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DW Reporter - On Location July 12, 2024

Place using news video in the band yet i dont like the beatles quite so mr sing along to you to just come from super good seats. For. Interactive exercises. Everything is online most vile and interactive then german for free with d. W. Were just good drama stars we were still injured we havent humans to go. But johnny us off is calling on beirut to stand up now. The massive explosions in the courts of lebanons capital have exposed the governments failures along every line and. The people to pick up the pieces johnny is only one of many will they chant all their fury into protest. When it comes to very good living. Its johnny 1st day back at work since the explosion. We once had the most beautiful of the new. And we still have a beautiful view was a different perspective. Because. I was here once this happened you can see all all of the blood all my blood is still there on the floor. But if i was in my own office i would be gone. To a movie on on my own blood. In beirut social circles johnny is considered a man about town and he founded a Company Called beirut living which buys rents and sells real estate but the disaster turned him into an activist out of sheer fury over the political stagnation in the country now 5 days after the explosion he and his employees have to clean up and salvage whatever they can. Pass into house stability and inferred we are met was big bangs the government is not only government you hear him off your pay you have to face the mafia in the government at the same time and the army and the. Police. Know they have and we pay taxes to our suffering. The powerful explosions in beirut sport brutally exposed to the many troubles plaguing the country mismanagement corruption and an overall failure of the political establishment inflation and economic crisis have pushed lebanon to the brink of ruin discontent had been brewing for months and then suddenly wide scale destruction some 300000 people have lost their homes. And who will clean it all up the citizens themselves were it not for the sense of solidarity they share their situation with the much more difficult civilian relief organizations came from every corner of the oven and to join the international ones onsite. Johnny a soft has been working in emergency mode for days both giving and receiving help with the London Office getting a chicken sandwich of the 4 days its. Been 5 days i dont know i got im not counting the days. Is a great. Is done by human confronted people are taking their own money to hard. Core lot of those who doesnt have a house theyre trying and its an area you would find a Small Community that is doing incentives. That. The government has failed to do for its own people over 1000000 Syrian Refugees have stretched lebanons resources even more apparent a poor neighborhood east of the port is where 12 year old mustafa lives a lot of the explosion caused an enormous shock where. Everything in the house was destroyed will be a bit of butter on the door flew off its hinges as you can see and. We had to crawl over the door on our hands and knees. Financially yeah on our hands and knees. Under. Mustafa stanley came here from syria before lebanons own civil war the children were all born in beirut they had always felt safe here until now but at least they all survived. Oh what a feeling it was. We were so scared we thought we were dreaming. I kept wondering when i would wake up he has nightmares. I can still hear the sound of glass shattering in my head. So i feel. I dont know why that keeps happening. Good im shaking. But. Not right do you need fruit you could be nothing one of the victims of crime. Ok im going to hold the best. Were going to be on the last night im going to. Give my love and if its good to see her so how are you doing you got johnny arse off is keeping many lines of communication going he can exponent tears and victims over whatsapp and facebook posting whats needed and where here hes come to see it windows and walls have been repaired and doing ok and i dont want to go my guys come by. I dont but even for the windows. But johnny is told that a wall has collapsed. He says he will see what he can do about it. Ok i dont you feel. Well. Even before the explosions this house in cairo and tino was a virtual ruin. I have lived here less than a year they also come from syria when the warehouse blew up they thought it was a bomb attack you know will go ahead like the explosion blew out the sorry. But it shook the whole house we ran outside to see the plane oh my brothers and i looked for bombers up in the sky. And then there was a 2nd explosion and it destroyed everything and weve stayed inside him would be dead now and im not. Any more. Even now days later stone blocks are still falling out of the walls. And although weve cleared away the rubble. Im back on the whole but. You know i know now where we have. 45 minutes ago a truck drove by and by whom the young woman you know wanted to help their neighbors are also anxious my house is standing but could fall down any moment please leave yours where do you want to die going to have been nobody here wants to die or please give us another home. Theyve offered you another home please go to him about where is it they wrote down our number but nobody called to tell us where is that how youre a mistake your family out of here where are you going to sleep here is there no humanity left i live here 6 people died here who want to stay in go ahead and die. What would. You think. Everywhere nerves are frayed and. Wages boiling over. Unfair 5 days a week with the army and everyone hates armies these days dissatisfaction had already been done fuelling protests in the autumn but they were stopped by the code igniting pandemic now though anger outweighs fear of the virus for all lebanese why are we fighting each other for lebanese shame on you for fighting each other. How could you do this to your own citizens whove suffered so much pain. And the people feel broken and exhausted and you fire tear gas at them shame on you or is this really what you want to do is this how you protect your people thats not how it should be noted that mike mike if you look at this i mean you know nothing. Of the out there now here i am. I am. Every evening a veil of tear gas hangs over the center of Beirut Lebanon stereos religious groups divided the power among themselves to give everyone a say and guarantee the peace but now it only seems to ensure mismanagement and corruption and many hope that after the recent disaster things will be different but for now the only response is more soldiers and more tear gas my government did this. At the demonstrations johnny stands on the sidelines the wounds on his back arent fully healed yet he wants to go home. Im divided into many places i need to help my team i need to help my country our need to be. As an activist i need to have this like its its going but on about i love it i love it its made. Picking me out of my drama as well its making me have a purpose. During sleepless nights since the explosion hes been busy posting things on the internet. Tonight hes taking aim at the military. In the past he would have spent this time socializing or brooding over his business. The next morning a colleague a similar visit he took pictures of johnny just after the explosion. I recall him putting this here because theres there i could feel here this is here there were the most the 2 biggest. Cuts and the glass was still there. Looking to be of no. Moment of joy. One movement of joy you. Were through our minister is resigning. Its a its a moment. Its like if you really move. Like gold you made us was. But that evening once again the protests turned into a confrontation and. The demonstrators dont believe that the system will change on its own. In frustration that this came from the centers continuing as well its the adrenalin that the spend there as well the smile of the tear gas as you can see. Im crying. This my love the tear goes. And the smell of the teargas. Which as well once you tear gas you want to go back. And fight again its like. Youre an. When you need to take your anger out. 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