Of her aides are among dozens of arrested ahead of a tense president ial election. And balloons are released in rio is the number of People Killed by cove at 19 in brazil cost is 100000 baht the plaza still packed armley well into the sports news as you ventas waste no time in appointing a replacement for the sox manager margaret c. O. Sorry for the point its the former player. Who outside give a different ball of a club just a few days ago the full story coming up later this hour. Have been hours of clashes in central beirut today where thousands of lebanese were out voicing their fury at the government and its role in tuesdays Explosion Police fired tear gas and live ammunition as some protesters threw stones and all of those stormed a number of government ministries one policeman died and dozens of people were injured beirut residents are angry that theyve been left to pick up the pieces of their shattered homes and neighborhoods using shovels and human chains with no help from the state and more m. P. s have resigned from parliament in their own protest 3 m. P. s from a christian Opposition Party announce their resignation at the funeral of one of their senior officials who died in the blast lebanons Prime Minister has responded to the anger by calling for early elections algis. To reports now from beirut. They stood their ground in the face of power. Relentless tear gas by Security Forces at times live ammunition. But protesters didnt leave too angry at a Political Class they blame for tuesdays blast that killed dozens and destroyed and damaged many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the authorities were aware that thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the beirut port for years we have survived the explosion but part of all of us has died to be honest but what can we do i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all these people cannot so what can we do what they did was return to the streets they have been demanding a new leadership for months many were injured in running battles that lasted for hours but this time they say they wont be silenced they want justice and revenge for the victims of the explosion and believe a government led inquiry into the disaster wont hold senior officials accountable. We are not leaving if you go to them or us in this country and you know what the people always do things and we will fight we want revenge and all revenge is by putting all the Political Class either either on the huygens to see over there or in the dust but we want them out. Protesters also storm 3 ministries state institutions people say are run by corrupt politicians who they blame for draining the states treasury they say they want the state and a competent government currently lebanons institutions are controlled by Political Parties and there is a parallel state run by the iranian backed hezbollah the Prime Minister has sandip who took office early this year is now offering a way out of the crisis loom conclusion as making ability when you know we we cannot face these problems unless we have a really elections to elect a new politicians and a new parliament we need a new political elite and a new parliament we need to Work Together to overcome the stiff it will carry it 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. Over. Early elections have been one of the oppositions demands but there are concerns the sectarian based political system and electoral law wont give independent candidates a chance. To early a little chill stood as a good step but im afraid that the Political Parties although they still have the power over the people and a soul about the system like im afraid that they will have just we will have the same people again i thought the 1st time central beirut turns into a battleground between the people and the establishment the struggle for change is not new the anger has been building for years many feel those in power caved in by proposing early elections the governing alliance is not just facing pressure from the street the state is nearly bankrupt and the International Community wont help unless politicians fight state corruption for now many people here feel they won a round in what is likely to be a long battle. Beirut. And he is one of the 3 m. P. s who resigned earlier from the opposition Christian Party explained why i was elected to make a change. In training with my. Fellow. One of them in the cubicle and weve been trying to make this against this corrupted regime that has proven its failure weve been trying. This muscle. That is the result of. Corruption. And. We decided. That. We need to be clear i guess the. Morning. We. Are joined now via skype from beirut by political activists and filmmaker. So some of the images weve been seeing from beirut today it really looks as though that the center of the city was transformed into a battleground now how would you you out on the streets how would you describe the way people are feeling. Even the hundreds of thousands so this amount of people in the streets who are angry at the whole establishment there is a very clear political message to all the people in power that something needs to be changed. There is a lot of anger of course this did was to get into the Apartment Building and that was the main focus of the protesters i was there d on the front lines we saw what happened we saw how do or how much violence. The protests were dealt with the we have more than 170. 00 injured protesters. We have people who have been shot in their eyes and in that had so many people are in the hospitals so there is so much neutrality. Compared to also what we have witnessed as little itty during this whole week we have witnessed so much brutality from this corruption weeks the notion that happened. Youre mentioning the response because we saw clashes between Security Forces and demonstrators with tear gas being deployed and the use of live ammunition and in some cases will will people be deterred by this or a determined to continue making their presence felt on the streets while the protests go on. I expect the protests to go on because the anger is not finished here we have the demands are not met the people are demanding for theres a commission and the Holding Accountable all of the Political Class that would have sponsible for what happened and the resignation 1st because to be able to hold them accountable by law they need to resign because its so complicated to be holding them accountable if they are still in office its almost impossible we have not seen a minister put to trial in the last 20 years we have the same for Parliament Members or for president s so for this to happen we need them for student zine for a certain kind of accountability to happen if its going to happen and this is what the protesters are demanding. So their efforts i mean can you tell us about any efforts that are going on behind the scenes are you in touch with politicians about forming some sort of Transitional Government i mean if we are if we are to see a whole scale resignation across the board and of course its not clear that that would happen but if thats your ideal scenario what would you have in its place are you looking at is not for. As for the constitution there will be more for you elections can be whole can be even if the council of ministers is resigning so its not something that will affect. Actions if this is what you are going to go for so does that mean that print protest says like yourself satisfied with the suggestion today from Prime Minister has an idea that there should be early elections. Well yes but at the same time whos going to be holding this election is this government who is totally biased for certain for certain Political Parties we know that in the past what happened is that elections were rigged rigged in so many ways. The people who were holding the elections were also. Being members like 200 as candidates at the same time they made a law that really suited them the most they bought votes they. Intimidated people to vote for them and also we know that more than 51 percent of the people didnt vote because of all this. Pressure scenario in the election so to have a really independent and independent election we need another government we need a government that really is independent from everyone. And also it should be was kind of. Independent. Committee to oversee the election because well whos overseeing the elections the ministers interior ministers and then to be a minister is also part of the political system that we are fighting against. So in a way what we hope for and what we would demand for at the beginning is having an independent cabinet that would run this transitional period until we get an early election all right thank you for sharing your thoughts with us appreciatively sandburg really joining us there from beirut it well its been estimated the blast cost 10. 00 to 15000000000. 00 worth of damage to the port and the wider area and its message been getting another perspective of the wreckage. Its not until you move away from the beirut shoreline that you get a real impression of the scale of the devastation just over my shoulder the orient queen boat that was capsized by the force of the blast and every building you see along the skyline has been impacted there isnt a single pane of glass left and damaged over there just on the other side is the remains of the grain silo and the grain silos. Was most of the grain supply for lebanon there is no Strategic Reserve and all around the grain silos the remains twisted remains of the countrys main port warehouses everything in their food included all the goats were destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd border but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. With the news hour live from london much more still ahead. Protesters are back out in west jerusalem calling for israels Prime Minister 6 to step down. Afghanistans highest consultative body recommends the government release 400. 00 taliban prisoners but only if they promise not to return to fighting. And the controversial car being dubbed the pinkness sadies creates a big surprise in qualifying the sunday school no one grand prix. The main opposition candidate in belarus his election has gone into hiding in the past few hours after 2 of her top aides for the. By police so that lynette to kind of skye is running against the man whos been called europes last dictator Alexander Lukashenko her supporters have been taking part in a car protest on the streets of the capital minsk making the opposition hand gesture out of their windows dozens of them were also arrested despite a show of support the president is expected to declare victory after the final day of polling on sunday. Is running for his 6th term in office hes held the post for 26 years having changed the constitution to allow him to keep running and hes the favorite to win again and his 3 main opponents were all barred from running but larry kudlow was forced to flee the country after security concerns. Was arrested over bribery claims the blogger said a gate taken off skier was charged with preparing a grave breach of public order instead the opposition has united around taken off skase wife svetlana despite having no political experience she has drawn massive crowds to rallies and says she wants to return justice to the country well geezer step vos and spoke to her actually before she went into hiding and brings us this report now from minsk. Election observation belorussian style. I. Independent observers have not only been detained but also been barred from entering polling stations nonetheless they have found irregularities in the voting process that started on tuesday and will have its peak on sunday the 1st day of the actions. 39 people go out in the evening protocol. Mission said there where d 89 so they added 50 people is the president Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of stealing previous elections but this time hes facing an opposition on a scale has not witnessed before led by this woman 37 year olds but learn at the hand of sky she reluctantly decided to run for president after her husband a popular blogger was jailed suppose the elections were going to be free and free or how many percent of the vote would you get i suppose 6. 00 to 5. 00 said. He would be a big winner then. I would be yes who would. But the woman who attracted large crowds does not expect this to be the official election result she has promised that if she becomes president the 1st thing she will do is call for free elections even if this doesnt happen now. Of course elections will be. I dont think that he will. I dont know how can a person. Country where people. Softly speaking dont like him just. Most of them. And. But will he go quietly. The fact of this guy has accused the opposition of trying to cause a bloodbath and russia of provoking violence but analysts say these accusations are made to hide the countrys real problems. In the last 10 years they call them has gone down and society is not happy and basically society are united against look at this by their ideological position of their values and their political priorities all of them think are the main obstacle for development. But as long as the president is still backed by the military and high ranking officials he believes look as shanker will remain in power the moment of truth for a look at shango will not be on election day but on the days after that if as announced large crowds protests what they believe will be another fraudulent election here at this square the thread the file and scanned them become reality a scenario most belorussians want to avoid step fasten aljazeera menthe and other stories were following antigovernment protesters have rallied in the far east of russia for the 5th weekend in a row thousands of people gathered in her borowski on the border with china to voice their anger over the arrest of that popular governor daily demonstrations have been held peaking on weekends since ok for a girl was detained and taken to the capital moscow is being held in connection with a Murder Investigation the protesters are saying that the arrest was politically motivated and they want him to either be freed or tried in their own city. A Venezuelan Court is sentenced to former u. S. Soldiers to 20 years in prison for what authorities called an attempt to overthrow president dura the Denman Erin Barry were found guilty of conspiracy terrorism and illicit weapons trafficking over the attempt to topple the government in may the mens lawyer says their legal team wasnt allowed in the courtroom during the proceedings a florida based Security Firm has claimed responsibility for the raid which left 8 people dead and Dozens Injured it a number of people have died of covert 19 and purcell has now passed 100000 according to a brazilian Media Consortium its only the 2nd country to reach that tragic milestone after the United States activists have marked the moment with a striking event on rios famous copacabana beach they set out 100 black crosses and released a 1000 red balloons one for every 100 people who have died since may brazil has reported an average of a 1000 deaths a day from the pandemic but president. Has consistently played down the crisis despite getting covert 19 him self thats a marker to say milwaukee is. The 100000 deaths milestone represents what brazil is to the world why we in 2nd place can we give to this question here we are only have one percent of the number of deaths 100000 where will this take us. Im on a chaotic you joins us live now from Rio De Janeiro whats been the reaction there to the this milestone of 100000 deaths in brazil and its likely to increase. Well yes there are mixed feelings i mean the country is very divided president also matter has always also always downplayed the situation so of course those that saw him tested positive for colvin and get well in a week believe what he says that its just a small flu and that you know you can get over it and life must continue those that have the wost the family or friends 100000 which are many people they really feel the pain and people are Wearing Masks and everything but theres this mix feeling but if you talk to people almost 90 people know somebody that has had it that has survived or that has died and we went to a cemetery to see that. One time bus driver id shown that crash on the was one of brazils 12000000 unemployed that is until the soaring death toll caused by the coronavirus pandemic landed him a job as a grave digger at the simple solve a cemetery on the outskirts of Rio De Janeiro. We had to recruit 30 undertakers to cope with the growing amount of boroughs and build a separate area just for infected bodies. And shun the works in the cove in 1900 designed especially for the victims of the virus. Part is witnessing the farewell which is different from many other people want to say goodbye to their loved ones but we cant allow them to get near. Brazils cova death toll keeps growing in part because the government is encouraging brazilians not to stay home while failing to take measures to stop the virus from reaching even remote parts of the amazon. Despite evidence to the contrary president. Continues questioning the seriousness of the pandemic and scorns w. H. O. Guidelines such as the need for widespread testing and using face masks as a result many here are skeptical about the official number of deaths like l