very proud that we're in it together. this hour's headlines stories protesters stormed government buildings in beirut i made my ass rioting over tuesday's deadly explosion there police reportedly use live fire to disperse. demanding the government. a lebanese prime minister of state at the tragedy was caused by corruption calls for an early election. rescue teams continue the search for survivors in the ruins of the beirut's ports an area we've heard from a nurse who saved newborns minutes after the blast. and she needs the intensive care the problem problem is when i started pulling the lever and sort of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies my d.

crashed into the rubble. a warm welcome to our to international my name's you know maylon 30 minutes of news and views start now. we begin with breaking news from beirut now an intense standoff is the fella playing in the lebanese capital where there's a lot of pouring of grief and anger over tuesday's deadly explosion security forces have used rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds calling for officials to be brought to justice.

but we know that in the past number of hours protesters have storm several government buildings in lebanon including the foreign ministry they took over the. building and declared it headquarters for our revolution. that we are coming back to the property so for our people is building belongs to the people of. america we went to martyrs square to set up gallows for those who did this to our country today will hang nooses and we won't lead a single government ministers. the police started firing tear gas at us on march the square and the right has also attacked us and we fled. across live now to our

correspondent. in beirut igor it seems things are rapidly escalating this take us through what's been happening. while union to have to tell you that it has been a long time since the last time i've seen so much destruction in one city maybe last time in syria in hama holmes but now when we arrived here to beirut to look to cover the bluffs to cover the to cover what happened in the poets and we saw a lot of devastation but today has been an absolutely different sorts of sorts of havoc here because it looks like thousands of people took to the streets it seems a lot of protest has been boiling up inside of them because lebanon has been suffering from a severe economic crisis than it was crippled by covert and now people lost their homes and 300000 people displaced by the blood so it seems like that was the

absolute tipping point and throughout the week we've seen sporadic action sporadic rioting today was on an absolutely different level people still looming the fore. in ministry and 4 other government 3 excuse me 3 other governmental buildings and the bank headquarters obviously unhappy about the government they are unhappy about the response because i mean you can look behind me and my cameraman will pan right now look this is what the this is the idea of the general idea as to how the streets of beirut have been looking have looked today and this destruction was not caused by the blood of the blast did not put all the barbed wire behind me that i know the police did to stop all the rioting to still pull the potential all the potential collation when it comes to violence and but again the people who came out to the streets by the way more than 200 people have been injured more than 60 taken

to the hospital one army one military man reportedly has been killed in some sporadic gunfire but these are unconfirmed reports so we're still looking for verification here whether or not that was what indeed happened and so people have been chanting anti-government slogans they have been unhappy again as i've been saying because people they don't have the means to restore their own homes to put back the glass to put back the roofs over their heads and so on and so forth so far a lot of more than 24 nations russia included have sent there have sent aid workers or money to help lebanon deal with the crisis but so far the government response has been very very limited and people are very very unhappy about it critics though on the other hand there's a lot of to it have been saying that with hospitals destroyed in fact we went today and filmed one of those hospitals completely devastated by the blast and again

medical units already overflowing with patients from from the from with with those who were injured in the explosion in the pool. explosion with covert 19 pandemic remembers covert $1000.00 hasn't gone anywhere and lebanon has been has been suffering lebanon has been struggling with containing the pandemic so hospitals already overflowing another influx of those injured another influx of wounded from today's protests is making things any better throughout the week throughout the week throughout all those days that we have been here after the blast like yesterday the day before yesterday we've seen absolutely amazing civil movement absolutely amazing would seem to be unity of just volunteers people coming out in the streets with brooms and just you know sweeping trying to sweep the mess in the corners and cleaning up themselves helping out neighbor helping out each other

neighbors helping out each other's excuse me also we've seen people just going and buying lots and lots of water because it has been really hot here looks a lot of water and just driving around in their personal vehicles and just giving out this water for free to anybody we will offer that water we don't look like we don't look like anything as if we were. impacted as if we we we are one of those who have suffered from from the explosion still they don't care it seems that people here don't simply don't care as to how they help their neighbor and they just it seemed they were giving out this to everyone but those who took to the streets those who let the emotions take to take their toll on them they have essentially while they have essentially you know all the efforts of those who are of those school children of those students and good samaritans who have been helping clean up the mess. yeah it's an incredible situation as you take us through

there in beirut and it looks as if it's going to ask. even a lebanese couple igor thank you for. well indeed brutal scenes in the city demonstrators here throwing rocks and projectiles police officers who responded with tear gas security forces reportedly resorted to lives to force people by. i. want to show you this as well the demonstrators put up a mock gallows in a location where people were hung more than 100 years ago under the empire protestors raised cardboard cutouts with ropes around their necks depicting lebanon's prime minister the leader of hezbollah as well as other officials in

response to the surge and civil unrest prime minister his son has called for an early election and he's acknowledged that corruption was to blame for tuesday is a tragedy. i will go to the council of ministers on monday to call for an early election our countries in the midst of terrible tragedies will journalist men was in the midst of sunday's chaotic scenes in beirut. 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 an explosion

which targeted the beirut sports. car the 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 anytime soon many of them have already set up tents they say they are going to stay here until their demands are met and. also at the same time we know that in the district of a sheffield east of beirut protesters have managed to storm into the foreign ministry. that i have a 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 live reaction from beirut i'm happy to say the joy who joy is a lebanese lawyer and activist joins us live on the program welcome to you the pictures joy that we're showing a lot of law of a lot of late has pictures it looks like a total breakdown of law and order today with ministries ministries being stored hud volatile is the situation there are today. this is a normal this is a very normal the result of what will it on august 4th chilly this is a normal result of what has been accumulating since 2005 but on this is not the 1st time been hit by explosives but this time what's different is that we've been living going to nuclear bomb for 6 years without us knowing about it we experienced the blast of

a nuclear bomb we are living with some people who are willing to sacrifice our lives to sacrifice. as human beings in human being in beirut to store some material and. thought foreign agendas and they were being stored in them and that i would feed it to i would houses i would family and they've been willing to take did it is just one percent to this day it is i would like to gamble with the lives of the lebanese population just to store the materials you'll most sides and this is a very natural. this is a very natural reaction from the lebanese people with being. very action joy you know you we want to i'm sure your 1st and foremost you want to help the lebanese people get back on their feet but there's a lot of chaos happening today will that only you know just hold back the huge

rebuilding effort that needs to happen in your country. absolutely not the country. we are in ground 0 at this age we are bankrupt we lost out with money we lost the jobs we lost we got we lost our houses i would homes we lost more than $150.00 mark divs thousands injured we lost 300000 houses. there's nothing any more what ever happens starting today is the start of the rebuilding of what we're witnessing here is a final stage foetid you start for lebanon lebanon have been suffering for the last 100 years because of a social contract that did not work. the u.s.

embassy in beirut has expressed support for the scenes today saying the lebanese people deserve leaders who listen to them change course to respond 'd to popular demands for transparency and accountability that's their quote is it appropriate for washington to be seemingly taking sides in what is happening there in your nation it's not about washington it's about the international community what's happening in beirut is this threat. to international peace to international security to the sort of rounding of this country what happened in beirut is a blast of 30000 tons of them on your we don't even know where the other ammonium storage are being stored in the open on this is a threat to all the country we are not asking do you to help us or russia to help us we are asking the international community to put their differences aside and unite on the libyan needs issue what's happening in lebanon is

a threat to everyone it's not the madoff what do you take advantage or. vantage it's a matter of 5000000 people in lebanon are living as hostages. occupation and what they are suffering is everyone this is a call for the international community to deal with deliberate needs issue in an issue of gravity ok whether the us or russia or china or whomever ok let me point you to. the lebanese prime minister he is calling for an early election but the system in lebanon is complicated when you've got the shia group hezbollah the christian president michel and holding different degrees of power would under lection actually change much. not a this age what should happen at this age is 1st of all. the enforcement of

the international law it is a lucian's of the security council then we become or even phone when we become old we can start thinking of the destructed of the political consensus of the country we can start thinking of the structuring of a social contract whether it is a decentralization whether it is whether it does whatever it does but what we know is that $100.00 genes experience so what the problem is we are going to see more and more images like we're seeing today on screen while you're talking are we not the king is dead long live the king there's going to be more and more violence and strife for that to happen what you want to see happen. what we want to see happen is 1st of all a soul should indeed social if you will liberty of where all of us entities in the and on are equal as we become equal none of the bunnies. would be

stronger than the others none should be supported by international powers none should be. kept in arms at the expense of. liberty of the country where we become equal and we can sit on the day we can think of can use deduction for to continue we can think of a new constitution we can maybe apply the current constitutions that that hasn't been applied for 30 years. most important thing in the oven on is. equality among its citizens and entities even if we do elections to date. that if any society that. had a good day cannot even exercise a position what is the benefit of an election if people are afraid to vote ok we can hear in your voice you're striving for change and it seems like a lot of people agree with you joy thanks very much for coming on the program joy la hood lebanese activist attorney outlaw. let's get

a reminder of just what is occurring in beirut an explosion went off in the port area on tuesday. it was one of the biggest nuclear explosions in human history the official soon revealed that almost $3000.00 tons of ammonium nitrate a highly volatile was being illegally stored in the area the explosion along with a follow up. fire leveled several districts and claimed the lives of at least 154 people thousands more were injured the search and rescue operation is ongoing 4 days old with dozens of people missing. but. no shortage of grief to there's 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. i'm not sure how much but i do not. write. them down i know. i know. them all. will be explosion shockwave wrecked havoc across the city the buildings businesses homes the un has warned of a humanitarian crisis with 300000 people in need of aid shelter. the world health organization is also warning about beirut's health care system of being badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the cobra $1000.00. on top of the explosion put 3 hospitals are action medics are working around the clock to save the lives of those seriously injured in the tragedy here 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 going south 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 guide 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 t.v. . 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 the heads on my chest to make sure they were still there. and let's move on to more news today thousands of healthcare workers have rallied across the u.k. demanding a rise in pay now in recognition for their work during the covert $19.00 pandemic the government announced a salary increase for doctors last month nurses and other health workers though

were excluded. at the sit in the n.h.s. unions are arguing that nurses have taken pay cuts they say of thousands of pounds a year in real terms so over the past decade. the bean risking their lives on the front line during the krona virus crisis we took the opportunity to speak to some medical professionals out of march in london. since we had in may depend and we've had b.c. incredible time where people have been dying and struggling we feel separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years. so it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about nash if you were surviving on charitable donations and food bank i have to stop just because it came and because you kept we deserve back a profession and a home and i taxed that factor and that was what stage that was really me to find out that 900 houses and public sector. is not nationalists i think

it's just appalling if we sang you're not going to get out i'm not who you think you. are and i just knew that. when i left it to you and this is what is being made now if you know we have to fight because nobody at all no one else is going to. get big alexion happening in the us in november in the us country intelligence chief is claiming that russia china and iran are all trying to meddle in it he sees directors say there are several foreign powers that quote preference over the election results china partly views trump as unpredictable and doesn't want him to win us from russia it's using a range of measures against joe biden on the run could undermine american democracy a little troppo has 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 or we heard from journalist on or 3 done down the aisle things both democrats and republicans are already looking for someone to blame in the event of losing about election. the u.s. 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 natural 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 apparently to blame a trump victory on russia so our so 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 this wide there could very easily be some kind of political meltdown in november yeah i want to show you a snippet of a program on our team going underground spoke to american philosopher and political activists cornell west up by the coming election also the rise of the black lives matter movement. i've got to say angela davis on this show endorsed endorsed joe biden in the member norm 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 but i had a choice between a deal liberal disaster leo asked yes i would go to a little disaster that so but it is a city. it's

a spiteful impact it's a most unpleasant number one of all you can be 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 they are in control of the empire and they are taking. 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. coming together and making the connection between not just police power and police murder but the tweet police lease murder wall street car wall street crimes and pentagon power and pentagon crimes once you make those connections connect with most of the game make them out the mix may develop big make the family look rabbi abraham dos way ash ash was 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. you know a full interview can be found at r.t. dot com no knox has got gold on his mind as he looks something a recent rise of the precious metal in value and whether that has sent a set to continue its next the culture of war and stick with us.

i know team no crowd. no shots. actually felt i. was struck no place to. which your thirst for action. a short time ago an american airplane dropped one bottle on hiroshima. state not claiming any. supplement up at all costs that. our one day when you don't know the next of kin it's. like most americans growing up after the war the bombs were a great thing they ended the war they say hundreds of thousands of lives on both

sides and that's what my grandfather always said was his reason for the decision. truman was hoping for a dual strategy one was to drop the bombs and hope that japan would surrender their number to the americans were trying to send a message to the soviet union there was american poor planning in october 145 and had chosen 20 targets and russia. i am x. prize or this is the kaiser report summer solution starts right where we come up with solutions to all the problems we cover on the other shows we do anyway today

we've got a gold to the moon edition with a special guest mark malloch of incremental i'm stating there is no bigger solution needed then to the exorbitant privilege that has been the us dollar in the past 50 years all the trade imbalances all the trade deficits that are required by the united states and the mass unemployment that is the result of that us dollar policy so we're talking to mark malloch about this and mark i want to ask you gold has gong supernova again and it's one of the best performing assets of 2020 so far how high does this go and is the price of gold an indictment of the front cover of the economist magazine free money. yeah well the real question probably is not the whole high school cooling but holo it's the dollar and all of the fear currency is falling.