to join us in the. forum 8 in the shallows. protesters stormed government buildings in beirut. choose these deadly explosion there the prime minister has alleged that the tragedy was due to corruption call for an early election. rescue teams continue to search for survivors. we hear from a nurse who saved new birth minutes after the blast. and he needs the intensive care units the problem the problem is one of my staff in. the unit was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed in the rubble. also had in the program the u.s. culture intelligence chief claims china russia iran are all trying the upcoming

presidential election going underground discusses the choice facing us voters this november. it's. just mass incarceration system in the modern world. i would go to disaster. broadcasting live from the russian capital this is r.t. international my name is you know neal hello and welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from beirut rioters have stormed lebanese government buildings including 4 ministries in the night pouring of public anger or tuesday's deadly

explosion. ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah that's not. a lot of developments on the day according to local law enforcement a police officer has been killed in the riots and at least 175 people have been injured thousands as you can see here rallying on marchers square that's in central pierrette right throughout the day they are pointing the finger directly at the government for the chain of events leading up to choose the explosion in the city's poor to area it killed 154 people leaving 5000 more injured riot police and soldiers are out in force to have reportedly been firing live ammunition well this is

a sharp escalation of civil unrest has been simmering since october over soaring poverty levels on an economy in freefall prime minister his son has called for an early election corruption was to blame for choose the tragedy earlier i spoke to al tough made a local journalist in. dozens of lebanese protestors have descended to martyrs square on saturday to demonstrate against what they say is the poor handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of tuesday's violent explosion which ships through the lebanese capital they do with namely the port of beirut and was found at radio stuff tank kilometers the explosion had taken the lives of over 150 lebanese left over 5000 others injured 300000 homeless and act least 60 others still up until this hour missing this has led to public outrage many of

the protesters who descended to might just. the slogan bring out the gallows or raise the gallows in a symbolic move to basically express their wanting to execute the political leaders who are present and the country of whom they blame for the corruption and misuse of power the lebanese prime minister has announced early elections or that he is intending to propose early elections does is obviously a move to try and absorb the public anger normally through knowledge of i will go to the council of ministers and monday to call for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies as we were there in martyrs square today we saw that there was a very strong crackdown of by security forces on the protesters there was a very extensive use of tear gas also the shots were being fired in the air to disperse the protesters the protesters on their behalf were setting the buildings

ablaze that they were also trying to through parliament they also managed to storm at least on a me as well as the ministry of environment now at today's protest left over $110.00 protesters injured tons of whom were transferred to local hospitals and at least one security member or security officer killed according to an official statement by the directory of the general security of this officer was it pushed inside the shaft of an elevator in the lebanese capital badal it now up until this hour the protests are still ongoing however roads have been cut off by lebanese army and security officers to prevent further protesters from descending to more just square obviously this comes out a time when lebanon is still waiting for the final report which is expected tomorrow or after tomorrow in the next couple of days regarding the investigation or probe which was launched into tuesday's explosion which she. they will explore.

let's say try and find out some more about the situation and go live to beirut where we spoke to anthony hushing month and he is a lebanese lawyer and activist welcome to the program the situation seems to have dramatically over the past number of hours you have protesters storming foreign ministry building several banks as well can the government the president as well withstand this what do you expect is going to unfold here. good evening thank you. just to rectify these are not protests and the government protests these are 'd. this. the point to you is that the government should not be able to sustain these protests were a proper government that respects the will of the people it would have designed months ago we don't expect them to resign even though. we want them to resign

and we have initial was the whole establishment behind the government so we are not seeking a change of normal government after the 4th of august our dogs towards the ability of this government or the establishment new ways to deal was also in a serious manner. only been going for and. we now seek the support of the international community in order to help us to liberate the lebanese sovereignty was out which we will not be able to implement reforms government ok and this is just not answer i'm impatient because maybe you could explain it a little bit better because it is a bit of a confusing picture it we've got the lebanese prime minister house and asking for an early election on thursday but the system in lebanon is complicated the shia group hezbollah you've got the christian president michel aoun holding different degrees of power what in the election actually change much i assume you're saying

no. we will not be able. to quick change in the presence of militia such as hezbollah we will not be able to have a proper change under the ages of the government or a state that is unable to do impose and to inforce laws equally on all the been citizens and therefore early elections even though it is a vital and the only solution for institutional change except that it is not possible 'd to be on the. current the current structure of the establishment indeed we have several in the lebanese government we have a sick there un system that has been encouraged by the current establishment to benefit from the loopholes of the system in order to reinforce their presence in power so at any turn they try to use the parties in power try to use the sectarian

divide in order to deflect the attention from the need to 'd do to come up with serious reforms that are able to do keep up was the was the will of the lebanese people ok i just want to say what else the government said today. the prime minister has admitted that corruption was to blame for tuesday's deadly port blast take a might quite freely without without in mind do you expect criminal charges and jail terms to follow for whoever is found to be responsible for tuesday's explosion . we do expect if you if you actions on behalf of the government but these will not be enough because we know that this is not this is a very old system of corruption except that. is not and is not in a position to blame this on the corruption because he has been there for a few months no. persons in should not be able to blame things on corruption or

of whereas they have all the powers they need to enforce the laws appropriately it's a terrible situation that is unfolding there is near the hospitals are full you've already had it on a terrible time with coronavirus and there was issues with with food getting into the port in the 1st place another that seems to have escalated with so much protests on the streets if they don't pull back. the situation is only going to escalate and get worse is it not. yes single gets worse definitely except and we'd like to highlight here that we haven't seen any serious action from this government in terms of getting this crew of ours in the 1st place in terms of dealing with the release of the levins be put in the 2nd place and definitely the investigations in the in the blast that. not bring us comfort because we do not

trust this government to perform proper investigations 'd and this is why we are asking the u.n. security council to support the lebanese people on the chapter 7 in order to liberate lebanese sovereignty to perform the reform that we need and that would require. is a motion on the chapter 7 by all defense of 11 on 111 has so many friends in the international community the problem that you are facing is that the government and behind it the establishment of hezbollah are eyes of a thing else more and more and more and they are using the security and in order to galvanize the people and effect what what 'd the lebanese people need the most we need the forms we need for reforms of our system and we need a proper all that we have seen in so many events how the stefani's government is not willing. to cooperate with the lebanese people we've seen this in one of our

midst we've seen this in the blast we've seen this in the in the it was sponsibility in dealing with the depth and the credit of clever now we've seen this in the it also builds ability in dealing with the banking sector they are they are they are doing everything on purpose in order not to cooperate with the i.m.f. ok when we leave ever just running out of time on today we fight nearly all that clear there's a lot of frustration and what do you say on obviously a lot of anger in the streets of beirut today anthony hussian lebanese lawyer not to miss life on the program thank you anthony thank you thank you. well maybe i can go on the grief there has also been a glimmer of hope for those who are still looking for their loved ones under the rubble in beirut after 24 hours of digging a 12 year old girl was found alive. no $100.00 but i do not mention the average american and. right of them there are no longer an idea but we don't. wrong to tell you the outlook for them all.

last choose this explosion a shockwave all of it wreaked havoc across the city destroying buildings businesses and homes the un has warned of a humanitarian crisis with 300000 people in need of aid shelter artie's said all of this and they have put. 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 felts. something was wrong before the main lost how you see this never going to go they're. going to work or. work or this thing goes forward. it was not good and it. was a huge for me because i was. there the more. you flew as you say you do the work. you know you know wow you know you have no

gas now you're going to. nothing nothing at all it's all for the help 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. yes so many ramifications into what happened the world health organization for instance is warning that beirut's health care system has been badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the covert 19 pun demick on top of that the explosion and choose they put 3 hospitals are out of

action medics are working round the clock as they have been to save the lives of those seriously injured in the tragedy here is 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 feeling new going south of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies

might be crushed under the rubble but thank god 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 as people on the street gave me the t. shirts and clothes so i could read the new bills and keep the news the constant by the on t.v. . i was holding the 3 babies and i didn't know if i was going to be able to rescue them not all the time was counting the heads on my chest to make sure they were still there . just approaching 50 minutes into the program still to come on parents are threatening to sue

a primary school in germany after their daughter was punished by teachers for speaking turkish that story coming up after the break. i know. it's no shots. actually. going to have a strong growth occurs to me. which your thirst for action. shows something seems wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape

out this day become educated and engagement because the trail. went cold many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello again fellows ins of health care workers have rallied across the u.k. demanding a pay rise on recognition for their work during the covert $19.00 demick the government announced a salary increase for doctors last month nurses and other health workers were excluded out decision the sides range and h.s. stuff unions are arguing that nurses have taken pay cuts of thousands of pounds

a year in real terms over the past decade and out they've been risking their lives on the front line during their cruel of virus crisis we spoke to some medical professionals on the march in london. ever since we've had in may depend demick we've had b.c. incredible time with people living dying and struggling we feel separate for our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years let alone months it wasn't too long we gave it we were talking about nash if he were surviving on charitable donations and food trying to have a stop just because crave it came and just pretty crap we deserve back as a profession and home and a tax to serve factor and that was what stage that was really me to find out that $900.00 houses and public sector workers are getting a rise not nationalists i think it's just the police if we spank you're not going to get out like we're not doing anything more than one job you are and i just knew

that. we're not allowed to fly and this is what we do being in the know if you know we haven't been fighting because nobody at all really no one else is going to write . us kuntar intelligence chief is claiming that russia china under rome are all trying to meddle in november's presidential election the director of the national country intelligence and security center say yes there are several foreign powers that puts preference over the election results china partly predictable doesn't want him to win us for russia it's using a range of measures against joe biden. could undermine american democracy troppo 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 john wants and iran wants would be for

donald trump to win. we heard from journalist and author done the allies are he thinks 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 mecha 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 processes the republicans who are accusing the democrats of cheating trump is already doing that through the misuse of mail ballots and the democrats are repairing to blame a trump victory on russia so i thought both sides are now act 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 of going underground spoke to the american philosopher and political activist colonel west about the upcoming election also the rise of the bloc lines mount hermon 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 neil liberal disaster you know asked yes 'd i would go to the older would disaster that will bite me 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 $165.00 and before and after the beautiful thing is that you have the ball 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 big make the family look em up make rabbi abraham joshua hash as able to make. the 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. a lot full episode with cornell west is available now on our t.v. dot com you can watch it at your leisure. a 9 year old girl in germany has been punished by her teachers for speaking her native turkish in the playground her parents are not planning to sue the school or europe correspondent peter all over the story. 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 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. in school bring this talking for example through english or who in french of whom

chinese of through latin i cannot believe that teacher would say oh this is what we've been 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 german language in the school building also this issue which happen was. one by one situation in. 2 students were to be sure region this school and also. the prison it's on to them not replying our appeal or alertness and the next logical step if they don't. respond to our letters they will have to go to court the legal action underlying the 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 our arty. his high summer days news headlines are shaping up i'll be back at the top of the are bringing you the latest updates do sit tight no more great programs get their start in moments. some are solution that's right where we come up with solutions to all the problems they cover on the other shows we do anyway today we've got gold to the moon edition

of with a special guest mark valid incremental. by machinea tense and 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 1st of all you. know the 1st.

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 the terrible images. once. airable suffering taking place in the middle east people not really wanting to tell the truth about the reasons of power and empire in the middle east and we're going to find out i hope you know who's responsible but i just i just i am of the opinion that. we've got to be bring honest and candid about the role of the u.s. and really it should never coordination of israeli defense forces any 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.