flushes erupt in central beirut public. wake. deadly explosion these are live pictures right now from the lebanese capital protesters are reportedly storming government military buildings as well over 100 people have been reported injured rescue teams continue the search for survivors in the ruins of the beirut port area we hear from a nurse who saved minutes. we need to intensive care units probably the number as well and i started pulling the units i was terrified because i thought the babies might be pushed into the rubble

. also i had on the program the u.s. intelligence chief claims china russia are all trying to meddle in november's presidential election going underground is the difficult choice facing us voters with a lot of medical lot of us are no. good no we're. just mass incarceration system the modern world. disaster. in germany. a primary school after their daughter was punished by teachers for speaking her native turkish in the playground .

just approaching 2 minutes past 8 pm here in moscow this saturday august here my name's you know welcome to our international can let's start with some developing news lebanese prime minister a. call for an early election amid must rest following choose these deadly explosion live pictures right now from the lebanese capital he has also admitted that corruption was partially to blame for the tragedy and so you can see here massive street protests gripping central routes in the wake of choose these devastating explosion at least 154 people lost their lives in the tragedy and crowds are demanding justice as you can see projectiles being thrown molotov cocktails losers being used by protesters as well with the lebanese flag over its all thousands of people there it is martyr square by the way the. city

a lot of people a lot of tourists will no doubt in the city center protesters are seeing government officials should be held responsible for the chain of events that led to the disaster riot police soldiers as well out in force $100.00 people plus have been injured in the ongoing street clashes that is according to the red cross charlie. we have received reports that demonstrators have broken into the foreign ministry building there's been a brutal standoff there with police reportedly firing live ammunition rioters are also trying to break into the lebanese economic ministry that is according to local media know all that is really a sharp escalation of civil unrest that has been simmering since. poverty levels call them a free for all the government. launched an investigation into the tragedy and the

prime minister has promised that all those responsible will face justice. these demonstrators were flocking to marchers square also to the lebanese parliament to express their dismay over the poor over what they say is poor handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of tuesday's a explosion which targeted debated sports did demonstrators are have or have taken a very violent turn we are also hearing a lot of shots being fired in the air in addition to that there gas and now these protesters and it doesn't seem that they're planning to leave as martyrs square and

it's time soon many of them have already set up tents they say they are going to stay here until their demands are met also at the same time we know that in the district of a sheriff east of badal protesters have managed to a storm enter the foreign ministry many of them or they have been accompanied by a retired lebanese army generals there are talks that the government officials will try to sit down with this retired army generals to a try and reach some sort of discussion or negotiations with a maybe to calm the situation down. let's go live now to pay routes to jamal wakim jamal is professor of international relations out lebanese university thanks very much for joining us this hour some news coming in jamal in the last few moments we've heard the prime minister is calling for an early election is not going to help calm the arm rest in lebanon. well i don't really know because.

there are too many of these. gentlemen i'm going by the people by the people. disappointed by the system. economy crisis the country almost a year ago. i believe. any. early election would be short of. that us but we need we need not just because the fact that there are other parties. trying to capitalize on the people just. to form a government they are partially responsible for the. economy. social policy that's left. in addition they are also prompted by the united states

escalate the lebanon as part of a campaign isolate. and i should add on lebanon to detach from what. they call the act itself is. to certify as a base an american base especially after the united states has lost ground and much on the ground. and it's trying to something. much responsibility jamal do you think that this government and the previous government whoever was in charge parents for the tragedy because you had almost calling them ammonium nitrate stored in a very crowded area in the port of this for quite a long time as well how much does not go to the government. i believe and this government is to be blamed after all it is in charge and it should have. known

. about the existence of this. but this was back in 2000. never been. responsibility shouldn't be limited to the director of the. director general of customs but they also responsibility of the minister of finance who is in charge. or on successive minutes of the finance all successive ministers what do you do your own successive ministers. and of course prime ministers presidents of republics since 2014. do you think this will be served because has by the method he admitted to corruption was to blame for choose the deadly port blast are you expecting criminal charges perhaps jail terms to follow for whoever is found to be responsible. well i believe. justice would not be so because

based on my understanding that it. was found at the but i'm ready suspect the crime that he just wants and limits them to 2nd. including the director general of customs and the director general. or minister or prime minister or. public or even the army so. that it was brought up and i believe. expecting a fair trial. will not be so i'm not on the government but also under this. regime. and i don't believe that we will have and it would use in any time soon it's genuine want.

a look at the program to manage such but nevertheless there's a lot of anger out there jamal is there we're looking at pictures as you were speaking live picture of what is happening today we seen jim i love you protesters reportedly storming the foreign ministry building in the city of churches trying to get into the economy ministry where does this lead. well i believe this expresses our own good but i feel that it could engender civil strife and this is what i fear most. in this case it could best the intentions of the united states which would like nice things in lebanon. and non-stable lebanon to serve as a star belies a city which is which has been successful to a large extent. most of it that is that we want the united states that looks at

the region. from the perspective that it's trying to compensate for what has lost and syria by the people who hold both lebanon and by making lebanon the source of instability. to syria or to do that and all the city ends and the russians as with. what came jamal is professor of international ation south lebanese university in thanks for coming in the program and sharing your piece. well search and rescue teams are still clearing the rubble in beirut support area in the hope of finding survivors scores of people remain missing the explosion shockwave wrecked havoc across the city destroying buildings businesses and homes the u.n. has warned of a humanitarian crisis with 300000 people in need of a down shelter artie's down office in the city. 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 on the bluster 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 holding off marauders and looters but as people ran hundreds of thousands found out they may have no longer

a place to call home because son who lives a few 100 meters from the pool it felt something was room before the main lost the house says it's never going. to hear that. kind of work or the story goes forward only the 1st story of her was good enough. for me because these guys are covers up. there they're all. flu he said over. because it was you that was you know while you have no gas now you know. nothing nothing at all it's all over the. coming because this isn't going to go 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 he done from beirut in lebanon. or for one couple in beirut choose they were supposed to be a big event for a very different reason this is the moment the blast occurred while a wedding party were taking photos in a church. the world health organization is warning that beirut's health care system has been badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the covert $1000.00

pandemic on top of the explosion on tuesday but 3 hospitals are of action medics are working around the clock to save the lives of those seriously injured in the tragedy here is one heroic nurses story. that when the explosion went off the ground shook beneath us the blast held me into another room i opened my eyes and found myself covered in the 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 sort of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies

might be crushed under the rubble but then go they were ok 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 gave me the t. shirts and clothes so i could read to me why. simply didn't become savannah i. think i was holding the 3 babies and i didn't know that i was going to be evil to resteal them not all the times counting the heads in my chest to make sure they were still there. 2 more world news this hour the u.s.

country intelligence chief may not russia china and iran are all trying to meddle in the november election the director of 'd a national country intelligence security center say there are several foreign powers that quote have a preference over the election results china apparently views predictable 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 lower house his own views on the matter 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 win. we heard from journalist and author done the laws are done the things both democrats and republicans are already looking for someone to blame if they lose the election. the us is filled with corporate media

pumping out propaganda at top volume around the clock. that the russians chinese in a rainy ins can barely get a word mets one 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 process is 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 i saw a both sides are now at down out building up their excuses and case they lose to blame it on the other person it's a recipe for disaster that's why that could very easily be some kind of political meltdown in november we're going underground and spoke to the american philosopher political activist colonel west upon the upcoming election and also the rise of the

black lines motor movement. i'm going to say angela davis on this show endorsed endorsed joe biden in november no i'm chomsky is endorsed joe biden do you think that joe biden will save us from another nuclear conflagration as we commemorate the dead of hiroshima yeah i had a choice between a meal liberal disaster you know asked yes i would go to the older would disaster that so but americans are sick impact is 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 all

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. this coming together and making the connection between not just police power and police murder but the tweet police least murder wall street car wall street crimes and pentagon power and pentagon crimes once you make those connections and connect to the most you can't make them up the mix may develop it could make the family look rabbi abraham joshua heschel as able to make. the greatest intellectual along with noam chomsky and been making for most of his intellectual life 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. colonel west there if you want to catch the full episode you can watch it all later today here on r.t.

international. followers of a conspiracy theory movement known as human element are being bombed by facebook we look at what's driving the platforms popularity on that show. join me every day on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure i'll see you.

again facebook has become the latest social media platform to crack down on hugh and all conspiracy cold turnt now after deleting a group with some 200000 members for violating the platforms guidelines followers

of the fringe movement helping voicing their support for president the head of november's election but as told quarter explains the popularity of q. and all has only grown despite being snubbed by the political and media elites. in the world of q. and a nod 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 believes 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 not in the spirit of fact

donald trump was picked by military leaders to run for president as a way to kind of bring down the 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 that comes with a deep state 2020 has been a year like no other and when 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. non or they're just trying to win some political points but whatever the case q a non 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 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 on all trying to combine that with the violence many people are facing in the us and you have yourself a very alley and hating situation if you have a group of people who say that there are insidious forces working

against 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 or 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 was being punished by her teachers for speaking her native turkish in the playground or per uncertain are planning to sue the school or europe correspondent peter all over the story. there's a row 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 tongue 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 jointly by 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 all their lawyer who says that this rule targets the turkish language in particular it was didn't we. the school break is stalking for example through the english who learn french all through chinese or through let in i cannot believe that teacher would say this is where we've been you can mark so be it to talk in your mother tongue you know and

this of course affects all your personality or your identity and also. human rights or. constitutional there was not such a general rule to talk only in german language in the school building and also this issue which happen was. one by one situation between 2 students were to ensure region this school and also the prison until now they are not replying our appeal and alertness and would be the next logical step if they don't respond to our letters that we will have to go to the court the legal action underlying this situation leaves everything in a very messy place stuck between

a german schools insistence on german being spoken and respect for the languages of the many different groups that make up modern day germany peter all of. that is our headline story is this something that just before you go i want to show you martyr square in beirut's lebanese capital i want is happening there right no longer against the government following choose the deadly explosion has broken out in mass protests in the center of the city this is at life footage from the capital all the details when we return at the top of the hour this is partly international .