Clashes continued outside the country’s parliament on Sunday, with demonstrators throwing rocks and other projectiles as well as shooting streams of fire from ignited aerosol cans. Security forces responded by firing several rounds of teargas and water cannon, before turning to rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse the crowds. On Saturday organisers had called for protesters in different parts of the capital to converge by sundown on the road leading to the Lebanese parliament in central Beirut. Before they arrived, a demonstration at the barricade leading to the institution had turned violent. Protesters rammed riot police with traffic signs, tree branches and planks, and officers used batons, water cannon and teargas to disperse them.

Source: The Guardian January 19, 2020 13:00 UTC