dont like the current that the that the protesters have taken to some of them and they have been essentially saying that they indeed they do want changes but they want to make them peacefully they want a peaceful transition to Something Else not a transition old power but in the old policy if i may say so and they have been citing such examples as for instance syria or libya or ukraine and saying that well those countries they have seen some changes and while they dont like what theyre seeing there theyre sort of looking over the border across the border and they dont like it they dont want to. Watch the news and can see events unfold in as they did in syria libya iraq and ukraine ive seen how countries have been destroyed with people fleeing and both to europe and even in migrant camps i believe who must not choose this path this is really a color revolution. Our president has created conditions which allow us to think about our families about the future they can make plans i dont want anything to change we must we have peace everything is clean and great puppet is just want to destroy us do we need. The support fool the incumbent president lukashenko has been growing here still i have to say not as large as at least it looks not as large as the opposition protests but this could be a case of the silent majority because again who has won the election a highly controversial case but still. This civil action has taken place in other cities like in capital minsk and all across the country again people in the thousands there have been cases one Anti Government people sort of tried to crash their rallies it she crashed the program rallies and tackled the progovernment protest as. Has but again i have been already consecutive days of protests. And theyre not it doesnt look like they are going to anytime soon and another issue that we are following surrounding the situation in belarus prosecutors have opened a criminal case against the oppositions Coordination Council accusing them of plotting an illegal seizure of power. So the need for the book of the creation of such organizations is illegal and their activity violates the constitution having realized then lawfulness of their actions the number of Council Members quit the body and reject its goals these include the illegal seizure of power words the council poses a danger to national security. Or the chief prosecutors words echoing what president lukashenko said on wednesday at a Security Council meeting he so named Coordination Council for the transfer of power was established by the Opposition Leaders had wanted to come she is currently in self exile in lithuania the group denies any wrongdoing. Political analyst andre the czech believes the Antigovernment Movement in belarus is losing momentum due to the lack of a clear agenda below to show you standing going to speed in the store is fired. Some people obviously had little bitty an awful lot of discomfort. By this opposition this uprising as it is being called the are are aiming at Something Else which they really dont know what it is they are just being told and told by the opposition by the European Union that they. Have to demand change they have to change the system but it can see no of the support for this. Kind of disappearing because people are thinking ok now for the 1st time a what is going to happen if we really. Have this change or are we going to end the play cue credo are we going to. The former soviet republics which were pushed through this independence or. d are we going to end up basically or not in the. The e. U. Meanwhile has confirmed it is drawing up sanctions against bell russian officials who are suspected of Election Fraud and violence against protesters block hasnt disclosed as yet whether Alexander Lukashenko is on that list in fact brussels lifted penalties on him 4 years ago with the way in which shares a border with belarus has banned go and 31 other beller russian officials from entering the country and the e. U. Has stressed that there should be no foreign meddling in the belorussian crisis moscow claims that though that lithuania is doing precisely that with its sanctions on the countrys leader. Russias foreign minister has contacted the e. U. Foreign policy chief to urge brussels against stirring up a confrontation between the government and opposition in belarus that is after the e. U. Unanimously rejected the results of the election and declared president lukashenko persona nongrata and hes done corner comments now on the signals coming from the European Union. For the west bank it was always europes last dictator the European Union never liked the guy but they did try to play nice not anymore we stand by the people of belarus their European Union stint in chile didnt reach it was a piece of Better Research by skills than most benefits should on its own choose brain dependent cost of the country will follow there should be no outside interference in the situation there just off things could no longer continue as they are in belarus now its when a dictator has come to the end of the road its best to find a way forward for the violence to suspicious in the western powers throw around words like dictator and regime usually it doesnt and well no wonder it sounds pretty alarming to moscow but its good you should be able to so you can just as we are deeply concerned about whats going on right now in better roofs we are concerned by the attempt to exploit to the internal challenges facing bella ruse to interfere in them from a brutal it goes without saying ballarat president Alexander Lukashenko is also concerned that when the. Western countries are openly without hiding it raising funds and sending them to beller we cannot track all of the funds as much of it is in cash but we see that we know whats going on and we will focus on this issue. The European Union isnt just paying lip service to the ballarat opposition either the millions of euros in aid it promised to the belorussian government are now being redirected to socalled Civil Society an independent media and the European Commission will mobilize now an additional 53000000. 00 euros to support the belorussian people in these challenging times we cant forget the e. U. States neighboring valorous which seem to have their own agendas for one the polish Prime Minister seems to think belarus has close ties with russia make it incapable of democracy and there is a plan to check. Change that such of an economic plan should be prepared for the ruse because now it is highly dependent economically on russia poland is already presented to plan for intensive course. In the areas of independent media the Economy Investment and thence National Trends of the commission of polands plan involves spending a leaven 1000000 euros on scholarships for media and academics that it deems to be independent warsaw is also generously offering to open its doors to ballarat and workers just think what the loss of balance the skilled workers would do to help democracy. Actions were not since a few without name isnt on the feds we can and should extend a helping hand to the russians its a similar story in lithuania where the Opposition Leader spent long thats a kind of sky isnt selfimposed exile and other belorussian antigovernment n. G. O. S are operating from its also where a Fund Raising Initiative called freedom 1st to go bella reuss is being organized intended to encourage the creation of a Democratic State aside from the fact that its director provided direct support to the ukrainian uprising in 2014 little is known about who is involved or where the money is coming from combined questions surrounding the oppositions shady sources of funding with the e. U. Is Cold Shoulder to lucas sankoh and you have to ask yourself who is going to really come out on top from the on rest and valorous its important russia everything that we hear in the western media coming out of this it was because it is egypt. That of mere speech of both or of. East. So. Really what do you think is one of those that we should be theyve made 1st of. All we get here in sort of illusion what are the russians and so far. Theyve been very patient in the. Those who are in charge do you. Believe that we all. Have one why one train that is one direction so what is it you thats been a lot worse thinking ever since. Basically almost wrote his book of the end of history. By conventional due to. The us has formally requested a socalled snapback of United Nations sanctions against iran secretary of state my pompei all met with the un Security Council president within the last couple of hours to deliver that request arties came up and comments. So at this point weve got the United States essentially demanding that the United Nations reimpose its crippling sanctions Economic Warfare against the Islamic Republic of iran this is mike pompei o laying out the demand just a few minutes ago i delivered letters to both the un secretary general to terrorism to the president of the Security Council notified them that the United States is initiating the restoration of virtually all u. N. Sanctions on iran lifted under u. N. Security Council Resolution 2231 United States will never allow the Worlds Largest state sponsor of terrorism to freely buy and sell planes tanks missiles and other kinds of conventional weapons now essentially the United States is hoping to invoke the snapback mechanism that was part of the j c p o a conclusion of the Iran Nuclear Negotiations the Iran Nuclear Deal now the snapback mechanism was put into the nuclear deal so that if iran did not fulfill the agreement and did not fulfill its obligations broke the agreement that there would be an immediate snap back and all the un sanctions would immediately be reimposed on iran so now the United States is trying to invoke the snapback mechanism however it has virtually no support in the International Community when it comes to this demand that weve got all the other cosigners of the deal the United Kingdom germany france china russia all staying that basically the United States doesnt have the right to invoke the snapback mechanism because the United States pulled out of the deal not iran this has been the International Reaction to the United States call this was west to you and i was aware different concerns that reckless acts by the United States could trigger a serious crisis in the Security Council our american colleagues do not seem to care about this with carnal countries to resist and i stress once again that the u. S. Plans are and loehle that they will use in the United States has withdrawn. In the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian Nuclear issue and hes not qualified to call for a rapid resumption of sanctions by the Security Council we firmly believe that any unilateral attempt to trigger un sanctions snapback would have serious adverse consequences in the un Security Council we would not support such a decision which should be incompatible with our current efforts to preserve the j. C. P. O. A now the United States hold out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in may of 28 scene and at this point weve got the trumpet ministration saying that they are open to renegotiating a new deal that would restrict irans activities more harshly now at this point people are reacting to the recent effort by the United States to extend the arms embargo against the Islamic Republic of iran which was roundly defeated by the International Community the u. N. Security council the 15 member body that leads the u. N. The only other country to support the u. S. Move was the Dominican Republic and it seems with the world basically opposing washingtons moves against iran that iran actually has the upper hand this is what weve heard from some iranian officials in was called and on which i think today its clear that the United States is size elated and american unilateralist is not supported by other countries with a reason reason lucian that was put before the Security Council the United States was defeated and the slum a group public of iran has the upper hand about it in the International Community it seems like almost a consensus that the Iran Nuclear Deal should remain intact however washington has pulled out of the deal and they seem to be almost standing alone at this point in their call to reimpose sanctions and to essentially escalate tensions with the Islamic Republic. Earlier we spoke to journalist and author of the iran agenda today reese erlich he thinks the us and push for renewed sanctions are a sign of weakness rather than strength the us has no legal grounds whatsoever to pursue this very quite explicit in the terms of the j c p l a that only participants in the accord could move to have the snap back and weve seen all kinds of the seizure of iranian oil on the high seas that was on its way to venezuela are all perfectly legal but the u. S. Claims the unilateral right to pose its interpretation of sanctions anywhere in the world against anybody it wants. But frankly rather than a sign of straightening this is a sign of weakness because the u. S. Is unable to get support any other country in the world for these. Actions including britain france germany and staunch u. S. Allies completely reject the above the trungpa news on this issue and its a sign of desperation frankly that theyre hoping something will happen between now and november and turn things around and trump hopes to use these an effort to gain reelection i think frankly its quite the opposite. One is after a short break this is r. T. International. Thanks guys are. Close to these if this is a central plank supported by the film is the problem right. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race. Theory dramatic probably the only move. I will see you. Will be very critical. To sit down and talk. About this is our 2 international and the russian Opposition Leader alexina hasnt been left fighting for his life after falling ill during a flight to moscow on thursday the plane made an Emergency Landing in the siberian city of square involving is now in intensive care he is currently in a coma his allies say that they believe he was poisoned while still on the plane was heard howling in pain as paramedics came to his aid. After news of his illness broke supporters gathered in several cities across russi