Stand in dignity together as a nation i feel that i need to send an apology to the lebanese people because we failed to achieve their ambitions due to the difficulties i have worked with my colleagues in the cabinet according to the directions of the Prime Minister who is following all the details with a lot of was done in order to respond to the demands of the people but no way does the reality go parallel with the ambitions after the bare root earthquake that has shaken the nation and due to the displaced the martyrs those who are still hungry i respect all of this and i submit my resignation to the government and i wish all the best to lebanon and stability and unity long live lebanon. Fana has more now from malta square in beirut. This is a blow to the Prime Minister has son who has been struggling for his government to have credibility and legitimacy not just at home but abroad but what we understand is that the Prime Minister as we speak is holding a meeting with his ministers an
Before sunset on tuesday highly explosive material stored at a warehouse at beirut port cause the blast sending shock waves across the city now in ruins. Almost every building has been damaged many are dead thousands are injured and hundreds are missing rescue workers worked through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble telling them what. My husband is an employee at the Electricity Company he survived but his colleagues didnt there only now moving their bodies from under the rubble this is a country already reeling from a dire economic crisis where 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line its people are not in a position to cope with this disaster. Of the. Material losses are sad but its nothing compared to those who lost their lives this is my taxi its my livelihood and im still paying for it. Everyone has a story of survival or tragedy the damage spread several kilometers many are blaming those in power for the
City antifa and black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist activists attacking citizens and destroying property and the mayor just grins at it all. Law enforcement under constant attack and today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting. And federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said that, quote, a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice, to attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that, they dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds of course will protect citizens and
City antifa and black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist activists attacking citizens and destroying property and the mayor just grins at it all. Law enforcement under constant attack and today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting. And federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said that, quote, a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice, to attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that, they dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds of course will protect citizens and
Discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Here is a portion of that interview. The assassination and the number of president s had been assassinated, why wouldnt the government have protections . This wasnt done. Why wouldnt the government have a pension for everybody but no pension for a president . He had very little money. He had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean patterson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It doesnt mean he doesnt have money. He did have money but needed cash to cover expenses of moving out of the white house. When he got home, in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done. Except Herbert Hoover but hoovers time in office was much briefer, trumans presidency covered far more to multiple us history tumu