new this has been a feeling for some time now those in power the ruling alliance is led by. parties hezbollah and amal as well as the president michel aoun who is the son in law is the foreign minister and who heads the christian party the free patriotic movement the prime minister has differences with the foreign minister accusing the other side of surfing the powers of of the 70s so you see because the state is divided along sectarian lines power is divided among the different sects there is a feeling among some is that they have been robbed of their rights and that when the ruling alliance which in parties name some the prime minister has who doesn't have the support of the saddle high levy who heads the largest sunday bloc in parliament and more importantly who doesn't have the support of diarrheal fatwa which is the suddenly religious establishment in lebannon then you will hear some

some news here in lebanon say that we have been marginalized we have been pushed out of government they have taken our powers and that is where the danger lies because as much as this protest movement is about change in a new leadership when a certain sect feels cheated and robbed of its rights then the possibility of a political crisis becoming sectarian in nature is there it has happened in the past it has happened many times but lebanon has pulled back from the brink since the end of the civil war the question is will it do so this time around. that remote remind you of what we're seeing on the screen these protests now being running for well over an hour our reporters zinah holder says that the most aggressive the most violent that she's seen that began earlier than she has seen before these protests came on the day that the new cabinet had met to discuss

a way forward through the economic crisis that is gripping the country the protesters ukraine on the streets now for months are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system by want to name to this experience nature of the political system and they desperately need relief from the economic crisis that is gripping the country but in recent weeks of course these protests that were originally much more peaceful have turned increasingly violence into we've seeing today is harder is reporting the most violent protests that she's seeing breaking through the barricades getting very close to the problem and before being pushed back with border town and and old gas and riot police being on the streets as well we've heard from protesters one young protester a university graduate saying that this simply is not a job for him and that protesting peacefully won't get the result we heard from other people saying that angry and i hungry and i feel betrayed by a politician's critical he had to resign or if you still with us is the

international community and what the international community makes of this and what the international community is willing and capable of doing to support livin on through this crisis tell us about what lebanon seeks internationally and what the international community can do to try to alleviate this economic crisis that clearly is getting people so angry. well there have been a number of conferences in recent years to try to rally international support for conferences that have been hosted by france the former colonial power up and on and of course france having in. whence in this country it has mediated in past crises those conferences made pledges of aid billions of dollars of aid that levanon desperately needs in order to. to save the country from near economic collapse but

the international community has not has not on blocked the aid it is conditioning aid to structural and economic reforms which the lebanese government has not implemented it seems that riot police are quite worried that establishment protesters might try to come from behind because behind us is the is the beirut the beirut shopping district so we're just going across the street so in mid december in the midst of this economic crisis paris hosted a conference of the un created the international support group for levanon and no financial pledges were made many lebanese were hoping that pledges will be made by the so-called friends of lebanon they didn't do that instead they released a statement saying that we expect a credible government that is able to fight corruption a government that will listen to public opinion as expressed by the popular uprising so in many ways that international meeting gave support or through its

weight behind the protest movement and that was in mid december and then you had french government officials issued statements time and time again calling for it on the lebanese on the lebanese politicians to accelerate the formation of the government something that the u.n. envoy the u.n. coordinator in lebanon on has repeatedly said blaming the politicians for the crisis and saying that they need to form a credible government now we have to wait and see how how the international community is going to deal with the government like we mentioned earlier the only statement so far was from the. french president he said that france will help our lebanese friends in his words face this deep crisis he didn't refer to as government so we're still not certain whether or not he france considers that government credible enough to be provided with with international aid and so

and how how the international community is going to react and today if you heard the president michelle around the house speaker and not be appropriate they they focused on one point and that is the need for foreign support they said they they acknowledged that lebanon without foreign support cannot cannot come out of the crisis and it seems that western nations as well as gulf arab countries we have not to forget that the gulf arab countries usually bail out lebanon this time around we're not getting any pledges of support so. those politicians understand the need to get the confidence of the international community if they are able to to deal with this economic collapse. so i know. now for well over an hour we'll just give you a moment there to catch your breath and maybe reposition yourself and i can describe what we're seeing here on the screen you can see. in the background now

we've seen things set on fire we've seen windows smashed we've seen increasing number of people coming onto the streets increasingly violent so you know harder albacore to says that this is the most violent protest she's seen so pushing through barricades getting close to the pall of the building and we've seen and heard from some of the protests as themselves people who are angry people who are hungry people who have lost hope lost hope in their political leaders in their political system. zion who was speaking to one of those protesters earlier do we have that at the moment ok we're going to go into. to listen again to one of the protesters that zinah spoke to someone who was directly addressing the security forces there the riot police and appealing to them to stand with some of the people now who got one of the students to sign a headstart conclude they've been involved in the protests so let's have

a listen to that. protesting peacefully just won't get the result. we sit on 3 months with us and this funding and we have no result yesterday they flew government which none of the citizens or the people are getting on it none of them want to watch always say peaceful i'm not sure we can say no on some of the people still support those political parties in power. how are you going to convince them to join your we saw it we started this because we want everyone to to see a movie they're out there the colors of the parties to take away to the general we just put it aside and just sun conboy hand that's each other. we were out on no one hand but so there are as you said some people who are not who still love the leaders the political leaders of the court is those who are actually

fighting goes. i don't think those people are on the streets no i don't think they're with us now but what are you hoping because they actually support this government are you open to achieve what you think and how will this change anything this violent confrontation how will it change we're just showing how angry the people are. as you see that's how angry people and you think that the ruling a lot of the 1st well sorry go violent against. the government. but resigned to hold a speaking to one of the protesters it will be a sign of this protest as it didn't float of course we've seen moments of violence we've seen the riot police moving forward trying to disperse the protesters just tell us where you know and what you're seeing where you are. we are in the center of beirut a few 100 meters from parliament square to our left is the main shopping district

in downtown beirut anti-riot police also confronting protesters there they have tried the protesters have managed to reach the area from behind. really this is proving to be very very difficult to quell this unrest it's not clear whether or not security forces have been trying to use less force to be careful maybe this is why it is taking longer than. than usual i'm sorry the tear gas it's the smoke is filled in there maybe we should move o'clock so we were able to speak. yes so they are firing a lot of tear gas sound you're going to have to speak for a few minutes breath is obviously having to move aside that she's right in the middle of what we've been seeing here on our screens as she says there's been a lot of tear gas fired clearly that's going to have an impact so i was in a repositions itself i'll just bring you up to date on what we've been seeing here

on the streets we've seen several 100 protesters zinah says several 100 protesters have been on the streets now for coming up to a couple of hours increasing the aggressive increasingly violent closing in on the palm building we've also seen riot police brought out to push back those protesters as you can watch there on your screen you can see the ride police moving forward trying to to continue to to move these protesters they are really dug in and the protests are not so easily dispersed and we've also heard anger from some of the protesters themselves people who are hungry people who have lost heart and people have lost faith in the government let's have a listen to one of the protesters who was protesting against the the riot police have been brought in to move the protesters away. we're here because our voices haven't heard yet by this by this corrupt government by this corrupt government you're going they're breaking us into sacks and groups of religious groups and they

killed us during peace the same warlords took over the government and they dropped us now after $100000000000.00 in debt to our banks are closed we cannot import goods these people $400.00 days into this almost audited to support you shouldn't these people haven't listened we're here to tell that by an old and out. of defense force base corrupt as you can tell these officers these are our brothers and sisters were telling them to stop stop killing our brothers stuff. want to guess you guess all down we're still ok we're with you on this. disco refugee. day. let's just an indication of the anger and the frustration that we've seen the increasing anger these protests have now been continuing for several months but in recent weeks there has been

a much hotter age to what we've seen on the streets as this frustration continues to build and the process to simply don't believe that the politicians are listening to them zain a new cabinet was formed it had its 1st meeting today and in spite of that we've seen this anger ratcheted up and more people on the streets this search for a circuit breaker continues what would be acceptable to people saad hariri the former prime minister went to new cabinet as i say it's to anger a war is going to satisfy the people politically at least and break the cycle of the protest and the escalating violence. for the people in the streets they want to see the political powers give the political parties give up their political power they believe that those who have been running the country are responsible for the mismanagement they say that they are corrupt

they say that they have stolen public funds they say that they should move aside and and allow a technocrat specialist people who are able to save this country and to govern this country they also want early elections and they want a small government and not a 20 member government and really what we saw over recent weeks stan is a political horse trading between politicians who should be allies the ruling alliance the members of the ruling alliance where were vying for seats in the next cabinet and they're not opponents. say they're not feeling but the allies and they couldn't agree on on how they are going to slice the pie if you like and this is something that anti-establishment protestors were pointing to over. over recent weeks they're saying that look they say they see what's going on in the country the

economy is in freefall and yet they keep on arguing amongst themselves on who gets what ministerial portfolio and so the government was formed and people saw this as a some sort of a slap in the face this is something i heard from protesters last night this is a slap in the face this was the ruling alliance telling us that you don't you don't matter that they dismissed these people that there is something that they have no right to make any demands that they have no right to voice any is just you know that it doesn't matter if we like to get into the sleep with a stone and. we try to get it peacefully to to stop them you know there's a look i want to talk ok ok what's going on ok we were not to these wonderful officers who should not be wearing arms and we told them we're going to go talk to them and we were going to get them to sign up knowing the rocks are hands are up we want this to them they stop they were taken and said to talk to us we specifically

told them please do not shoot us with any teargas we want to move them out for you what did they did as soon as they got close up they've gotten all of us they don't want to solve it then sitting on killing the people we specifically went up to them and told them we're going in to solve it that's very good to know and they told us they told us there are we still they gave us feel ok to go and he went with her up and they're willing to talk to us and then they don't like her got something that you can see it really has become the people versus the state these are on p.c. for a commitment to staying on city 3 not try to kill people. people they want to take the country for themselves i just want to know one thing if you are now citizens for a country how do you even have a country if you don't have citizen to live in the country look at this look at the . morning yes injuries he's injured. i know just you know they. have been

a number of detentions over the past week and yes some some of those who have been detained complained of ill treatment. i mean about a few days and i was. you were detained. right where you can. actually. help the people just. me. and my foot they were hitting my friend you so usually you weren't.

so you support peaceful protests you're against what is happening right now both of them. both of them. on the kicking people we're not killing any one of them and they're the one who's getting us the know everything the time defending us can you can you please come with me but i have to find a camera. that's a very clear place you can imagine. you've got your child or you try to find the camera man if you can design or i don't know if you are away from your camera but if you could find that camera i don't know where the you still have that person you were speaking to with you a bit as you try to find that camera we can run back over some of what we've seen taking place is i mean it was just again speaking to some of the protesters new can hear the frustration and the anger in the voice and some of the messiah and i appealed to the police saying we will move the protesters on for you and then they

say the police opened fire on them with t. guess they would describe being the the effect of that tear gassed people who were injured people who have been detained in this protest as well earlier we heard from one very impassioned protester who is appealing to the riot police to stand with the protesters to stand with your brothers he said the people who are hurting inside the country we heard one of the protesters there just a moment ago saying that. the riot police the security will follow these and security on the streets they are trying to kill us in the woods by firing on their own people what we've seen here over the past couple of hours is being what our reporters on the honda has referred to as the most violent protest that she has seen so far and of course she has covered this for months now the most violent protests and the protests that began the earliest as well and this critically

happening on a day when a new cabinet that is being formed has held its 1st meeting in that cabinet having to deal with particularly structural economic for. bloom's the need for structural economic reform the ability to deal with the economic crisis they risk crippling unemployment the current sea has lost value the country is riddled with did it of course is relying on support needs a national community and that hasn't been forthcoming and all of that contributing to the anger that we seeing on the streets here today the most angry protests they must bother protest over poor design ahead as says that she is saying cypher. this protest is played out in the central area of beirut and you're watching that on the screen right now there are pictures there of the riot police with this shields that might be moving back and forward trying to move these protests song but it has been

inside the mind part of the city around the shopping area and critically close to the palm and these protesters at one point pushed through the barricades and got as close as 100 mazes to the palmetto itself before they were pushed back by some of the security forces that are on the streets but they've been running battles between those riot police and the protesters now for a couple of hours anger frustration a sense of betrayal that the politicians are not listening to them and the politicians have let them down it was interesting to hear one of the protesters earlier that zionist young man who's a university graduate a marketing graduate who said that they simply is not a job for him he said that protesting peacefully won't get the results people he said don't accept the government they want these people removed they want an end to

the sectarianism in the country they want a government that speaks for and to the majority of the people that represents the people and doesn't represent the sectarian interests inside the country we heard from another protester who said that he doesn't support the anger that we've seen on the streets here today but certainly feels the same sense of frustration that man said that he was from the south of the country he was a shia but doesn't support his ball and his ball or of course the main shia group inside the country aligned with iran and critical in the support of the government that's being formed now so all of these crying out for the past couple of hours protests in. the most angry that we see the most violent that we see. and people who see the frustrated hungry and having a great sense of the trial. listening to them so i know honda has been with

us for this past couple of hours reporting on what she's saying so. we're saying this now for a couple of hours just to recap for us if you could what you've seen and reflect on how this has been so different to everything that you've seen reporting these protests now for the past several months. at the start of the uprising the 1st few weeks it was peaceful protests and public squares yes there were attempts to close roads at times security forces that you lose not excessive violence really excessive force to open those roads but what we have been seeing over the past few days is a campaign to overthrow. ruling the ruling. but we have seen over the past few days as a campaign to overthrow the ruling alliance turn into

a violent one so for peaceful to violent those in the streets have mixed feelings on whether or not this is the right way forward that this is the path that should be taken in order to achieve their goals you saw young men. mainly from the city of tripoli in northern lebanon a very impoverished city where unemployment is very high especially among the youth we saw them provoke security forces try to storm the security barricades to reach parliament building their very defiant they were very determined clearly not afraid of what could happen the security forces try to advance to quell the unrest the unrest is now. now in its 2nd or 3rd hour. of running for office in the center of beirut. these young men we spoke to a number of them some of them will tell you that there were here because we don't have jobs we don't see a future for ourselves in this country and we want to exert pressure on those in

power to leave power because there's no other way they're not listening to us peaceful means is not the way forward and then we saw some peaceful protesters or those who believe in the. in just men taking the peaceful path come to try to stop and to stop the ongoing confrontations we heard her explain to us how they try to convince the young men to stop. but that didn't happen and you can see arrests are being made anti-riot police are arresting some of these protesters 6. you see how young they are. so you know how to reporting for us live from those protesters stretching uing on the streets riot police moving in trying to push these protesters away for several hours now they've been moving back and forward building rocks setting things on fire tear gas being

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