Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Four. Here's what's coming up.

As we predicted, our ill wishes both outside and inside the country have changed their methods of attacking the Belarusian state.

Belarus defiant as the world condemns the arrest of journalist Raman Protasevich, but with Russia sticking by its close

ally, we hear from Moscow's ambassador to Ireland.

And our objective is to have in place the information, tools in the markets so that the private

financial system can take climate change into account with every financial

decision.

Ensuring big business thinks green.

I talk to the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney about building a better world for all.

Plus, from JFK to Biden, Pulitzer Prize winning Carol Lennig explores the rise and fall of the secret service in her new book Zero Fail.

Then we should want to do more, not less, for kids in single parent households.

California Congresswoman Katie Porter tells Michelle Martin about using her own experience as a single mother to shake up the system. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Galadriga in New York sitting in

for Christian Amampore. The West has moved from organizing riots to strangling Belarus. Those were the fiery

comments from the country's embattled president today. Alexander Lukashenko accused so-called

ill-wishers of crossing red lines to defend

arrested journalist Raman Protesevich. The EU has imposed new sanctions and cut aviation

links to Belarus, but opposition leader Svetlana Tikinovskaya said that the

block should be doing more. Let's be frank the previous EU strategy of

wait and see towards the Belarusian regime doesn't work.

The EU approach of gradually elevating pressure on Lukashenko's regime hasn't managed to change its behavior

and only led to a growing sense of impunity and massive repressions.

Despite the mounting backlash, Lukashenko does have one important ally,

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