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. Welcome to outside source. We began in beirut e Begin Program in beirut. It marked the moment a h explosion hit the city. There is grief and anger. We will discu the political fallout after lebanons government resigned yesterday. The e. U. Says belarus collagen election were neither free nor ir. The president ial challenger wast forced to leav country. [speaking foreignanguage] calls for russia to release more information of a covid19 vaccine approved for use despite trials not being complete. A warm welcome. Beirut has marked a week since a large part of the city was destroyed by deadly explosion, more than 200 people were killed, thousands were iured, and hundreds of thousands have been lt homeless. Crowds marched to the port were a huge stockpile of Ammonium Nitrate explodedastuday. And then, nine minutes pt 6 00 local time, bells rang out on the call to prayer marked the ment when e explosion hit. Here is how resident describe the situation. At the moment, all of the people who saw, trying to help each other. We have seen some wonderful initiatives from the population collectively coming together and helping each other. Up until now, we had not seenci any of effort on the ground. All we have seen are people trying to clr the rubble, to clean the houses, to clear e streets, to lift smashed cars anhelp each other. This is when the state everyone is asking when the ste will hel and try to draw a plan abo anyind of reconstruction, or any kind of ortterm plan to deal with this disaster. Cothe level is a political level. How will this reflect . People in lebanon are completely angry because of the way this country has been run by the political elite for such a long time for decades. Elite of corruption, of incompetence, of all sorts of this hased lebanon to become a bankrupt state. This is a countryoing through full and economic collapse, the trauma of covid, thatas brought the country to lockdown, an the third trauma of this explosion. Much to bear and too much to how is thianger going to translate to work on the ground . Lets take a moment to focus on the political fallout. Yesterday, we saw the entireg. Cabinet resign the Prime Minister blamed the explosion on years of corruption boat avoided taking responsibility. The announcement did little to dampen the anger of protesters. There were protests last ni at and these some of the latest pictures. You can see security fces in riot gear. The interior Security Force has encouraged protesters to leave. A new Prime Minister will have to be chosen using the same system a the root of many peoples complaints. The lebanese said this iseg just thening of a long process, one that could the aborted quickly, but could become violent. The country fell apart even more quicy under his watch, yet he took no responsibility for anything. Now, the president s team capacity. Inue in this caretaking there is speculation about who might place him as the countrys Prime Minister. According to the daily newspaper, the veteran diplomat a veteran diplomat is favored by paris, washington and riyadh. Iran, e sponsor of the has bola movement appear to be on board with scenario, which would see him head up a neutral government. The 66yearold was lebanons bassador to the United Nations were a decade before serving as a judge on the you in backed court the e. U. When back court. Given the complexity of the situationn lebanon before the explosion, even before covid, what is your feeling . Is it likely that e different groups will fall in line, behind salaam . Hello. It is still a bit unclear. Some opinion are that the International Forces are behind this, however, there ar other media reports that they are suggesti hezbollah is more inined towards the former it is still not clear which side is known for sure in lebanonhat streets is this particular choice of all choices, this one, will rely heavily on external forces. We are talking about france, the former Prime Ministernd involved. Oesnt want to be of course, mr. Sraaam is a vediplomat. When you see the streets, protesters want something completely different. As a go beyond the external, the faces at the top . What exactly do the protesters want . The protesters want an overhaul of the enre system that is currentlyunanaging the y. The protesters dont want the they want all of them gone. Even some politicamovements have come out to say that changing the government doesnt mean much if it is going to be the same parliament. Ande that seems to be whe protesters are thinking because for them, what has happened is worse than what they had at the beginning. They begin it is time to have a complete overhaul of the system. As alway thanks so much for talking through i much more on our website. Now, the European Union has criticized send pot election in belarus and risa ssibility of sanctions and Tweet European Commission president said the election with neither free nor fair. Vstatelence and a crackdown on freedoms and rights is unacceptable, she said. The e. U. Will conduct a review of relations with belarus take measures against those responsible. That comes as a main opposition candidate in the election has resurfaced in neighboring lithuania after she was detained ile attempting to launch illegal challenge. Svetlana was last seen here on her way to lay a complaint about the Election Results she says was rigged. Then she disappeared. Here is lithuanias foreign minister. She was detained for around seven hours. She visited a federal committee and submitted a complaint. And the lawyer left the building, but she stayed. Weid not know wher she was and what the conditions. That was a concern. She jt had not so many options and she was forced to make a decision to leave the country. Ia liths Foreign Ministry minister says she is safe and two videos of her had been released. Paly filmed while she was detained. It appears she was a script in which he said, i urge youo be reasonable and to respect the law. I ask you not to resist the police. The video was recorded under pressure. Sethnd video, she outlines her reason for fling belarus. [speaking foreign language] she said not one life is worth what is happening. And one protester has reportedly been killed the protests taking place in sundayel pot tion. Just to remind you to the background of the testing. Alexander lukashenko Holding Onto Power with 80 of the bo porter there have been allegations of vote rigging. A former stayathome mom who ran for office after her husband was arrested said on monday, she arefused ept the results. In clashes continued between police and protesters were a second line, and as you c see, right Police Firing rubber bullets, tear gas and stun gun needs and stun grenades to di thousands of protesters. One protester has reportedly been killed. Number have been entered. Tthe bbc is one few foreign Media Outlets still broadcasting in minsk. S herereport from the ground. This is a scare tactic to keep people off the streets. [screaming] stop it stop it [screaming] worrying escalation of violence in belarus president has been in power since 1994. He has been referred to years last dictator. Today, he accuse the opp mition of beianipulated by foreign powers saying we know who the public masters are. One of them is the czech republic. They are currently running this joint headquarters. These sheep do not understand anything they want from them. Lets discuss this further. We are joined by our correspondent. Lets start with svetlana pry we know if she was forced letstart with svetlana. Do we know if she was forced to ke that recording . Will the protest end now that she is in love the way in . Without a doubt, 100 sure, thte she is being intimi and threatened any not onlybu h, also her husband. He remains in prison and in custody. He initially planned to run for president. And her children, although the chdren are supposed to be since july. Members her team are absolutely sure she has been intimidated an forest to do those statements on video. You have seen on video she was obviously reading from a script. At the same time, we studied a lot of hundre of events on social media on the independent channels. Ath commenting on those statements. Most of the comments are very sympathetic and very understanding. At the samema time, ver people claim that her personality and figure is not that important for the protesters, for belarus opposition because people are protesting against the regime. Against the reading of the election, but not for set law. We have seen the violence on the streets durinthose protests. We are also expecting a general stryker of some form . The opposition has been talking about general strike starting today. During today, there were several reports in the russia independent media socialun ac about strikes or meetings at some enterprises, plants in minsk. Thinformation was very confusing, rather confusing and ther scarce. It could not had been independently conrmed. We dont have enough information on the scale of it, of the strike, if it is taking place at all. For the time being, thanks so much for keeping us abreast of e situation. Do stay with his here on outside source. Still to come, people in new zealands biggest city rushed to the supermarket the head of a w lockdown being declared because for new pieces of coronavirus have been recorded. ,0 around students in scotland have had their exam results upgraded this year, because of the pandemic, teachers estimated peoples grades and the exam board and then adjusted them based on scho past performance. And the seven day hsince she downgraded results, a 17yearold is written a letter and signed petitions and taken. In a demration to push the grades to be reverse today, a result in an apology. I want toay im sorry. It is described as a deprived area. She believed she was marked down because of where she lives. I was feeli quite doubtful d quite discouraged because it was impactful. I felt if i was being cheated. And now . I am now more relieved. I hope i can get ithe university. Welcome. Tsyou are watching e source live from the bbc. A week on, people in beiru marked when a huge explosion ripped tough the city. Russia has become the first country to give preapprov to a covid19 vaccine and will begin a mass immunizion program in october. Resident Vladimir Putin has made a secret of rus ambition to be the first to win the global vaccine re. He is speaking about the news today. As far as know, this morning, for the first time in the wor come vaccine against the Novel Coronavirus infection was registered. Know this very well because one of my daughtersvaas been inated with such a vaccine. One might say she took part in the experiment. After the first injection, she had a temperature of 38 degrees. The next day, a little over 37 degrees. That is it. Well, the vaccine is called sputnik and will be massproduced next month. They have coded humankinds victory over cov speed of its development is being questioned. These clinical trialrt sn june 1, after teams in the u. S. , china in europe. Phase thr of the trial has not been completed. The largest study invving a lot of people. Part of the trial is essential in proving whether the vaccine is safe to use and whether it works. Last week, the World Health Organization urgedussia to slow down and send a message to ensure it sticks to international guidelines. Something the down who reminded something the w. H. O. Reminded russia today. He have been ongoing discussions with respect to w. H. O. Qlification of the vaccine. It includes the rigors review and assessment of required safety and the data. However, russia has not ed any safety or immuni data of his trial and me there are concerns moscow may be cutting corners. There is real pressure for russia to deliver as explained. Ihink it is a matter of prestige. This is simply ensure they have the capability, and they are perhaps in front of the westernet countries as coion between russia and the other countries going on at the moment. This is purely political. Maybe the vaccine will be fine. Maybe it doesnt have side effects, b without a phase three trial, russia cannot countries. O the western that is a situation in russia. On outside source, we talk about new zealands success in eliminating covid19, however, in the past 24 hours, has recorded its first locally transmitted infections inore than 100 days. Four cases have been detected in a singleamily new zealands biggest city, auckland. The source is not own and none of the family members have traveled outside of the country. In line with oury precautionproach, we will be asking auckland or to take swift tion with us. As of 100 noon tomorrow, wednesday, august 12, we will be moving auckland to level three restrictions for a period of three days until midnight on fray. They also called for calm and urged people not toic p buy, but that was ignored. This footage was tak within people rushing to supermarkets. People forced their way in. After new zealand has been praised worldwide for its buyer strategy. This was in march during lockdown. New zealands restrictions were the strictest worldwide and the borders remain shut to foreigners. Lets speak to emily cooper, journalist forc. With his renewed restriction . T we saw the panic buying, but what can they expect when they wake up . Emily auckland is new zealands largest and most populous cities. Essentially 1. 5 Million People t are being ck into lockdown for three days from midday tomorrow local time. People will have to stayathome parent nonessential workers will have to stayathome, schools werese c and most nossential businesses will shut, as will as museums and libraries. They will move into level twoio restri after that. They will have to be socially distant. Then there will be a shock for new zealand. They had been enjoying prett much relative nonmedically normality. Clubs and pubsav reopened since the original lockdown. They have beennjoying not because essentially, they have been successful in their strategy. Talk us through what is been positive. How have they been goi about emily well, in terms of the governments strategy, i think the general feeling in new zealand is that the gont has handled the whole pandemic pretty well. I dont think there will be that many questions around another lockdown, while it is frustrating. Of course, her government has beenhe praised globally of handling of the pandemic. D. It it appead it had eradicated the virus enfcing a strict lockdownly e, and hopefully, the country will be able to say that again. Ls hope so. Emily cooper from bbc. Next, a couple of quick updates on hong kong. People arrested on monday under the new National Security law have not been released on bail. In the last two hours, the media tycoon was released. These are photos of him exiting the police station. Thcorrespondence at scene said a throng of his supporters were outside shouting. Ple daily is the prodemocracy newspaper runhi b his offices were searched yesterday, but it stood put out a paper. It said apple daily must fight on. Ein parts of city, home congers were seen trying to get ae copy early in thmorning. The paper said more than half a million copies were printed, which is five times t usual number. A huge increase. Online sscriptions also portedly up by 20,000 this week. Hong kong a hong Kong Hong Kong people arent just supporting appleyaily b buying its papers. Long lines have formed outside of the central restaurant, which is ownedy jimmys son. Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry was asked about the showf support for jimmy. This is what he said. m afraid this is selective reporting by the relevdia. His two sons were released o ba a,long with the youth activist. This is her being arrested at her home on monday. She was released earlier. She sted this on her facebook account. This im bad. 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