This was the blast that led to the mass protest as a 5 day search for survivors draws to a close but they report explosion killed at least 158 people and left thousands injured. Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our Team International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we start with breaking news from belarus where there have been widespread protests in the wake of the president ial election official exit polls claim that Alexander Lukashenko who has been in power since 1904 has won a landslide victory the opposition believes however that the vote was rigged the interior ministry has convened an emergency meeting in response to the demonstrations which were met with force my police. Live live. Live live leak live. To. The truth about suitable yeah he said you know. So it never means we cant slip in a recent scene its largest protests in the last 10 years at 10 pm people began to gather near the heroes city open a school but a path was blocked by Security Forces the offices then began to march out of the city a sense of pushing back the phrase if this is the 1st time in the history of Belarus Special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used so my witnesses claim they saw rubber bullets being fired move protests will most likely be held tomorrow evening. More on this lets cross a lot of charges or mancow sort of he is outside the Belorussian Embassy in moscow where protests also took place earlier. There has been immense frustration with what the opposition claims is a massive vote rigging tell us whats happening now. Absolutely well 1st off we are indeed near the bella Russian Embassy here in moscow where protests indeed took place earlier the protests also took place in cities like kiev a war salt. To name just a few but self violence that took place on the streets. All 5 some belorussian cities mostly in minsk crowd said since the stains out serve polls a closed and official exit poll numbers showed that president lukashenko claimed an overwhelming victory protesters clashed with the police who used a stun grenades grenades and rubber bullets tear gas as well as a war cannons in order to disperse the crowds now footage show from below roofs that weve been seeing all day showed that ambulances rushing to the rushing to the scene in order to help the wanted to now lets take a look at whats been happening over the last few hours. Well the police say they have the situation under control and president Alexander Lukashenko who is seeking his 6th consecutive term in office since a 9094 also called on the people to respect the law lets have a listen to what he said. To do months to go and demonstrate system we have 6 sites in minsk 6. 00 to 10. 00 of them there were demonstrations only to 2 sites and see where you go and demonstrate example that if you do anywhere in violation of the law everything is regulated as he would initiate interfere with other people who do then we will hold you accountable. Also added that he guarantees that no one is about to lose control and it will be a top priority for the current authorities off the roofs as well now look at shankar as victory was largely expected however belorussian opposition claims that the election was not only a rigged and unfair in fact it was their candidate who won the election by a landslide victory lets take a lets have a listen to one of the opposition figures right now. Is clear this has nothing to do with know exactly the opposite we suppose citizens are doing because their votes are being stolen. To store through this company with the truth to violation of the constitution you can shrinkers no seizing power by force hes the one whos carrying out the coup. Now scores of protesters have been did saying the exact number is unknown and the bill russian authorities are saying that they will announce those figures on a monday morning a local media reports that one person had actually been killed and dozens have been wounded at the moment of the police managed to disperse the crowds from the center of men scanned reportedly from all the below russian cities as well however the protests are expected to continue on monday. All right rym on kosova there is staying across situation for us we know if anything develops well be on top of it for us thanks our political analyst Mark Macaulay and of the director of the Crisis ResearchInstitute Mark allman gave us their thoughts on the protests in belarus and how they might unfold. 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All those things have to be damaged is standing once you have a government of control over the center of the dangerous that it then uses sort of ability. And same 100 people in those places on the border for instance pew to neighboring trees to support so it potentially could spin out of control very rapid. Protesters regrouped in central beirut on sunday for a 2nd night of unrest in the Labor Ministry was reportedly stormed in a replay of the previous nights of 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 r. T. C. Was done of 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 the life can never forget that smell its very distinctive so the police have most likely 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 there 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 grabbed it like this and try to dismantle the bob why are 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 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 they have almost dismantled the barbed wire at this checkpoint and. Clearly the army the military the the the soldier that hes talking over the walkie talkie and i think what hes doing right now he is calling full 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 i guess 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 nearly hear the explosions. But people are very confident in the any. Any who have nothing 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 that 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 cannot get anything anything we try to do we have the Army Fighting us we have the police were to 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 gas these are tear gas canisters as 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 front lines 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 protesting 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. Well the 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 covert 19 has been overwhelmed by the disaster numerous city buildings have been badly damaged and thousands of locals left home. No not all of a sudden we found everything turned over our hands but i turned around and i was hit by something in my right hand the street. Kid screaming but. I saw it and i saw. The devastation here in the lebanese capital is very much the blast that was felt at 10 kilometers away from the board where it took place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad 9. 11 years army and Fire Fighters have been still trying to put off the fire which is still until today burning through the remains of the warehouses rescue workers are still trying to take to the rubble to find the remains or or the the missing and differentials. Angry very sad we lost the country we lost beirut we have people. We didnt find yet we have family members we dont know anything about the 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 a mock gallows in a location where people were hanged more than 100 years ago under the Ottoman Empire protestors raised cardboard cutouts 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 told my colleague you know neal the protesters want 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 vote 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 of inspirations 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 you tend to blame hezbollah because their leaders are blaming hezbollah what they. Rule in all this really is the public as you say has been directed against them 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 hezbollah 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 it and 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 the most part and its always been that way i dont see this. Deteriorating and feel like a civil war type of condition is lebanons a broke country and theres nobody to fund a war. This week japan marked 75 years since the u. S. Dropped atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki we look at the legacy of those epic defining attacks after a short break stay with us this is. Joining me every firstly on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Welcome back this is our to international now it is 75 years since the u. S. Dropped an atomic bomb on the japanese city of nagasaki just days before that on the 6th of august 1905 hiroshima was also attacked around 200000 civilians were killed some years after the tragedy due to severe burns radiation sickness and other injuries as well. Mock local you know with this on. The mighty words in the its a sin must do i. Need to guy night. I get to meet on this and. Get it while you must. Say actions you have could have can you cares you kind of want you to have to share every night. And as you are. Going to change your question that. Chair going to. Cut down at my desk when i get to. Talking there on you may have had to. Guess and sheena to have a vanity. And have commissioned. A moral events have been scaled back this year due to the pandemic but small ceremonies still took place in both cities affected by the tragedy during the commemorations japans Prime Minister was joined by the few surviving witnesses of the attacks they marked the blasts with a minute of silence. The u. S. And japan are forever linked by the tragedy here is what people in hiroshima and a new york know and had to say about the events of 945. Take a drastic measure i like to say i feel like i havent learned much. Against the us. Japan has just. Been the consequence of more positive results are people like from harbor maybe pearl harbor had something to do with the us response to coral arbor. Where. Fixing serves of. Justified i dont know i think its tough to blame people for the mistakes of history so you want Something Like that catastrophic should go like an apology were like but gracious im looking for reparations im native american different im going to get any theres not going to happen its not going to happen but it just nice. But thats when my mother was 7 months pregnant with me the atomic bomb was dropped my cousin was also an atomic bomb survivor and died of leukemia after 75 years im still very sorry for those who died. And i think the use of the atomic bomb was unacceptable there was no reason to do it and the military situation was utterly hopeless for japan perhaps it wouldnt have taken much longer for the war to end would have been over without the bombings and the war between japan and the us its a shame the u. S. Hasnt apologized to japan for the bombings. Its very important to say it out loud to emphasize what the real purpose of the hiroshima bombing was if we keep silent the propaganda will win. And it doesnt for me this ill be back in and say 31 minutes with another fresh look at you know this is our team trash. How can you explain love ive been to 82 countries i did in 12 but i came here and on those 3 days i just filled with hope. And. Sick show. I made my decision to come here because i felt i knew i could build a new life. As a free man. God decided that this money is no good to be free. My one dream is that all my children d find the same kind of happiness i do. I love my home i love cold weather i like the culture i like the history like everything about it. I know that. I am a russian fine