Foreign power. In 24 hours, resignations as anger grows in the streets following the last inin beirut. Thank you for joining us on france 24. First,t, please say we thousand people were detained in belarus, after thousands took to the streets in minsk and other cities after early results showed Alexander Lukashenko posed to win by a landslide. It is said he got 80 of the vote for his sixth term. Ministry saidign there have been numerous indications of election fraud. Oliver cried oliver craig is standing by. What have they been saying . Oliver the main opposition candidate gave a press conference in which her team does not recognize the result. She said they would come forward with proof of exactly how before it was carried out. She invited Alexander Lukashenko for a dialogue for a peaceful transition of power. The longtime president completely ignored those calls. Bioy he was visiting a agricultural holdiding and he wl be speaking with the commonwealth of independent states, states that were part of the soviet union that emerged. That was the only International Admissions that were able to obobserve the elelections. Lukashenko said he felt the elections had been a festival of democracy that some peoplple had tried to spoil. He was referring to the demonstrators and he referred to them and said they were being directed by phone calls from the poland, and the u. K. Details aboutmore what happened last nigight . Said, the interior Ministry Said 3000 people were tookted and said protests place in 32 localities. 50,number injured is at which i think the belarusian opposition is an underestimation. More and more photos and videos are emerging with people with bloodied faces. It looks like a Brutal Police response and in what looked like arbitrary arrests or people were being picked out for just being there by the police. There is anger in belarus and is speculation about what might happen tonight. Many are saying they are preparing something similar tonight as they feel like the election has been unfairly stolen by alexander schenkel, Alexander Lukashenko. Police in hong kong have arrested media tycoon jimmy lai. It is so far the highest use of a new law beijing imposed on hong kong. He owns a popular tabloid and is in outspoken prodemocracy figure. He has been arrested foror collusion with the foreign government. [speaking in forereign languauage] earlier i i spoke to a reporr and asked him if the new long whicich was imposed back in june chipped away at hong kongs freedoms area freedoms. It will make an awful lot of hong kong prodemocracy activists from colluluding with foreign governments or ngos. Of police raided the offices apple daily this morning. There is indignation in hong kongng and outrage at the arrest of jimmy lai. The Hong Kong Police came out clearly in force and strangely at a time when hong kong is supposed to have stringent covid19 social distancing restrictions. They came out in a closed space in large numbers. The Democratic Party is focused momore on jimmy lai as a member of the press and said this is a deterrent effect. He said this is the end of the free press in hong kong. They a also said they would cree a new department withihin to del with visas, particularly for foreign journalists. It seems pretty clear the e hong ko government is turning the screw on press freedoms and using the National Security law and pointed out quite a number of Media Outlets were refused entry at apple daily today. They were told the police were not allowing in Media Outlets that obstructed them recently. China has imposed sanctions on 11 americans in a titfortat move after hong kong officials, including carrie lam, were sanctioned last friday. Sanctions will apply to u. S. Senators including ted cruz and marco rubio. The secretary of health and Human Services has met the taiwan president. Rs visit is theighest for u. S. S. Official in 40 yearse praised the response to the pandemic. The test was tested as china views taiwan as its own territory. Viewed by china as they y feel taiwan is its own territory. Has been growing following sdays blast which killed people and injured 6000 others. While it is not known what caused the fire, sentiment is, my government did this. Focus fors the protesters, the barrier leading to parliament. A day after demonstrators storm several ministries, they tried to converge on parliament and were pushed back again by the army and police. Demonstrators want to bring down the government whose negligence and corruption, they believe, led to the tragic explosion in the beirut port. [speaking in foreign language] others, some carrying nooses, resting leaders to design resign, say protest should remain peaceful. To some extent, i was a bit disappointed, because we were hoping to stay much more peaceful. I understand their anger. I am very angry. The government took a hit when the ministers resigned. But the government, backed by has blocked, still backed by hezbollah, still remains. It has been suggested last week organizing snap elections. Taliban says it is ready for peace talks with the Afghan Government. Authorities have announced the release of some 400 taliban prisoners. The release had been a hurdle in launching peace talks between the two sides. Ready to begin peace talks with the groups main demands agreed on. The e taliban and announced it s ready for the next step. Our stance is clear, if the prisoner release is completed, we are ready for talks in a week. Decisionntrtroversial wasade by an Afghan Council of delegates on sunday after three days off discussions. With this final release, the Afghan Government will fulfill its pledge to set three 5000 taliban prisoners. Talks had stalled. Some 3000 Community Leaders and deputies were invited to couple to kabul. They urged the talaliban to lay down arms. [speaking in foreign language] the planned release of the final prisoners has outraged civilians and rights groups. 100,000 afghan civililians thout to have been killed or injured by taliban attacks in the past decade. Negotiations were signed by the u. S. And the taliban in february. It includes a 14month timeline for the release of u. S. And nato groups from afghanistan. The agreement was mediated. Talks expected in the coming days. The president of niger as well a as emmanuel macacron have offered condolences to eight People Killed gunmen in niger. Six aid worker and to nigerian guides were visiting the southwest side of the country. Jihadist activity has been on the rise. Peppered with bullet holes, that is the car the six french nationals and to nigerians and the driver were killed. It was labeled a cowardly attack after a call between emmanuel microphone and his counterpart. All means will be deployed to shedight on ththese murders within the next two hours. The assailants have yet to be found, but a largescalele operation was deployed in the region. The victims were visiting a popular draft reserve draft reserve. E. Giraffe reserve. It is the first time westerners were attacked. The french government generally advises citizens not to travell to large parts of niger whehere jihadist groups are active. The president ofof niger had labeled the killings as a barbaric attack. Thousands of troops deployed but militants are still rising. [speaking in foreign language] no terrorist group has yet come forward to claim responsibility. , somecording to sources groups d denied being behind it. Emmanuel macron will discuss it with his defense counsel on tuesday. Face mask are mandatory and crowded public area in the french capital. Over 100 streets are covered by the order. Local authorities in france have implemented several moves where masks are mandatory on the river seine and open markets. The ongoing heat wave in europe is lowerining water levels in rivers and streams in france. It pushed them to toughehen regulations on water usage. They are ready to hand out fines to households who ignore the rules. The heat wave continues they are prohibited to draw water from rivers with low water. [speaking in foreign language] the owner is nowhere to be seen, so he will have to be found on the land register. [speaking in foreign language] if legal action is taken, the fines can go up to 1500 euros. Apart from handing out fines, they are here to warn about water usage. They are quick to act when irrigation is being used. [speaking in foreign language] a locacal farmemer, who wished o mamaine anonymous, defended actions as a water comes from who wished to remain anonymous, defended actions as this water comes when the reservoir. Residentartments, the the fines are set out and certain exemptions under the environmental inspectors. Here in the region, farmers are still permitted to irrigate cauliflower. The inspecectors arent dust on the lookout for violations. They also make note of Good Environmental practice, such as this irrigation system, whwhich preserves water. That is it for me. Thank you very much for watching. Hello. This is a new issue of the interview from france 24. Beirut, the region, is today destroyed. To understand what has been happening, i have e the governor of beirut with me. Welcome to you. Thank you. What is the extent of the damage in a root after the explode in beirut after the explosion . Beirut is a city that is in ruins. It is almost as if it has b been struck by a nuclear bomb. The port in beirut is entirely destroyed. Half of the houses in beirut are either partially or entirely destroyed. There is a shattered glass in the streets. There is an ever present danger for people in the streets, because debris is constantly falling from buildings and people dont know what to do. They dont want to leave their homes and they cant stay in their homes. Crisis is quite drastic and the lebanese government isnt able to deal with such a catastrophe. In fact, i dont think any country in the world would know exactly how to deal with such a crisis. It is for this reason that the people are angry. People feel that the governmental authorities arent doing enough. Is,the truth of the matter there was so much destruction and we have little means at our disposal. We almost have nothing that we can work with, and we are still suffering the first shock. That is why we need a few days for us to be able to muster up our strength that would enable us to be able to help people. One in 300,000 people are homeless. What have you done to help them . We are monitoring the situation closely. We are monitoring what is happening in the field closely and we have contacted a number of the neighboring towns to seek their aid. We have provided apartments and homes to rehouse a number of citizens, but people are afraid of leaving their homes unprotected, because they are fearful of home invaders. For that reason, the townhall policemen a group of and policewomen to carry out night watches. They have arrested a number of people trying to break into othershomes. We are also keeping a close eye on the city borders. We have provided basic needs, materials soction they can start repairs. Wewe are hoping people get backo their homes. Eight is pouring in. Aid is pouring in. Who is in charge of the aid . Can you aaron t eveveryone will geget guarantee eveveryone wl get them. At this time, we have received no Financial Aid at the townhall. It is through the National Government organizations. It to all working to get try to deal with the situation. The problem is one of poor information. We dont have all of the information. The disaster is so vast, the devastation is so vast that all we do seem so futile, so little, compared to her large how large this problem is. There is concerned about air whattion and they wonder sort of toxic air they are breathing . Have you taking taken steps or given them advice or instruction . From the very outset, we tried to carry out a number of tests. We originally but there would be a risk of radiation. In fact, we were alwlways sure f the fact. However, we then learned the pollution was in fact chlorinebased. So we are talking about chemical pollution. Such pollution is almost impossible to deal with. So the air pollution i first mention has beeeen carried out o sea by a changing wind. The air r is now perfectly breathable. This means that those who blast would die because of ththchlorine g gas . No, that is not what i am saying. I dont think the pollution levels in the air are that high. Have you carried out any investigations about this . That is not something for the townhall to do. That is up to the National Authorities to deal with. What have you asked the National Authorities or anybody else to do that . We have a number of priorities before dealing with the air and lucian. And pollution. We have to remove the rubble. We have priorities and we cannot deal with air pollution for the time being, given there are still injured people buried under the rubble. You extract under the rubble . Therenk they are are 10 to 15 people buried in the rubble. However, we dont hahave a specific list of names of the peoplele missing, because a a lf pepeople havent been repeported missining. They dont have any family or loved ones who report them as missing. As a governor, did you know there were explosives of this sort that were stored in the port . Beirut isort in independent. It is not within the jurisdiction of the Governors Office nor of the townhall. It is for thatat reason we weree never informed of the presence ofof such materials or such productsts in ththe port. Had we been informed o of it, we would have done everything in our power to rememove them fromm the pororts. Responsibletually for this . Me to say whop p to is guilty. Wewe need to l let the Justice System deal with that. There many other Hazardous Substances elsewhere. Have you carried out investigations as requiuired . There are government bodies in lebanonon looking into that t ai think they are doioing a sound job. I think sucuch a situation wont repeat itself in the future. What abouout the Cultural Heritage of beirut . It is a major issue. We have a number of majoror concerns. In fact, there are twowo major issues to try y and way up,p, eighgh uphey way w bebecause they weig against each other. Hthere are some buildings that may collapse and we have to ensure that they dont. On the other hand, there are a number of heritage buildings that are part of lebanon heriritage and they need to be protected because of that. So we haveve to detect heritage buildings, what we have to ensurere those buildldings thatd to be desestroyed or destroyed, and it is a are destroyed. It is a delicate balance. Have you set up a committee . . We have set up a committee. Workinge 1 100 engineers on behalf of townhall and also volunteers. Engineers from the United Kingdom and europe as well. There are also a number of lebanese volunteers. They are all working together to inspect the buildings and then they are drafting reports. Decided tododay, we evict a number off people from buildings. They are no longer to enter the buildings, because they are likely to fall. Because the buildings are likely to fall. Macron and hisl visit, have you set up lands to rebuild the port . Talkesident macron didnt of rebuilding. It is speeches, he spoke quite generally about support to lebanon and of his love for lebanon. President macron visited ground zero, vivisited this site, and e was shshocked. He didnt have much time to talk about such measures. What about the wheat silos . As for the wheat silos, they were entirely destroyed, and that is why they have to be rebuilt entirely, silos. The lebanese government will have to be dealing with the crisis all the while we are waiting for new silos to be built. On top of that, we have to deal with the issue of food supply. As a judge, what sort of actions do you think can be takenn and in the heart of moscow to place the best represents what vladimir