-- Clashes erupt between protesters and security forces in downtown Beirut, as the latter uses tear gas to disperse them.

-- Beirut Damascus road is blocked by protesters.

-- Joniah road is blocked too.

-- Verdun, Beirut road is blocked.

-- PSP party, Joumblat's political party, is gathering armed in Aley and Mount lebanon near the main road.

-- It was a checkpoint, with exactly two guys with full gear.

-- They were checking IDs.

-- Lebanese civil defense ambulances are heading to downtown Beirut, where clashes are happening between a handful of protesters and security forces.

Dear Lara, pepper spray isn't a new weapon, and I think someone with respiratory problems shouldn't be breaking barriers and vigorously attacking security forces at midnight.

https://twitter.com/LaraJBitar/status/1219763494758899713?s=19

-- Security forces are using water to disperse the protesters who are attacking them.

-- The Lebanese army QRF are deployed all over Achrafieh Baabda road, ahead of the government cabinet meeting.

-- Lebanon's new appointed Minister of Defense Zeina Aker: "I have the honor to be the 1st woman to hold the position of Minister of Defense in an Arab country".

-- Beirut Barja road is blocked by protesters at Barja junction.

-- The president Michel Aoun is now meeting with the prime minister Hasan Diab and parliament speaker Nabih Berri.

-- All roads surrounding Zahle roundabout have been closed by protesters with dirt mounds, stones, and waste containers.

-- Saadnayal and Halba roads are closed by protesters.

-- MTV correspondent: The first session of the new Cabinet has started and is devoted to forming a ministerial committee that will be charged with drawing up the ministerial statement; PM Diab will then move to the Grand Serail.

Note: The forming of the ministerial statement was always the reason delays happened because the political parties used to argue about mentioning the sentence: " The right to resist under the banner of Army People Resistance".

Anti Hezbullah parties used to object that in an aim to deprive Hezbullah of its legitimacy.