this is deja vu news live from berlin lebanon's government under pressure to resign one minister has already quit and the whole cabinet may soon follow her lead in while france's president has been hosting an emergency conference to send aid to the country still reeling from tuesday's devastating explosion. also coming up the people of color go to the polls president alexander lukashenko has been in power since midnight in the ninety's but this time around he's facing serious challenge from this woman.

and when blue cross welcome to the program a lebanese government minister has resigned following protests that left one police officer dead and more than 100 people injured information minister model. said she was quitting because the government had failed to carry out reforms our beirut correspondent reports more resignations may follow perhaps the entire government will fall for testers blame their leaders for tuesday's poured explosions that killed more than 150 people she's the 1st government official to quit if you choose days catastrophic explosion in beirut but many in lebanon hope she won't be the last. in the hunt that is the point of no return the people are hungry the economy is collapsing the economic financial and monetary crisis is escalating while family children relatives and friends are harmless consumed by grief despair and frustration. overnight people stormed government buildings and banks in the capital

protesters taking their fury out on politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for the explosions lebanese officials had long known about the neglected pile of ammonium nitrate that killed more than $150.00 people and coal so much devastation proof protesters say at the rovs at the core of the state. we were alone the have money the leaders during care about the people no food no houses more than 300000 people lost their homes after the explosion in addition to the depreciation of the lira on sunday the french president hosted an international donor conference for lebanon on emanuel mccrone cold on world powers to support the people's push for change. literally explosion of august full was like a thunderbolt it's time to wake up and take action that's why i think at this moment over these days the future of lebanon is at stake the future of the lebanese

people but also a whole region. a mountain of dish enormous rebuild costs and the welfare of an entire nation under threat lebanon faces huge challenges and growing coals for urgent political and economic reform. let's get more on this international donor conference from ban it in our brussels bureau baird welcome so there's 36 countries and international organizations participating what appears to have come out of this conference. the goal of this conference was to drum up support for immediate disaster relief and shelter for the homeless the goal was 100000000 euros and it seems that the french presidency and also the united nations the co-host of this conference reached the steel if you see that the european union alone is spending is giving this 63000000 euros of the united kingdom 22 germany 10 the

united states 12 in cyprus for example 5 so this 100000000 should be there and it's also noteworthy to see who was not there for example iran did not participate although iran is supporting his the most political intervention in lebanon. and you say 100000000 not 1000000000 when that might actually be necessary so a drop in the bucket nonetheless how is this aid expected to be distributed when these protesters that we've seen are protesting the very incompetence and corruption they're accusing our government of. but it is not foreseen to rebuild actually lead on this would take billions of cause and this is not the 1st time that the international community is pledging for level in the last donor conference is only 2 years ago the b1x1b euros were pledged for investment and rebuilding the economy which is in dire straits for years now and it's very difficult to disabuse

this money because the government is mistrusted it's incompetent in the eyes of many and so now the international community is trying to give this money to disaster relief organizations and it will be distributed through the united nations and many participants of this conference said today we need an sorow investigation into the causes of the explosions and none of them are called the french president said to the demonstrators now is not the time for awhile and demonstrations now we have to concentrate on relief and on top of the domestic political issues there is of course the foreign power competition in and over lebanon it's part of a long history of that country is this kind of conference and the international relief effort more generally is it is it more than just money. it's more than just money it's also to. influence and leverage in a little known for decades now the country's very fractured between the religious

groups christians she in sunny's and all these groups have different supporters in the international community as i said iran is supporting the shiites for the french government and also as many europeans more behind the christian fractions in saudi arabia and the countries behind the sunny frictions and this is leads to 2 from the outside leads to utter chaos in lebanon all the time and now did the west is trying with as a spare head to gain more influence on this but as i said also there are many pledging conferences for lebanon in the last decades and so far the west has failed a story that will certainly keep on developing and bigger and brussels thanks for following it for us and alice look at some other stories making news around the world more than 40 people have been confirmed dead after a landslide at a tea plantation in the southern indian state of kerala nearly 2 dozen people are

feared trapped it happened after heavy rain hit the plantation in a doohickey district in the early hours of friday when workers were still sleeping . at least 10 coronavirus patients have died in a fire in a makeshift hospital in the southern indian state. officials said the blaze in the multistory hotel building was caused by an electrical short circuit it's the 2nd fire at an indian coronavirus facility this month. a senior member of the trump administration has arrived in taiwan for the highest level visit there in decades the trip by health secretary alex h.r. is billed as an opportunity to learn from taiwan's fight against the coronavirus but beijing has condemned it as a threat to quote peace and stability china claims taiwan as part of its territory . in belarus the people are voting in one of the most closely contested presidential races in decades there president alexander lukashenko seen here

earlier tassie his vote has held power since the mid 1990 s. and is running for a 6th term faces the toughest challenge so far to his authoritarian rule from the wife of a jailed presidential candidate. ahead of the election international observers expressed concern after more than 1000 people were detained. we love we can we. they're not giving up. 3 women taking on veteran leader alexander lukashenko. is the one on the ballot this weekend but maria and veronica's appollo have support behind her together they have been drawing tens of thousands belorussians desperate for something me. people have put all their hopes in me all their desires for change. they've joined

forces are the candidates they were backing were forced out the collars husband fled the country with their children. working for. arrested on charges of bribery. husband was jailed and disqualified from running. she knew. my husband is in prison he lives in very cramped conditions and of course there's tremendous pressure on him. and this is the man determined to stop the opposition alexander lukashenko he's been in power for 26 years and he's made it clear he and the officials here back him going anywhere. this will gonna. give you up. we have found a way to bring these extremists to justice. has

almost no chance of forcing outlook to shanker but she and the other campaigners have still managed to hope belorussians imagine a country without its long term leader. from the german marshall fund in berlin is here to talk with us about this potentially historic day in belarus marina tell us more how real is the pressure that is facing this opposition candidate. oh this pressure is very real this is an extraordinary situation that this election takes place basically in this and it's not that much about the intensity or the simple is atlantic and also it was men who was mentioned in their post. who basically is and thesis is the current president and she is a she is very open very mild and told him in very ordinance and all anything that comes from hat is only peace and love

well we have an election happening today but without international observers president to moderate how can we be assured that it's going to be free and fair. what can be assured that it's not going to be free and they have not a single election since $99.00 to full in the question has been elected was you can i say as and election is not only the day of the next what we saw preceding to potential candidates in jail. electoral can meet is that there are pools and no international observers this time domestic agendas heavy and very difficult and they have been also pressured to put this in the voting 6 days preceding to today. is that. in full to what they send has allegedly people going to vote it so cruel is to also then to office so look i shan't go he may

withstand this test today but he's been in power for a very long time if you were to fall today or fall sometime soon what do bellaver see as their face what kind of world are they looking at in a post lucas shan't go country. i guess it's not that much of. all about this hope that it's going to be very easy fool who says people intends a whole economy a look at the social social shocks that might be connected to change and anyway this is a very special very emotional some this isn't built hopes only don't see and unity and this basically is sending a very strong signal who to the whole country to the ruling elite into the whole won't they ah and they do want to take their fate in their hands

arena replay from the german marshall fund thanks for those insights the afghan government says it's quote on the verge of peace talks in its war with the taliban after tribal leaders agreed to release $400.00 of that islamic groups prisoners lawyers a traditional meeting that brings together the country's many factions agreed to the release and hopes of moving forward on talks the taliban had made that a pre-condition and intra afghan troops to the nearly 2 decades conflict follows a separate agreement the us made with the taliban in february. rebels max 1st up and has triumphed had formula 170th anniversary grand prix held at silverstone in the united kingdom is the dutch driver's 1st victory of the season after mercedes won the previous 4 races for stop and success means he closes the gap on championship leader lewis hamilton who had to settle for 2nd place and over to football byron munich have flown off for

a short training camp in portugal after stealing their passage into the champion li quarter finals they thrashed chelsea to set up a clash with barcelona a one like game next friday in lisbon. byron's of adelphi converted in early penalty and then laid on in a 41 home win behind closed doors even was also among the scores as byron wrapped up a 71 aggregate victory having won the 1st leg way back in february before the coronavirus suspension. you're watching t w news here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you 11 his government minister has resigned following angry overnight protests and the whole cabinet may be about to quit after the massive blasts on tuesday french president emmanuel marks on said the world powers have a duty to support the lebanese people he's hosting an emergency donor's conference . that's all from us for now up next it's reporter on location with

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