protesters stormed several government buildings in beirut calling for justice and accountability after tuesday's devastating explosion security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse huge crowds gathered in the center of the lebanese capital. the country's prime minister says corruption that was to blame for the tragedy and calls for early elections. rescue continue the search for survivors in the ruins of the beirut port area we hear from a nurse who saved 3 newborns minutes after the black. sheep he needs the intensive care units in the top of the rubble as well and i started calling when you were in song to the units sorry for you because i thought the babies might be

crushed in the live. broadcast of a live shot from our studios in moscow this is our team international on sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us and we start with breaking news this hour from beirut there has been an intense standoff in the lebanese capital where there is an outpouring of grief and anger over tuesday's deadly explosion security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds calling for justice. i. was. 6 was. on saturday protesters stormed several government buildings in beirut security

forces have driven out protesters who earlier stormed the foreign ministry they took over the building and declared it a headquarters for revolution. oh . wow. we are coming back to the property of our people is building belongs to the people of lebanon. we went to martyr square to set up gallows for those who did this to our country today will hang knows this and we won't lead a single government ministers. the police started firing tear gas at us on march the square and the writers also attacked us so we fled our days it was done aves in beirut with the latest for us. well the smoke still hasn't cleared from the streets

of beirut and everything that you can see around me well it hasn't been caused by the blast but rather by today's protests we are in an area which has seen some of the heaviest clashes between the police the army and well the riotous it is in fact not far from the port where the bloss had happened but this was not caused by the blast this was caused by all the protests and by people being unhappy lots of dumpsters just overturned set on fire i mean by the time we got here there was much more smoke much more fires going on let's just see live just to have a look here this is not again this is not damage excuse me this is not damage from the blogs this is a from today's protests and what people are unhappy about lebanon has been battered in the past in the past year firstly and foremost leave the country is in economic

in an economic turmoil its economy plunged then covert 19 heads and it didn't help the economy at all but on top of that what added was the well was the strain on the health care system and now this strain is worsened by what happened today because hospitals in some hospitals in beirut are destroyed the routes lebanon's in fact lebanon's oldest hospital no longer can take patients we were filming there today and the manager of the operational manager told me that he was born there and worked there for 35 years and he has no idea as to when that hospital is going to become operational again and with all of that and with a pandemic the figures are already in the hundreds well of those injured in today's protests so people are angry but we've got to look there's a you can see they're very vocal they're very vocal and they i mean i'm absolutely sure. or that these actions will continue and it will do nothing good to the health

care system and will add to the catastrophe that lebanon is facing right now in fact there's a small group of protesters. in another part of town and we had time to speak with them there just outside the foreign ministry which had previously been captured by the protesters and occupied briefly until the army moved in and cleared that building a leader of that small group and she was very vocal she was very passionate about how cause we are angry very sad we lost the country we lost beirut we have people. we didn't find yet we have family members we don't know anything about. we have the killers still at the residence of the president of lebanon and they knew that we have such a thing at ford beirut people will daily go back to the streets they will daily

ask for justice we need the justice they do doesn't deserve this and we would if you what happened to us we should all do is hold our anger and such a thing i'm with a peaceful protest in big numbers. sometimes staying silent is more powerful than doing this people are fed up it seems like this blog became the final the straw that broke the camel's back if i may say so because throughout these past days that we have been here in beirut and outside of being ruled in for of course people have lost their homes and with the economic crisis that they have no simply no money to put their windows back back in to restore the roofs over their over their houses over their homes some people are ready to leave they're just ready to go and others less fortunate because they simply have nowhere else to go there are 300th. 1000 people displaced by the bluffs and that was the last straw that's why

people have been coming out sporadically throughout the week but today's demonstration has beat them as speed to all the previous ones when it comes to when it comes to scale i mean it's been hours since everything has been over but i mean there's the still there's still smoke in the air and it seems like all the all the work that the volunteers had previously done yesterday the day before yesterday holds like classes and students schoolchildren just good samaritans going around giving out water to people and people just taking to the streets with brooms to clear out to clear out of the debris with shovels to clear out the rubble the same shovels were used today to attack the government so all of that progress of clearing out be root streets of dealing with the damage it has been undone by today's action and from by judging from what i've heard from the protesters they

are not going to stop. there have been brutal scenes in the lebanese capital demonstrators threw rocks and projectiles of police officers who reported responded with tear gas security forces fired live ammunition into the air to force people back. with. them as traitors also put up mock gallows in a location where people were hanged more than 100 years ago under the ottoman empire protestors that raised cardboard cut outs with. ropes around their necks

depicting lebanon's prime minister and hezbollah's leader as well as other officials respond to the surge in civil unrest prime minister has called some hours ago for an early election he stated that corruption was to blame for today's tragedy. but we are in a state of emergency and not only because of this catastrophe and the need to deal with it in these circumstances i'd like all political parties to agree on what happens next we don't have much time i'm prepared to bear this responsibility for 2 months until they can come to an agreement what is needed is for the not to stand in the way of structural reforms in order to save the country on monday at the cabinet meeting i will propose a bill seeking an early election. ballot journalist all tough mudder was in the midst of saturday's chaotic scenes in bericht.

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 the beirut sport. the demonstrators are have to 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 they are 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 the. power but. also at the same time we know that in the street the 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. we have lost everything we have lost our homes our lives have been torn apart everything is happening at once i'm 28 and what future do i have our currency has lost most of its value is a disgrace i want to say to him oh news is ready for you.

political analyst to move on and international relations professor jamal wakim give us their thoughts on the demonstrations there are some pretty high expectations for young people from the think he's not from gollum from the space walk to school steps or so su needs right here how do you most houses afghans really just before a show of nation it has to change fortunately the japanese politics couldn't have fallen in this polish and there are many of these are for the i'll go to school and to that is general and i'm going by the people. disappointed by the whole system by the economy good crisis that's it the country

almost a year ago we need to also we need not just because the fact that there are other parties. trying to capitalize on the people so i'm good at this point to where the bottom of the form of government and particularly responsible for the economy. social policy that's less of a crisis in addition they are also prompted by the united states to escalate the situation in lebanon as part of a campaign to isolate. wants to assert about as a base an american base especially after the united states has lost ground and studio much on the ground in syria. reminder of what happened in beirut an explosion went off in the port area on tuesday. it was one of the biggest non-nuclear detonations in human history the explosion along with a follow up blast and

a massive fire leveled to several districts and it claimed the lives of at least $154.00 people with thousands more injured the search and rescue operation is still ongoing for days on with dozens of people still missing. and these are before and after images of the blast zone officials have revealed that almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate were being illegally stored in the port area of beirut it is a volatile compound used as a fertilizer and also as a mining explosive and that stockpile had been sitting in a warehouse in a densely populated area for more than 6 years. maybe anger and 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. but i do not mention the number of human. rights.

the explosion that wreaked havoc across the city destroying the port gutting buildings and leaving $300000.00 people homeless the blast is estimated to have caused $10.00 to 15 dollars 1000000000 dollars excuse me worth of damage to the ruined port served as a lifeline for lebanon handling 60 percent of the country's food imports the u.n. is now warning that the country faces a dire humanitarian crisis and has called on the international community to send help at least 20 countries have pledged assistance including russia the u.s. and e.u. member states and gulf countries as well. the world health organization is warning that beirut's health care system has also been badly compromised it was already under severe pressure from the covert $100.00 pandemic and on top of that the

explosion on tuesday put 3 hospitals out of the 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. 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 and i found my colleagues and friends line here on the ground covered in blood. in. the neonatal intensive care units were covered in rubble as well i started calling me evil and salt 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 for this corridor and down 4 flights of stairs. i carried the babies and i was determined to take them to another hospital the only way less than 2 kilograms we had nothing on them except died people on the street give me the t. shirts and clothes so i could read to me he simply didn't hear the considine i hear on t.v. . so i was holding the 3 babies and i didn't know if i was going to be able to rescue them enormous all the time was counting the heads on my chest to make sure they were still there. coming up after the break u.s. intelligence officials are warning that foreign powers are trying to influence the

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when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . welcome back this is archie international and the u.s. counter intelligence chief is claiming that russia china and iran are all trying to meddle in november's presidential election agency's director says there are several foreign powers that quote have a preference over the election results china apparently views trump as unpredictable and does not 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 he 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 and we heard from a journalist and author daniel a czar he thinks both democrats and republicans are already looking for someone to blame in the event of losing the 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 were 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 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 going underground to talk to 2 american philosopher and political activist cornel west about the upcoming election and 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 'd i would go to the little disaster that. america is a city in it's a spiteful impact it's

a most unpleasant empire the number one of the 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 have it all what is different about these uprisings since what's in los angeles united 65 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 least murder wall street car wall street crimes and pentagon power and pentagon crimes once you make those connections and connect to the most make them up the mix may develop a could make the family look a might make rabbi abraham joshua yet 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 listen to be made more now than they were before. a 9 year old girl in germany has been punished by her teachers for speaking her native turkish language in the playground her parents are now planning to sue the school or europe correspondent peter oliver has more. there's a route brewing in southwest germany over the languages spoken in school it's after a 9 year old girl was given this punishment essay to right to speak turkish the children speak german school in germany the fish one which 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 and that's all i know the local school authority told r.t.

that the german only policy is in place so that everyone students are in teaches 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 students during the. the school break this talking for example if you are english or you learn french all through chinese who are let in i cannot believe that teacher would say this is

corbin. don't do this i think every teacher would say and show this person as an example or good teaching good knowledge of the family or want to know if there was an on equal to. their child you cannot forbid you to talk in your mother tongue you know and this of course affects all your personality or your identity and also is. it human rights of human constitutional law there was not such a general rule to talk only in german language in the school building. also this issue which happened was. one by one situation between 2 students were physicians origin and in such a situation i think it was not lawful to give. a sanction

like this the school also told the government 1st the prison it's something they're not replying our appeal and our letters and. next logical step if they don't. respond to all of those. who 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 r.t. . 32 minutes and let's say 35 seconds i'll be back with more news you are watching our 2 international stay with 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. as the u.s. economy was booming growing numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still is the land of opportunity the reality of those who were not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage give many people new choice you know just been a problem with the city and always turn the temperature in told me stay away i don't know miss. the food if there is no answer because yes that requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become invisible clerks.

in august 1 9452 atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki and. to this day opinion remains divided as to the real reason behind america's decision to use nuclear weapons with no possible military justification for dropping a bomb and had no question that there were those in the u.s. military who pursued the next instant so during the planning in october of 1945 had chosen 20 targets in russia in the 70 years since the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki countless books and films have off the many just of occasions for and arguments against dropping the avons however declassified documents give weight to the argument that the bombs were dropped not so it's a military necessity to intimidate the soviet union.

the 1st ever atomic bomb to be used in wall was in the city if there is steam on the 6th of august 945 well over 100000 citizens were killed those in the hype a sense of what instantly turned into dust while countless of those died from the burns and high dose of radiation they received. over $50000.00 survivors. still live in the city each one of them has their own story to tell of the day the bomb fell and i was on my way to meet one. who was.