Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show lebanons capital beirut is facing a 2nd day of protests against the government following tuesdays devastating explosion that killed more than 150 people and injured at thousands protesters hurled rocks at Security Forces are blocking a road near Lebanons Parliament where this is say hundreds of people are converging on a main square the same place where thousands protested on saturday they blame the political elite for the countrys economic and political woes. Well for more on the situation in beirut a lets bring in our correspondent basle r. A. D vassal nice to see you again we saw how yesterdays protests resulted in more than a 100 people being injured how does the situation compare today. Its saying yesterday at this moment the policy just crossed next to my right playing to the protesters it was complete chaos i dont know what a go at the protesters try to do the problem is they thought they succeeded in having a hole in the seam and said
A go to the polls president Alexander Lukashenko has been in power since the 1990 s. But this time around hes facing a serious challenge from this moment. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show lebanons capital beirut is facing a 2nd day of protests against the government following tuesdays devastating explosion that killed more than 150 people and injured thousands more protesters hurled rocks at Security Forces and blocking a road in your 11 ons Parliament Witnesses say hundreds of people are converging on a main square the same place at thousands where thousands protested on saturday they blame the political elite of for the countrys economic and political blogs. For more on the situation in beirut to lets bring in our correspondent at basle radio basle good to see you again we saw how yesterdays protests resulted in more than 100 people being injured whats the situation like today by comparison. In fact we have the same. Problem and. They have. To move the engines from the clas
Crime economic trouble and a spike in coronavirus cases voters in Trinidad And Tobago are off to the polls in parliamentary elections. So lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government saying hes stepping back in order to stand with the people this is in the wake of the beirut explosion which has on the says was the result of a corrupt political system protesters are unmoved by his words they have been back out on the streets the blast on tuesday killed more than 200 people and injured thousands more and left huge numbers of people from beirut and its not how small. Lebanons government has finally caved in like the shots of buildings along beiruts waterfront. It took an explosion of 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate to bring down the Prime Minister and cabinet. Today we followed all of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokera
Which led to the resignation of former president abel. Lebanons Prime Minister has resigned along with the government saying hes stepping back in order to stand with the people its in the wake of the beirut explosion which has and the abscess was the result of a corrupt political system but testers unmoved by his words have been back out on the streets again the blast on tuesday killed more than 200 people injured thousands more and left huge numbers homeless from beirut is but its not. Lebanons government has finally caved in like the shuttered buildings along beiruts waterfront it took an explosion of 2700. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate to bring down the Prime Minister and capital. Not to. We followed the will of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokerages and theft to a state of law and justice and transparency to a country that respects it
Morales. Also ahead united against science well look at whats driving the movement in germany against karun virus restriction is. Our top story the head of the u. N. Food agency says hes worried lebanon could run out of bread in about 2 and a half weeks David Beasleys in beirut assessing the impact of last weeks catastrophic port blast he spoke during a un briefing on the humanitarian situation there 85 percent of lebanons grain came through the devastated port the World Food Program says it sent in 50000 tons of wheat flour to beirut to stabilize lebanon supply lines to be easily says some of beirut port could be reopened quickly to restart imports kristen salumi is in new york explaining what else was discussed during that briefing. This was a chance for the humanitarian affairs chief to brief members states on the situation on the ground in lebanon and the International Response so far secretary general antonio terus called it a huge catastrophe coming on the heels of the socioecono