World Service this is Julia Morrow with the real story one topic one hour every week and this week the protests in Lebanon in recent days the people of Lebanon have been staging an extraordinary revolt against their politicians schools universities and offices have been closed as hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Beirut and other places around the country to demand sweeping changes a proposed tax on whatsapp voice calls triggered the protests a plan that was quickly dropped but they re about much more than that people from right across the sectarian lines of the country want an end to economic stagnation endemic corruption and a lack of basic public services and it seems that reforms announced by the prime minister a few days ago are in the minds of the protesters too little too late so what now for Lebanon that s the real story from the b.b.c. After the news. Hello this is the b.b.c. News if you know MacDonald the trumpet administration has opened a
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Needed 8 years worth of trumps personal and business records as part of an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film stars Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal the president s lawyers want the federal appeals court in Manhattan to reject a lower court s decision that trauma s turn over his returns to prosecutors they re expected to argue that the Constitution Shields a sitting presidents from criminal investigations trial Snyder n.p.r. News Washington Lebanon s top leaders are considering reshuffling the cabinet as hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate across the country they re calling for the government s resignation to protest corruption and poor public services N.P.R. s Daniel Estrin has more from Beirut protesters have continued to flood the streets of Lebanon s major cities for nearly a week they re demanding that Lebanon s political elites resign some have been in office for decades and adviser to Prime Minister Saad Hariri told reporters
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