French President Emmanuel Macron toured Beirut's shattered streets with crowds demanding the end to a "regime" of politicians they blame for corruption and dragging Lebanon into disaster.
"I see the emotion on your face, the sadness, the pain. This is why I'm here," he told one group, shaking their hands on roads strewn with rubble and flanked by shops with windows blown out after Tuesday's blast that killed 145 and injured 5,000.
Macron promised to send more medical and other aid to Lebanon, while those around him chanted "Revolution" and "The people want the fall of the regime."
"But what is also needed here is political change. This explosion should be the start of a new era," Macron said, making the tour shortly after arriving on the first visit to Lebanon by a foreign leader since the blast.
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