lebanon braces for further chaos after a night of rioting in which state ministries were stormed the prime minister is seeking in early election amid public anger over tuesday's deadly explosion. emergency crews clear the rubble after a 5 day search for survivors draws to a close they report blast killed at least $150.00 people and left thousands injured . people st. jude street but you personally.

and japan hold a minute of silence to commemorate the u.s. atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki people in both countries what they think about the events of 945. terms of. it justified i don't know i think it's tough to to believe people for the mistakes of history i think the use of you told me going was unacceptable there was no reason to do it. welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you all the latest news along with the biggest stories from the week that was. large crowds are again gathering in central beirut after a night of rioting in which saw state ministries were stormed the country is reeling from the shock of tuesday's deadly explosion and. testers want to see officials

brought to justice right now we're bringing you live pictures from martyr square in the lebanese capital there are reportedly been some clashes outside of parliament in this past hour already protesters are vowing further action despite the prime minister's call for an early election. has conceded that tuesday's explosion which killed at least $150.00 people was caused by corruption but the president has rejected calls for an international probe saying it would quote dilute the truth here's a recap of what happened on saturday night. we went to martyrs square to sort of gallows for those who did this to our country today will hang users and we won't lead

a single government ministers. a police officer was reportedly killed in the clashes on saturday and more than 700 people were injured according to local emergency services some demonstrators reportedly tried to break through a barrier blocking extremes leading to parliament a number of arrests were made. tragedy struck at around 6 pm on tuesday when a massive blasts hit the beirut port area 150 deaths have been confirmed but with dozens still missing it's fear the number will rise the city's health system has been overwhelmed by the disaster numerous city buildings have been damaged and thousands of locals have been left homeless.

you know all of a sudden we found everything turned over our hands and i turned around and i was here by something in my right hand people screaming kids screaming but if i saw it and i saw today. the devastation here in the lebanese capital is very massive the blast was felt at 10 kilometers away from the port where it took place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad night. the 11 years army and fire fighters have been still trying to put off the fire

which is still until today burning through the remains of the warehouses rescue workers are still trying to dig through the rubble to find the remainder or the missing individuals that they are allowed to clear out of sight of. as russian rescuers are getting down to well what they have been flown in here for i want you to just look around and let something sink in about the sheer and ultimate demolition power. behind this explosion we are in the very epicenter as close's villian can get and this is the very 1st site where russian rescue is

searching for survivors. amid all of havoc you can still pinpoint the telltale signs of people's panic of their rush to leave the area as they were caught up in the bluster but as people ran hundreds of thousands found out they may have no longer a place to call home and it looks like we're. going to leave because he's going to start up the stuff. there. are you flew he said it was the walk the. walk the 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.

while we are standing on the doorstep of martyrs square as you can see behind me the ambulances are still gushing in and out now these demonstrators to express their dismay over what they say is poor handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of tuesday's a explosion. 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 storm into the foreign ministry

. we are coming back to the property of our people is building belongs to the people of anger protesters has turned up at least foreign ministry is this in addition to torching a number of buildings. seems like this last became the final the straw that broke the camel's back if i may say so and it seems like all the all the work that the volunteers had previously done yesterday the day before yesterday it has to be undone by today's action we had time to speak with them are angry very sad we lost the country we lost beirut we have people. who didn't find out we have family members we don't know anything about the people who will daily go back to the streets they will daily ask for the justice we need the justice made who doesn't deserve this and we would if you is what happened

to us. lebanon had already been going through its worst financial crisis in years inflation is soaring and almost half the population lives below the poverty line on the 3rd of working age adults are unemployed as well mass protests against corruption and the dire state of the economy have been sweeping the country since october the blast that destroyed the country's main port has only aggravated the situation on saturday demonstrators put up mont gallows in a location where people were hanged more than 100 years ago and the ottoman empire protestors raised cardboard cutouts with ropes around their necks depicting lebanon's prime minister and hezbollah's leader as well as other officials in response of the unrest lebanon's information minister abed some on has announced her resignation saying the current government has failed to live up to the lebanese people's expectations journalist chris hedges told us lebanon will have to tackle some deep rooted problems to overcome the unrest. this is just the culmination of

very catastrophic called the nation of. absolute dysfunction failure collapse of good government responsible government in lebanon there were massive demonstrations i mentioned before in 2019 and a reshuffling of the government but it didn't do anything to dent the you know catastrophic mismanagement and wholesale corruption that has characterized the lebanese state i would say for the last 3 decades and so what we're seeing and i think you know your reporter the report you just did out of lebanon was good in illustrating this is a complete frustration when you were there hanging nooses i don't think that the kinds of reformist policies that were proffered in 2019 are going to work. it's now been 75 years since the u.s. dropped the atomic bomb on the japanese city of nagasaki it came just days after

the bombing of hiroshima on the 6th of august the 2 attacks led to some 200000 civilian deaths people continue to die years after the tragedy due to severe burns radiation sickness and other injuries. mock local you know it just. kind of war now as i feel much the words in it's a sin must die for you are you more or need to guy night. i get to meet on this. cold while you must be.

jerks i have to have you clear haven't you cares you kind of want to chat. every night. how does your. brain here question that. i had to track down at my desk when i get to. play on you may have had to. guess and sheena to have a gun at you but you have to have commissioned. me . memorial events have been scaled back this year due to the pandemic but small ceremonies still took place in both cities affected by the tragedy during the commemorations japan's prime minister was joined by the few surviving witnesses of the attacks they marked the blasts with a minute of silence. the

u.s. and japan are of course forever linked by the tragedy here's what people in new york city and her must say about the events of 945. take a drastic measure like the cia i feel like i haven't learned much. if you say you were. just. in the article is a more positive result. from harbor maybe pearl harbor had something to do with the us response to for over. there. the thing terms of. it being justified i don't know i

think it's tough to blame people for the mistakes of history. something like that catastrophic should go like an apology were like but i'm pretty sure i'm looking for reparations i'm native american beef think i'm going to give any that's not going to happen it's not going to happen for the japanese. but that she was when my mother was 7 months pregnant with me the atomic bomb was dropped my cousin was also an atomic bomb survivor and died of leukemia after 75 years i'm still very sorry for those who died. and i think the use of the atomic bomb was unacceptable there was no reason to do it and the military situation was utterly hopeless for japan perhaps it wouldn't have taken much longer for the water end and it would have been over without the bombings and the war between japan and the us it's a shame the us hasn't apologized to japan for the bombings. it's very

important to say it out loud to emphasize what the real purpose of the hiroshima bombing was if we keep silent the propaganda when. they tell the bomb didn't just change the political landscape but the cultural one as well artist ask a teller takes a look at how the deadly blasts help to form the popular culture we consume on a daily basis. there are moments in history. memories so powerful they have shaped our culture tragic but defining of the mushroom clouds been away over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. for decades the us suppressed almost all footage it was only in the 1980s that color images sought by the us military will possibly be released to this day the material has never been shown in its entirety.

but out of the unimaginable suffering roy who's a new pop culture in america the devastating release of radioactive particles change the country's take on comic books and superheroes spite of the fantastic full of the incredible hulk all derived from exposure to radiation. we've never seen anything even close to your level of exposure that you find an event like. superhero we smelled better than ever sealed regional scenery. like leave it in the us atomic power was mostly about heroism and influence but japan how different take associations were instead made with destruction and mutation

take up a new killer mutant rampaging through the streets of tokyo the city chaos a kind of crisis powerless before us. as relations between countries change so to to the movies to follow in tin kong for us is good at take battle between the japanese and us pop culture icons atop mount fuji is defeated tell. it around 10000000 what to watch that film in japan and it remains the most watched in the cuts in the series to date but turned out japan had a knack for shaping our childhoods from penn c'mon to hello kitty in a root and they were as much hits a brought out so. i couldn't get enough of them it didn't matter if i could see the wires and the seams in the costumes and the least moving when the words didn't it

was so fanciful and imaginative it what's japan was at the forefront pop culture and technology from the nintendo game console to the last possible cassette by sony it's mainly the kids of america saying this is great we've got to have one for boys in this country between the ages of $8.15 not having an intent is like not having a baseball bat to pound continues to successfully explore its pop culture like minder and animate some say that creates a sorting out that from nothing is from the anxieties that paid trip that's why events back in 1905 but teenagers in the us who consumed the poverty and colorful characters and stories don't see this fantasy is being created to escape from the darkness of tragedy. still ahead of voting is coming to a close and valorous for president lukashenko is hoping to extend his 26 years and

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way. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. welcome back to the weekly thousands of health care workers have rallied across the u.k. demanding a pay rise and recognition for their work during the coated $1000.00 pandemic national health service staff feel snubbed after the government announced last week that $900000.00 public sector workers would get salary hikes the measure is meant to reward workers on the front lines of the fight against coke at 19 but it did not include the majority of n.h.s.

staff as a separate deal had already been negotiated 2 years ago we spoke to some medical professionals on the march in london. ever since we've had in may depend on me and we've had these incredible times with people dying and struggling we've been 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 let alone well. it wasn't too long ago that we were talking about nasa if he were surviving on charts but our nations and family trying to have a stop just because it came in just pretty crappy for us we deserve factor as a profession and a home and a tax to serve better and that was what stage was ready for me to find out that $900000.00 public sector workers to get a pay rise. this off think it was just the police if we spent a good not going to be about i cannot tell you anything more as well as all the hard times knew that movie was the problem when allowed to fly and this is what we

do being in the know is enough we have to fight because nobody had told me no one else is going to live. and they just nurse know me but it told us morale among health care workers has hit a new low. at the moment i myself being on the front line we are actually put in our lives at risk to save the country however we've been left out of this pay rise and it's absolutely diabolical really makes us know that we are not valued nobody's valuing us every day we get out we go and work with patients who have codes or potentially have copd we're not given enough equipment we're not given enough protection however our when now being disadvantaged even more because you know you get a pay rise i think it's absolutely disgusting it's so bad and monster frontline staff were actually looking at our options in terms of is this what we really want

to be doing because we will also have families it's a terrible shame that the government are not recognizing that frontline staff are more disproportionately be ineffective we've code 90 especially black nurses and from ethnic minorities also so that's another issue there's no risk assessment in place to protect us and now a slap in the face. for millions of americans the upcoming election is shaping up to be an unpopularity contest and reluctance supporters of joe biden have captured the mood with a slogan as co-op and reports. if your man for the white house lacks a little bit of that x. factor and has been playing it safe hiding in his bunker for months then perhaps what you need to spark his bid for the presidency is a catchy slogan something to stir up the emotions of the undecided something to rally the troops how about settle for biden sounds like a job right settle for biden bad or they describe themselves as

a grassroots group of former elizabeth warren and bernie sanders supporters who recognize joe biden's flaws but now our nation will out survive former years and so maybe it's not the most dynamic of slogans but can you blame those who came up with this when they admit they are not the biggest fans of their candidate they just prefer him over another 4 years of turbulent trump and they think they might be on to winner and there's merchandize who would have ever thought that settle for would be popular campaign terminology introducing the settle for biden teacher this 100 percent cotton t. shirt will let people know that you'll vote for an old out of touch democrat in november but you won't be happy about settle for biden because it could be worse it could be better but could be worse now of course republicans have jumped in on this to make satire but joe biden does not seem to get the joke and most importantly who is shit. i. but.

i'm not sure. now that is unlike all the voters all over twitter seem to be admitting that they are voting for joe biden out of necessity not enthusiasm was running errands in my settled for biden show today walking out of a store a guy said to meet joe biden i shrugged and said yeah i agree and then walked away there was much to argue but he's better than trump get in loser we're going to enact some middling reforms to quash social unrest well continuing to perpetuate a racist and classist system that disproportionately benefits and protects the wealthy. settle for biden but jokes aside the only thing you need to know about this joe biden campaign is that his own motto seems to go against this very concept

this is the united states of america we don't says old we is fire let's get to work the united states presents itself as the democratic ideals of the world where free and fair elections reflect the popular will however nowadays it seems that voting isn't so much about backing the candidate you want as it is about stopping the one that you don't look up and r.t. new york. belorussians are casting their ballots in the country's presidential election media coverage of the event is muted with tough restrictions on reporters and we've just heard that 2 video journalists working for artie's roughly agency have reportedly been detained in a place currently unable to contact them so that situation is unclear at the moment but we'll keep you updated meanwhile our team is down hawkins has more on the election. well the q $2.00 cost their votes here in about a russian embassy in central moscow has been going around the block for quite some time now crowds of approximately 2000 that have been waiting in line it's been all

very calm and peaceful quite a contrast though from what's been happening in belarus itself are the reports of arrests detentions of cum pain is that activists even some reports of internet blackouts problems with internet connection in some parts of the country. there have been no reprisals to any violations of the law or just follow the rules in any talk of reprisals would disappear if you violate the law we will respond and yet we have been responding mildly so far no one exam to look at china has held the post of president in but since 1904 he's won multiple elections with a landslide victories a lot of the time he faces though his biggest challenge to date said there is this content in belarus with the political situation and he faces a reinvigorated and resurgent opposition led by sfard lawyer to call off school year who took up the banner of the opposition after the arrest and detention of a husband surrogate back in may now she's won the endorsement of other opposition

candidates she's promised to hold free elections and rallied tens of thousands of supporters to the streets. at the weekly and that's all for me as well but we're not you know neil will be here with all the latest at the top of the hour thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. interested but exploited and not just get up but just tell us. which that. first you know which i'm sure i'm going to share so. point 0. 000-0000.

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