Albania protests: Students demonstrate against poor school conditions

Protesters in Tirana say peaceful demonstrations are over. We do not want any negotiations. We just ask that our prime minister leaves. We want a revolution, we want a new government. To resign as fast as possible before everything burns down. This is the fourth consecutive day of student-led protest, which have increasingly targeted banks and government buildings. They're calling for education reforms, along with a change in government. But they're joining a movement that began in May. Marches were triggered by plans to turn part of the pristine Albanian coastline for development into a large luxury tourist resort by an investment firm linked to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. That morphed into what's being called the Flamingo Movement, named after the birds that inhabit that area. They have also been calling for electoral reform, an end to widespread corruption and solutions to the cost of living crisis. The unrelenting demonstrations are considered a threat to the prime minister. He says there are external forces behind the protests. This is not a student phenomenon. This whole hostage-taking of the city, carried out by people in masks, has nothing to do with the hardships. These are also foreign hands that do not wish for Albania to be at peace. But demonstrators accuse Rama of trying to appeal to foreign business interests. and the people on the streets of Tirana say they don't trust him to govern. Imogen Kimber, Al Jazeera.