The mass protests a 5 day search for survivors close the beirut port explosion killed at least 150 people and left thousands injured. But you. Are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our to International Im sean thomas glad to have you with us and we start in belarus where there have been widespread demonstrations after a disputed president ial election an official exit poll indicates that Alexander Lukashenko who has been in power since 1994 has won a landslide victory the opposition believes however that the vote was rigged police in the capital minsk used extreme force against protesters leaving some badly injured. Please i play play live please listen to me i want the backlog is that much of it was suitable yeah he sent me please go to sleep so it never means good study because the batterys has seen its largest protests in the last 10 years at 10 pm people began to gather near the hero city overnight but a path was blocked by Security Forces the offices then began smart outside the city censorship pushing back the protesters for the 1st time in the history of balanced special crowd control measures including stun grenades were used some eyewitnesses claim a small rubber bullets being fired more protests will most likely be held tomorrow evening. From on kosovo has the latest on the protests in belarus. Bill russians were protesting not only in their own country but seen in other nations as well i call the shots of germany poland israel and ukraine in the course of the most part the protests took place in bellerose in minsk and other cities the protesters clashed with the police who used tear gas or rubber bullets now to take a look at whats been happening on sunday night in minsk. I. The police say they have the situation under control and the standing president Alexander Lukashenko good is running for his 6 consecutive terms incentive for says that everyone should respect the law e. G. To do months 3 weeks to go and demonstrate system we have 6 sites in minsk 6. 00 to 10. 00 of them there were demonstrations only 2 shots out the window and demonstrators applauded if you do anywhere in violation the law to do everything is regulations he wouldnt if you interfere with other people to do that we will hold you accountable he added that he guarantee that no one will. Remain free or its a current allocation goes between yourself our state expected however the russian opposition friend and then action was not fair it was a ring of rigs and that in fact it was their candidate that so won the selection with overwhelming numbers dallas some of this inside one of the opposition figures. Is clear this has nothing to do with normal acts who post these are just numbers off the top of someones head the real results are exactly the opposite we suppose citizens are doing because their votes have been stolen loot. Started this campaign with a brutal violation of the constitution. Is now seizing power by force hes the one whos carrying out the coup. Scores of protesters to take over the fish think tank. The rest will be on monday morning local here was that one person had been killed and dozens. Wounded at the moment. Her stick around the center. And reported from other below russian citizens as well the protests are expected to take. Political analyst Mark Macaulay and the director of the Crisis Research Institute Mark allman gave us their thoughts on the unrest in belarus and what it portends for the country. Opposition now seems to be building up because because of the covering of the pandemic that we covered 19 because of the. Increasingly poor Economic Situation and oppression from russia russia would lead to much closer this illusion with with most who. Are willing to give the illusion has been through the last 26 years between east and west and look at those played on when we get as you know very well if you look at the last 26 years hes been there apparently almost wherever he looked after the military and the militias police very very well and theyve been given the garage and theyre living and theyve been looked after because theyre they keep him in power but in the last 5 or 6 years they are and it was a shame because policy is the. Sort to move away of it russia lost various economic benefits because of then of course you have big of a crisis calls the World Oil Price collapse and then also by. The all those things have to be damaged is standing once you have a government of control over the center of the dangerous then uses sort of ability 1st were going to have the same time people in those places on the border for instance pew too may bring trees to support so it potentially could spin out of control very rapid. Protesters recruit in central beirut on sunday for a 2nd night of unrest the Labor Ministry was reportedly stormed in a replay of the previous 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 parties it was john 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 certainly have been using and if you just if my cameraman could just zoom in just over there you can still see the smoke inside the fire as 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 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 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 still 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 nearly hear the explosions on us over there but people are very confident it isnt any 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 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. And c. P. S. Can not do anything we can not 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 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 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 residue 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 who 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 fall 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 ministerial 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 be under some people has 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. Tragedy struck at around 6 pm on tuesday when a massive blast hit the beirut port 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 covered 19 has been overwhelmed by the disaster numerous city buildings have been badly damaged as well and thousands of locals left homeless. 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 you. Should see. The devastation here in the lebanese capital is very much the blast that was felt at the time 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 remainder or 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 people will daily go back to the streets they will daily ask for justice we need the justice made who doesnt deserve this and we would if 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 market 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 that hes lost hope in the quote sterile regime journalist rania colleague earlier told my colleague you know neal that 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 it for political gain by different political factions so there are certain political factions who have people the streets trying to make it about his boat 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 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 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 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 of country and theres nobody to fund a war. This week japan marks 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 this is art international. As the u. S. Economy was booming gaining numbers of people made. You can work 40 hours d in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of it were not financially equality and the lack of Affordable Housing or living minimum wage give many people no choice. Thats been a problem with the city turn around and told me stay away on all this. Because you know its the records resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible. During the year we talk about all those crazy problems out there and then during the summer we deal with solutions thats right so lucians and today were going to be talking with. The nose of coin floor dot. Com. 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 1945 hiroshima was also attacked around 200000 civilians were killed some years after the tragedy due to severe burns radiation sickness and other injuries. Mock local you know what just. Not as i do know my 2 words in that system must. Be to guy night. I get to meet on this. Journey of saying. You cant have them you care you cant i want you to have to share every night. And i say are about to take on. Your question that. I had to cut down at my desk when i get to. Talk of there on you may have had to. Guess and she knew to have a mechanic you had to have and have commissioned. Me. A moral events have been scaled back this year due to the pandemic but small ceremony still took place in both cities affected by the tragedy during the commercials japans Prime Minister was joined by the few surviving witnesses of the attack they marked the blasts with a minute of silence. The u. S. And japan are forever linked by the tragedy heres what people in hiroshima and the new york know and what they had to say about the events of 945. Take a drastic measure here and 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 terms of. It being justified i dont know i think its tough to blame people for the mistakes of history. Something like that catastrophic should go like an apology were like but im pretty sure im not for reparations im native american the figure wont get any thats not going to happen its not going to happen but it dipped nice. I thought she was 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. Because i know youre going 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 water end would have been over without the bombings and the war between japan and the us its a shame the us hasnt apologized to japan for the bombings. Its very important to say that out loud to emphasize what the real purpose of the hiroshima bombing was if we keep silent the propaganda war when. Theres a for me this ill be back in about 32 minutes with another fresh look at your new stay with us this is our the internet. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see that. The u. S. Economy was booming doing numbers of people when they need us. 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