Cannot face these problems unless we have early elections to elect new politicians and a new parliament we need a new political elite and a new parliament we need to Work Together to overcome the stuff a period we know and i know the people have questions about the catastrophe and how the government plans to handle it the catastrophe is way bigger than anyone could imagine the impact my stay forever. Is a political activist and filmmaker he says the explosion in beirut has added momentum to the protest movement this amount of people in the streets. Whole establishment is a very clear political message to all the people that something needs to change. There is a lot of anger of course this did was to get into the Apartment Building that was the main focus of the protesters i was there d on the front lines we saw what happened we saw how well how much violence. The protests and we were dealt with the day that we have more than 170. 00 injured protesters. Its all we have people who have b
Forces riot Police Responded with tear gas demonstrators have been calling for the complete overhaul of what they describe as lebanons corrupt political elite. And they will look at this particular moment we have to go back to the people to fight with them against corruption we need to open the door to National Salvage National Rescue we need to be part of the people so i declare today the resignation of this government god bless lebanon but it smith has more from beirut. The very least that people were expecting there had been calls for elections that is not going to happen instead were going to get it seems a new cabinet and a new Prime Minister people have lost faith anyway with the political system here and 11 on a political system that keeps a particular group of elites who wielded power since the end of civil war keeps them in power. Theyve changed theyve created a system that keeps their parties in power and persuading them to allow the system to be changed to allow a more indep
Great to be back and a special honor to be invited to introduce tom wolfe and a huge burden because how does one introduce tom wolfe . One read the economist, of course. Two weeks ago was a wonderful article on literary realism and i will quote as a way of introduction. For use tom wolfe has been lambasting the establishment for ignoring the best story around, their own country. America positively titillate with fantastic stories and get its writers ensconced in their manhattan lofts and residentss cant be bothered to look further than the ends of their noses. This week, a moment in American Literature, he wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism we need a battalion, a brigade of zolofts to head into the wild bizarre, heart stopping country of ours, reclaim it as literary property. The trouble turning yourself into an american is you expose yourself to being trump by reality, better sort of critics are forever lambasting tom wolfe for going over the top, using cart
In this court filing recesses children now aged 20 and 21 with being hildas what he called human bait to lure him out of hiding the state department has now responded to the senators concerns in a letter to senator leahy it described. As a valued partner to the u. S. Government working closely with the u. S. To ensure the safety of americans and saudis it also states that any persecution of algebras family members is unacceptable adding that it has made repeated requests to the saudi government about the status of his son and daughter. He was an advisor to the previous crown Prince Mohammed bin i hear that in his court filing he says he left saudi arabia because he feared what would happen if and when muhammad been summoned took over the state Department Says its concerned about the alleged activities that resulted in algebras exile to canada it says that any saudi accusations of wrongdoing against him must be and i quote address through established legal channels with full transparenc
We had an i. T. Company here very times were tough before tuesdays explosion now she says she cant see any future here. I am and who. Knows. Its a good thing. That i come. From 25 years. I work here. This is the 1st time. I see Something Like that. The government has given investigators just 4 days to come up with a report into the cause of the catastrophe but now they say this small a fire ignited 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate being stored in a warehouse next door. When the Ammonium Nitrate ignited the shock wave instantly crossed the city leaving beirut looking like a place that after just 5 seconds has suffered from years of conflict. Frustration and anger boiled over on thursday night and there were some small protests near lebanons parliament. But most people here have been focused on cleaning up the now. The government says. Reconstruction costs will run to at least 15000000000. 00. This is a country that was already on its knees because of a deep economic crisis and a curren