This was the blast of that led to the mass protest as a 5 day search for survivors draws to a close the beirut port explosion killed at least 158 people and left thousands injured. Kids. Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the weeks top stories with our Weekly Program this is R T International we start though with breaking news from belarus where large scale protests are unfolding after the countrys president ial election state exit polls claim that Alexander Lukashenko who has been in power since 1904 has won a landslide victory the rival candidate says the vote was rigged earlier to video journalists from. Arties Ruptly Agency were detained while covering the election the interior ministry has convened an emergency meeting in response to the unrest. Was who was i. Was. I. Was. When i was walking home i got caught up in the midst of the action but i was near the sports and it seems like the main clashes with the police were taking place there i saw police with large shields standing in file and completely blocking me out and people stood and faced the 1st the police stood still then they started banging the crown with the shield Police Trucks pulled up right Police Rushed out and started gruffly grabbing entertaining people and at some point i realized they had to hide because i didnt want to get beaten up as well. For more lets cross live to our teens Daniel Hawkins he is outside the Belorussian Embassy in moscow where protests also took place dan when an intense situation there is immense frustration with what the opposition claims to be a massive vote rigging. These are scenes unprecedented in a generation the crowds of thousands are growing by the hour not only in the capital minsk but across other cities in borrows from video to brest as well people want to express their indignation at an election they view as neither free nor fair now though crowds of hundreds earlier here today at the by the Russian Embassy the police pushed them back and things are looking calmer now but as a fan. From whats going on right now in a bell or if Security Forces are trying to break up these ever growing protests were hearing reports of barricades being built across the capital people hearing explosions as well across the city and just hours in Security Forces are alleged to have use tear gas water cannon even rubber bullets against protesters as images come in of people beaten and bloodied now authorities deny that any such injuries have taken place but looking at the scenes of police cars driving into people and police charging protesters with batons its easy to see how this could happen this is what was happening in minsk over the last couple of hours. It was widely predicted to win this election but many people were hoping for some sort of watershed moment in but a russian domestic politics that moment has now taken place a risk taking place right in front of us in the streets his campaign a was criticized for the arrest and detention of journalists opposition activists and candidates as well the incumbent president no stated that the authorities actions were constitutional and legal even though he said that these results would not be internationally recognized widely for the way the result so all the while the election has been handled this was look at centers responds just hours earlier. This is demonstrably true to know and demonstrate we have 6 sites in minsk 6 children other than there were demonstrations only 2 sites to go and demonstrate is that if you do anywhere in violation of the law everything is regulated energy means if it with other people then we will hold you accountable. Well multiple opposition candidates were barred from taking place in this investigation mr lection many of them were arrested or had criminal charges instigated against them one such for the opposition candidate. Who was barred from standing a later fled to russia out of fears for his own safety has lent his support to the protesters describing the actions of the incumbent president as a coup this is what he told us earlier. Yes. It is clear that this has nothing to do with normal exit polls these are just numbers off the top of someones head the real results are exactly the opposite we supposed citizens are doing because their votes have been stolen. Started his campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. Is now seizing power by force hes the one whos carrying out the coup. All the anger at these Election Results goes beyond borders apart from the protest here in moscow weve seen crowds gather up by the russian embassies in kiev in warsaw even as far as field of eve with no message coming yet from the government it doesnt look like these protests are set to grow in these for. The main opposition candidate the main the contender to look at. The just issued a statement calling on the police and Security Forces not to use force not to use violence against protesters some reports unconfirmed of course at this stage that in some Cities Police have stood aside and let these protests take place if that is confirmed if that is true certainly thats not a good sign for the incumbent president lukashenko and it looks like these protests will be carrying on not going anywhere and getting bigger by the hour throughout throughout the night and into sunset sunrise right arties down hawkins there keeping across the situation in belarus for us we know as the situation develops you will be coming back to you for sure because youre the person who has your finger on the paul thanks. All right. Going to switch gears now to whats happening in beirut protesters have regrouped in central beirut for a 2nd night of unrest of the Labor Ministry has reportedly been stormed in a replay of last nights clashes around key government buildings the country is reeling from the shock of tuesdays deadly explosion with protesters demanding reform and for officials to be held to account are reports now from the lebanese capital. Yesterdays action was not the last one that was for sure because people it seems are driven to the edge here in lebanon and indeed it is the 2nd consecutive night of protests and a lot of people are out here in the streets theres a very distinctive smell of tear gas in the air anyone who has been ever gassed in their life can never forget that a smell its very distinctive so the police have most certainly have been using and if you just if my cameraman could just zoom in just over that you can still see the smoke its not the fires its the tear gas used by the police here we are at one of these checkpoints if you look over there you can see the military man theyre standing there and theyre preventing any protest as from getting inside here although they have been trying because they have been trying to dismantle this barbed wire this is one of the things here that they used you see so they literally they grab it like this and try to dismantle the barbed wire they in so far they have failed and theyre doing it right now in fact look they are you see they are wearing gloves this is what they are doing. And they have not succeeded a yet but. This is what they this is what they have been doing. So again and again and over there they the army they are ready to jump them as soon as they get any any closer any closer to success now people are unhappy basically what broke the cat with the straw that broke the camels back was the last because it destroyed a lot of peoples homes and theyre saying essentially that they have no means of restoring of or of mending their homes themselves and they are blaming the government for the explosion theyre saying what all those tons of neutrik acid were doing in the port. And so they are very very angry and look they almost have almost dismantled the barbed wire at this checkpoint and. Clearly the army the military the the soldier that hes talking over the walkie talkie and i think what hes doing right now he is cooling for backup. For. The police and the army are trying to clear out of this street right now we are in the middle of the city a gas everywhere this is the Army Checkpoint that the protesters try to clear out and right now people are leaving theyre trying theyre running away from their running away from the epicenter from where with the action was from the most heated and you can clearly he was any have the explosions. You know so but. People are very passionate as any. Any here there are but the army they are going the operation to free and. People are still people are picking up rocks over there if you look over there this is where people are. There covering their faces because tear gas is literally everywhere right now. You can see this is. People can barely breathe here. C. P. S. Can not do anything we cannot talk we cannot express ourselves we can not get anything anything we try to do we have the Army Fighting us we have the police were doing us we have everyone. Everyone facing us because we need our needs and we need to get back our country and our city and this city will not be rebuild unless we take back our country and if you look if you just look over that there is that she has just been swimming with people all you can see there right now is just a line of soldiers just a pack of soldiers who have moved forward about a 100 meters from the at the center from the epicenter of the protest and this is basically this is going to be their position now and from over there they will keep moving here and they will keep clearing out the streets and these bright flashes that you can see the night sky this is the t. A gas these are tear gas canisters there is a lot of tear gas you can see but but protesters i centrally blinding trying to blind the army with these green lasers which is very very dangerous by the way because if they are powerful enough they can blind a person literally we are just now at the frontlines literally we are one of the few people left as close to the police as the we are right now were where the police were using the army were using tear gas we have been gassed a number of times like 3 or 4 times maybe will cover in reza to you right now but right now the army has essentially cleared out the street so you can see it is completely empty now the road block the Police Checkpoint the military checkpoint that the demonstrators were trying to dismantle is right be right after its right next to that glowing mosque so right now the police have cleared the army i should say because it is military these are soldiers they have cleared all the street you can see feel. Medics here who are ready to provide support to anyone who is sick to anyone who has room by rubber bullets which the police how the military excuse me have been using or who have had tear gas poisoning because it has been very extensive and so basically all the demonstrators they have moved down the streets and the police have been the army has been chasing them there is something set up a blaze over there also the also results also the aftermath of the protests but right now you can see here ambulances because i am absolutely certain that there will be plenty of wounded perhaps even as many as yesterday from the mall because it has been the 2nd consecutive day of protests and these are fully fully get a riot police who are falling back which probably means that the protesters have been scattered through the streets let me tell you their operation has been very swift very fast they moved as they were clearing the streets firing rubber bullets firing tear gas as people were falling back it was quite indiscriminate because all journalists were there in the crowd as well a lot of journalists were there they didnt care for it but well one might say its not really their job to care about someone who decided to cover the protest from the thick of it but yes right now it looks like the protesters have been have been while they have had to fold back and scatter through the streets again as ive already mentioned its the 2nd consecutive day of protest of protests excuse me here in the lebanese capital yesterday more than 700 people were wounded almost close to a 1000 people were injured in the clashes and basically today weve seen the very same scenario unfold people trying to occupy minister ariel and governmental buildings and the army evicting them from there shortly afterwards and be a basically people are very. Im happy about so many things also some people have been pointing out that hospitals those that have not been destroyed by the blast in the port they are already overflowing theyre being overwhelmed with patients essentially there are people who are sick with covert 19 there are people still injured from the bloss now daily they have to treat hundreds and hundreds of people because of the protests and p. And some people who are some critics have been saying that well its not the right time while it is certainly an emotional and a wrenching time for the people here in lebanon they have been saying maybe maybe there should be a different approach maybe people shouldnt wait but a lot of people are clearly very sick of waiting. Taking a look back tragedy struck at around 6 pm on tuesday when a massive blast hit the bay report area 158 deaths have been confirmed but with dozens still missing it is feared the number will rise the citys Health System already struggling with code 19 has been overwhelmed by the disaster numerous city buildings have been badly damaged and thousands of locals left homeless. In the home of the sun we found everything turned over our hands i turned around and i was hit by something in my right hand people screaming kids screaming but it was a choice and i should see. The devastation here in the lebanese capital is very much the blahs that was felt at 10 kilometers away from the port where it took place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad night. The Lebanese Army and Fire Fighters have been still trying to put off the fire which is still until today burning through the remains of the warehouse says rescue workers are still trying to dig through the rubble to find the remainder or the the missing and differentials. The fear of sort of. Angry very sad we lost the country we lost beirut we have people. Who didnt find out we have family members we dont know anything about people who will daily go back to the streets they will daily ask for justice we need the justice made who doesnt deserve this and we wish you is what happened to us lebanon had already been going through its worst financial crisis in years inflation is soaring and almost half the population lives below the poverty line around a 3rd of working age adults are unemployed the latest on rest is a sharp escalation of the anticorruption rallies ongoing since last october on saturday demonstrators put up mark a gallows in a location where people were hanged more than 100 years ago under the Ottoman Empire protestors raised cardboard cut outs with ropes around their necks depicting lebanons Prime Minister and hezbollahs leader as well as other officials in response to the unrest lebanons information minister has stepped down saying the government has failed the people the environment minister has also quit stating he has lost hope in the quote sterile regime journalist rania colic earlier i spoke to my colleague and said that the protesters are looking for someone to be held accountable for the tragedy. A lot of righteous anger in the streets of people who are angry they lost their anger they lost their homes angry this happened on top of Everything Else its been deteriorating in the country and theres also you know some attempts to manipulate for political gain by different political factions so there are certain political factions who have people the streets trying to make it about his ball as opposed to about the entire lebanese power structure and any course you have people who were demonstrating starting in october jus to the economic collapse who have continued those administrations in the aftermath of this and what were seeing is you know i some of the most violent confrontations between Security Forces and protesters in recent memory most people believe it was an accident due to corruption and negligence and competence which seems to be the case as for whos to blame you know people who belong to parties that are proamerican and tend to blame hezbollah because their leaders are blaming hezbollah what they. Rule in all this really is the public anger as you say has been directed against them on the control most all of the beirut puerto rico i think its right in saying are people really going to start questioning the groups huge influence and. Thats not accurate to say that has bella controls the port the port is controlled by the by the government by the Port Authority god as well as not some all powerful force that controls the entire country thats just not the case that is a certain narrative that were hearing from certain political factions and certain like western narratives so its not one specific party that was responsible for this it wasnt as below that was responsible for this it was the people in charge of the Port Authority some people that were in the judiciary that refused to act on intervene and a corrupt elite that was trying to negotiate a way to make money off of this and couldnt figure out how to split the profits so they just let this fertilizer sit there until this dangerous explosion took place its a fault of lebanon being a dysfunctional incompetent failed state for. Most part and its always been that way i dont see this. Deteriorating and see like a civil war type of condition is lebanons of country and theres nobody to find a war you need weapons and money to fund a war. Lets go back to our breaking news from the bell reuss its a big night lots going on where large scale protests are unfolding after the election exit polls point to a landslide victory for president lukashenko who has held power since 1994 but many people are refusing to accept that result and activists have set up barricades in the capital minsk and other major cities as well the rival candidate claims sundays vote was rigged and she has vowed to challenge the result theres also been widespread anger over the way the vote was conducted with polling stations apparently closing their doors despite long lines of people still queuing up to vote the interior ministry has convened an emergency meeting in response to the on roads. 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