when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. protesters stormed government buildings in beirut made months riots saying over choose the deadly explosion the prime minister admitted the tragedy was to corruption call for an early election. rescue teams continue the search for survivors in the ruins of the beirut port area we hear from a nurse who saved newborns minutes after the. we need to intensive care units in the top of the rubble is where i started to leave the u. i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed in the rubble. coming up on the program to us country intelligence chief claims china russia. are all

trying to meddle in the upcoming presidential election going underground discusses the choice facing us voters this november with philosopher and political activist cornell west. just to reach an system. which we have a new liberal. disaster 'd. life from our international news center here in moscow this is our t.v. pleasure to have your company i mean i know neil alone welcome. we begin with breaking news from beirut rioters have stormed lebanese government buildings including 4 ministries in an outpouring of public anger over tuesday's deadly

explosion writes police officer being killed in the rest we believe is just being confirmed in fact by loke. law enforcement and at least 175 people are injured today according to the lebanese red cross 'd thousands of people have been rallying on the martyrs square in central beirut right throughout the day they are pointing the finger directly at the government for the chain of events leading up to choose these explosions in the city's port area it killed at least $154.00 people 5 more were injured riot police and soldiers are out in force reportedly been using live ammunition well this is all a sharp escalation of civil unrest which has been simmering since october over soaring poverty levels and ptolemy in freefall prime minister has called for an early election and he's acknowledged the corruption was to blame for tuesday's

tragedy. i will go to the council of ministers on monday to cool for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies and before we go to a local journalist and also i guess let's bring you some of the latest pictures coming into us from the midst of the unrest in beirut. was. was. ok. let's indeed go live now to beirut to speak to lebanese journalist. good to see you again a lot of developments today including near the ministries are being. attacked and also reports of a riot police officer losing his life what more can you tell us about.

the raw anger protesters have stormed at least foreign ministry is the foreign ministry led by a group of retired army generals of tired lebanese army generals also the ministry of power the ministry of economy and the ministry of environment this in addition to torching a number of buildings we were in martyrs square and any other sort and we saw that a number of buildings at least what i saw were 4 buildings they were set ablaze up by angry protesters also to see the protesters are throwing the portraits of the lebanese president michel in from building tops to the ground as other protesters that were saluting this move they were cheering on to this move also it was very evident that the lebanese security forces were doing after area and were trying to cut off all the of all the roads leading to the area preventing further protestors

from the standing to marchers where there was also a very strong use of tear gas that there was a use of they were shooting live bullets in the air and an attempt to maybe frighten and disperse the protesters and as a sad. iraqi army or security. this is we're trying to cut off all the routes leading to the knees whereas to prevent further protesters from descending another point i would like to mention is that while we were there we lost our connection to the internet and to the point so it was very evident that there was some sort of maybe jammers or something were being used to prevent the propagation from the footage and images from marchers where and took to the us to encourage more protesters to the stand. to the square and to take part in the demonstrations also according to the lebanese red cross there are at least $120.00

protesters who have been injured tens of whom have been transferred to local hospitals here in the lebanese capital also there are reports however there are still unconfirmed until at this moment that a lebanese security officer was pushed inside the elevator shaft or a slot inside the building and thus he has lost his life however we are still waiting to see if there is a official confirmation by. the general security director rates as so until now these are the news that we have also as a as you said there the lebanese prime minister has announced early elections or that he is intending to propose early elections does this obviously a move to try and absorb the public anger that was the result of poor handling or was it in reaction to the very for handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of the massive explosion which a week last tuesday taking the lives of more than 150 lebanese injuring more than

5000 others leaving over 300000 homeless and up until this hour we know that after least 60 people are still missing now today this is the 5th day after the or the 4 that after the explosion another point i would like to mention and it hasn't been mentioned much in the media is that over 40 years. syrian nationals who have fled the syrian violence into lebanon seeking graphical gentle often have also lost their lives and the tragic incident last tuesday unfortunately their story has not made much outlines however yes that is accurate that more than 40 syrians were actually also killed and it was those explosion as well thank you very much for bringing us right up to date on what is happening today a day a day of violence really a day of frustration and anger in beirut i'll tough akhmed thank you very much well let's get some more insight into what is occurring there i'm very happy to say that

we can speak to. each in the roots really good to have you on the program the situation rula seems to have escalated dramatically over the past number of hours protesters storming 4 ministry building several banks as well come the government withstand this what do you expect to happen. the government will not. will not stand this pressure. the thing the protestors are no longer asking for the resignation of this government we are asking for that as a condition of the office of the president of lebanon and then what she called them gangsters and willing lebanon and keeping us hostages. they destroyed the country economically they destroyed the country in all aspects and now they are. held responsible for the genocide

a tiny genocide the top and saw us. doing the blast of the 4th nobody wanted to take. matters and hound or like hold himself accountable or call for. 'd a serious investigation open investigation so we don't trust these people over our lives our future time game is over for them and this what has been said today and this is why we stormed the ministries like more protesters are so many other ministries and hopefully by whites more morning we most stablish men who belong to the lebanese people actually and i mean with prime minister early no i. asking for an early election do you think that that would help calm the unrest we're seeing. no sir it's. too little too late and this is again they're trying to gain time. hoping for

a change of heart. in the us elections iran wants to keep us hostages as long as. they count hoping that by the mid make it president. they might go back to the old nuclear deal between you and the us where iran. on the. entire lafont area. region and there they're still holding their cards in the end we are no longer going to accept to be the hostages of iran and hezbollah who once we believe they were protesting have been against israel. the game is over their mosques are down you don't believe them anymore we are no longer going to accept hezbollah's hizbullah to keep. you know to keep us hostages and or do you want this is over they should somehow

entire government the president our government has given them the time needed. they need. and let's let hezbollah face us in the streets if they come they're not brutal admitted to corruption was to blame for chooses namely port blast the way you're speaking do you expect criminal charges to happen here geo terms to follow for whoever is found to be responsible. unless there is an international investigation. nothing. they will find ways to make people forget and we are not going to get the thousands of injured the hundreds of dead people be it's a small community the only each other. we are mourning the children the women the

innocent lives we lost and the loss and we will make them pay they will not they are not going to work to prosecute themselves they are you holding power over everything we don't have we did this ferry system in lebanon we do not trust them they will try to hide the evidence so we are asking for international support international investigation. and if needed. why not just just haven't let it be we we need the protection of the international community if they think we deserve ok the views of relate tallish political analyst not necessarily represent those of the program of course thank you for your time and your thoughts. thank you so well search and rescue teams are still clearing the rubble in beirut's port area in the hope of finding survivors scores of people to remain missing they explosion a shockwave wreaked 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 shelter our teams in portugal off as unfairly. 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 the 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 good enough for them. to hear about. their work or the u.s. for war only if they saw her was not good enough. for me because these guns are covers up. there are all. fluids he said over. it is. true that you know. you have no gas now you are going to. nothing nothing at all it's all for the. 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. well 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.

of them or just an extraordinary moment that the world health organization by the way is warning that beirut's health care system has been badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the cold but in 1000 pound demick allen top of that the explosion on choose they put 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. 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 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 going south of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed under the rubble but thank god they were ok then i took them through this corridor and down full 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 the t. shirts and clothes so i could read the new voice and keep the news the constant the on people. i was holding the 3 babies and i didn't know if i was going to be able to rescue them north all the time was counting their heads on my chest to make sure they were

still there. to another for a headline stories today the us country intelligence chief is claiming that russia china under rome are all trying to meddle in november's presidential election the director of a national culture intelligence and security center say yes there are several foreign powers that quote. a preference over the election results china apparently fused bombers on predictable doesn't want him to win the us for russia it's using a range of measures against joe biden. 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 win but we heard from journalist on or 3rd done

the old as are done the all things both democrats and republicans are already looking for someone to blame if they have this the election the us is filled with corporate media pumping out our propaganda at top volume around the clock. that the russians chinese and iranians can barely get a word nets what 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 apparent to blame a trump victory on russia so are so both sides are now actor are 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 of going underground spoke to american philosopher and political activist cornel west about the upcoming election and also the rise of the black lines motormouth and. 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. what is different about these uprisings this is what's in los angeles in 165 and before and after the beautiful thing is that you have. coming together and making the connection between not just police our police murder but between police power least murder wall street car wall street crimes and pentagon power and pentagon crimes once you make those connections and connect a little more loose change make them up the mix may develop a could make the family look at me rabbi abraham talks with yash able to make. greatest intellectual along with known 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. but if you want to catch the full episode it's available right here in just over 5 minutes time an hour to international also available on r.t. dot com. facebook has become the latest social media platform to crack down on q. and on conspiracy content after deleting a group at some 200000 members for violating the platform's guidelines followers of the fringe movement been voicing their support for president trump ahead of november's election with more here's don't quarter. in the world of q a 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 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 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 of the 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 total trawled 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 were 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 fringe right whatever that means. ok coming back to europe a 9 year old girl in germany has been published by her teachers for speaking her native turkish in the playground and her parents are not planning to sue the school or you're a correspondent peter all of us 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 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 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 he says that this rule targets the turkish language in particular it was didn't we. the school bring this talking for example through english or who in french of chinese or through let in i cannot believe that teacher would say this is what women you can not so be it. in your mother tongue you know and use of course affects all your purse no or your identity and also use. human rights of. constitutional law there was not such a general rule to talk only in language in the school building and also this issue which happen was. one by one situation. 2 students were reaching this. all

school the 1st. reply our appeal. was. the next logical step if they don't. respond well let those. who go to court the legal action underlying the situation leaves everything in a very messy place still between 8 german schools insistence on german being spoken and respect for the languages of the many different groups that make up germany peter all of. one of the most outspoken figures in american academic life is today's guest on the going underground and there are certainly plenty of issues for colonel west to get stuck into at the moment it's next.

summer solution starts right where we come up with solutions to all the problems they cover on the other shows we do anyway today we've got a go to the moon edition with a special guest mark valid incremental. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't hold. any new beliefs yet to shape out just they become advocates and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.