of ammonium nitrate and the port of beirut which blew up last tuesday. 0ur middle east analyst alan johnston towards the government has been growing, in the aftermath of the explosion. there was absolute outrage that the authorities, the government could have allowed that great stock of ammonium nitrate that you mentioned to be stored in the heart of beirut, devastating the city when it erupted. unimpressed, too, many people in beirut at how little the government seem to do to try to help in the effort to clear up the city, at the same time, international communities shaped up to pour in aid, signalled very clearly that it simply didn't trust the existing powers that be to handle that incoming money and made quite clear diplomatically that it intended to bypass the government. so this is the government under the most intense strain, yesterday we began to see ministers resigning, first the information minister, the justice minister, the environment minister, ahead of a crisis cabinet meeting today, we've had the finance minister was going to go, during that meeting we heard there were indicat