own existence. in beirut public bills in the. deadly explosion. checkpoints if you look over there you can see the. preventing any protest is from getting old so far they have failed they're doing it right now in fact. wearing gloves this is what they are doing. it follows. more than 700 people were injured and government ministry says.

them urgency crews clear the rubble after a 5 day search for survivors to a. blast killed at least 158 people. killed steve. cooper. with a mix of the big stories for the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements this is the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome. protesters have regrouped in central beirut for

a 2nd night of on wrist the labor ministry building has reportedly been stormed in a replay of last night's clashes around key government buildings the country is reeling from the shock of choose these deadly explosion with protesters demanding reform for officials to be held to account. spoke to me earlier from the lebanese capital. yesterday's action was not the last one that was for sure because people it seems are driven to the edge here in lebanon and indeed it is the 2nd consecutive night of protests and a lot of people are out here in the streets there's a very distinctive smell of tear gas in the air anyone who has been ever gassed in their life can never forget that a smell it's very distinctive so the police have most certainly have been using and if you just if my cameraman could just zoom in just over there you can still see the smoke it's not the fires it's the tear gas used by the police here we are at one of these checkpoints if you look over there you can see the military man

they're standing there and they're preventing any protest as from getting inside here although they have been trying because they have been trying to dismantle this barbed wire this is one of the things here that they used you see so they literally they grab it like this and try to dismantle the barbed wire they in so far they have failed and they're doing it right now in fact look they are you see they are wearing gloves this is what they are doing. and they have not succeeded but. this is what they this is what they have been doing. so again and again and over there they the army they are ready to jump them as soon as they get any any closer any closer to success if they get any closer to success now there's no information i haven't seen any official figures when it comes to the casualties but it was almost 8000 people injured in yesterday's yesterday's action

been 2 days as you know you can see that they're trying to blind the army they're trying to blind the soldiers with the lasers this is very dangerous stuff because it can if it's powerful enough it can blind a person now people are unhappy basically what broke the cat with the straw that broke the camel's back was the last because it do. stroy the lot of people's homes and they're saying essentially that they have no means of restoring of or of mending their homes themselves and they are blaming the government for the explosion they're saying what all those tons of neutrik acid were doing in the port . and so they're very very angry and look they almost they have almost dismantled the barbed wire at this checkpoint and clearly the army the military the the soldier that he's talking over the walkie talkie and i think what he's doing right

now he is calling for backup he's calling for reinforcements so we can get really really heated in here and they are carrying this is another thing this is not the tool that they have been using to try and dismantle and dismantle this this barricade to dismantle parts of this of this military checkpoint now the whole city has been has been blocked off and there are cordons has been cordoned off by the military took us normally it's like a 10 minute ride from where we were to here it took us more than an hour to get here to trying to get through all the checkpoints and people again peaceful people are angry at the government because because of the bluster and see when it comes to lebanon the country's in a very tough state because firstly it was hit by a severe economic crisis the economy plunged and covert 19 hit and that didn't help things that didn't help matters at hand at all because as the country tried to balance between economy and people's health and kind not and kind of succeeded

where to go more than 300000 displaced and this is a show of anger there have been critics though as well who have been saying that hospitals are already overwhelmed with those injured in the blast with those covert with those sick with the sit down with covert 19 and now they're saying that look right even children here participating in this protest. and there so they have been saying that well with the move people injured with more people bound to be wounded in the protest. with more people bound to be wounded in this protest the medical system the hospitals will be completely overwhelmed some hospitals here in beirut have been destroyed by the bloss for instance we were filming at the at lebanon's oldest hospital just the other day and it's completely destroyed more than 200 more than 250 of its patients had to be taken elsewhere the police and the army are trying to clear out of this street right now we are in the middle of the city

a gas everywhere this is the only checkpoint that the protesters try to clear out and right now people are leaving they're trying they're running away from their running away from the epicenter from where would the action was from the most me to the scene and you can clearly have not found any here the explosions. no silver there but people are very passionate is it me any. any here now but the army they are going the operation to free and. people are still people are picking up rocks over there if you look over that this is what you know. they're covering their faces because tear gas is literally everywhere right now. you can see this and. people can barely breathe here. for the numbers for c.p.s. worker numbers because they're going up and not because i'm still not you can not get any easier to drive. home you're finding the bodies but everyone.

everyone are focusing on because really where you. are news. but our country and our city and the sitting room not be rebuilt i'm less worried about our country and if you look if you just look over there there's that street has just been swarming with people who will you can see there right now it's just a line of soldiers. first the back of a soldier moving forward about 802100. from the. protest and this is basically this is going to be the position now and from up with we'll keep moving here and keep moving on from these bright flashes that you can see the night sky this is the tear gas these are the i guess. and i do apologize for the obscene language there is a look at some area doing her around me but i'm sure i could i cannot control this . no longer there is there is

a lot of tear gas you can see but but protests there's a century blinding trying to blind the army with these green lasers which is very very dangerous by the way that. they can really run with person literally we're just at the front line literally one of the few people left was close to the police as we are right now who were where the police were using the army were using tear gas we have been gassed a number of times like 3 or 4 times maybe will cover in reza to you right now but right now the army has essentially cleared out the street so you can see it is completely empty now the road block the police checkpoint the military checkpoint that the demonstrators were trying to dismantle is that right be right off to it's right next to that glowing mosque so right now the police have cleared the army i should say because it is military these are soldiers they have cleared all the street you can see field medics here who are ready to provide support to anyone who

is sick to anyone who has room by rubber bullets which the police how the military excuse me have been using all who have had tear gas poisoning because it has been very extensive and so basically all the demonstrators they have moved down the streets and the police have been the army has been chasing them there. something set up a blaze over there also the also results also the aftermath of the protests but right now you can see here ambulances because i'm absolutely certain that there will be plenty of wounded perhaps even as many as yesterday from the mall because it has been the 2nd consecutive day of protests and these are fully fully ged riot police who are falling back which probably means that the protesters have been scattered through the streets let me tell you their operation has been very swift very fast they moved the as they were clearing the streets firing rubber

bullets firing tear gas as people were falling back it was quite indiscriminate because all journalists were there in the crowd as well a lot of journalists were there they didn't care for it but well one might say it's not really their job to care about someone who decided to cover the protest from the thick of it but yes right now it looks like the protesters have been have been while they have had to fold back and scatter through the streets again as i've already mentioned it's the 2nd consecutive day of protest of protests excuse me here in the lebanese capital yesterday more than 700 people were wounded almost close to a 1000 people were injured in the clashes and basically today we've seen the very same scenario unfold people trying to occupy minute stereo and governmental buildings and the army evicting them from there shortly afterwards and be a basically people are very unhappy about so many things what broke the straw that

broke the camel's back was it was the the blast of course in the poor because it destroyed so many homes more than 300 people were displaced here in beirut by the blast the size of a small town also also right before the pandemic the lebanon as a country hit a severe economic crisis. it was hit by a severe economic crisis and covert 19 didn't really help with things because as the government tried to balance between economy between keeping economy running and taking care of people's health you know what they say the master of all the jack of all trades excuse me the master of none this is basically what happened people got sick and 3 the economy continued to nosedive so this is what people have been so so unhappy about and this is an essentially why they are taking to the streets now

and mosques because many many people have their homes destroyed they have no means of restoring their homes and so they are angry they don't know what's going to happen the government still has not offered any aid to those affected by the bluffs so so this is how they are venting their anger here but there have been critics of this approach as well there have been people who have been saying in fact even among protesters they've been saying that well while they understood the anger boiling inside of people they did not really approve of capturing and occupying governmental buildings and ministerial bedell buildings for instance they have been calling to peaceful protests also some people have been pointing out that hospitals those that have not been destroyed by the blast in the port they are already overflowing they're being overwhelmed with patients essentially there are people who are sick with covert 19 there are people still injured from the bloss now daily they have to treat hundreds and hundreds of people because of the protests and

under some people has some critics have been saying that well it's not the right time while it is certainly an emotional and a wrenching time for the people here in lebanon they have been saying maybe maybe there should be a different approach maybe people shouldn't wait but a lot of people are clearly very sick of waiting. in beirut while tragedy struck at around 6 pm on tuesday when they must have blast hit the. port area there are 158 deaths being confirmed but with dozens still missing it is feared the number will rise the city's health system already struggling with dean has been overwhelmed by the numerous city buildings have been damaged thousands of locals as well left homeless.

you know all of a sudden we found everything turned over our hands i turned around and i was he pushed something in my right hand people screaming kids screaming but it was a choice and i should see. the devastation here in the lebanese capital is very much the blouse that was felt at 10 kilometers away from the boards where it took place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad night in. the a lebanese 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 the missing and differentials. the fear of sort of more about. the. angry our 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

will daily go back to the streets they will daily ask for the justice we need the justice they do doesn't deserve this and we will if you use what happened to us. on top of the lebanon had already been going through its worst financial crisis in years inflation is soaring almost half the population lives below the poverty line or on the 3rd of working age adults or oid the latest surge of unrest is a sharp escalation of the anti corruption rallies ongoing since last october on saturday demonstrators put up mock gallows in a location where people were hung more than a 100 years ago under the also been empire protesters raise cardboard cutouts with ropes around their necks the pick being that belongs prime minister and his bellows leader as well as other officials that responds to the wrist lebanon's information minister. announced her resignation saying the current government has failed to

live up to the lebanese people its expectations journalist run the a cow like told us that people are looking for someone to blame for the tragedy a lot of righteous anger in the streets of people who are angry they lost their anger they lost their homes angry this happened on top of everything else it's been deteriorating in the country and there's also you know some attempts to manipulate it for political gain by different political factions so there are certain political factions who have people the streets trying to make it about his ball as opposed to about the entire lebanese power structure and any course you have people who were demonstrating starting in october juge of the economic collapse who have continued those demonstrations in the aftermath of this and what we're seeing is you know i some of the most violent confrontations between security forces and protesters in recent memory there's going to be extreme shortages and lebanon which is a country dependent on imports where it's there's already

a dollar shortage there's already an economic collapse there was already power cut and now you have your most important port gone and the capital. the center of the country is destroyed most people believe it was an accident due to corruption. negligence incompetence which seems to be the case. with this fertilizer that was stored for 6 years and really dangerous conditions where there was many complaints about it and warnings and nothing was done by the government so people are angry about that as for who's to blame you know people who belong to parties that are pro-american and tend to blame hezbollah because their leaders are blaming what they. rule in all this really the public anger as you say has been directed against them and their control most all of the beirut port area i think it's right in saying are people really going to start questioning the group's huge influence in lebanon. that's not accurate to say that hezbollah controls the port the port is controlled by the by the government by the port authority as well as not some all

powerful force that controls the entire country that's just not the case that is a certain narrative that we're hearing from certain political factions and certain like western narratives so it's not one specific party that was responsible for this it wasn't as below that was responsible for this it was the people in charge of the port authority some people that were in the judiciary that refused to act on intervene and a corrupt elite that was trying to negotiate a way to make money off of this and couldn't figure out how to split the profits so they just let this fertilizer sit there until this dangerous explosion took place it's a fault of lebanon being a dysfunctional incompetent failed state for the most part and it's always been that way i don't see this deteriorating and feel like a civil war type of condition is lebanon's of country and there's nobody to find a war you need weapons and money to fund a war. protests have broken no it's in the bella russian capital minsk were

president alexander lukashenko that when a 6th term in office crowds are rallying against the long time leader after early results gave him a victory there are reportedly been clashes with police. tough restrictions on reporters covering the event as well within in fact the past number of hours 2 video journalist from roughly agency were detained well for more on all the let's cross over to our tease it done you hawkins down indeed a lot happening there today. yeah happening very quickly and actually with protests spreading and only in minsk as you mentioned there but all over cities and better roofs are reports coming in almost every few minutes as we speak in fact clashes with police being reported on early in the belorussian capital but also in the cities of breasts. as well where clashes with police have taken place particularly badly in minsk where police have used flash bang grenades against

protesters reports coming in from there of multiple injuries of protesters covered in blood which we're having difficulty breathing to all views of course because of all the problems with internet blackouts happening across the country right now other reports coming in that taxi service is working websites down not only you know opposition web sites but also pro-government web sites communication applications as well some real problems going on there also protests abroad we can bring you some live pictures i believe of protests here in moscow outside the by the russian embassy from earlier today and happening continuing as we speak protesters also gathering at the by the russian embassy in kiev they were alleging that the but the voting stations the polling stations closed too soon before that a chance to cast their vote and they're out in force to show their anger many of

them demanding president lukashenko his resignation in view of those results of course coming in the central election committee exit poll saying that the timeout was very high around 79 percent and in terms of the result giving incumbent president look very much a landslide victory with around 8 percent or so going to his main opposition rival . those are exit polls of course but if any close to numbers that gives him a resoundingly victory now he's come in for criticism both from opposition figures at home and international. organizations abroad as well for his handling of these elections accused of detentions arrests of campaigners opposition figures and journalists as well something that he's repeatedly denied. you do months to demonstrate we have 6 sites in minsk 6 children and they were demonstrations only 2 sites to go and demonstrate that if you do anywhere in violation of the law

everything is regulate energy interfere with other people then we will hold you accountable now what's going on symbolized by the treatment of the journalists in the country as one in fact as you mentioned 2 stringers working for news agency were detained earlier today as they were working at polling stations getting materials of the election and they were detained and taken away by our security forces we still cannot confirm why exactly that took place where they've been taken or what the charges against them are they're not the 1st journalist to be detained as well earlier to journalists from russia's doest t.v. station we're also attained and charged with administrative offenses for not having accreditation since then but a russian interior minister has contacted the russian ambassador and told him they will be charged and then extradited back to russia in the near future while this election of course was held high hopes for many opposition supporters in belarus of

watershed moment perhaps for politics in. rallying support reinvigorated term and opposition. bringing people to ride out into the streets many expected to look to when that was predicted for this election but there was still some hope that things could be different if those exit polls are correct and this is another landslide victory as 6. these protests we're seeing early embarrass but abroad as well are likely to continue through. the night and into the me a future as well will give you any updates as they come in yet we will talk twitter page will be across the aisle as well well worth a check in the coming hours all not done thanks very much danielle hawkins bring us right up to date on the belorussian election. while exam is here next with another fresh slice of worlds apart for that and i'll see you afterwards for more updates

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more than 50 years after his death once remarked we don't solve our problems but rather outgrow them this may be true for individuals but does it also apply to societies and if so why do our societies despite all the economic and technological growth seem more infantile than ever while to discuss that i'm now joined by dr james hollis a prominent union psychoanalyst and author of the upcoming book living between worlds finding personal resilience in changing times dr hollis it's a great privilege for me to talk to you thank you very much for your time my privilege actually used to be with you now let me start with the title of your upcoming book could the 16th i believe to come out from under your pan changing times isn't that a bit of an oxymoron because history has never starved to evolving and the dynamics of personal development are such that everybody experience this

a crisis at some point and live so other times to believe in the really so extraordinary well not at all that's exactly the point we always live in changing times we always have and triumphs of the changing structures of our social. we live in times that are changes for ourselves crises of understanding of believe the roadmap that we were following etc it's just that we live in a particularly time of great disruption of what people thought were fixed beliefs fixed structures and fixed understanding's of self and world so the real question is how does anybody personally survive and adapt but also maintain a sense of core integrity during those changes that inevitably happen to us now i know that psych psychologists and even psychiatrists often see crisis and conflicts out.