LEBANON-POLITICS-TENSION

Supporters of Lebanon's Shiite Muslim parliament speaker burn tyres as they block a main road in Beirut on January 29, 2018, following a row over a leaked video in which the foreign minister, a Maronite, called him a "thug". A leaked video in which Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil calls Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri a "thug" has fueled tensions between supporters of the two officials' parties, the Christian Free Patriotic Movement and the Shiite Amal Movement, whose members geared up for protests and blocked a number of the Lebanese capital's vital arteries. / AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)