Tear gas is being fired at lebanese demonstrators trying to reach parliament while others managed to storm the Foreign Ministry. They have the right to be under that and furious not just because of that. Lebanons Prime Minister says people have a right to be angry after decades of what he calls unbelievable corruption. Ridiculous and barbarous china condemns u. S. Sanctions on hong kongs leader its police chief and other officials. Now the deadly port explosion in lebanons capital is now igniting a wave of anger towards the government thousands are demonstrating in central beirut right now with some protestors able to storm the Foreign Ministry just a very short time ago police have now 5 tear gas to disperse people outside Parliament Politicians are accused of corruption and in action which led to choose days devastating blast that. Killed 158 people and wounded 6060 people remain missing around 300000 lebanese are now homeless because of the damage that was caused 3 m. P. s from the opposition Christian Party could quit and that makes 5 resignations in total well lets start our coverage with zain acosta whos in the thick of things in beirut in moscow square then of these protests by my count are now heading into their 4th hour weve seen plenty of tear gas and we are now hearing that live ammunition was you use Near Parliament but that really doesnt seem to be deterring demonstrators. Yes we heard live ammunition not too long ago Security Forces really using excessive amounts of tear gas live bullets what theyre trying to do is move the crowd move the protesters away from the Parliament Building but some of the tear gas of being is being lobbed and falling in the center of Martyrs Square which seems to be the way to try to disperse the crowds and empty the square weve seen this happen before in previous months when there have been running battles and after a few hours these Security Forces use more tear gas the only way to force people to leave the square we are joined by rabiya isnt antiestablishment protester you get in the streets for months is today any different you came back to march to square the epicenter of the movement which began in october today theres much more anger today youre asking for justice and youre asking for revenge tell us why your home today is different today is the front because today is out of respect for all those who are mostly due to the explosion to the corruption to the sectarian regime ok ill call for the specter out of respect to the wounded people came back with more enthusiasm as you can see this is like bombarding us with a gun as much much much more than it did in the last couple of months i wonder why because they are afraid that fate. So these people came without any sectarian baggage dont they came without any Political Action on the they just came to ask for justice they came to seek justice they came to ask for their life they want vengeance from the cut up system that led to the best of their families and beloved ones what do you think you will be able to achieve anything weve seen scenes like this in the past year youre standing your ground ive seen it. Tear gases locked people are moved away but then theyre going back in and then chants revolution but how long can this last you are standing in the face of power and the balance of power that is not in your face and this pollards this vote goes back to more than 30 years ago this unified system with all the things they have like contacts contradicting system it stands but what i want to say of the thing is the foot and the conscious of the people now people walk up to the law if they have been following and living up to what i want to say ok true they might spent the last they might stop this they might send their Party Members but the only thing they wont do is change the whole thing from the shifting hold of those people in the Upcoming Elections the people you are seeing they want to go to this parliament to say that you dont trust the parliament and you want to dismantle this parliament it doesnt get done to us anymore we want the new elections and these people seeing here they wont elect the same dictatorship regime we have in such in such a state but there are people who will definitely elect those in power yeah definitely in power still have supporters for Different Reasons weve seen that some of them now doing the ice up there yes we were we were witness to that antigovernment protesters Peaceful Protesters that were based here and they were attacked by government supporters we saw that still arent you worried that this division could cause could could slide levanon into even more chaos you know the thing is this division will not be in 1009 percent of the polymer. And those caught up part is home being. I dont know whats happening but i think people look Something Like we did end up putting forth in state building but what i want to say is at least we might be able to get a 50 percent to change in this parliament at least we could have been a part of the system part of the change its a change once you break one part of it and the things like will go on again and again you bet you call for early elections but we know that theres theres no agreement no consent yes and 11 on what electoral law the election will be held im with you im with you on guys. That this Movement Week from the start because the minute you discuss device divisive issues issues that divide the lebanese people then youre just divided you cant move forward are people here in agreement on what kind of an electoral law should govern a new election you know but i believe that these people here that in agreement that they need to change no matter what the changes i didnt say only like 3 the elections is the solution if its not this year the next year 2022 is coming and then they will have an elections on whatever low they want and that elect total low will replace them id like a should do that because these people they have that injured cabinet members they lost houses cars assets or they have wounded or they have martyrs these people will not go back to be like the sheeps led by 2 the sectarian parties and this political regime this is something you could bet because this is the talk we hold every day with each other then usually the nation is not is not by far like the old generations of people today they are saying for the rich silence from the background they had they said that we were sorry because we believed the lie and you know if you believe today is the beginning of a new chapter thats lotion 17 or 17 october last year 2005 he was the beginning of a new. Capture today its a new page in that you kept it because the number of people believing in the revolution became like exponentially increasing and this is the court of they should because by the day they believe usually it was an israeli external attack or internal savage or internal at that this time it was purely corruption people died out of corruption they believe that the corrupt system would put corrupt employees and the Public Administrations and this not about the day to day to day things we face the lack of electricity the lack of water blah blah blah i dont know it became to our lives such an explosion in a different country the head of the state at fierce should have like declared him being out of the game not only the government not only the parliament but the president and the Prime Minister there promising a living i know a thorough investigation a transparent investigation theyve arrested the head of the port theyve arrested the head of customs they frozen their accounts and theyre promising a swift investigation likely an outcome tomorrow or on monday in such an explosion its not only the head of the of the of the seaside because the head of this support the head of this Public Administration hes not there because of his internal like let me say come past that he and his like expertise hes there because some some Political Party put him in there and that political guy that political caught up party that put such people in such places should be out of the country but its not the head of the head of that sensation that were after here its the head of the state this state its not the 1st issue this is closure its the cherry on the top its a hard cherry its a very well left way to charity but the thing is lack of electricity the exchange say the Economic Situation social thing go to any Public Administration in this country and tell me what you see look how could he related the people out and the public and the station in this country that we lack the trust of the external like to have it on the National Level on the interNational Level. Even on the local level no interest of our country and we dont trust our country and by country i mean that is seen by country i mean the state and the state etc presented by these Political Parties as represented by these people giving commands to these Security Forces. Have left the square it seems that its the excessive outside their movement yeah but what comes after that at the ends with the excessive amount of tear gas and the like but i havent used people are going to go home then yes them ok you have you have like 348 units here. They want to go to the parliament they believe it is their right to go to the parliament and they will stay here till 8 hours at night and then will be dismantled 2nd flood they came here just to share condolences to say that we are here we dont agree they are they kill you like families they came here in peace and they are leaving not the 3rd 5 people who want to change that they say they are here to the clear a political thing to say we want to change that if we want to change we want we want the Parliament Members to declare that to be terminated this parliament is not a change doesnt happen overnight to me and this happened in Different Countries some countries we saw civil war it made for transformation does the protest movement have a leadership thats the protest movement having a lot of vision on the way or they dont i can assure that but at the same time i can i believe that this country has many people who have been activists and the social skills on the nongovernmental organizations of alarm on other levels that they are worth of moving ahead and stepping forward and taking some lead. So its not one night changed through but it will this is part of the change the 5 month things happening in this country and before last year this this that to the chains of the government but the new government came worse. Yes a lot of defining. What you did and. No one is happy to see that much happening to the Public Administrations ok but people are really angry people really see one Day International the internal Security Forces released the statement and they said that peoples anger is understandable but please do not destroy public and private property the Security Officers these attorneys Security Offices should have said that to them so therefore like 80 percent of the it was hit by that explosion that happened on the 4th so they shouldnt pose this to the company they shouldnt says this is the citizens they should have told this is a quote up people of the public on the station. So as you can see a lot of anger here of people like her being i have been involved in this protest movement for so sagna now and its people like him who are in the streets volunteering to clear the debris to provide shelter food and water to the people at the International Community how how do you see their reaction some of those in power are a bit concerned that the crisis is becoming internationalized and if theres more International Intervention in this country maybe then automatically they become weaker down to see the controls them. When international you know unfoldment gets bigger some part is internal theyve got controlled by the obsession of the Conspiracy Theory against them or against that assistance out against you know. Anything in this country is a very positive support by the International Bodies by that of the gulf is. Utopian america everyone have supported us in this crisis in a very very positive way and i believe the visit of french president back home to live on was like something that can be explained on express walking down the streets while not all of that official was able to have the courage to go down the seeds those who came down got kicked out by the revolution but by people. So this is that good example of how the International Body looks at live on and that about these people that are being taken hostage by such as on the of the hand you could see that people are welcoming to everyone in the world but not their socalled like representatives and the parliament and the government its interesting that you use the word hostage because we were in jimmy see the beirut neighborhood when the french president you know walked among the crowd and people were almost pleading with him begging him for help and i spoke to a lot of people afterwards and i said what was it that you felt and they said we we realized how much we are hostages and that for us he was some sort of a savior but now we are hearing from the president for example saying that lebanons isolation he is looking at the International Communitys engagement with lebanon as ending its isolation we know that lebanon has been isolated for some time now the new government doesnt have the support of lebanons traditional allies no voice of support so since Prime Minister jeff took office and by the way hes expected to address the nation any time now how how do you answer that those in power are seeing this as some sort of a lifeline that the International Community is going to give them this lifeline for you know aid to be distributed in full situation improves and how do you see that. Excuse me sir yes. First a hold whos that hes on drugs isolation was it the International Body who isolate the lebanon out of choice or was it the actions of that example of the ongoing governments since 2009 and coming forward. The reason for this isolation is it indeed feeling is that the iranians some of these parties and militias interfering in other countries issues and in other countries wars are not so what i want to see is this we as a state and we as a part of the population are behind the eyes elation we lead this store sells this explosion yes it is a way out if we would be able to handle it right with the community International Community like the i. M. F. Like the president by going told there is going to come back in september and he want to see some change he said said that was the size and 18 and since 2018 till now on the Electricity Sector side of the power sector side on the side nothing happened. Thank you so much while your time so you can see a lot of frustration but people are hopeful they are seeing this maybe as a new beginning. In a long battle against those in power. And weve been saying. Of running battles that seem to be developing between protesters and the Security Forces weve seen them outside parliament weve seen this large plume of smoke the this fire which i believe is in a residential building on the road to Parliament Square weve seen ambulances come in you mentioned the live ammunition earlier we also saw as robin was saying that protesters stormed the Foreign Ministry tearing down and burning president i one picture im very when the whole world is watching these scenes and it feels in some ways like these protests also assured the International Community ahead of the fund raising. Conference tomorrow is that the sense that youre getting from demonstrators that this is a message as well for global leaders. I didnt hear you well but the message is after talking to so many people here is that they want to tell those in power that enough is enough and we are no longer going to be silenced but they also want the world to see i heard this time and time again theyre really putting a lot of hopes on the International Community theyre holding clock cards that says that say dont give the government money if you want to help levanon give it directly to the people reach out to the people reach out to the end she goes dont give the government a lifeline dont give them another chance to stay in power so theyre putting a lot of hope is now those in the International Community theres going to be a Donor Conference tomorrow france and the United Nations theyre going to organize a Donor Conference to try to raise money emergency aid for levanon but the french president was very very clear of franc