this is d.w. news a live up from broadway lebanon's government under pressure to resign thousands of people have been taking to the streets near parliament calling on their leaders to step down protesters and say it was negligence that led to tuesday's devastating explosion which killed more than $150.00 people and injured thousands more are also coming up on the show. in galleries in the state media as exit polling claims a long time leader alexander lukashenko has won nearly 80 percent of the vote in the country's presidential election look at the latest from our correspondent.

i'm kyra trades and welcome to the show world leaders have pledged more than 250000000 euros in emergency aid for lebanon following tuesday's devastating explosion in the capital beirut the city has been rocked by another day of unrest amid clashes between protesters and security forces several government ministers have stepped down in response to growing anger and demonstrators blame the country's a political elite for deep rooted corruption and for negligence that ended in tragedy. another evening at anger in beirut violent clashes with security forces as people protest for a 2nd day the sun raised was it off i choose days mass even devastating explosion these protestors lay the blame directly on what i say lebanon's corrupt leaders

sunday saw a number of government officials quit 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 how 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 lebannon 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 it. lebanon faces huge challenges dish reconstruction costs and the welfare of an entire nation under threat for now being on rest of the last few days looks it to carry on into a new week. d.w. correspondent basle i read it has been following developments in beirut for us i spoke to him a short time ago and asked him what the situation a looks like on the ground it's same as yesterday this moment. just crossed next to my right. to protest if it was complete chaos. and i would go for justice. the problem is they thought they succeeded in having a hole in the seam and to block that's i don't think the parliament i'm talking about few meters away from the main quarter 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 force that 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 burning under one of the billboards iran respond to one of minister has already resigned others and may well fall out if it hasn't gone on at the cost of a political crisis. indeed yes it is the information that he designed today the minister of. environment resigned but he didn't unknown's that for the media or 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 lost but at least 8 minutes is that they had the intention to resign this moment when we talk about 8 months of this mean 20 percent of the government this means that the cabinet it's a resigned according to the you but he's constitution so that's why the prime minister may be. talking. to hold that as a nation 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 talked about one of

the most serious debate that been controversial issues between the politician parties and it. was this 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 do. thanks in 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 asking him not to resign because the concert now it's on the. good to have another look 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 it does create in this formation of this government as well as some international interference so the prime minister resigned. to have

a new prime minister of. india. going out and minister ministry meeting closely tomorrow i thank you for your reporting from beirut. thank you. well in bellerose of the latest exit poll in the country's presidential election says a long time leader alexander lukashenko has won it with almost 80 percent of the vote people in valerie's were voting in one of the most closely contested presidential races in decades. seen here casting his vote has held powers since the ninety's and is running for a 6th term he faced the toughest challenge so far to his authoritarian rule from spotlight on it you can have sky at a 37 year old english teacher who is the wife of a jailed presidential candidate. let's cross now to be a correspondent emily share when who is a monitoring the situation from moscow to state approved exit polls

a claim alexander lukashenko has secured close to 80 percent of the vote how are people reacting to the news that he's on track for a landslide victory. well his of his opponent goes opponents with on it you have lost the head of called on people to take to the streets and to go to their their polling stations as well when the polling stations closed and today we're seeing people taking to the streets across their videos on social media circulating of people marching through minsk the capital of people clapping in crowds and of people kind of beeping their car horns as they drive through the city as well there has been some arrests by special forces there also have been videos going around of people kind of fighting with the special forces as people get arrested they try to get these people free from from the grips of the police so really dramatic scenes that we're already seeing now in belarus meanwhile

to kind of opposition new sites has been seemingly blocked of course the numbers in some ways are not a surprise after all in the last presidential election got 84 percent of the vote and it's important to point out that international observers have never recognized an election in belarus as having been free or fair and even before these elections look said himself that he's not willing to give up power but we have seen in recent weeks a groundswell of support for his opponents fell on as you can of and now we're hearing from those same polls that she only got close to 70 percent of the vote why these low figures. well it doesn't really seem to add up as you say when you saw those crowds of tens of thousands of people gathering to support the one off square which really is unprecedented for belarus where it's basically for the last few years

been essentially impossible to protest and or very very rare for there to be protests. for self following this announcement of these initial results said that she doesn't recognize those results and she said herself i believe my eyes and i see that the majority is with us presumably risk referring to some of those rallies that she was at and that she held the opposition had anticipated that there would be a result in the favor and had called on her supporters to wear white ribbons as they went to the ballot boxes to essentially be counted so we could see some kind of office ition say yours emerging in the coming days and also we'll have to wait for official figures final official figures as well all right. thank you. let's go now to some of the other stories making news around the world gunmen in have killed 6 french citizens along with their tour guide and

a driver the group had been visiting a wildlife park in the core area southwest of the country. in 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 of between the government and the insurgents and end the 19 year war. well western europe is baking in a heat wave and to stay cool people have been a flocking to beaches this weekend but authorities are worried they are sunbathing too close to each other they've warned about a protect their is 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 busy a scope we now happened on the day sure and the ballet people just following the road saves from the top to ca and she was just too busy 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 however this 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. high temperatures are said to continue in the next couple of

days. and it seems a trip to the local ice tender 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 rebel's a match fresh top and it took the checkered flag out 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 mysie he said when every race so far only bought us and teammate lewis hamilton both got away cleanly at the front but behind them red bull's max push happen quickly moved past surprise 3rd place qualifier nico holcomb. there are isa past infertile spot on another awful day for the german. dutchman for stop and 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 but asked later on to move 2nd and limit the damages ers a record equalling 7th title. put the victory was fished up and ending a run of 4 straight wins from a city so far in this coronavirus affected season. yeah we had a lot of personal then without a lot of tolerations at all. we just kept pushing and incredible result of course the world. pushed up and goes above bought us into 2nd in the overall standings behind hamilton. well let it go madrid say 2 unnamed members of their travelling party for the champions league quarter finals in portugal have tested positive for corona virus the spanish club are due to play at sporting lisbon stadium against germany as. rb leipzig on thursday and say they

are in touch with already set out for their steps. that's a news update at this hour m k richardson in berlin thanks so much for joining us. in the colbys in germany to learn german i learned from the cool. why not learn with him d w z learning course very. slowly. carefully. to do good.