is morally bankrupt she remains and if you weigh near where she fled after the election while bennett smith is also in lithuania and nearby vilnius he says while police are maintaining a strong presence they've been less heavy handed with protesters this time. there's no indication that these protesters have lost or the protests have lost momentum after now 3 weeks since that presidential election on august the 9th when playing to win 8 percent of the vote nobody on the streets protesting and many other belorussian cities believes that and they want to go now the 1st few days of protest after the after the presidential election the authorities attempted essentially to crack down violently almost protest they used to gas they used rubber coated bullets to try and disperse the protesters but after those 1st several 1000 were detained 7000 hundreds injured and 3 killed but after those initial 3 days they allowed it seems these large scale protests to continue yes there have been people detained and people arrested many people were arrested after the women's protest yesterday and charged with i

are being tolerated anything more than that is being little but with a pretty heavy hand indeed bennett smith there on the ground for us in the lebanese capital thank you very much brianna for the latest on a 8 members of a tour group have been killed by gunmen and southern news there it happened in the west african giraffe reserve east of the town of crane the regional governor says 6 french tourists along with their guide and driver were shot dead by armed men on motorcycles he gave no indication of who was behind that attack. now the number of confirmed corona virus infections in the united states has passed 5000000 as the country struggles to contain the disease president trying has by post congress to sign a new measures aimed at providing economic relief to millions of americans but democrats say they provide little help to families and will actually reduce much needed support for the unemployed mike hanna reports from washington. fresh from around on his course the president held a news conference at his new jersey golf club which are a number of the club's members forming an admiring

manuel micro toward the damage streets he's backing calls for a new political order in lebanon bennett smith has more from beirut. we've seen thousands of people out on the streets with shovels pickaxes brushes doing the cleanup because the government isn't we are just across from the main blast site you'll see those standing grain silos and so the right of those where the explosion happened is a destroyed ship just beyond that and that everything that was in the way of the shockwave in the few just seconds it took to push out has been hit and destroyed and i am surrounded by debris. glass by destroyed buildings everywhere that was in the way in the path of buckshot wave assault in the few seconds it took beirut looks like it's been involved in conflicts there is really a lack of any assistance coming from the government in the best of times this is a very weak state with very weak social service provision and in a catastrophe like this there's very little the government clearly has is doing or is able to do we have seen n.g.o.s out on the streets we've seen people giving out food restaurant

change president alexander lukashenko is accused of rigging his reelection earlier this month bennett smith has more on a meeting that's been planned between lucas shanker and russia's president. both leaders have spoken and they've agreed to meet in moscow sometime in the next few weeks so clearly no sense of urgency on the side of putin or lucas shanker there is no love lost between them in fact before the presidential election you could said that russia was trying to divide belarus something agents to draw and divide the country so they should vote for you now says after the election that is nato in europe is trying to divide his country but anyway and so no love lost between the 2 leaders but putin has offered our side is ready a rapid reaction police force should look at ask for it to come and stop the protests how strong turnout is being reported in montenegro as parliamentary election president miller your kind of it's cost his balance in the capital where polls will close and just half an hour his governing party is facing opposition from an alliance seeking closer ties with serbia

discriminate and shuttered the hospital like all the other buildings around it ok bernard many things bennett smith reporting live from beirut. the authorities in afghanistan have started releasing 400 taliban prisoners paving the way for long delayed talks with the armed group 80 were freed on thursday the release of the so-called hardcore prisoners was approved last weekend by afghanistan's grand assembly or loya jirga it's seen as the final hurdle to launching full negotiations on orders and then. i was detained here for kidnapping and served almost 8 years of my prison sentence i call on my leaders and the president to embrace permanent cease fire and stop the bloodshed so that we all have peaceful lives the lives of our youth have been miserable due to war and the future looks bleak to them study and make a good life. ethiopian police have arrested more than 1000 people since a popular musician was killed in june sparking days of violence several opposition leaders are among those who've been detained catherine soil reports. i select to says he has spent the janta taffeta has been in cassidy i

cheetah mcclymont of the lebanese people it's a question of confidence well our correspondent bennett smith is on the ground for us in beirut bennett we've been watching these pictures here of fires being let stones being thrown but it does look like the crowds are significantly smaller there than yesterday. yeah there was a small protests in a stadium behind me earlier on a small gathering of people and there is over my shoulder is where the parliament building is and those confrontations have been going on they're setting tires on fire making it look pretty big but it is a smaller scale. than it has been than it was yesterday if you were to courses have been cracking down very hard yesterday there were very very violent crackdowns by the security forces on those who dared to protest and it might be that the poor people are perhaps but there are still some commentators going on and we are watching eyes will burn and we're also seeing the political fallout continue another cabinet resignation could we see more. well the most significant one was that 2nd resignation of the environmental dami

let's go to bennett smith in beirut and just listening to the prime minister there proposing early elections i mean that's unlikely to pacify the anger inferi we saw on the streets of beirut today. that initial announcement and the 1st time that the prime minister has spoken to the lebanese people since tuesday's explosion but it took a little bit of the sting out of the protests people have been calling for early elections and it is a little quiet here tonight i'm in martyr square which is now essentially been sealed off by the security forces on its periphery some protesters trying to get in but the security forces have kept them back at all the major entrances here the problem for the prime minister is that he is really just a figurehead it's those that are pulling the strings behind him. those are hezbollah and its ally parties they are the ones on monday who will have to agree to his call for early elections they have a majority in the cabinet they have the majority in parliament so the question will be by monday has water has happened since tuesday been catastrophic enough that lebanon

saturday denouncing government corruption and demanding regime change well that's now speak to bennett smith our correspondent who is on the ground for us in beirut but i mean we're now hearing about a 2nd cabinet resignation. yeah the more significant want to send. cats are he's the environment minister and what's significant about this it is resignation is he really is 1st of all respected technocratic member of the cabinet and an hour i of the prime minister has been the speculation was today that the reason we've been hearing of rumors of his resignation before it was confirmed was in the intervening hours the prime minister was trying to persuade environmentalist and not to go but he has gone a 2nd minister to go and a lot of pressure on the prime minister he's already said that when the cabinet meets on monday he's going to ask them to agree to call elections if the cabinet agrees to that they'll make a draft law and that will be presented to parliament and it will be up to parliament to pass that laurie could decide not to and try and appoint a new cabinets and a prime minister or he

patients who needed treatment for illnesses before the blast now can't get the care they need bennett smith reports from center which hospital from new life to near death in the blink of an eye. this is the maternity unit of st george's hospital in beirut as the shockwave from the port explosion hit we flew directly and landed over here. on the 9th floor omar abu murat 7 year old son yuri was having chemotherapy when i woke up when i opened my eyes and he looked at u.t. at 1st i he was screaming his heart out. had been recording the 1st explosion on his phone i don't. i'm here don't be afraid omar says. get out i'm scared that's your. beauty still had his tubes stuck with him in and his entire cycle was still running at that point the very next thing i wanted to do was just put some shoes on because there's debris everywhere there's glass shards everywhere i could feel them in my feet and i was looking at u.d.c. it and he was barefoot as well they must standing on glass there were a dozen children with their families up here at the time of the explosion unfortunately one of the parents died

beirut is making social distancing all the more difficult well let's now go to our correspondent bennett smith who is on the ground in beirut for us but i imagine social distancing is nearly impossible given the humanitarian situation. it is in getting the clean up operation that's still in place i'm actually one of 121 schools in beirut that was severely damaged by the blast as you see every window is blown out beyond the school is is the pool where the shock wave came out from. as it's been over the last couple of weeks we all walking on what is still shuttered glass on the floor i'm joined now by ted scheibe on his unicef's regional director on his 1st visit since the blast chad what we all your 1st impressions look in terms of the scale i lived here during the civil war i'm half lebanese and the downtown area is a story but this is just incredible you know you look up from the port you see buildings destroyed each one of those apartments is a family with children that's been severely affected this is one of $121.00 schools not just the glass the structural damage luckily there were no chil

well bennett smith joins me now live from beirut bennett we're expecting an announcement any time now from the prime minister what more can you tell us. we've been told the prime minister is going to address the nation in an hour and a half from now and he's going to tell him he's resigned before that he'll be speaking lebanon's president to formally offer his resignation and that of his cabinet what then happens is the prime minister has on the remains as a caretaker prime minister as does his cabinet until paloma nt appoints a new cabinet and a new prime minister will not necessarily looking at new elections we could be looking at a new cabinet but the difficulty of the problem with that is this the current cabinet is hezbollah dominated by hezbollah and its allies the next cabinet which will be appointed in the coming days by the part of me towards the end of the week the opposition say they are not prepared to work with the current leadership of the government the opposition unless there's some sort of back room deal that we don't know anything about so you could end up with anoth

cost $10.00 to $15000000000.00 worth of damage to its ports and the wider area our correspondent bennett smith has been getting and not a perspective on that wreckage. it's not until you move away from the beirut shoreline that you get a real impression of the scale of the devastation just over my shoulder the orient queen boat that was capsized by the force of the blast and every building you see along the skyline has been impacted there isn't a single pane of glass left and damaged over there and just on the other side is the remains of the grain silo and the grain silos was most of the grain supply for levanon there is no strategic reserve and all around the grain silos the remains twisted remains of the country's main port warehouses everything in there food included other goats destroyed or traffic has been diverted further up the coast to tripoli the 2nd port but it is having trouble managing with the capacity and managing with the demands of taking in extra supplies it is really at the same time a devastating and a shocking scene. while there is plenty more ahead here this news hour inc

need reforms for all the sick does and insist on these changes quickly well that's now speak to bennett smith our correspondent who's on the ground for us in beirut bernard we've been hearing from calling for a new political order that's quite explicit statement but there are still so many challenges ahead from a very long list of reforms that he he put out there has not been received. well when emmanuel markram was out on the streets of beirut earlier today he was mobbed by people calling the return of the french mandate this was a french front for the colonial power here in lebanon before his independence and what micron has done in these very powerful speech today essentially stepping in to avoid elect by lebanon's own political leaders macron was able to offer practical and moral support to the people of lebanon something their own government has not been able to do and there was real there is real frustration and anger here that the people who have run this country for the last 30 to 40 to 50 years run this country in the ground ended up in a situation where every one half of the city wa

to continuing in the lebanese capital while the city mourns the deaths of more than 200 people bennett smith has more. rich or poor the beirut explosion didn't discriminate 10 people died in the luxury seaview apartments that overlook the port and alice assad's house. she and her 2 children had left home half an hour before the blast they raced back to find this. alice pays a rent fixed in the 1960 s. the common practice here if the landlord can't afford the repairs or release the funds home will probably stay like this i now must lead the most important thing is for the kids to have a place to sleep comfortably with food they will not starve but we need our home back. businesses too must find the money to rebuild if they think it's worth it. this country was already enjoying an economic crisis after a shortage of foreign currency last year sent its currency into freefall i don't know if you if you will be able to put more money into it i don't know if we need. not only also earlier everybody. needs someone 70000 homes and a sofa uncalculated number of businesses were destroyed or damaged wh

thousands homeless people have been taking to the streets to voice their anger at the ruling elite as bennett smith now reports from bay of it. lebanon's government has finally caved in like a shot at buildings along beirut's waterfront it took an explosion of $2700.00 tons of ammonium nitrate to bring down the prime minister and cabinet. today we followed the will of the people to hold accountable those responsible for this disaster that has been in hiding for 7 years and their desire for real change from the corrupt destructive state state of brokerages and theft to a state of war and justice and transparency to a country that respects its people. they'd only been in power since january sworn in to replace a previous administration forced out after lebanon's banking system and currency collapsed. now they have a new crisis to add to all the others. the justice minister was asked if she was running away from her responsibilities was just that you can't let anyone put themselves in opposition no one wants to be in power under such circumstances when facing everything a financial collapse the curren

emanuel micro ended his visit saying that the no blank checks unless there is political reform bennett smith is our correspondent in beirut so bernard give us a sense of where you are what you've been seeing and what you've been hearing. everywhere. since i arrived in barrel yesterday and today. this is a building right across the street. which took the whole blast of the shock wave of the sea you really see you cross the water going as far as 3 kilometers in all of these buildings as you see another pane of glass. all of them destroyed by the explosion on the other side we can just show. the names of the grain silo it was next to the warehouse walls that exploded and we've actually been told now that but grain silo because it withstood the blast on the outside but the western half of beirut was not as badly affected in the eastern half of i mean there was still broken windows in the west but not quite as much destruction as you've seen. so as far as the residents of beirut are concerned their priorities are food clothing water medicine are they getting that provided for them by the local au

lebanese capital are still not functioning in the city short of hundreds of bats a correspondent bennett smith visited st george hospital which was one of those badly damaged during the explosion there were hundreds of patients here at the time being treated glass is glass was blown out doors were blown out everything was blown out and it's been left in a complete total wreck the world health organization estimates $25.00 of our health facilities and 3 other hospitals to other hospitals are your partner in beirut are not functioning and this was already a health system that is in crisis before the explosion there were they were running out of funding they were laying off staff and there was a plea before the explosion for medicines because the. because the hospitals in the health facilities couldn't access foreign currency to be able to pay for those medicines here isn't george there are $110.00 child cancer patients there were about a dozen of them here at the time having chemotherapy when the blast hit one of the parents was killed the children survived but the doctor in charge of that unit

anger amid accusations of mismanagement and corruption 157 people have now been confirmed dead bennett smith reports from beirut. armies of volunteers are on the streets of beirut. sweeping clearing digging. they're filling the gap left by the state. which is conspicuous by its absence. we had an i.t. company here times were tough before tuesday's explosion now she says she can't see any future here. i am in. the. first. i see i'm 30. and both come. from 25 years. i work here outside this is the 1st time i. i see something like that. lebanon's president michel own says an investigation into the explosion will look at whether it was caused by negligence or external interference through a rocket or bomb or other act whatever it was in beirut they want to know why 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate was stored in an urban area. when the ammonium nitrate ignited the shock wave instantly crossed the city leaving beirut looking like a place but after just 5 seconds of support from the years of conflict. frustration and anger boiled over on thursday night and there were some small protests near lebanon's

are working under severe restrictions many of them have had their accreditation withdrawn so al bennett smith is following developments from the u.n. is capitol hill in the us now bernard despite this crackdown we've seen huge crowds again in minsk today what's been the dynamic been like with the authorities. there's no indication that these protesters have lost or the protests have lost momentum after now 3 weeks since that presidential election on august the 9th when playing to what 80 percent of the vote nobody on the streets protesting in minsk and in other belorussian cities believes that and they want to go now the 1st few days of protest after the after the presidential election the authorities attempted essentially to crack down violently almost protests they used to us they used rubber coated bullets to try and disperse the protesters but after those 1st several 1000 were detained 7000 hundreds injured and 3 killed but after those initial 3 days they allowed it seems these large scale protests to continue yes there have been people detained and people arrested many people were arrest

accusations the authorities ignored warnings about explosive material being stored at the port bennett smith is then. it's only when you got away from beirut waterfront out to get a respect in the scale of the destruction that explosion. shoulder is the remains of the grain silo that the warehouses storing them. was on the other side of the grain silo and every building you can see across the skyline has been in some way the fact that there isn't a single pane of glass across this plant. china's top representative in hong kong says u.s. sanctions on the territories leaders are ridiculous and barbarous any u.s. assets held by the chief executive kerry lam are now being frozen similarly for police chiefs and other officials as well flight data recorders have been recovered from the wreckage of an aircraft which crash landed in india 18 people were killed and 150 passengers were injured when the air india express plowed off the table top runway during a monsoon storm on friday night monsoon floods cover a 3rd of bangladesh media is reporting 161 deaths in the past 4 weeks millions have been for

opposition but al-jazeera let's bring in our just here is ben as smith has following developments from lithuania's capital vilnius bennett big crowds again expected in men's clothes today what are the challenges for the protesters. well it's 3 weeks now since those disputed elections it happens it's also because 66th birthday today and the challenge for the protesters is really to keep the momentum going in the 1st days after the 1st protest after the disputed results of the election that there was a violent crackdown on the protest to 7000 people detained several 100100 injured 3 people killed that was in those 1st 3 days when rubber bullets were used when flash bangs were used to disperse the crowds but what's happened instead is that the authorities 'd have stepped back they've allowed people to gather yes that have been minor attempts to break up the protests but not on the scale of the violence the authorities unleashed in those 1st 3 days the protesters hope that they can keep up the momentum people are tired look at it has given no indication that he's willing to give way there was a women's protest yesterday were

last night's contests, super lightweight dalton smith extended his undefeated run as a professional to six, with a fifth—round knockout of nathan bennett league season today, as well as the final day of the battle of the brits team tennis competition, which you can watch on the bbc sport webiste. that's all from me — now on bbc news, here's ben with the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us. with me are katy balls, deputy political editor of the spectator and business journalist, john crowley. the sunday telegraph reports radical government plans are being drawn up to avert a second national lockdown, including enhanced shielding, tighter local measures and sealing off the capital. the observer has a warning from one of the country's biggest teaching unions that parents and teachers need further reassuring that schools are safe to reopen next month. the sunday times says the defence secretary has been ordered to explain why evidence was withheld from a judge — which showed sas troops had killed 33 afghan civilians in night raids in 2011. the mail on sunday reports a conservative mp has b