this is g.w. news a live up from berlin 11 on the government under pressure to resign thousands of people taking to the streets near parliament at all in on their leaders to step down protesters say it was negligence that led to today's devastating explosion which killed more than 150 people and injured thousands more also coming up in the shadows and valerie's in the state media types that hold claims longtime leader alexander the shango has won it nearly 80 percent of the vote in the country's presidential election we'll get the latest from our correspondent.

i'm going to richard's and welcome to the show lebanon's capital beirut has been rocked by a 2nd day of unrest thousands of people have taken to the streets for anti-government protests triggered by tuesday's devastating explosion that killed more than $150.00 people the lebanese army says hopes are fading that any more survivors will be found on the streets meanwhile the tensions are running high and pressure is mounting on lebanon's political elite the protesters have blamed them for the country's economic and political woes. another evening is anger in beirut violent clashes with security forces as people protest for a 2nd day the sunrays to acidify choose days mass even devastating explosion these . does lay the blame directly on what i say lebanon's corrupt leaders sunday sore

a number of government officials over the crisis in the hunt that this 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 homeless consumed by grief despair and frustration. authorities have had little involvement with the cleanup so far instead it's been left to volunteers to clear the debris lebanon was already struggling through a financial crisis when the explosion he's making the recovery from this disaster that much harder. to prove have some compassion hurt we feel pain we cannot stand these people from beirut from become from the north everybody is hungry we're not just here protesting to take a picture and post it on facebook people are hungry and when people get hungry well

that's what's. been on faces huge challenges dish reconstruction costs and the welfare of an entire nation under threat for now beyond rest of the last few days looks it to carry on into a new week. well for more on the situation in beirut a let's bring in our correspondent basle every day vassal nice to see you again we saw how yesterday's protests resulted in more than a 100 people being injured how does the situation compare today. it's saying yesterday at this moment the right policy just crossed next to my right playing. to the protesters it was complete chaos i don't know where to go at the protest to try to undo the problem if they thought they succeeded in having a hole in the seam of the block that said on the parliament i'm talking about few meters away from the main headquarters of the parliament they succeeded to have to

cross to break. that cement block at that moment the. forces. could you foresee the night for this related to this internal security forces they should have the. good guys against the protesters and they succeeded few moments ago to take them to take them away from the from that that area near the farm that they are right now just behind me if you can see the fire it's burning under one of the billboards in response to want to minister has already resigned others and may well fall out if you haven't been on at the cost of a political crisis. indeed yes it is the information that he signed today the minister of. environment resigned but he didn't announce that for the media or in confidence because they say tomorrow

morning there's going to be a meeting for the cabinet according to my interview that tomorrow the government might resign might resign. the office of the the i'm not spent at least 8 minutes is that they had the intention to resign at this moment when we talk about agents of this mean about 20 percent of the government this means that the cabinet it's resigned according to the news constitution so that's why the prime minister may be. talking. to hold their designation on tomorrow then maybe the discussion tomorrow would change something but according to my info to my sources the everybody's prime minister is under high pressure from his political allies to do things 1st of all he announced 2 days ago that he's seeking or he's going to discuss in his cabinet meeting tomorrow the early elections which which means that he didn't coordinate this issue with his political

allies and when we talk about elections in lebanon we talk about one of the most serious debate the controversial issues between the politician parties and indeed. tension between among the political elites so when he said that he's going to discuss this issue and in his cabinet meeting tomorrow that that due to some tension between him and some of his allies allies and some other parties in. his cabinet on the other hand one of the other pressures. from his political allies not doing fine because the country now it's on aid. to have another oath for another government when we talk about his government we talk about too many issues and so complicated it's not about. regional issues as well that create in this formation of this government as well as some international interference so while

the prime minister resigned. to have a new prime minister of. india all right. cabinet minister ministry meeting closely tomorrow i thank you for your reporting from beirut. thank you. ballerinas of president alexander the go has a one of the presidential vote with 79.7 percent according to a state media exit poll people in belarus were voting in one of the most closely contested presidential races in decades because franco is seeing here casting his vote has held power since the ninety's and he's running for a 6th term the face of the toughest challenge so far to his authoritarian rule from a 37 year old english teacher who is the wife of a jailed presidential candidate let's go straight to data via correspondent emily

share when who is monitoring the elections are from moscow for exit polls from belarus state media claim that alexander lukashenko has secured almost 80 percent of the vote a quite staggering victory does that come as a surprise. well not really in the sense that it fits in with normal victory pattern as it were in 2015 he took 84 percent of the vote and it should be noted at this point that international observers have never seen any of the elections in belo groups as free and fair and today there were also widespread reports of violations at the ballot box and monitors were saying observers were saying that they weren't being let into the polling stations independent monitors and in international monitors were also not present at these elections and even before the elections the himself said that he wouldn't be giving up power. but we saw in recent weeks

a groundswell of support for his opponent it's kind of well now we're hearing from state media that she only got close to 70 percent of the vote what can you tell us about that outcome. it does seem surprising if you look at the unprecedented amount of support that we've been seeing. even out on the streets it's very rare for people to protest invalid groups at all usually protesters immediately get arrested and we've been seeing kind of up to 60000 people gathering in support of state line that you saw in a sense that really doesn't add up with the numbers that we've now seen in this exit poll the opposition itself including. actually anticipated that would win and they said that they thought it was likely that there would be violations at the ballot box herself called on her supporters to wear white ribbons around their

wrists when they went to the ballot boxes as a way for independent monitors to be able to count how much support the opposition really has there was an opposition platform that was calling on people to send in pictures of their ballots so we may see kind of alternative. counts emerging there as well. and what else might we expect to see happen next. well the opposition has called for a protest tonight. has said called on her supporters as well to come to their local polling station so we may see people gathering there i haven't seen that on social media so far but we'll be monitoring that and. it does seem though however that the situation in the country and in minsk is rather tense there have been sightings of military vehicles outside of minsk this morning it may be that we will see a crackdown and tensions continuing over the next few days.

thank you. let's go now to some other stories making news around the world gunmen in new cher have killed a 6 of french tourists along with their local tour guide and driver the group was attacked in a giraffe preserve and new shares core area the french foreign ministry is now investigating. when afghanistan a grand assembly has approved the release of 400 taliban prisoners the decision was endorsed by president ashraf ghani he wants to pave the way for peace talks between the government and the insurgents and end the 19 year war. well western europe is a baking in a heat wave and to stay cool people have been flocking to beaches this weekend but authorities are worried that they are sunbathing too close to each other they've warned about a potential uptick in coronavirus cases as people let down their guard. when

temperatures are climbing past 35 degrees celsius there's nothing like a quick dip in the sea to cool down. but this is what many beaches in western europe look like this weekend. britain's southern coast line was packed with visitors many had been forced to abandon holidays abroad because of covert 19 travel restrictions but it seems like the risk of getting infected also exists closer to home. we did arrive early enough so that we would get a decent space for us out as you can see how busiest but we now happened on the day shortly ballet people just following the rows that just from the top to ca and she was just too busy and it's the same story across other parts of europe to control visitor numbers the belgian coastal city of austin and introduced a reservation system for the busiest stretches of its beach. authorities in germany warned that some beaches and lakes would have to close if there were too

many people but how are they surviving the heat wave without a refreshing dip. it's a free drink. drink plenty stay in the shade normally i'm someone who loves the sun but that is a bit too much sun too. high temperatures are said to continue in the next couple of days. and it seems a trip to the local i spend might be less of a risk than going to the beach. well mercedes have failed to win a formula one race for the 1st time this season red bulls a max 1st stop and i took the checkered flag at britain's silverstone which was hosting a race for the 2nd time this month. formula one the 70th anniversary grand prix was a creative name for the 2nd silverstone race in as many weekends organizers are limiting travel due to the coronavirus pandemic missy these had won every race so

far that's only bought us and teammate lewis hamilton both got away cleanly at the front but behind them red bulls max for stop and quickly move past surprise 3rd place qualifier nico holcomb. there are isa past infertile spot on another awful day for the german. dutch man for stepan managed to go in front of potus following a pit stop and promptly sped away his tire choices were looking superior on our hot day in britain. camels and then overtook the task later on to move 2nd and limit the damages ers a record equalling 7th title. but the victory was for a stop and ending a run of 4 straight wins from the city so far in this coronavirus affected season. yeah we have a lot of place in the car i don't really have a lot of tolerations at all. here we just kept pushing and incredible result of course the world. pushed up and goes above bought us into 2nd in the overall

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