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Lebanon protests: After Hariri's resignation, where next?

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced his resignation after 13 days of protests over political corruption and economic turmoil. The signature chant of the protesters was "all of them means all of them", i.e. they wanted the whole top tier of the political class to be cleared out.

Now that Hariri has announced his and his cabinet's resignation, where do the protesters go from here? Tim Franks talks to Reem, a 22-year-old student who's been out on the streets of Lebanon's second city, Tripoli.聽 What does she make of the Prime Minister's decision to resign?

Photo: Lebanese security forces intervene between clashing demonstrators and counter-protesters in Beirut, October 29 2019. Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images

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