thousands of people gather in central beirut demanding justice over tuesday's deadly explosion of their state government and competence is to blame for the tragedy. lebanon is counting the cost of tuesday's deadly explosion which has aggravated an already severe food and housing shortage and all rescue teams continue to search for survivors we hear from a nurse for save newborns minutes on the blacks. and i'm sure we need to intensive care units to cover the rubble as well and i started to need one songs of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed under the rubble. also this hour the u.s. counter intelligence chief claims china russia and iran are all trying to meddle in

the november election going underground especially the difficult choices facing american voters with foster and political activists for the west. doors. which are just mass incarceration system modern world chile which we live. disaster. and in germany parents to a primary school after their daughter was punished by teachers for speaking her native turkish on the playground. a very warm welcome to the program this friday at 6 pm here and the russian capital let's get started with a lot of news update. massive protests are taking place in lebanon in the wake of tuesday's devastating explosion 154 people lost their lives in that tragedy and

thousands more were injured these are the latest pictures from beirut or public anger is building against the government. 6 now we can bring you live pictures from the lebanese capital thousands of people are gathering on martyr square calling on the government to step down protesters claim that corruption and official incompetence led directly to the disaster on the shot you can see the sheer span and amount of people out there this is an escalation of civil unrest that has been simmering sense last october or sort of poverty levels and i cannot economic freefall on thursday during a summer rally riot police used tear gas against the protesters to break them up

the government has launched an investigation into the tragedy and the prime minister has promised that all those responsible will in fact face justice. search and rescue teams are still clearing the rubble in the hope of finding survivors with scores of people still missing at this point explosions shockwave it wreaks havoc across the city destroying buildings businesses and homes the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian crisis with 300000 people in need of aid and shelter artie's interest on the reports from the debris field streets of beirut. this bus station used to be one of the routes main public transport hubs it was far from an anonymous depo know thousands of people used to travel all around the country before the coronavirus.

amid all havoc you can still pinpoint the telltale signs of people's panic of their rush to leave the area as they were caught up in the blast there are documents left behind on car seats there are luggage bags all over the place and in cars with everything still inside hence the heavy army presence we had to get through a number of military checkpoints on the way here they are warding off marauders and looters but as people ran hundreds of thousands found out they may have no longer a place to call home the son who lives a few 100 meters from the port felt something was wrong before the main last season is never closed for. them. you hear that. there were orders that goes forward. so it was not good and it. was

a huge for me because he's going to start a company. there are all. of you blew it he said. to the world. you know why you have no gas no no again. nothing nothing at all it's over the head coming because this is really going on because this is god's son and his wife with no means to mend their apartment by themselves are telling me they are ready to leave the ruins of no help comes and they are among the lucky ones the actually have someplace else to strive for a better life lebanon already home to syrian and palestinian refugee camps now may need a camp for its own people with over 300000 displaced by the blast because donna from beirut in lebanon seen. for some locals today was supposed to be

a big event for a very different reason here's the moment a wedding photo shoot was suddenly turned to chaos by the blast. i. the world health organization is warning that beirut's health care system has been badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the code 900 make and on top of that the destructive explosion on tuesday put 3 hospitals out of action medics are working around the clock to save the lives of those seriously injured in the tragedy here's one heroic nurses story. i. know that when the

explosion went off the ground shook beneath us the blast told me into another room i opened my eyes and found myself covered in rubble i found my colleagues and friends line here on the ground covered in blood. in. the neonatal intensive care units in the covered in rubble as well i started pulling me to go in salt of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed under the rubble but then go they were kate then i took them through this corridor and down through flights of stairs. i carried the babies and i was determined to take them to another hospital the only way less than 2 kilograms they had nothing on them except died people on the street

give me their t. shirts and clothes so i could read the new bills and keep the news the conservation the on people. i was holding the 3 babies and i didn't know if i was going to be able to rescue them or not all the time was counting the heads on my chest to make sure they were still there. no matter who wins the next american presidential election they were us national counter intelligence and security center apparently knows already which external actor is to blame if trump wins think the russians if biden the chinese or the iranians or both the latest statement by the center's director says. there are many foreign actors that quote having preference over the election results it tells us voters that china views trump as unpredictable and doesn't want him to win as for russia

it's using a range of measures against joe biden and iran could undermine american democracy donald trump though has his own views on the matter and i think that the last person russia wants to see in office is donald trump because nobody has been tougher on russia than i have ever the last thing that russia wants and china wants and iran wants would be for donald trump to when we heard from journalist and author daniel those are he thinks both democrats and republicans are looking for someone to blame if they lose the election the us is filled with corporate media pumping out our propaganda at top volume around the clock the the the russians chinese in the rain ians can barely get a word metroid point is that they're they're able to pull these charges out of their hat they have no evidence because there is no evidence there's no indication of any kind of major russian interference and u.s.

electoral processes the republicans who are accusing the democrats of cheating trump is already doing that but through the misuse of mail in ballots and the democrats are repairing to blame a trump victory on russia so are so both sides are now at dow now building up their excuses and case they lose to blame it on the other person it's a recipe for disaster this wide that could very easily be some kind of political meltdown in november going underground talk to american philosopher and political activist cornel west about the upcoming election and also the rise of the black lives matter movement here's a preview of that interview. i've got to say angela davis on this show endorsed endorsed joe biden in november no i'm charms has endorsed joe biden do you think that joe biden will save us from another

nuclear conflagration as we commemorate the dead of hiroshima yeah if i had a choice between a meal liberal disaster and you know asked yes i would go to the older will disaster that will buy me americans a sick impact just a spiteful impact it's a most unpleasant embar we've got the number one vote human being on the inside we've got some movement on the inside we've got a magnificent courageous and visionary citizen on the inside but we are losing we are losing we're resisting but we're still losing the greed the hatred wall street pentagon is they are in control of the empire and they are taking it off what is different about these uprisings since what's in los angeles in 165 and before and after the beautiful thing is that you have problems. coming together and making the connection between not just police power and police murder but the tweet police our lease murder wall street power wall street crimes and pentagon power and

pentagon crimes once you make those connections and 'd connect to the most you can't make them up the mix may develop it could make the family look a moment rabbi abraham joshua heschel as able to make. the greatest intellectual alone with known chomsky and been making for most of his intellectual life will once every day people begin to make those connections then we're on to something those can actually be made more now than they were before. if you want to catch that absurd and full you can watch that later here on our team . the mother of british police officer andrew harper who was killed last year is calling for legal reforms she's launched an andrew's law campaign demanding a minimum 20 year prison term for those who kill emergency workers in august 2019 officer harper confronted 3 teenage thieves and an effort to stop them from fleeing

he was caught in a crane strop dangling from the rear of the car driven by one of the criminals andrew harper was dragged for more than a mile along the road and died of his injuries the killers were convicted of manslaughter but cleared of murder the officer's wife lizzie harper became a widow just 4 weeks after their wedding she has launched her own campaign calling for a life sentence for those convicted of causing the deaths of emergency service workers it has received the support of the police federation of england and wales representing thousands of officers former u.k. home office minister norman baker and journalist john go and give us their views on the case. criminals as exemplified by these 3 thoughts yeah laughing at the rest of us we need them banged up i don't know whether it should be that 20 years with chief what his mum suggesting or life but what needs to happen is much tougher sentencing when i was the home office what was quite

clear to me from the research that's been done by the government was that the deterrent effect came from the ability to persuade people that if they committed a crime there would be coach prosecuted and sentenced the parents effect does not come from the length of a sentence if people feel are going to be caught so i would rather have more effort put into catching people rather than putting our sentences which maybe but i never applied because people aren't caught we've had the liberal attitude it's singularly failed the british public want to turf hard sentencing i personally want hard sentencing but i want to education in prisons i want them to be coming out of prison if they ever come out been able to read and write and i want them of class a drugs but i want the p. word 1st punishment i also be vigilant should look at for any commonality there we ought to have been present fallible registration and we presently have which are

just people i know people up and throw away the key future clichy we should actually try to reform them and i also believe in not that this particular crime but for other crimes that we ought to have following gauging with the incidents and we want to have some recompense for victims and of people approach to understand what the consequences of their actions have been then i think that's more like it's a change them into better people than simply serving in prison so we have to actually look at this is perhaps a nurse emotional way and a more practical way to get it she was young we want everybody hold on a minute so what about he's widow paul is 8 when she said out on the steps of the court effectively. they had handed her a long sentence the folks did not get a life sentence i'll tell you what i want norman is a little less. out of porridge on a bit more mccaughey we need some toughness in there and we need people to be sped about being. still had followers of

a far right conspiracy theory known as q are being banned by facebook a look at what's driving the movement after the us.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the oakum back facebook has become the latest social media platform to crack down on q. anon conspiracy content after deleting a group with some 200000 members for violating the platform's guidelines leavers of the fringe far right conspiracy theory have been voicing their support for trump ahead of november's election but as don't accord explains the movement has

a link grown despite being snubbed by the political and media elites. in the world of q. and a not labeled by the u.s. government as one of the most dangerous conspiracy theories of all time humanity is at war and president trump is here to save it he went on which essentially leaves the entirety of the democratic party are conspiring and running an underground pedophile sex trafficking ring pacifically would cue in on is a free nation in which many baseless conspiracy theories are discussed on the internet the synergy of interest in q one comes as the u.s. skews a predilection a few years ago it was a fringe theory and tomorrow the headlines will be massive protests a few is a bunch of people there on the inside to the good guys and they know the real story what's going on and it's all about in the deep state it's a man in the mirror back to donald trump was picked by military

leaders to run for president as a way to kind of bring down the deep state it's still on the f.b.i.'s list of domestic terror threats but as of late it's been entering into the mainstream even made an appearance on america's most watched television network q. can do some crazy stuff with the pizza stuff and the way for stuff but they've also uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to epstein and it comes with a deep state 2020 has been a year like no other and one big events happen people look for explanations so it should come as little surprise that politicians are looking to capitalize on that sentiment around 70 former and current congressional candidates have already given their public approval would you consider yourself a follower of you and on what does that mean. well i think what we need to recognize and actually most people do know a lot about it is that there is a deep state that exists it's not clear whether these people really believe in q.a. on or they're just trying to win some political points but whatever the case

queuing on has some seriously high profile supporters and the media is raising the alarm over it but for many q. a non's rise in popularity is the result of that media went on is this just in a mall the mace you know all of the greatest conspiracy theories thrown into one big believe i've only been actively posting it say for the past couple of months but the response that i've gotten is insane constantly focusing airtime on attacking the president could very well have pushed trump supporters to more radical ideas a ministration defined by ignorance of the world so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience you know the credulous boomer rube demo that backs total trauma combined that with the violence many people are facing in the us and you have yourself a very allien ating situation if you have a group of people who say that there are insidious forces working against in them to keep the word of trump from being disseminated and their band

yes that fuel that that shows them your right when you are being overwhelmed right now by everything that is so not just left wing but radically left wing the only response that people can have the only rational response that many many people can add to that is a pendulum swing to the rate which might be which might lead to a some case an over exuberant. to robust embrace of war law and order and rules and regulations in policing and that may be fine for some people. but the point must be made that you are going to be encouraging people and recruiting more americans and more voters to take on positions that a few years ago they might not positions that many many people today would be

considering right way or even ultra right or fringe right whatever that means. a 9 year old girl in germany has been punished by her teachers for speaking her native turkish on the playground her parents are now planning to sue the school our europe correspondent peter all over the details. there's a rout brewing in southwest germany over the languages spoken in school it's after a 9 year old girl was given this punishment essay to write to speak turkish the children speak german school in germany a definition language is german you want us to speak german the schools are german if we speak turkish the children won't understand us we're not allowed to speak our mother 10 so we can speak german that's all i know the local school authority told r.t. that the german only policy is in place so that everyone students and teachers all speak

a common language 43 percent of children are from migrant backgrounds so it's important for everyone to speak the same language so the school can fulfill its educational mission the rule we all speak german is also part of the class rules a school which drawn up trying to buy all pupils and explained at parents' evenings it was agreed that in the event of a violation of this rule an essay on the topic why we speak german at school must be written that's not good enough for the family or their lawyer he says that this rule targets the turkish language in particular it was didn't hear in the. school break this talking for example through english or who in french of chinese or through latin i cannot believe that teacher would say this is when you can not so be it. in your mother tongue you know and this of course affects all your purse no or your identity and also. it's human rights of.

constitutional law there was not such a general rule to talk only in german language in the school building and also this issue which happened was. one by one situation the. 2 students were reading this. also goes. on to look replying or. was. the next logical step if they don't. respond well let's use this group because the legal action underlying this situation leaves everything in a very messy place stuck between a german schools insistence on being spoken and respect for the languages of the many different groups that make up germany peter all over altie.

now for some world news and brief officials in india have confirmed that 18 people were killed when a passenger plane skidded off the runway as it tried to land in the southern state of crawl on friday dozens more were injured among the dead are both pilots the air india express jet was returning from dubai it was carrying 190 passengers home after they were left stranded overseas by the coronavirus pandemic the boeing 737 broke into 2 pieces after leaving the runway at high speed official suspects the tragedy it was caused by heavy rain and poor visibility that way full investigation has yet to be carried out and his prime minister has sent his condolences to the families of the victims. was that hundreds of people rallied on friday in central chile demanding justice

for the killing of a 16 year old girl the teenager was allegedly murdered by her step father who was on parole for a double homicide the girl had been missing for a week before her body was discovered on thursday her mother and stepfather are in custody. and the city of her boss in russia's far east is seeing a 5th consecutive week and sinks. in protests around 3000 people marched in support of former gov 75 goal has been arrested on charges that he ordered contract killings in the mid 2000 he denies all the accusations and his supporters are calling for an open trial and demanding that moscow stay out of local affairs. that's a breakdown of today's headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always follow us on twitter or facebook for up to the minute reports.

or some other solution that's right where we come up with solutions to all the problems they cover on the other shows right there anyway today we've got a go to the moon edition with a special guest mark valley the incremental. fullest and illegal takeover of the government by a small group. rather than revolutionaries also just small groups the operation when you have a tiny group of people who have all the power you have to have some means to make sure the rest of us don't get together and take it back. these are sacrificing. places that capitalism exploited and destroyed for profit and left behind misery poverty environmental devastation and so you see things

like voter suppression building more prisons you seem gerrymandering all sorts of undemocratic practices are well in that world we're well into this world and there's no question that the coup d'etat. the national attention you're watching another lockdown edition of going underground a very special edition we're joined by one of the great philosophers of our time professor cornell west he joins me now from princeton in new jersey cornell thanks so much for coming on last time i spoke to earlier in the week there was a hurricane shades of climate change then we had the catastrophe in beirut i mean what the 1st of all your out here no indeed indeed the 1st i just want to salute

you. the last new force. we need indeed while we are thoughts when you heard about what happened in the middle east in beirut where normally you often spoken about war crimes this it's open to question what happened but what if what if you thought about those terrible images well let me look at least once again you trigger but just suffering place in the middle east people not really wanting to tell the truth about the reasons of power and you are in the middle east and we're going to find out you know who's responsible but i just i just. i'm of the opinion that. we've got to be bring honest and candid about the rule of the u.s. . court a nation of the israeli defense forces and u.s.

army but we shall see we shall see it's also of course important week because it's the 75th anniversary of the united states nuclear attack on hiroshima i've got to say angela davis on this show endorsed endorsed joe biden in november no i'm chomsky has endorsed joe biden do you think that joe biden will save us from another nuclear conflagration as we commemorate the dead of hiroshima. where you know my dear brother wanted the gin genius did mon go minute because. we're all of course now we've got it 100 military units round we're russia and china to get to have $3030.00 we've got $4800.00 military units in the whole world including the united states are they more senior legacy is one in which we have to take very seriously the relation to poverty at all of militarism at home and abroad the unbelievable a materialist and it's a spiritual decay in.