Crashed into the rubble. A warm welcome to our to international my names you know maylon 30 minutes of news and views start now. We begin with breaking news from beirut now an intense standoff is the fella playing in the lebanese capital where theres a lot of pouring of grief and anger over tuesdays deadly explosion Security Forces have used rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds calling for officials to be brought to justice. But we know that in the past number of hours protesters have storm several government buildings in lebanon including the Foreign Ministry they took over the. Building and declared it headquarters for our revolution. That we are coming back to the property so for our people is building belongs to the people of. America we went to Martyrs Square to set up gallows for those who did this to our country today will hang nooses and we wont lead a single government ministers. The police started firing tear gas at us on march the square and the right has also attacked us and we fled. Across live now to our correspondent. In beirut igor it seems things are rapidly escalating this take us through whats been happening. While union to have to tell you that it has been a long time since the last time ive seen so much destruction in one city maybe last time in syria in hama holmes but now when we arrived here to beirut to look to cover the bluffs to cover the to cover what happened in the poets and we saw a lot of devastation but today has been an absolutely different sorts of sorts of havoc here because it looks like thousands of people took to the streets it seems a lot of protest has been boiling up inside of them because lebanon has been suffering from a severe economic crisis than it was crippled by covert and now people lost their homes and 300000 people displaced by the blood so it seems like that was the absolute Tipping Point and throughout the week weve seen sporadic action sporadic rioting today was on an absolutely different level people still looming the fore. In ministry and 4 other government 3 excuse me 3 other governmental buildings and the Bank Headquarters obviously unhappy about the government they are unhappy about the response because i mean you can look behind me and my cameraman will pan right now look this is what the this is the idea of the general idea as to how the streets of beirut have been looking have looked today and this destruction was not caused by the blood of the blast did not put all the barbed wire behind me that i know the police did to stop all the rioting to still pull the potential all the potential collation when it comes to violence and but again the people who came out to the streets by the way more than 200 people have been injured more than 60 taken to the hospital one army one military man reportedly has been killed in some sporadic gunfire but these are unconfirmed reports so were still looking for verification here whether or not that was what indeed happened and so people have been chanting antigovernment slogans they have been unhappy again as ive been saying because people they dont have the means to restore their own homes to put back the glass to put back the roofs over their heads and so on and so forth so far a lot of more than 24 nations russia included have sent there have sent aid workers or money to help lebanon deal with the crisis but so far the government response has been very very limited and people are very very unhappy about it critics though on the other hand theres a lot of to it have been saying that with hospitals destroyed in fact we went today and filmed one of those hospitals completely devastated by the blast and again medical units already overflowing with patients from from the from with with those who were injured in the explosion in the pool. Explosion with covert 19 pandemic remembers covert 1000. 00 hasnt gone anywhere and lebanon has been has been suffering lebanon has been struggling with containing the pandemic so hospitals already overflowing another influx of those injured another influx of wounded from todays protests is making things any better throughout the week throughout the week throughout all those days that we have been here after the blast like yesterday the day before yesterday weve seen absolutely amazing Civil Movement absolutely amazing would seem to be unity of just volunteers people coming out in the streets with brooms and just you know sweeping trying to sweep the mess in the corners and cleaning up themselves helping out neighbor helping out each other neighbors helping out each others excuse me also weve seen people just going and buying lots and lots of water because it has been really hot here looks a lot of water and just driving around in their personal vehicles and just giving out this water for free to anybody we will offer that water we dont look like we dont look like anything as if we were. Impacted as if we we we are one of those who have suffered from from the explosion still they dont care it seems that people here dont simply dont care as to how they help their neighbor and they just it seemed they were giving out this to everyone but those who took to the streets those who let the emotions take to take their toll on them they have essentially while they have essentially you know all the efforts of those who are of those School Children of those students and Good Samaritans who have been helping clean up the mess. Yeah its an incredible situation as you take us through there in beirut and it looks as if its going to ask. Even a lebanese couple igor thank you for. Well indeed brutal scenes in the city demonstrators here throwing rocks and projectiles Police Officers who responded with tear gas Security Forces reportedly resorted to lives to force people by. I. Want to show you this as well the demonstrators put up a mock gallows in a location where people were hung more than 100 years ago under the empire protestors raised cardboard cutouts with ropes around their necks depicting lebanons Prime Minister the leader of hezbollah as well as other officials in response to the surge and civil unrest Prime Minister his son has called for an early election and hes acknowledged that corruption was to blame for tuesday is a tragedy. I will go to the council of ministers on monday to call for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies will journalist men was in the midst of sundays chaotic scenes in beirut. These demonstrators were flocking to marchers square also to the Lebanese Parliament to express their dismay over the poor over what they say is poor handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of tuesdays an explosion which targeted the beirut sports. Car the demonstrators are have or have taken a very violent turn we are also hearing a lot of shots being fired in the air in addition to that there gas and now these protesters and it doesnt seem that theyre planning to leave as Martyrs Square anytime soon many of them have already set up tents they say they are going to stay here until their demands are met and. Also at the same time we know that in the district of a sheffield east of beirut protesters have managed to storm into the Foreign Ministry. That i have a Lebanese Army generals there are talks that the government officials will try to sit down with this retired Army Generals to a try and reach some sort of discussion or negotiations with a maybe to calm the situation down live reaction from beirut im happy to say the joy who joy is a lebanese lawyer and activist joins us live on the Program Welcome to you the pictures joy that were showing a lot of law of a lot of late has pictures it looks like a total breakdown of law and order today with ministries ministries being stored hud volatile is the situation there are today. This is a normal this is a very normal the result of what will it on august 4th chilly this is a normal result of what has been accumulating since 2005 but on this is not the 1st time been hit by explosives but this time whats different is that weve been living going to nuclear bomb for 6 years without us knowing about it we experienced the blast of a nuclear bomb we are living with some people who are willing to sacrifice our lives to sacrifice. As human beings in human being in beirut to store some material and. Thought foreign agendas and they were being stored in them and that i would feed it to i would houses i would family and theyve been willing to take did it is just one percent to this day it is i would like to gamble with the lives of the lebanese population just to store the materials youll most sides and this is a very natural. This is a very natural reaction from the lebanese people with being. Very action joy you know you we want to im sure your 1st and foremost you want to help the lebanese people get back on their feet but theres a lot of chaos happening today will that only you know just hold back the huge rebuilding effort that needs to happen in your country. Absolutely not the country. We are in ground 0 at this age we are bankrupt we lost out with money we lost the jobs we lost we got we lost our houses i would homes we lost more than 150. 00 mark divs thousands injured we lost 300000 houses. Theres nothing any more what ever happens starting today is the start of the rebuilding of what were witnessing here is a final stage foetid you start for lebanon lebanon have been suffering for the last 100 years because of a social contract that did not work. The u. S. Embassy in beirut has expressed support for the scenes today saying the lebanese people deserve leaders who listen to them change course to respond d to popular demands for transparency and accountability thats their quote is it appropriate for washington to be seemingly taking sides in what is happening there in your nation its not about washington its about the International Community whats happening in beirut is this threat. To International Peace to International Security to the sort of rounding of this country what happened in beirut is a blast of 30000 tons of them on your we dont even know where the other ammonium storage are being stored in the open on this is a threat to all the country we are not asking do you to help us or russia to help us we are asking the International Community to put their differences aside and unite on the libyan needs issue whats happening in lebanon is a threat to everyone its not the madoff what do you take advantage or. Vantage its a matter of 5000000 people in lebanon are living as hostages. Occupation and what they are suffering is everyone this is a call for the International Community to deal with deliberate needs issue in an issue of gravity ok whether the us or russia or china or whomever ok let me point you to. The lebanese Prime Minister he is calling for an early election but the system in lebanon is complicated when youve got the shia Group Hezbollah the christian president michel and holding different degrees of power would under lection actually change much. Not a this age what should happen at this age is 1st of all. The enforcement of the International Law it is a lucians of the Security Council then we become or even phone when we become old we can start thinking of the destructed of the political consensus of the country we can start thinking of the structuring of a social contract whether it is a decentralization whether it is whether it does whatever it does but what we know is that 100. 00 genes experience so what the problem is we are going to see more and more images like were seeing today on screen while youre talking are we not the king is dead long live the king theres going to be more and more violence and strife for that to happen what you want to see happen. What we want to see happen is 1st of all a soul should indeed social if you will liberty of where all of us entities in the and on are equal as we become equal none of the bunnies. Would be stronger than the others none should be supported by International Powers none should be. Kept in arms at the expense of. Liberty of the country where we become equal and we can sit on the day we can think of can use deduction for to continue we can think of a new constitution we can maybe apply the current constitutions that that hasnt been applied for 30 years. Most important thing in the oven on is. Equality among its citizens and entities even if we do elections to date. That if any society that. Had a good day cannot even exercise a position what is the benefit of an election if people are afraid to vote ok we can hear in your voice youre striving for change and it seems like a lot of people agree with you joy thanks very much for coming on the program joy la hood lebanese activist attorney outlaw. Lets get a reminder of just what is occurring in beirut an explosion went off in the port area on tuesday. It was one of the Biggest Nuclear explosions in Human History the official soon revealed that almost 3000. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate a highly volatile was being illegally stored in the area the explosion along with a follow up. Fire leveled several districts and claimed the lives of at least 154 people thousands more were injured the search and rescue operation is ongoing 4 days old with dozens of people missing. But. No shortage of grief to theres been a glimmer of hope for those who are still looking for their loved ones under the rubble in beirut after 24 hours of digging a 12 Year Old Girl was found alive. Im not sure how much but i do not. Write. Them down i know. I know. Them all. Will be explosion shockwave wrecked havoc across the city the buildings businesses homes the un has warned of a humanitarian crisis with 300000 people in need of aid shelter. The World Health Organization is also warning about beiruts Health Care System of being badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the cobra 1000. 00. On top of the explosion put 3 hospitals are action medics are working around the clock to save the lives of those seriously injured in the tragedy here heroic nurses story. I know that when the explosion went off the ground shook beneath us the blast told me into another room i opened my eyes and found myself covered in rubble i found my colleagues and friends line here on the ground covered in blood. In the Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the covered in rubble as well i started pulling me going south of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed under the rubble but then go they were ok then i took them through this corridor and down through flights of stairs. I carried the babies and i was determined to take them to another hospital the only way less than 2 kilograms they had nothing on them except guide people on the street give me their t. Shirts and clothes so i could read the new bills and keep the news the conservation the on t. V. I was holding the 3 babies and i didnt know if i was going to be able to rescue them north all the time was counting the heads on my chest to make sure they were still there. And lets move on to more news today thousands of healthcare workers have rallied across the u. K. Demanding a rise in pay now in recognition for their work during the covert 19. 00 pandemic the government announced a Salary Increase for doctors last month nurses and other Health Workers though were excluded. At the sit in the n. H. S. Unions are arguing that nurses have taken pay cuts they say of thousands of pounds a year in real terms so over the past decade. The bean risking their lives on the front line during the krona virus crisis we took the opportunity to speak to some medical professionals out of march in london. Since we had in may depend and weve had b. C. Incredible time where people have been dying and struggling we feel separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years. So it wasnt too long ago that we were talking about nash if you were surviving on charitable donations and food bank i have to stop just because it came and because you kept we deserve back a profession and a home and i taxed that factor and that was what stage that was really me to find out that 900 houses and public sector. Is not nationalists i think its just appalling if we sang youre not going to get out im not who you think you. Are and i just knew that. When i left it to you and this is what is being made now if you know we have to fight because nobody at all no one else is going to. Get big alexion happening in the us in november in the us Country Intelligence chief is claiming that russia china and iran are all trying to meddle in it he sees directors say there are several foreign powers that quote preference over the Election Results china partly views trump as unpredictable and doesnt want him to win us from russia its using a range of measures against joe biden on the run could undermine american democracy a little troppo has his own views on the matter. I think that the last person russia wants to see in office is donald trump because nobody has been tougher on russia than i have ever the last thing that russia wants and china wants and iran wants would be for donald trump to win or we heard from journalist on or 3 done down the aisle things both democrats and republicans are already looking for someone to blame in the event of losing about election. The u. S. Is filled with Corporate Media pumping out our propaganda at top vol