french president emmanuel macron today pledged toledo global donors conference to rebuild beirut, butays there must be reform in lebanon from within. also coming up, taking o on the u.s. gun lobby. new york prosecutors's are suing the national rifle association for financial wrongdoing, saying they want to break up the nra once and for all. and fast, free, but not optional. germany is making coronavirus tests mandatory for all people entering the country from designated hotspots. new infections here are increasing, now at their highest level in three months. ♪ brent: on brent goff. to our viewers on pbs and all around the world and the united states, welcome. the message to beirut today -- you are not alone. help is on the way. macron pledged to spearhead a donors conference to rebuild the city, but said there will be no blank checks, demanding political leaders begin real reform before it is too late. in a city racked -- >> in a city racked by the force of tuesday's catastrophic explosion, people in beirut are coming together to clean up the debris in the city streets. but with solid

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brent: that was emmanuel macron speaking earlier today.alny 's supporters said to survive several attempts by the russian government to harm him before. here is a closer look at navalny 's career and how he became a strong critic of the kremlin. >> this isn't the first time team navalny has cried foul. in august last year alexei navalny said he had been poisoned while in jail. he had been detained for calling unauthorized protests and his resistance to kremlin control has made him one of president vladimir putin's biggest nemeses. navalny rose to prominence with his exposure of corruption at russian state-controlled companies. at rallies he took direct aim at the kremlin and occupancy dubbing put in's party, the party of crooks and thieves. he began proving his power with opposition supporters, stints in jail and the courtroom became a regular feature. charges of embezzlement in 2013 saw him band from entering the political process and running for office. in 2017 moscow saw some of the biggest anticorruption rallies it has seen in years. t

and the influence of president macron could actually be quite decisive.talks about the emergency aid relief that lebanon needs now, but there is the future. and the people of lebanon started it back in october. they want a political clear—out and france can help. just one example, in 2005, when the president was assassinated, france was behind the creation of an international tribunal through the un and, two months later, the syrian army left lebanon. so there is a lot that france can do. thank you for being clear on that and giving us so much background and history education. jeff, i mean, notably not on the streets of beirut 36 hours after the blast was president trump. now, obviously a superpower in the middle east for all these decades. president trump of course said something about a bomb attack which was then rowed back on by his officials. some aid is arriving from the us, but what is the us role here? i don't think there is much of one. us influence in the middle east has been on the wane for some time, afterthe iraq war, in particular, but it is

sent in president emmanuel macron. i am not here to help them. iam here macron. i am not here to help them. i am here to help you. he saw the damage and desperation up saw the damage and desperation up close. he was there, others we re up close. he was there, others were not. funerals are providing another outlet for the nation's grief and tears. this person was donating blood moments before the blast took his life. his sister and those who loved him distraught. everyone here is grieving in their own way. homes, shops, livelihoods are gone. for those alive and accounted for aid is coming in. from algeria, water bottles a nd coming in. from algeria, water bottles and food packages are being stocked up and flown over. translation: a shipment will be sent every day through the military airport until other operations can be set up. in

president macron apparently has similar concerns. when he visited the shell-shocked city on thursday, he pledged his country's aid to its former colony would not go into corrupt hands. rami khouri, professor of journalism at the american university in beirut, tells "gps" he has a plan to make sure all aid money gets where it is supposed to go. he proposes a competent group of ngos, academics, professionals, and civic leaders to work alongside the government to oversee the fair distribution of the promised aid. he says it would not only rebuild beirut but build back public confidence in lebanon's leaders. sometimes these kind of crises can have the effect of a wake-up call and jolt a country to a change and reform. lebanon desperately needs such a shock to the system.

this news with the slowdown in france and emmanuel macron is not a small item, francine. francine: i'm also looking

president macron of france in april, when he was asked about china's response to covid—i9, said, "lets not be so naive as to say china has been much better at handling this. we don't know. there are clearly things that have happened that we don't know about." you know, the chinese are accused by many people of withholding information. you just don't get the complete picture. i am very well aware of the perceptions of china. i suspect that if president macron was making his statement not in april, but in august, september, it'd be a very different picture that he would give today. and in the case of china, you're right. we cannot get all the information. but, you know, there is data. there is the people going down there, and my friends have actually gone to china and they were in shanghai a few weeks ago and they were quite amazed that all the restaurants are full in shanghai. amazing. you cannot get a booking.

>> emmanuel macron says lebanon will continue to sink unless reforms are made. the french president in beirut two days after a blast kills 135 people and wounding 5000 others. anger among populations mounting 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely for six years is believed to be the cause of the blast. overtakes europe with the highest number of covid-19 deaths in the world. thank you for joining us here on france 24. the french president is in the lebanese capitol.. emmanuel macron inin beirut two days after a blast rips through the city killing 135 people and woundiding 5000. his visit comes one dayy after france responded to calls for help by sending a and medical personnenel to the country. afafter his meeting with the president, he said the country will continue to sink if reforms are not made. to aidy the priority is and supppport the population unconditionally. france has been pushing for months even years now for necessary reforms in certain sectors, energy, government-run tracks, the fight agagainst corruption, if these r reforms e not carried ou

talkesident macron didn't of rebuilding.is speeches, he spoke quite generally about support to lebanon and of his love for lebanon. president macron visited ground zero, vivisited this site, and e was shshocked. he didn't have much time to talk about such measures. what about the wheat silos? >> as for the wheat silos, they were entirely destroyed, and that is why they have to be rebuilt entirely, silos. the lebanese government will have to be dealing with the crisis all the while we are waiting for new silos to be built. on top of that, we have to deal with the issue of food supply. >> as a judge, what sort of actions do you think can be takenn and in the heart of moscow to place the best represents what vladimir

so hopefully, the visit of president macron, u nfortu nately visit of president macron, unfortunately will happen. thank you very much, good to hear your views on all of that. a record number of migrants crossed the channel by boat yesterday, and several more have been spotted this morning. simonjones has been out on the channel in a boat and has already come across people attempting to make a crossing. a little earlier he sent this update. it's been quite an eye opening morning. now, the beach at dover is behind me in the background and that is the goal for many migrants, who set out to cross the channel, they want to reach the uk, they want a new life here. we set out at around 4am this morning and shortly after, the sun rose and we spotted a bit of a blip in the sea and we went a bit closerjust to see what it might be and it turned out to be a boat that was carrying around 17 migrants. we think there were three children on board, two women, one of them was pregnant. and also amongst the group, they told us, when we shouted over, that they were from iraq. we shadowed them because th

i think there is something a young energetic president like president macron. he managed to convince angela merkel. it took three years. and he pulled it off. so, you never know, i am choosing to be positive here. just coming back to your point about the united states because you set out in fairly stark terms the limits of us aspiration in the region now but the us still does have strategic objectives and has friends. strategic rivals in terms of iran, can achieve any objectives in this region if it allows lebanon to become a failed state? if you look at the way it is defining it now it is essentially negative. it is to stop iran from making trouble but really, regime changes the long—term goal, think you would say. and it is being done not through using alliances but through using sanctions and the countries don't like their sanctions much but countries don't want themselves to be subject to american sanctions by breaking american sanctions. it can be done without a lot of the lion support. there is not a peace process. israel and the us are close together and

because emmanl macron has been pushining so had for some sort ofof governmental reform.any people on the streets saying this m makes no differene because he has been nominated by the same parliament, three quarters of the parliamentary blocvote w went to h him today which is very differentt fromm hassan dbb w who got far f fewer votes. this is a more united level of support, but many people say he is still the same sort of person as the previous prime minister. faces aow that adib plethora of challenges, one of them being that people, certainly the opposition, have dismissed him as someone who is cut from the same cloth. indeed. meetings just a requesting him become the nenew permitit is to, and he adib made his first speech in whicich he said t this is a a time for actn and we mustst move forward, bute asked d people to o pray for his government, to support them. he said this is lebanan's last chance to move forwaward. so he is saying all the right things, but already some concernsns. fifit, there i is a rumumor goig around that he refused to take a pcr covovid test bef

french president emmanuel macron is the first foreign leader to visit the country since the disaster. he was mobbed by crowds in beirut, people pleading with him to help them and to ensure those responsible face justice. the state of new york is suing the powerful gun lobby the national rifle association, with the intention of dissolving it. state attorney general letitia james accused the organisation of financial mismanagement. the nra has called the lawsuit "baseless and desperate". and the bank of england has predicted the economic slump caused by covid—19 will be less severe for the uk than expected, hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. we are joined by economics commentator grace bla kely and rachel cunliffe, comment & features editor at city am. so it's really great to have you with us. we will crack on in just a moment, but first of all, let's bring everyone up—to—date with the front pages we have a. the times leads with a warning to british tourists travelling to france that they may have to quarantine on their return amid fears

mr macron is visiting lebanon for the second time in a month and is to meet mr adib. to cardiff from greece tested positive for covid—i9. health officials have advised everyone who was on board — almost 200 people — to self—isolate.

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french president emmanuel macron has said deep change tuesday's devastating explosion in beirut.breaking news out of the u.k. now. the latest figures show 900 50 confirmed new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours. can see the average number of new cases each y has been 835. 48 deaths were also recorded in theast 24 hours. this takes the total number of these death in t u.k. to30 46. masks bought by the u.k.ace government to protect health care workers will not be used in hospitals because of safetyco erns. they paid $157 million for them. here is our special correspondent. >> the masks have earlobes rather than head loops, which raised concerns about tte amount of pion they were giving. the government says they dee not recomm to buy and will be used in hospitals. >> it's either a pass or a fail and there are more fails. >> that means what? >> tt means it would not necessarily provide the prection required. it's an extraordinary amount of money. fundamentally, it has taken this extort nary sum of public funds -- extraordinary sum of public nds and wasted it on ppe which itself s

the french president emmanuel macron has been to see the devastation, and promised help, but said theountry must reform. translation: it's a political, moral, economic, and financial crisis, the first victim of which is the lebanese people. we'll have the latest live from beirut. also this lunchtime — the economic slump caused by coronavirus won't be as deep as feared, the bank of england now says, but will still be the biggest annual decline for 100 years. 50 million face masks bought by the government in april won't be used in the nhs — because of safety concerns. a radical overhaul of the planning system is promised by ministers to try to get more houses built in england. and, after 400 years, beavers are being allowed to live in the wild again in england. coming up on bbc news — golf‘s first major of the year, the us pga, is getting under way three months later than planned and without fans in san francisco this afternoon. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. three days of mourning are under way in lebanon, after tuesday's deadly explosion in the capital beirut. at

this week, angela merkel is meeting with emmanuel macron in his presidential retreat in mediterranean. they struck a game changing do for the eu to fund an economic recovery for the coronavirus. at a time of increasing howlenges for the country, strong will the deal proved to be? we have reports. >> when the eu was looking to minimize the threat of the there was a personal drive to reach a compromise to try to solve europe's problems were possible. >> freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate must begin guaranteed. prisoners must be released. there must be a national dialogue in belarus. >> for decades, the strength of the franco german relationship has been a given. governments would come and go. but the two countries shared political interests would remain -- countries' shared political interests would remain. the personal dynamic between these two is clear, despite the generational differences between them, the french president welcomes the analytical approach that the chancellor brings the politics. discussyou can really in depth any idea and a concept with her, and you g

angella merkel and president macron who talked to putin before this emergency summit in brussels know this and they let him know that they want to avoid this at all costs and the cost for putin would be high because it would be even more dramatic, really bad sanctions, economic sanctions against russia. that would put the european union and russia in full confrontation mode and nobody wants. putin is boxed in, which is not in a good position for him to be in. on the other hand, the european union is trying to give the appearance we will just accompany this. we want dialogue to possible. we will not actively interfere, because they do acknowledge that belarus has been firmly within russia's political atmosphere during the last decade. they are hoping for the best and

angela merkel and emmanuel macron saying they oppose new lockdown. with more,g us bloomberg new economy forum editorial director. fascinating work that you have done. you look at these sort of massive shocks to the world from pandemics and found they have deep changes. hello, i just lost you there. joe: you have done some work looking at the impact that historically pandemics have had. they end up changing our relationship between the government and public. andy: indeed. out, has beenurns a godsend for autocrats and authoritarians all over the world. it has given them the perfect

emmanuel macron called for a profound change in lebanon's leadership and an international investigation. in the us, the powerful gun lobby, the national rifle association, is in the firing line, with the state of new york trying to get the group dissolved. the attorney general‘s brought a lawsuit accusing its leaders of fraud — allegations that the organisation denies. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up this week: elephants, iceland, and a splash of heavy metal, african—style. band plays heavy metal.

french president emmanuel macron today pledged toledo global donors conference to rebuild beirut, but says there must be reform in lebanon from within. also coming up, taking o on the u.s. gun lobby. new york prosecutors's are suing the national rifle association for financial wrongdoing, saying they want to break up the nra once and for all. and fast, free, but not optional. germany is making coronavirus tests mandatory for all people entering the country from designated hotspots. new infections here are increasing, now at their highest level in three months. ♪ brent: on brent goff. to our viewers on pbs and all around the world and the united states, welcome.

the french president emmanuel macron will visit beirut later, on the centenary of the declaration of the state of greater lebanon. the country faces a crippling financial crisis and the aftermath of the devastating beirut port explosion. lebanon's president has called for a secular state, saying its the only way of creating real unity in the country. rebecca bailey reports. its 100 years since french authorities declared the state of greater lebanon, carving its borders modern lebanon is not ina mood borders modern lebanon is not in a mood to celebrate. some of the some of these buildings have survived. killing at least 200 people. the government resigned en masse but that's done little to dampen people's anger. on sunday, the president called for change. translation:

resident macron has defended the pair. shame, ministry of shame, governed by rape culture. these we re governed by rape culture. these were the words used by feminist groups protesting in several french cities expressing their shock and anger at the appointment of two ministers in the french cabinet. the new justice minister was a high—profile lawyer known for his controversial remarks about the #metoo movement. he said the #metoo movement. he said the #metoo movement liberated the #metoo movement liberated the voice of women and it is very good but there are also lots of crazies that tell stupidities and compromise the honour of men that cannot defend themselves because they are already crucified on social media. meanwhile, another is

and then knuckle macron and the mediterranean the german chancellor is invited to discuss the future of europe at the french president's summer residence. but. we've got some rather wet and windy weather now pushing across southeastern parts of australia as we go on into the next couple of days we could even see some significant snow fall lower levels pushing into new south wales a little mary of low pressure just heading towards the tasman quite a nasty drag of winds coming in from the southwest as we go through thursday on into friday could see some snow just cropping up from time to time just around the great dividing range southern end of the range that just around the victorian alps and some pos even up towards central parts of new south wales could even see as

>>> french president emmanuel macron led a meeting which president trump atented. organizers say donors pledged $298 million in aid to beirut after last week's devastating explosion. the tragedy led to days of protest in lebanon for more on this, here's nbc's reporter >> reporter: after the massive protest we saw here, people are back on the streets clashing again with the government. people are just so angry about this blast here on tuesday and they absolutely blame the government for what happened >> the president said it's an accident it's a crime, not an accident. and they are not martyrs, they are victims. >> they have the real authority. that's why we will not get out of the streets until our needs are met, until the new elections and all three pillars of our government are taken down. >> reporter: people are telling me they will not accept the resignation of the country's information minister what they want is for the whole

you start as president macron said.banon begins to clear the rubble, really the need for help, for international support is clear. the european commission has pledged $40 million. gulf countries are following suit with financial aid, search and rescue teams. what french president emmanuel macron said and outlined not just for those in lebanon but also the international community, any money, any international aid, kim, that is indeed put together as a fund for lebanon will not be given to those at the very top, those politicians who have been blamed for the mismanagement. so there will be no blank check. >> reporter: amidst the rubble, an expression of sympathy and the promise of support. >> translator: in the coming days we will organize more supporters in france and on a european level. i would like to organize european cooperation and more widely international cooperation. >> reporter: the french president is the first world leader to visit the blast site. his visit came with warning. >> translator: they've been fight

macron's argument is that it is important for the europeans to be involved.onal leaders in the area, i know we have four big elections coming up in the region, in the ivory coast, niger, ghana, guinea, as well as burkina faso. some of the grievances we are seeing by these protesters is about bad governance. nots about the leadership representing their aspirations. so there is a fear from those regional leaders at the protest movement could spread to other capitals in west africa. maryam: thank you very much. bringing us the latest on that continuing antigovernment protest in mali. the ship which has lead to an estimated 1000 tons of oil into the ocean just off the coast had been declared safe by the japanese inspection body. inpassed its annual checks march but struck a coral reef on july 25 and is now leaking oil since last week. the vessel is still carrying 2000 tons of oil and is expected to eventually break up into pieces. the prime minister has declared a state of emergency. the japanese government is sending a team to help with a massive cleanup operati

merkel and macron meet. they are masked.service salvation be linked with moderate democrats? they insist. and it is decidedly not morning in america. vice president biden says president failed to protect us. there is "too much anger." in a season"we are of darkness." good morning, everyone. this is "bloomberg surveillance ," from new york and london as well. francine lacqua and tom keene. it is a surveillance-thon. acqua to the rescue -- 5, 6, seven hours of francine lacqua.

macron laid down a challenge. >> we know that the crisis here serious.t implies a historical responsibility on t part of th leaders in place. there's a political, moral, economic and financial crisis of which thbanese people are the first victims. reporter: there may be no ternative. this was lebanon's life line to the world and it's now in ruins. this is what's left of the country's electricity pvider. it barely b functioneore the explosion. rebuilding this will take billions, whole neighborhoods have been abandoned. a job like this will require internationaffort. but some in lebanon can't yet woy about the future. they're too lost in the present. this family hold a vigil outside the gates of the docks. they take it in turns. this woman is searching for her husbd. we've been here for days, she told me. no one came to hearur cries and no one tells us whether he's alive or dead. if it wa any of their sons missing, they would be moving heaven and earth. r u no one has showed up. the government's incompetence brought tragedy here. it maysh unleauch more. qu

she's saying please don't give any money to our corrupt government we can't handle this anymore which macron replies i know don't worry that's what i'm going to i'm going to help the people not the government so it's going to be very important in the in the wakes and months ahead that this money that is going to be rolling in to levanon finds its way to where it's most needed accountability here is going to be kate's rule of this road to understandable that a lot of people are built will build money reaching the people who need to see her because always thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world japan has marked the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of hiroshima a bell tolled in the city to mark the moment the bomb hit followed by a minute of silence nearly 140000 people are estimated to have died from the bombing and its after effects severe flooding in sudan has killed at least 10 people and damaged or destroyed thousands of homes days of religulous rains have left many areas near the capital khartoum under water the u.n.

in fact, today angela merkel of germany and macron of france were the ones who spoke to vladimir putin saying lukaschenko needs to assure that folks like these don't end up in jail. guys? >> and those are word you've not heard from the president, by the way there, but remarkable, too. the sort of people power

mr macron — whose country shares close colonial ties with lebanon — called for a new political ordercountry. from beirut, our correspondent quentin sommerville reports. france's president said he was here to bring home truths to lebanon's politicians. he received an earful of them in beirut‘s gemmayzeh neighbourhood. woman shouting. they stopped clearing up their shattered homes and streets, and begged for help. please help us! please, please! do something about us! the french president is being pulled in all directions behind me. there is a great deal of anger here among the lebanese people. some are calling for a revolution. others are telling them that there needs to be political change in this country. most are just asking for help. their own president, they declaimed as a terrorist. and as they've demanded for nearly a year now, they called for "thawra" — a revolution. one woman, angry that the government wasn't doing enough to find the dead and injured, let rip. in the country's hour of need, it was a foreign leader who listened. few lebanese politicians dare get this close. th

crowds gathered around the french president, emmanuel macron, as he visited the stricken port area.r macron, whose country shares close colonial ties with lebanon, called for a new political order in the country. the blast killed at least 137 people and injured around 5,000 more. from beirut, our correspondent quentin sommerville reports. france's president said he was here to bring home truths to lebanon's politicians. he received an earful of them in beirut‘s gemmayzeh neighbourhood. woman shouting. they stopped clearing up their shattered homes and streets, and begged for help. please help us! please, please! do something about us! the french president is being pulled in all directions behind me, there is a great deal of anger here among the lebanese people. some are calling for a revolution. others are telling them that there needs to be political change in this country. most are just asking for help. their own president, they declaimed as a terrorist. and as they've demanded for nearly a year now, they called for a revolution. one woman, angry that the government wasn't doing e

. >> 20 jamaica president macron's visit and the way the lebanese called on him to save them -- what do you think of president visit and the way the lebanese called on him to save them from their own government? professor: the lebanese people are looking for leadership. at the same time, the minister of justice was kickeked out and chased away by protesters, and protesters, but volunteers who chased away the minister. macron wassident right on when he said on the need for change and it approached 100% of what lebanese are aspiring for -- a massive change in the government of the country away from nepotism, corruption, vandalism, and abject abuse of government resources in favor of certain political parties and their interests. we need people who are accountable to save the state as well as people from an ongoing series of crises which did not start with covid or the political process, what people don't realize is before the crash garbage in beirut has been stockpiling for four days and now we are in day five. stockpilingis because there is nowhere to take it to. this government has f

of french president emanuel macron and germany's chancellor angela merkel have offered assistance to nevada they've been holding of somebody in the south of france as far as to offer asylum to the kremlin critic here's part of what he said today. this is don't we are ready to provide any necessary support for alexander novotny and his family there for his health for asylum and for his protection this goes without saying and we discussed it at length on the. heartless bring in our d w moscow bureau chief yuri rich other he's on the story for us from that side good evening to you yuri what do we know about the leg scene of all nice condition to not have one of the doctors at the clinic in concepcion of all these currently being treated at that his condition had stabilized a little so he did allow himself a glimmer of hope and then all these doctors already pushing for a transfer to europe and they're appalled that they has even been told of the shot and taking the can germany and belly in that could or that would be ready to treat devaney media reports about the special airplane from g

there were really extraordinary scenes last week when president macron went down into the streets ofe who have been so shaken and shattered by this blast and he made it very clear to them and later the wider world that there would be no simple handing over of large amounts of money to people who are very widely regarded as corrupt in the government and civil service. as we watch that, the video conference summit will invoke today and we will be watching very closely to see what conditionality is attached to any money coming fourth and i guess they would be little problem in getting emergency funds flowing in great amounts, but it would be channelled more towards the ngos, the civil society groups that have proved so effective in the immediate aftermath of the blast, the clearing up of beirut has been done in very large pa rt by beirut has been done in very large part by the people of beirut and at the ngos that had been helping them. there has been a really marked absence on the ground of government input, an effort to get the crisis and start to put people —— for people to start put

explosion and there are growing demands for change in the country the french president and manual macron calls for reform. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program a saudi crown prince accused of sending a hit squad to canada a lawsuit outlines claims of a thwarted assassination attempt. and that u.s. attorneys have the n.r.a. in their sides triggering lawsuits designed to dissolve the gun rights group. as the people of lebanon grieve for the victims of tuesday's blast the french president emanuel macron has been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion as despair turns to anger people have been calling for change president adding his voice to calls for reform. the death toll from tuesday's explosion has risen to 149 and it's expected to rise about 5000 people are injured many of them being treated in hospitals that are completely overwhelmed dozens are still missing more than 300000 people have been displaced from their homes shopkeepers and residents is still clearing up the rubble that litters the streets up to 8 ki

this is president macron who did a fantastic job this week is president macron who did a fantasticjobf lebanon tell the own story, a disgraceful government, and i agree with the protesters, if they can get rid of them, they must. look at the sunday telegraph lead story, rosamund, the migrants coming over in quite large numbers at the moment, partly because of the hot weather, and the french are asking for £30 million, according to the sunday telegraph, to police the channel. a lot of talk about bringing the royal navy, spotter planes, a kind of concerted attempt to stop the migrants, should we be paying france money to get them on—board with this? paying france money to get them on-board with this? one of the ironies of the story of courses brexit has it much harderfor us ironies of the story of courses brexit has it much harder for us to do this because we had a relationship with france which we have further damaged. the sunday telegraph, massive supporter of pack six, so not the focus of this piece. it does feel like a distraction right now —— massive supporter of brexit. a lot of p

menu macro -- emmanuel macron arrived in beirut. president macron is expected to press the lebanese government to make sweeping reforms and tackle an economy in tatters. he arrived shortly after the lebanese president asked to the former ambassador to berlin to form a new government. >> hours after being decimated, the prime minister took to the streets of beirut. it was a brave move. much of the lebanese capital was produced to rebel after thousands of tons of unstable chemicals exploded in the harbor nearly four weeks ago. the blast killed more than 200 people and destroyed what little was left of some peoples faith in the government. we will work hand in hand to rebuild what was destroyed. we will accelerate the investigation. the result will be made public as soon as possible. the public relations exercise was met with an angry response by many. the explosion was only the latest disaster blamed in the government. the economy is in deep recession. the currency in freefall. corruption and mismanagement have wrecked basic services.

i think macron was trying to see the initiative for france and the european union to get ahead of the united states and a paving the way for some type of exit of the political and multiple crises in lebanon. he is perhaps even trying to reposition france in relation to lebanon and the broader middle eaeast. that being said, i think it is important to note that france, the united states, the european union, the international monetary fund, the world bank, asell as other powers like iran, russia, saudi arabia, are all complicit in helping create, maintain, and sustain the political system in lebanon that most protesters are calling for ththe downfall of. 11th hourther an abouout-face by france or cynicl attempt to reestablish relationship. as you mention yourselelf with e ap report, france was responsible for creating the state of lebanon in the aftermath of world war ii and was a colonial power from 1918 to 1946 when it withdrew. most of the structural and institutional arrangements that are with us today in lebanon were introduced and facilitated through french government practices du

macro leads a defense video conference on niger and the coronavirus crisis -- emmanuel macron leads aefense videoconference. covid trialsp, shows multiple warnings about explosive material at beirut's port a week after the deadly blast. with anrnment resigns outraged public demanding accountability. ."lcome back to "france 24 thank you so much for joining us again this afternoon. we start with unrest in belarus thisis tuesday, where the main challenger has fled the country, this after a second night of street clashes between police and opposition supporters. the cocountry has been rocked by violence since election results gave president alexander lukashenko 80%, and svetlana tikhanouskaya has refused to accept it. lukashenko has been president since 1994 and is being dubbed europe's last dictator. >> refusing to concede defeat, former belarusian presidential candidate svetlana tikhanouskaya is now in lithuania, according to the country's foreign minister. the lithuanian president on meta-expressssed doubts about te election results that precipitated her departure. >> [speaking foreign

macron visitedt beirut just two days after it happened pity is coming back next week.as anything changed since the french presidedent visited? lela: a few things have changed -- largely the anger has grown. there is now clear evidence that at least on a dozen occasions, messages were sent to various leaders about the nitrate. they had confirmed they knew it was sitting there. believee people that -- it is of the -- the coming in september, the 100 year anniversary. many people saying this is the opportunity for a new system and way forward. there has still been little action on the ground on the part of political actors and they will be looking to president macron not -- begging fofor him not to work hand-in-hand with the government. thank you for that. in new zealand, the man who killed 51 people at a mosque last year has been handed the heaviest sentencee in that cocountry's history. he has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. in march last yearar, attacked two mosques and plan to attack a third, killing infants and the elderly. witnesses who testified in