BBCNEWS BBC World News August 7, 2020
Thanks very much indeed for being with us. We begin in lebanon, where police have used tear gas to disperse a group of protesters expressing their anger at the government. They had gathered near the parliament, as fury mounts over the way the country is being run and how tuesdays massive explosion in beiruts port could ever have happened. At least 137 people have been killed, many others are still missing and around 5,000 have been wounded. On top of that about a quarter of a million homes have been destroyed. Alanna petroff has more. No time in beirut, outside parliament. Emotions are running...