The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Hello. Welcome to outside source. The entire banese government resigns as protests continue in beirut after last weeks catastrophic explosion. We will have reaction from the ground. A lot of protesters are cynical, evegetting rated that even getting rid of this government will make any difference to lebanon. In hong kong, prodemocracy activist, a media tycoon, the highest profile arrest yet. In belarus, clashes continued ertween police and protest angry at sundays disputed president ial poll. Hello and a warm welcome. We sta inanon were just a few hours ago the entire government resigned. The Prime Minister made the announcement. He said thentry is facing a massive catastrophe, as well as economic and social collapse. The mass resignalaon came after tuesdays explosion that killed more than 200 people, thousands injured, a many still missing. There have been widespread protests over the past x days, anhese pictures are from a little ear today when the demonstrators tried to breach barricades surrounding the parliament building. Protesters have been launching fireworks towards police who have responded with tear gas. And these are some of the test images of protests, which are expected to continue into the night. This was hassan diab on his way into a cabinet meeting. Several cabinet ministers already quit their post. Here is what the Prime Minister said after the meeting. I announce the resignation of this government. May god protect leban. May god protect lebanon. May god protect lebanon long live you, and long live lebanon. Thisthe reaction of the director ofmi the carnegile east center in beirut. It was an evitable. This governmen was already a lameduck government before the explosion happened. Af er thelosion, it has i mean, the handling of the explonion has been of confu people are complaining state institutions areunowhere to be s people helping each other, which has bee amazing, but state institutions are not there. So overall it was expected. Other way but resignation. After Prime Minister hassan diab made his announcement, he went to hand his resignation to thede pre, michel aoun, at the palace. So a lot has been happening today. Ls get context. It was clarified via twitter that the resignation of lebanons government doe enot mean earctions. It means the appointment of a new prime existing parliament and all tes political ishat come with it. Lets get morerom a journalist in beirut. The next step is the formation of a new cabinet, but who forms it . It is up to the president himself following consultations with the parliamentary blocks, which are ruled by the major parties. So many are cynical, and they are expecting another reproduction of thca current poli class. Going to be . Tion is, who is it lebanon failed to successfully negotiate with the imf. The International Community is lebanon as they we before. So who will the new Prime Minister be and what will e cabinet like, and will it be good enough to the Political Class and appeal to a disgruntled relation and International Community . Lets get more from thee square befe announcement. There were celebrations here at the square, but if you look over here, y can see that riot policeave been deployed. They fired tear gas to remove the protesters who fell back. Those protesters are very cynical that even getting rid of this goverent will make any difference to lebanon and bring accountability for that deadly explosion which happened just a couple blocks away from where i am in th port. Earlier in th day,e was speaking to people who have lost everything in they root irut. Lebanons government is coming apart. The explosion here has unleashed a new fury on thetreets. Even among tear gas, these protesters can smell the governmens downfall. They have brought down governments before. Of theis the reshuffling same faces at the top. Lvis it going to so lebanons crisis . The state is out in force and a shuttered capital, but carrying guns, not brooms. The lebanese are famous for their determination. Heople here are sick of being left to fend forelves. Nobody else but the youth is going to help here. You can see some people from the governmentere, and they just sit and do nothing. Wdo revolution. It does not help. Weve become more aggressive,pt will not hither. So what can we do other than clean at the moment . E bonds in beirut remai unbroken. Nigel lived in this flat for 70 years, just o blocks from the port. He and his wife were here during the explosion. Most of their doors and windows are gone. Is it time to leave, i ask. No, no, no, no. I stay wita tent here. This is a tight neighborhoo a den people died on this one corner, and everybody here knows exactly where their neighbors were when the blast hit. Some are in no position to help. The wounds are too raw. This woman was in her car by the highway othe highway by the port. She and her husband filmed the fire before the explosion. Hospital, it was like a movie. I h more chance than others because i saw people on the road, people lost their eyes. Today she is having plastic rgery. The doctor is offering his services to the wounded for free. It is my gut telling me that if you a can,t least offer some kind of your expertise to help the people. M because if iing to go a work on the street walk on the street in five months and people with bad scholars scars on their face, i will feel guil. This disaster brought the lebanese people together. But it is also ttrring the coun apart. Bbc news, beirut. The devastation there in beirut. Lets get more from bbc monitoring, monitoring todas evenme. When it coto the resignation of the government, it is not as straightforward as simply bringing in a new administration. That is right. Even though it is a small victory for the protesters, it is not a Silver Bullet and we are not likely to see a miracle happen overnight. We will see the government continue, and presint aoun has already asked for Prime Minister diab to continue until a new government is formed, and the prident will set a date for parliament to appoint a new prime minist. If we see a long, drawnout process but with the same faces appearing and a new lineup, the the anger will remain on the streets. Protesters will keepn demanding completely new figures in the upcoming governmt. You touch upon t anger on the streets. We have been seeing it over the past few days, people trying to tidy up after that devastating explosion on tueay. Yet,ou we have got force there who are firing tear gas at them. How are people reacting . Correct. The angovernment sentiment is at an alltime hig people are furious with the government response in the aftermath of the explosions and hold the government resnsible of negligence and mismanagement. In termsf the anger already on the streets in antigovernment protests since last year, the economy has been inatters, stringent capital controls, meaning people have not been able to access tir savings. People have been facing daily electricity cuts and fuel shortages. So it has been mounting and protesters will carry on demanding a complete overhl of the system, a change in government. That was from bbc monitoring. Thank you so much for yourime. We have lots more on our website. Noto hong kong, where police have made 10 arrests under chinas new security law. One ofhem is a prominent prodemocracy activist. The other is the highprofile media tycoon jimmy light. He has o been detainedn suspicion of foreign collusion, and he was led through his office, the apple daily, in cuhandffs. Were told that two of his sons have also been arreste forces livestreamedhe police raid of his office o the apple daily,hich is a really popular tablet he founded. It is often critical of hong kong and chinaseadership. Hong kong Authorities Say the arch is linked to the protest movement, but critics have been quick to call it a beijing cut down in an effort to silence political opposition. Jimmy is already facing charges related to antigovernment protests in the territory last year, and we are told by a Senior Executive and hisimompany that tg of his latest arrest is crucial. Or they knew while that they would probably come sooner or later for him. We basically ascertained the reason why they did itek this was jimmy has a trial coming up in two weeks for another matter. Once he disposed of that matter, he could travel again. So i guess now is the time they wa ted to pull thegger. Ly, i thite fra they are very frustrated that they have not been able to totally control hong kong. As usual, they hold jimmy and apple daily responsible for a large part of that. Prodemocracy activists have been condemning his arrest via twitter. It w called the end of freedom of press in hong kong. The National Security law is quashing the freedom of our fear. T spreading political another high profile activist, joshua, reated that message. Police were sent to the apple daily headquarters, and they even searched on the material of the journalists, which show no respect, especially when readers hope to enter the building tors footage about h police stormed the building. Police just allowed local media to enter. Apple daily has vowed to nrry o in its latest addition which just landed in newspaper booths across hong kong, and these are images offoeople killin copies. They have been shared, these images, and socialedia. We are hearing that 350,000 copies have be printed, five times more than the usual print run. While that is one perspective, another in mainland china. Out state media global times has called mr. Lai a writer, supporter, his publications have instigated hatred, spreading krumors, and smearing hog authorities and the mainland for years. The Vice President for the center for china and globalization, a think tank, is here with other accusations. Ihink mr. Jimmy lai has a notorious record, not just running a newspaper g kong. I think his position challenging sovereignty right over hong kong is a position challenging the one country system, notorious. And the fact that he really colludes wh the u. S. Politicians, challging chinas sovereigntve ohong kong, for the record. Th i ink there is a great level of expectation that he will be brought toustice sooner or ter. So very different view. Also t in past few hours, as prodemocracy actias been arrested. Next to joshua. T she has been charged with inciting secession. They say her chances of bail are slim. My colleague has been covering the veotests exten for bbc news, and she joins us live now. Lets just start with jim lai, because the way that he was detained in the way it was carried out was extremely public. An awful lot of police presence, a real message coming from beijing. Yes, that is what many people in hong kong would be saying, even though police said they were not there to disrupt apple dailynss operatnd even though hong kong asterisk security lawnly affixes small number of people and respects press freedom. But today you can imagine some people could be questioning that. And the nature of the arrest with hundreds of Police Officers the newspaper offices hasaseen describenprecedented. The hong kong journalist expressed concern, saying this seems to be a clear threat to freedom of speech andn ress freedomng kong. Remember, jimmy lai m is tt highprofile person to be arrested he is not the only one peer there are his twoons, and a former activist who works as a freelance for british broadcaster itv. So there is a lot of concern and a feelimongst activists in hong kong that this was designed as a warning. Cohen is to the paper itself, the apple daily, it is popular, and we saw people already queuing out on the streets to get that first edition. The print has been increased so showing their support. Yes, and the share prices dipped today at the arrest,ikut then it a lot afterwards. Many activists and supporters at we need to support apple daily, so lets buy shares. I think joshua, the activist, also said even if the newspaper came up blank tomorrow, i would buy a copy. Soineople areng different ways to support the paper and their discontent with the arrest. For monitoring thi us. So much do stay with us here on outside source. We will be looking at the second night of clashes which have erected in belarus between police and protesters angry at pusundays dd president ial poll. A row growing over the way school exam results have been calculated in scotland after they were canceled because of the pandemic. Scotlands first manager said tomorrow what it intends to do. Pes le received resust week, and a quarter found they were downgraded from their teachers predictions. The concern was to make sure e grades young people got were as valid as those in the any other year. If perhaps let us to think too a muut the overall system and not enough about the individual people. And that has meant too many they have lost out on grades they should have had and also that at hasappened as a result not of anything they have done but because of a statistical model or algorithm. And it has not fallen equally across society. So despite our best intentions, iknowledge that we did not get this right, and i am sorry for that. Hello, welcome. Youre watching outside source. Were live from the bbc. The entire lebanese government resigns as protesters continue in beirut after last weeksxp catastrophic elosion. Av we willmore reaction from the ground. Ok at some of the other news stories. The United States and brazil remain by far the nations worst affected by the covid19 ctionsic in terms of in and also fatalities. Th past weekend, each nation passed a once unthinkable milestone, the u. S. Crossed 5 million infections while brazil 100,000 deaths. Ore than and the french capital parisy toda trying to contain a rise in coronavirus infections. Face masks and now must be worn in public outdoor areas such as along e banks of the seine and in openair markets. These measures have already been in place i nice for a week. Y of actordentonio bs says he has tested positive for covid19 and is now in the quarantine. On twitter, he said he was wfeeling relativelyl but felt a bit more tired than usual. He is the latest Hollywood Star to announce that they have the virus after the likes of tom hanksnd idris elba. The main opposition candidate in sundays election says she is refusing to accept the result. Svetlana tikhanovskaya says she considers herself the winner of the pole. The winner of the poll. Here she is. The authorities should tnk abou how to peacefully hand over power to a spirit so far have only responded with violence against peaceful citizens. He results were announced early on monday, giving the incumbent, alexander lukashenko, 80 of the vote and a sixth term as president. This is mr. Lukashenko casting his vote on sunday. He h ruled the lerouxs since 1994 and has been dubbed europes last dictator does she has ruled belarus since 1994. None of the previous elections he won were found us free and fair. Similar concerns or be asked being expressed by belarus neighbors today. It is not just in terms of that nation but what happened st night and also in the runup of elections, it is not a democratic process, and we cannot consider the elections of transparent. Free and undemocratic and notr f. We have a solid basis of observations and looking also at the context and the arrests. I would say also that i would not say that these elections were the credit and free were democratic and fe. Ad our correspondent was in belarus in the p to the election. I do not think there was any doubt of these numbers yesterday, but it does not mean the people of belarus would accept it. We have seen in recent weeks the momentum building b the opposition candidate, whicis quite unprecedented. We did not see this kind of ioussition in the pr election yes, the result, people felt it was never going to be any different,es the officialt, but they are in a dferent place now, not in a place where hisyre willing to accept result. We saw for weeks the cros building and building behind the opposition, so kind of the extent of the shingle victory at 80 i think has shocked some people the exnt of the lukashenko victory. As you can see, this is the capital, mins and police are using stun grenades, rubber bullets, and water cannons. Protesterset at least 50 were injured. Lots of people with guns, and they started shooting at our arms and legs. The first people were peaceful. They formed a big human chain. Then the police started grabbing. Em and there were clash 90 minutes later came the rubber bullets and sn grenades. Internet much entering fish Monitoring Group an internet Monitoring Group also reported disr difficult for any evidence of Election Fraud to be shared, it isaid. Opposition to mr. Lukashenkos rule has been racing. Svetlana tikhanovskaya is an english tincture and stayathome mom who was thrust into the spotlight is an english tcher and stayathome mom who was thrt into the spotlight. It is not yet clear what might happen next. The European Union has called for deescalation, while russia is called for closer integration. But it seems like the protester are not goin away. A former reddish ambassador to larus told the guardiant t there is a genie out of the ttle and will not go back. Were joined live now. Ifou look at the way the results went, 80 to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, not quite 10 . She is calling this a rigged election. Proving that . She g well, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and the opposition as a whole, they refer first to the dependent vote count, an online project essentially. Secondly, th referred to some protocols of some polling stations where they managed to have independent observers, and faiion observers, in august honest figures were published at those polling stations, and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won outright at those polling stations. And it was said many times, it is all about backgrod and experience, as well, because during the during location go look at shingle during lukashenkos time, elections have never been fe, always rigged. The opposition say this time is st no different. Sa wsupport coalescing around Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. When it comes to the way that bthe president hn conducting himself around the coronavirusha pandemic, i been quite questionable. Sive ofbeen quite dism it. We do not have much time. Yes,