the police started firing tear gas at us on monster square and the rice is also tied to us and we fled. or to see goes on of his in beirut with the latest. well the smoke still hasn't cleared from the streets of beirut and everything that you can see around me well it hasn't been caused by the blast but rather by today's protests we are in an area which has seen some of the heaviest clashes between the police the army and well the riot says it is in fact not far from the port where the blast had happened but this was not caused by the blast this was caused by all the protests and by people being unhappy lots of dumpsters just overturned set on fire i mean by the time we got here there was much more smoke much more fires going on let's just see just have a look here this is not again this is not damage excuse me this is not damage from the blogs this is a from today's protests and what people are unhappy about lebanon has been battered in the past in the past year firstly and foremost leave the country is in economic in an economic turmoil its economy plunged then covert 19 heads and it

the police started firing tear gas at us on monster square and the rice is also attacked us and we fled. which is igor john of his in beirut with the latest. well the smoke still hasn't cleared from the streets of beirut and everything that you can see around me well it hasn't been caused by the blast but rather by today's protests we are in an area which has seen some of the heaviest clashes between the police the army and well the riotous it is in fact not far from the port where the blast had happened but this was not caused by the blast this was caused by all the protests and by people being unhappy lots of dumpsters just overturned set on fire i mean by the time we got here there was much more smoke much more fires going on let's just see just have a look here this is not again this is not damage excuse me this is not damage from the blogs this is a from today's protests and what people are unhappy about lebanon has been battered in the past in the past year firstly and foremost leave the country is in economic in an economic turmoil its economy plunged then covert 19 heads and it

the police started firing tear gas at us on monster square and the rice is also tied to us and we fled. artie's he goes donovan is in beirut with the latest force. well the smoke still hasn't cleared from the streets of beirut and everything that you can see around me well it hasn't been caused by the blast but rather by today's protests we are in an area which has seen some of the heaviest clashes between the police the army and well the riotous it is in fact not far from the port where the bloss had happened but this was not caused by the blast this was caused by all the protests and by people being unhappy lots of dumpsters just overturned set on fire i mean by the time we got here there was much more smoke much more fires going on let's just see just have a look here this is not again this is not damage excuse me this is not damage from the blogs this is a from today's protests and what people unhappy about lebanon has been battered in the past in the past year firstly and foremost leave the country is in economic in an economic turmoil its economy plunged then covert 19 heads and

correspondent joins us live from monster square you know what options does the cabinet and the government feel it's got on the table today when it goes into that meeting. well the cabinet is under pressure the prime minister is under pressure you mentioned that 2 ministers have resigned the prime minister held an emergency meeting with his cabinet late yesterday trying to convince his ministers to stay on because there were reports that other ministers wanted to tender the resignation he's telling them give me time we will propose early elections give me time at 2 months and we will carry out structural reforms but we did hear from one of the ministers that belong to the hezbollah camp a main political force in lebanon and they said we are not resigning the cabinet will continue to carry out its responsibilities and it's towards its citizens really a lot of public pressure but there's little that they can do even the opposition has little cards to play because the ruling alliance the governing alliance they control the presidency they control the government and they control the parliament