A contentious election thats returned Alexander Lukashenko to power for 6 term and a race against time off the coast of volunteers work to stem the flow of oil spilling from a stricken japanese vessel. And im santa how much now have all the sports. Book the spot in the semifinals of the earth or league it with a victory over by leverkusen. As president michel aoun has accepted the resignation of his Prime Ministers government it follows mounting public anger of last weeks explosion in the capital beirut which left more than 200 people dead thousands more injured and hundreds of 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. Lebanons government has finally caved in like a shot at buildings along beiruts 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. Theyd only been in power since january sworn in to replace a Previous Administration forced out after lebanons 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 cant let anyone put themselves in opposition no one wants to be in power under such circumstances when facing everything a financial collapse the current virus this National Disaster were facing so police its nothing like running from responsibility. But even the biggest explosion might not be enough to bring significant political change here. The countrys parliament an election system is controlled by a political elite the divided up power and influence after the civil war. And this crisis is not enough unfortunately for them to be convinced because most of them were the actors of the war and they do not think properly peacefully and a civilized way in order to get the people the power they want to keep the power in their hands. Many people in lebanon describe their circumstances as like being held hostage. Here and managed if the government resigned then there is hope to be able to build the country and live our lives like we want to we wanted to become a proper state we do not have a country and were not able to live in one. Of putting up with. What will our National Unity government do after just restriction blood and death we can change your many educated people who are suitable to run a country. That frustration with a government that seems to have left the cleanup operation to its citizens exploded Near Parliament on monday the. Possible names for new Prime Minister include saad hariri he held the post until january but was forced out when the Banking System collapsed its not the sort of break with the past people here are looking for and the cabinet has just resigned was dominated by the iran backed Hezbollah Group and its Allies International donors will expect to see members of the opposition in the new cabinet before they consider releasing billions of dollars in reconstruction aid Bernard Smith aljazeera beirut. Well yes mama money is a professor of Political Science at university of waterloo in canada joins me live via skype and of course when Prime Minister has took office in january the whole point was to have an independent government that would be able to enact serious systemic change is it going 1 to work this time around. Well its going to be very difficult i think you know lebanon is in a very tough spot partly because so much of the political it really leak have really tarnished their images thoroughly because of the corruption that really is endemic in the system i think what the protesters want is more than just a musical chair or a group of the names that people back into positions they really want something very organic i think bottom up and new and perhaps the only solution is to think about an Imminent Group of respected technocrats and professional lives maybe from the Diaspora Community perhaps from the Business Community again one really needs to be imagination imaginative here because the existing names are just not going to be satisfying to the protesters and to those who want to see something absolutely different than the Musical Chairs theyve been getting for years and years i suppose the problem is that even if you have individuals that are themselves intend to satisfy demands for systemic change that are completely independent and not affiliated to to any one sectarian group they would be depending on established parties in order to to try and get things done. Yeah i mean look its there is the real challenge here is what the protesters want and frankly what lebanon is not what the system is going to produce and so there is a bit of a consistency here i see that and thats a real challenge and in many ways it makes levanon and it very difficult spot it and almost very sad to watch because it cannot be continued to be addressed with the existing Political Parties the Political Parties dont act in the National Interest they dont act as brokerage partons meaning that they try to you know represent all lebanese they very much have factions and sectarian interests and theyre all really in it to just line their own pockets hence we have this enormous debt crisis that the leaders have amounted. It you mentioned the debt crisis and of course the economic implosion in lebanon has been stark hasnt been this is a country that has long had an unsustainable economic model it imports more than it exports spends far more than it receives in revenue the state is now bankrupt so how do you even begin to tackle that while managing this sort of deep political change. You know and i think that maybe this is where frankly had there been i think the kind of International Pressure on lebanon to really push for if theres going to be proper Debt Forgiveness i think lebanon needs a sovereign debt restructuring the loans cannot be paid back but that can only come frankly with the governments changes and reforms and so i think it needs to be added as a condition quite literally if the International Community is going to forgive lebanon for the billions of dollars that it will never get paid back anyways it wants to see very specific changes including this kind of technocratic government in the interim and then have a broad very much bottom up conversation about restructuring the entire political system that requires constitutional change this is not going to happen overnight and its certainly not going to be easy with the reality that lebanon is facing all that you said an Enormous Economic crisis a very fractured and political system that inherently is divided sadly even though i think theres many who need to find those horizontal linkages to make this country back to the national you know vision so many want to see thank you very much press my money professor of Political Science at university of waterloo in canada thank you thank you meanwhile the United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has been meeting to discuss the situation in lebanon u. N. Chief antonio terraces called for a credible investigation into the cause of cheese days lost on sunday while the dozen International Organizations pledged nearly 300000000. 00 in aid it is important that the good people and so spread of the investigation of the serving the cause of the explosion and been given the belief the demanded by the lebanese people is also important that the forms of the lament the source with the rest the needs of the lebanese people for the monger. Now indian authorities of c. 740. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate a chemical that was a cause of the deadly blast in beirut it was stored at a freight station in a chennai city in the countrys east since 2015 it was confiscated for alleged violation of import rules media reports at least 181 tons of been moved to hyderabad and the rest is expected to follow soon youre watching news ally from london more still ahead a u. S. Court issues a summons for the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin selman over allegations he ordered the killing of an intelligence agent. On course for a slowdown with greece turkey pushes ahead with its plans to drill in disputed waters in the Eastern Mediterranean. And englands most prolific test bowler hits back at claims about his future. Police in hong kong of made the highest profile arrests so far under a new National Security law imposed by china prodemocracy media tycoon jimmy lies been detained accused of colluding with Foreign Forces critics say its an attack on press freedom in Hong Kong Sarah Clarke reports. Police made the arrests on monday morning detaining jimmy lie at his home in cali on the founder of the prodemocracy newspaper apple daily is well known for his criticism of Chinas Communist Party hes been arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion under the National Security law imposed by china last month this morning at around 945. 00 together with our colleagues on the criminal Investigation Department and military staff we got a warrant to conduct an operation to search for evidence i wasnt the only arrest on monday 2 of life sons were also arrested more than 200. 00 police raided apple dudleys headquarters detaining Senior Executives including the tabloids chief executive officer detective search computers and interviewed staff many are shocked and horrified including myself and i think this is send out a very very negative message and of course it must have a Chilling Effect on people who want to speak out and particularly on the news media so this is a very very Disturbing Development long the National Security legislation targets acts of subversion terrorism secession and collusion with Foreign Forces the maximum penalty is life in prison critics say the legislation is being used by chinas leaders to silence the opposition and crackdown on democracy in the semi autonomous region the Hong Kong Journalists Association says its a worrying development for Media Freedom it never happened before in hong kong in reason perhaps not the case weve seen there perhaps sent in for it well cities and countries but but we never expect that that would have happened in hong kong. Happen causing direct and indirect threats through press freedom and journalist mondays arrests of the most high profile under the National Security law which was introduced just over a month the guy a number of countries have condemned the legislation including the United StatesUnited Kingdom astray and canada but the government here has defended the new law stating its crucial to restore order to a city thats been plagued by months of protests sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Now to Belarus Police say a protester has died after a bomb exploded in his hands during a 2nd night of antigovernment rallies thousands of people are demonstrating again in the capital men sc after early Election Results showed a landslide victory for president Alexander Lukashenko with more than 80 percent of the vote look look set to win a 6th term extending his 26 years in power all the main opposition candidate in the country is disputing the Election Results that are taken off sky it says she is gathering proof that the poll was raked. We dont agree with the Election Results we have absolutely opposite information we have official protocols from many poles the sions were a number of votes in my favor are many more times than for other candidates who are gathering proofs of falsifications we have people who are officially ready to foster vacations or pull stations so we are starting to actively work on this and right now im going to the Central Election Commission to see that we dont accept results of the elections or president lukashenko is one that he will crack down on opposition protesters who challenge the official vote results. 30 p. To around 25. 00 Police Officers have been injured they have their legs in hand they were deliberately hit so they replied why are you crying no the response will be adequate we will not allow you to tear the country apart or. Better russian journalist and political commentator he joins me live via skype from kiev what you hearing from your colleagues and friends in various contacts in belarus are police continuing to attack protesters tonight. So there is no much information coming from mens can the original because there is internet shut down and only several messenger are available we know more or less whats happening in minsk there are 610 hotspots where clashes between police older and protesters are happening the police and soldiers are use and rubber bullets attacking with the buttons of their old protestors independently of their email or mail elderly or kids there are many reports that underage guys and girls are arrested does well and harshly beaten the k g b spetznaz of a group which is like the lead to department of k. G. B. They did attack of the group of journalists today and one of them the newest is a wonder to his insurer choosing the hospital right now and we dont know yet what sort of condition unfortunately i must say that that the situation is escalating costly and its very important of course for the west community to give a clear signal to question that function stargate that sanctions will call or if the oil spill what it is that i mean is that likely to work because the country is is already so isolated from the rest of the world. Well our country. Because of the question of primarily who used to build dictatorship or in isolation who said that communism and soviet union is our greatest austin has stopped all the process of integration of brothers to europe here began relational ization the 19th it is true but there are some language and the recent education. Is now of the moment when people decided to tell him that its no good and i suppose that is that is do you think that the gap gives the International Community much much less leverage in getting him to be more restrained right now exactly and you know the diplomatic presence of western countries and others are so limited so they can do march in belarus and or there are the u. S. Ambassador who have invested there for 12 years almost so basically the information from brother is doesnt come outside and now perhaps the 1st time in but there is more than history when the world is watching brothers unfortunately its watching this the drastic dramatic scenes or people shoot shot by by police from the army and i must say that thats unique situation for below us and we are observing they feel this is a historical moment i was going to say i was just going to ask you because these are not just protests that were seeing in the capital minsk you speaking about protests taking place in dozens of cities just yesterday when are you getting exit poll results how in a view have you ever seen anything like this in belarus before. I i never saw anything like there is some more than that i couldnt imagine anything like this because brothers sons are super peaceful people they hate called that they hate scandals they dont like worse they are always disciplined we even called the russians as like Eastern European germans you know they do everything they do everything according to the rules and whats happening right now thats Popular Uprising people are and not where the lies with the propaganda of the regime and they dont associate themselves with the soviet leader who question case representative of the soviet past and people want iraq they d want modern civilization they want to open borders so i would say this is not just their allusion against the question of the female revolution because there was the leadership is for male its a liberal revolution and its also a Media Digital revolution because all the protestant and revolt so we have sort of right now it is made on all social media primarily or actually are charkha