Students swell Lebanon protest movement

Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon Thursday to demand a better future as an unprecedented anti-government protest movement entered its fourth week and continued to spread.

Waving Lebanese flags, students and high school pupils massed in front of the education ministry in Beirut to voice their grievances against a political class seen as corrupt and incompetent.

"I challenge any politician or official to send their children to state schools," one pupil told a local television channel.

"The economy is in trouble, there is no work, how will we survive in the future?."