me twice. delivering new lines into some of the toughest living conditions. in a unique 6 part series al-jazeera alus the lives of the remarkable people who work . and write the slow on al-jazeera. in beirut thousands protest against the lebanese government following tuesday's deadly port explosion live ammunition has now been reportedly used against demonstrations. have amnesty tape this is al jazeera live from doha.

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. lebanon's 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 kong's leader its police chief and other officials. now the deadly port explosion in lebanon's 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 let's start our coverage with zain acosta who's in the thick of things in beirut in moscow square then of these protests by my count are now heading into their 4th hour we've seen plenty of tear gas and we are now hearing that live ammunition was you use near parliament but that really doesn't 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 they're 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 we've 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 isn't anti-establishment 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 there's much more anger today you're asking for justice and you're 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 i'll 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 don't 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 we've seen scenes like this in the past year you're standing your ground i've seen it. tear gases locked people are moved away but then they're 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 pollard's 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

won't 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 don't trust the parliament and you want to dismantle this parliament it doesn't get done to us anymore we want the new elections and these people seeing here they won't 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 we've seen that some of them now doing the ice up there yes we were we were witness to that anti-government protesters peaceful protesters that were based here and they were attacked by government supporters we saw that still aren't 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 don't know what's 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 it's 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 there's there's no agreement no consent yes and 11 on what electoral law the election will be held i'm with you i'm 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 you're just divided you can't 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 didn't say only like 3 the elections is the solution if it's 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 i'd 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 that's lotion 17 or 17 october last year 2005 he was the beginning of a new. capture today it's

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 don't 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 they've arrested the head of the port they've arrested the head of customs they frozen their accounts and they're promising a swift investigation likely an outcome tomorrow or on monday in such an explosion

it's not only the head of the of the of the seaside because the head of this support the head of this public administration he's not there because of his internal like let me say come past that he and his like expertise he's 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 it's not the head of the head of that sensation that we're after here it's the head of the state this state it's not the 1st issue this is closure it's the cherry on the top it's a hard cherry it's 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 don't 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 it's 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 haven't 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 don't 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 doesn't 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 that's the protest movement having a lot of vision on the way or they don't 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 non-governmental organizations of alarm on other levels that they are worth of moving ahead and stepping forward and taking some lead. so it's 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 people's 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 shouldn't pose this to the company they shouldn't 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 it's 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 there's 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 they've 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 so-called like representatives and the parliament and the government it's 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 lebanon's isolation he is looking at the international community's engagement with lebanon as ending its isolation we know that lebanon has been isolated for some time now the new government doesn't have the support of lebanon's traditional allies no voice of support so since prime minister jeff took office and by the way he's 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 who's that he's 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 we've been saying. of running battles that seem to be developing between protesters and the security forces we've seen them outside parliament we've seen this large plume of smoke the this fire which i believe is in a residential building on the road to parliament square we've 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 i'm 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 you're getting from demonstrators that this is a message as well for global leaders. i didn't 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 they're really putting a lot of hopes on the international community they're holding clock cards that says that say don't 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 don't give the government a lifeline don't give them another chance to stay in power so they're putting a lot of hope is now those in the international community there's going to be a donor conference tomorrow france and the united nations they're going to organize a donor conference to try to raise money emergency aid for levanon but the french president was very very clear of france and it seems like he was speaking on behalf

of many in the western world they will stand by the people of this country to help them through a disaster that this country is not able to cope with alone even the rescue operations they were not able to do by themselves a lot of people are believed to not survived underneath the rubble because they did not have the equipment to take them out in time so the french president's message to those in power is yes we're going to provide immediate assistance we're going to help the lebanese get through this crisis but no we're not going to bail you out we're not going to give you the billions of dollars that you need in order to kick start the economy the foreign currency reserves and the central bank is dwindling the there's at one point in time there's going to it's going to be difficult for the government to import goods and this is an import dependent economy more than 80 percent of what this country consumes is imported so the international community is not going to bail them out. and give them long term economic assistance to create

jobs that will be conditional on those in power carrying out reforms structural reforms and fighting corruption and if those in power do that then automatically they weaken their hold on the state and many here will tell you all we want is a state we want a competent government and a state state institutions are controlled by political parties civil servants are appointed by political parties they are not appointed because of their qualifications or on merit so they are beholden to the party they're not loyal to the state here all you see is the lebanese flag and that's quite rare because when political parties hold their rallies they hold the party flag here they're trying to speak in one voice but this is a very difficult battle to win because once those in power agree to reform then automatically they lose power and the more international intervention in the crisis in lebanon the weaker they become and this is what the lebanese people are counting

on they're not they're under no illusion that they can face a state a state that is ready to use whatever means available against the people but it seems today is a turning point another turning point in lebanon. history then a hotter than our correspondents live on the streets of beirut for us thank you very much sanna and do stay safe. lebanon's prime minister has sunday is expected to address the nation just in the next hour or so i will be bringing you that live here on al-jazeera but alley has already said he understands the people's anger and that the corruption has been going on for decades. i don't mind meeting the people i am part of the people there and deal with people's anger when you answer their questions about occupation or surround have a problem doing that there's no doubt that there is a lot of corruption over a period of 3 decades there is a political layer that has been ongoing for too many decades and we are here facing

all of these accumulated problems from over 3 and 4 decades but are you going to go into the streets today this weekend and speak to them not about when i'm going on the streets but i do what i'm living for the fiore i'm not afraid of people security but of course they have a right to be furious absolutely they have the right to be angry and cheered us not just because of this this is absolutely diabolical what happened but however they're also furious even before that for 3 decades of unbelievable corruption. well for those of you just joining us let's remind you of what you're seeing right now on the streets of beirut this is a live shot of martyrs square where thousands of people have gathered to protest against the government and demand regime change it's been nearly $300.00 days since protest 1st broke out in lebanon but we have seen this and a reignited since the blast of that we saw in the port on tuesday there have been running battles between the internal security forces the parliamentary police and

protesters lots of tear gas has been fired and there was also some live ammunition used earlier outside parliament we saw the foreign ministry stormed by protesters the president's portrait torn down and burned that's now the live shot outside the foreign ministry where things are slightly calmer but we're still thousands and thousands of gathered and have vowed that they will stay into the night we'll be bringing you all the latest here on al-jazeera. now bringing you to some other news the hong kong is condemning the united states for imposing sanctions on its top leaders calling the decision despicable and shameless chief executive and the current and former police chiefs are among the 11 officials whose u.s. assets will now be frozen sarah clarke reports from hong kong. the united states went directly to the top singling out hong kong chief executive kerry land and

imposing sanctions on any american assets she has also targeted is hong kong's police chief chris tang his predecessor and other officials americans and u.s. businesses are banned from dealing with them the u.s. secretary of state said the sanctions target individuals responsible for imposing a national security law in hong kong might come pires says the sweeping legislation is unacceptable and cartels political freedom in the city pro-democracy activist joshua wall was quick to applaud the decision if tried for the world to realize that they need to reassess their foreign policy toehold call and try to wise the situation in hong kong with to escalate its hive for the world those that were caught the sanctions were prompted by president donald trump's executive order last month denouncing china's imposition of the law which criminalizes acts of suspicion terrorism and subversion hong kong's chief executive says the law is crucial to

restore order in the special administrative region where there's been months of political unrest carolan described the sanctions as despicable and barbarous and says the government will not be intimidated her response was echoed by commerce secretary i don't fight any sort of valid reason for this blatant if you're in on call affairs by phone country by i don't think this is necessary for the civilized manner to do so china's response was also swift with his top official in hong kong ridiculing sanctions who are claiming who's also on the list says he doesn't have any assets in the united states sanctions are a wasted effort this latest round of sanctions is a dramatic escalation in tensions between beijing and the united states the hong kong government hasn't ruled out targeting american companies and individuals operating here that move could be next sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong.

now afghanistan's highest consultative body of a noir jagga has recommended that the government released $400.00 taliban presence but it says they should only be freed if they promise not to return to fighting the race is seen as the last had all before peace talks with the taliban can begin and it's now up to president ashraf ghani to make the final decision which could come as early as sunday michael semple is a professor at institute for global peace security and justice at crean's university belfast he says the decision could be an important step in the peace process well i think the only real win for the afghan government and the afghan people will be if we make concrete progress towards peace i'm sure that the president will be confident that this straight from his heart and as he tries to set the conditions for the negotiations with revenge and they start to each afghanistan towards the east so yes it will strengthen the president's up there were some people of course you thought that they could get you know unconditional release of these prisoners and that there would be negotiations starting next week

for anybody who thought up that this may be a disappointment but you have to have a show and see how they ask on people through at least eating it safer and it goes ations at a peace process and the outcome president empowered to try to take for us maybe it's maybe it's inched us it's just towards the taliban to be sorry. at least with what they've achieved so far this year through negotiations promise of u.s. withdrawal reduction of u.s. air pressure on their forces fighting it out on the release of all these prisoners major boost to their army's morale and a certain degree of legitimacy around they the country but the one thing they haven't done these itis you know stop the war or actually make progress towards winning it they're getting the sense that the population is really tired of this war and they don't quite understand why the taliban are still fighting. now

a course in thailand's capital has granted bail to 2 anti-government protest leaders arrested on friday night dozens of supporters gathered outside the court in bangkok demanding their release they were held in connection with democracy protests alway in haiti is in the thai capital and he says recent rally has had been the most significant since the military coup of 2014. if the police thought the arrest of the 2 protest leaders was going to scare the rest of the protesters off the streets it clearly didn't have the desired effect this rally in the heart of bangkok shopping district just one of many that have taken place in recent weeks not only in the capital city but in other parts of thailand is as well the been fairly small protests led mainly by students but they have been significant in fact this is the most significant protest movement we've seen since the military coup in 2014 the protesters have a set of demands they want this government gone they want new elections called and they want the military draft the constitution to be rewritten they basically feel

that little if anything has changed in thailand since the coup despite the fact that an election was held in march last year basically we still have the same people who led the coup running the government today now maria shifts has declared a state of environmental imagine see a japanese aren't ship began spending tons of oil the island is appealing for help from france about a volunteer cleanup operation is already underway and least you have the story aereo and satellite photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. the japanese owned ball carrier was she oh ran aground late last month and began leaking it's $4000.00 tons of fuel into the indian ocean all 20 crew were taken to shore but rough seas hampered attempts to stabilize the ship and pump the fuel off. after declaring a state of environmental emergency prime minister pravin juggernaut appealed for help from france he says islanders don't have the expertise to clean up the spill

president emanuel promised to send teams and equipment from the nearby french island off. while the government's waiting for french help to arrive some volunteers have started their own cleanup effort building sea booms with straw to soak up the spill. says i'm still movies we are here to see what we can save everyone here is trying to save what they can of our ocean which gives us so much and which supports us the water this is our heritage it's the violence yahshua village we can see the situation is getting worse this spill is affecting so many sectors tourism the economy ecology. but also some salons are offering free haircuts this weekend as hair can also be used to soak up oil. while 4000 tons of fuel may seem like a relatively small amount compared to major oil leaks its impact on the riches is

huge and the islands are surrounded by some of the world's most valuable coral reefs and tourism is crucial to the economy the impact will not only be logical economical because many people erode their livelihoods from the fish that fish in the area but there are a lot of hotels also in the area who market which market place. in order to get clients and you have a lot of people earning a livelihood also on the land leader say is to 1st time the 1300000 islanders have been faced with an and vironment so crisis of this kind experts fear the ship could break up causing an even greater fuel leak and inflicting catastrophic damage to marine life at least 2 out to 0. flight data recorders have been recovered from the wreckage of a boeing 737 which crash landed in india on friday both pilots are among the 18 dead in korea poor and careless stands around $150.00 passengers and crew were

injured as the workers' repatriation flight from dubai plunged off the end of the runway reports. on a gloomy wet saturday morning. clouds gather at the site of friday evening as cross their india express flights plowed of the end of the runway and down the slope the fuselage split into 2. 190 passengers and crew on board the boeing 737 flight from dubai the pilots who were both killed in the crash had twice tried to land the plane during a monsoon storm but overshot the runway which is new to being difficult to land on during heavy rain conditions. the weather conditions were unfavorable just the monsoon it seems a pilot is a tabletop airport tried to bring the flight to the end of the runway but you to slippery conditions this mishap took place there was a drop of 35 feet where it fell but immediately the rescue workers are far brigade

ambulances reach that and locals also helped. crash investigators have recovered the black box flight data recorders. now the inspection then video that things are going on. the rescue operations as part of the rescue operations they had to break . some of the parts of the aircraft. some of the injured in hospital praised the pilots. the pilot tried a lot to land us safely in the rain it was cloudy and around $730.00 we crash landed it was difficult to land he really tried to loss during the 2nd landing at the time skidded on the left side there was a ship it was over 36 feet then there was a sudden break everyone on board was wearing seat belts we kept our hands on the seat in front of us to protect ourselves but the plane fell into the ditch and

broke into 2 houses. carol the state is going to a large number of indians working in the gulf it's a 2nd plane crash in 10 years involving an egg.