you know neal hello and welcome. we begin with breaking news from beirut and then tense standoff is developing in the lebanese capital where there's an eye pouring of grief and anger over tuesday's deadly explosion security forces have used rubber bullets on tear gas to break up crowds calling for officials to be brought to justice. 6 for all the. fast moving developments today in the past number of hours protesters storming of several government buildings and a group took over the foreign ministry building missing their flag and declaring it the headquarters of the revolution and they have since spain driven by heavily all the security steps. that we were coming back to the property so far were people in these building belongs to the people of lebanon. we went to martyr square to sort of gallows for those who did this to our country today will hang news of this and we will lead a single government ministers keep. the police stuff far and take asked us in mosques square and the iraqis will so time simply fled. brutal

every hour of the day this is r t international my name's you know neal hello and welcome to the program. of workers down there are too. demanding of last week's election with many taking to the streets right across the country president alexander lukashenko said a new vote will only be possible if the constitution is amend it. number of the we need to adopt and you can situation you must adopt it's in a referendum because the previous constitution was adopted in the referendum and on dylan you can situation we can hold new elections if you want to palm and the presidency and local authorities because the mass protests continue in belarus where the workers from a various a major manufacturers factories plants and other places have walked out on a national strike and i'm talking about said different industries ultimo they have metallurgy mining to name just a few now they have put forward their demands and they are new elections with all of the candidates release of all political prisoners and dismissal of all those people who were responsible for the rigging of the election and the viola

international my name is you know neal hello and welcome to the program we begin with breaking news from beirut rioters have stormed lebanese government buildings including 4 ministries in the night pouring of public anger or tuesday's deadly explosion. ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah that's not. a lot of developments on the day according to local law enforcement a police officer has been killed in the riots and at least 175 people have been injured thousands as you can see here rallying on marchers square that's in central pierrette right throughout the day they are pointing the finger directly at the government for the chain of events leading up to choose the explosion in the city's poor to area it killed 154 people leaving 5000 more injured riot police and soldiers are out in force to have reportedly been firing live ammunition well this is a sharp escalation of civil unrest has been simmering since october over soaring poverty levels on an economy in freefall prime minister his son has called for an early election corruption was to blame for cho

around the clock across the world this is artsy pleasure to have your company my names you know neal hello and welcome to our top story the world health organization is now warning not coronavirus is not seasonal like the flu but instead is happening as one big wave it comes after lockdowns worries leading to another spike in victims friday influx all the biggest ever dealy increase in krona virus cases reaching almost $300.00 cross the globe the w.h.o. say. the time to relax. the transmission is still there so the concern was that people saw you know lockdowns over that it was somehow it go away they they had this idea that it might come back later in the year but they had this seem to be this fixed idea that now is some time to ponty and unfortunately that's not the case why you got transmission anywhere is potentially everywhere what we mean by one big wave is that it continues to remain but you need to bring it down you need to bring it down so that those who will get most ill and you will have that percentage of people who get most still can get the treatment they need immediately in

broadcasting from moscow every hour of the day is r t international my names you know neal hello there very warm welcome to the program . rallies and counter protests are sweeping bellerose for a 13 day in the wake of this month's disputed election throughout friday large crowds have been gathering in support of president lukashenko in the country's west artie's eager to turn off is among them. it's really really loud here what is playing behind me right now is the national anthem of the republic of the us a little bit of context right selling the west in the middle of the country in the city of rest a lot during the time the 2nd full. the great feel to call your guess is as good as mine here when it comes to scale but i would say there's about there's definitely thousands of people maybe close to 10000 basically people who have to look to a number of them and their message is some of them one don't want to but none of them want to listen. to be played out in their public also a lot of people are making a huge point about the flag you can see how many better russian flags official by t

from moscow to the world this is international my names you know neal hello and welcome. to our breaking news a devastating explosion has hit lebanon's capital beirut government officials are saying at least 30 people are dead and more than 2500 injured the blast went off in the city's poor area destroying buildings within a large radius the coals is so far clear it is believed to have set off fuel tanks causing a 2nd reply to a huge fire as well. or freelance journalist own holo way in beirut on the scribe to us what he saw. in the pump last year starting to break down from a large hole to be. seen from the right like. the upper right that's a good amount injured. down suited me she happened to our building the infrastructure over there. staging. trucks around you you see behind me. that in terms of the importance of. the structure of. it was very much strain. on going and. endemic to this country every day i'm. taking. a look at right it's been. very very. positive very very. let's say trying to find out some more about what happened in beirut we can cross live to a mid

live from moscow this is our teenager national my name's you know neal hello and welcome to the program. the search is ongoing for survivors following choose these deadly explosion in beirut the death toll has now reached 154 with 5000 injured several countries including russia. crews to the lebanese capital to assist in the rescue effort. reports from the scene of the tragedy. 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 as a 1000000000 can get look closely under my feet i do apologize for my dirty sneakers but look closely because i'm not stepping on dirt or sand or anything this is actually cool and seeds of cooling from this massive towering reserve which is no more because of the bluster and this is the very 1st site where russian rescuers are searching for survivors. they are telling me that they are ready to work overnight if there's any possibility of finding somebody alive. this i