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in the form of international community germany is sending search and rescue experts to beirut and a plane full of aid has just arrived from qatar. and solidarity with the people of indian administered kashmir protest take place in missouri for about to mark one year since india revoked the disputed regions autonomy. and he similarly small little confirmed he will not defend his u.s. open title later this month because of coronavirus fears. welcome to the news are we begin in lebanon's capital beirut where the governor has described the fallout from choose the explosion as apocalyptic the president michel has promised an investigation into the blast that killed at least 100 people and injured thousands more as it ripped through the city is in the heart of reports.

the people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and comprehend the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than any explosion lebanon has ever seen just before sunset on tuesday highly explosive material stored at a warehouse at beirut port caused the blast sending shock waves across the city now in ruins. almost every build. has been damaged many are dead thousands are injured and hundreds are missing rescue workers worked through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble because it was said my husband is an employee at the electricity company he survived but his colleagues didn't they only now move in their bodies from under the rubble this is a country already reeling from a dire economic crisis where 50 percent of the population live below the poverty

line its people are not in a position to cope with this disaster. of the. material losses are sad but it's nothing compared to those who lost their lives this is my taxi it's my livelihood and i'm still paying for it. everyone has a story of survival or tragedy the damage spread several kilometers many are blaming those in power for the catastrophe. this was lebanon's hiroshima we trusted them with our money our souls our lives and they betrayed us why are they still in power they should all resign we only have their day will come. authorities are appealing for help from the international community the state is close to bankruptcy. it's like a big earthquake hit lebanon by roots this will cost billions of dollars to restore the economy will get even worse because businesses have been hit entirely in order for it to relaunch a nice new investments we will not despair some countries have started to send much

needed medical supplies the health care system was already close to collapse hospitals have been laying off staff in recent months because of the financial crisis and. we are an afflicted hospital there is no hospital as you can see hospital is closed and now we wait for our directors in order to receive instructions because we want to start the recovery workers cannot get in also as you can see because it's unsafe the ceiling is falling down it is a critical situation. lebanon's leaders are promising an investigation to determine who was responsible for storing ammonium nitrate without safety measures at the port for years and. we are determined to investigate and reveal what happened as soon as possible and bring those responsible to justice and punish them accordingly we will transparently announce the results of these investigations but those who hold power are being blamed for negligence incompetence and corruption people are in shock with anger is also growing out of political class many blame for

mismanagement and being responsible for running the economy into the ground months of protests calling for a new leadership have been met by a militarized state and demands by the international community to fight corruption . and especially at the report in order to be eligible for financial aid have gone and hurt what many call a manmade disaster is the latest crisis to hit a country already on its knees so much has been lost when there was already so little let's cross over to our correspondent in beirut tell me insane are you not just one of our senior middle east correspondents and you know the region so very well but this is your home city and you are a shock to most probably as anybody else about what's going on behind you in the last 24 hours. no doubt behind me is beirut port or what is left of beirut port you can see the scale of

the damage this was a massive massive explosion shock waves were felt across the city i was a few kilometers from here walking in the street when i heard a thud i thought it was a mock air raid because israeli warplanes have been flying frequently violating lebanese airspace as of late but then i saw smoke and this and the shockwave pushed us to the ground glass everywhere panic chaos this country has hasn't been immune really to political violence and assassination so the 1st thing that came to our minds that this is yet another political assassination and then reports emerge that some sort of an accident happened at the beirut airport but people here are refusing to call it an accident they're calling it a man made disaster they're blaming the authorities for for this hundreds of people remain missing many of them port employees people who were working at beirut ports when that explosion went off their families are hoping that they will be 5 found

alive but as you can see it's going to be very very difficult even to find the remains of people there was a fire it began with a fire at one of the warehouses and firefighters were called in and as they were trying to put out the flames the fire spread to the warehouse where that ammonium nitrate was stored and that caused the blast so horrific scenes we've been driving across the city this morning almost every building is damaged and 300000 people are now made homeless indeed of course both the president and the prime minister have been speaking in the last few hours and this is poignant because the people here the politicians speak the speak but they don't walk the walk and if they do walk the world they will be walking out of office. well a lot of people are angry it's not just shock there is anger they believe that there's negligence incompetence and corruption there asking questions what was all

this ammonium nitrate doing at a warehouse especially that reports are emerging that the authorities were well aware of the presence of this highly explosive material many have lost faith in the leaders and the leadership yes this is a new relatively new government faces but they were appointed by the same political parties who have been governing this country for decades the same parties who have been accused of running the economy into the ground this is why it's going to be very very difficult for the people to cope because already 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line 32 percent of the workforce lost their jobs businesses have been closing down there's a shortage in foreign currency people's savings are trapped in banks there informal capital controls in place there's a scarcity of dollars the local the local currency has devalued by 80 per cent and then you have a health care system which is collapsing so people do not * have faith in those in power they believe they will not carry out

a proper and independent investigation in fact already voices are calling for an independent international investigation to find out exactly what happened. last really that. whole city and indeed the search and rescue operation as you said he continues the hospitals and the medical staff really under strain. yes the hospitals are under strain the health care system was already collapsing before before this blast the private hospitals were already firing employees at the biggest hospital the american university of beirut hospital they fired 850 nurses and administrators just a few weeks ago because they couldn't they could no longer pay them why because people are losing their jobs when they lose their jobs they lose private insurance and they no longer can go to hospitals and it's not just that the cash strapped government it's private hospitals billions of dollars and then you have the public hospitals which are underfunded they've been they collected for decades and so they

are struggling and that's why politicians have been calling on countries to send medical assistance and some countries are answering that call you mentioned earlier qatar sending a field hospital other countries are going to follow suit but those who oppose the government critics of the government are appealing to international donors not * to provide aid to the government directly they're saying give give the money give help to the people directly or through n.g.o.s because i can tell you people have lost a lot of faith with those who are holding power so they go to him but he wrote songs for the update. so as we heard beirut's governor has said that the disaster could cost lebanon in excess of around about $3000000000.00 and it couldn't have come at a worse time azania mentioned the economy has been unraveling during months of anti-government protests of allegations of corruption and mismanagement in march lebanon defaulted on $90000000000.00 worth of debt talks with the international monetary fund on

a bailout stalled last month after infighting between the government and its central bank the lebanese currency which remains pegged to the dollar has lost 80 percent of its value since october that's been devastating for a country that imports most of its goods food costs are up 190 percent on the year and salaries and savings of lost much of their value while the fallout from the pandemic over 100 percent poverty and unemployment soaring judge joe barton is an economist specializing in health education and labor policies he says the economic situation is so dire it could be treated as a humanitarian issue. we have direct costs and direct costs you know the direct cost to repair the physical infrastructure the private property losses the public property losses and those you have in direct cost because this is you know huge interruption to whatever what was that stuff livelihoods of people's income people who lost their bread earners and their main income earners the

report which is now out of service for a long time the international community should view the penny citizens now as it cannot make refugees in a status country because this state ruled by thugs has committed another act of war on its people with this massive explosion that is a deliberate act of more than negligence this is not an accident this was stored for more than decade everybody knew it was there from the top of the government the simplest employee on the port everyone knew this dangerous because equipment and chemicals were there to defend his people need help we need help right now and indeed a unhealthful even exacerbate the economic consequences of this and this help can be china through humanitarian support directly with the agencies that are on the ground i don't think frankly we have any other option if even if we're paid some compensation money to rebuild it would be paid in the benes pounds which are worth

$6.00 of their value and we still need to import a lot of the roman curia. every great construction material possible and from the initial assessment i mean 80 percent of beirut has that been damaged from the blast so this is a huge humanitarian operation and it should be treated as such. the member of lebanon's parliament has resigned in protest over the port explosion there demanded an international inquiry into the blast in his resignation letter he served in various program positions including minister of trade health and telecommunications is a former candidate of the lebanese parliament he says politicians must have known the explosive materials were kept at the port the company and that is importing should be investigated and what was the purpose and why that big amount of material and then the 2nd question is why were they kept in one place why not in the safe

position away from the port which is a critical element in the infrastructure knowing the threat that they included and why were they decided to be exported why were they impounded for 6 years and no one was capable of taking action this can only happen with excessive political pressure and intervention in the justice system which means people in the political establishment are by leading to this and that is why a lot of big heads should roll on this they should be held accountable the current government the current president of the republic those are the people who should be held accountable for the crime against humanity that both of the struction office city because of negligence the deaths of more than 100 people and the hospitalization of more than 4000 today the hospitals have been calling for distress because there morgues are full of places to put that the bodies in the hospitals of downtown beirut they're starting to move dead bodies to other

hospitals and on the country this is mass murder committed by the negligence and the political interests off if you will articulate thing the political power in this country and abusing its people. governments around the world have been sending offers to assist lebanon france says 2 planes are being sent with aid and resources including fire fighters and medical stuff french president manuel buchholz says the age should allow for the treatment of 500 victims he's due to travel to beirut on thursday or russia also in a state is on the way sending 5 planes of humanitarian supplies the planes will deliver a mobile hospital medical staff and vital drugs and germany says it's ready to dispatch a team of search and rescue experts its embassy in beirut was damaged in the blast and diplomats were forced to relocate let's get more on this war correspondent in germany dominic cain obviously the germans are coming to part of the rescue you might say dominic but what are the rest of europe planning to do individually or even as part of the e.u. . well in addition to those measures

that you've just introduced for us we also know that the european union at a wide a level in the pan european level has activated its your civil protection mechanism which allows that to dispatch firefighters search and rescue offices that sort of thing but also specially trained dog teams to go to the area and to help in as far as it is possible to find survivors within the site of where the disaster took place now that that unit will will contain personnel from the netherlands from the czech republic and from greece that's something that the e.u. is able to do instantaneously as it were it's also said that it's prepared to offer the benefits of its satellite operations to the lebanese authorities so that they can go through the satellite imagery that the european union has access to to help

them in their deliberations and of course there have been expressions of widespread expressions of sympathy and condolences with all those who've been caught up in this disaster that took place in beirut obligated thanks very much. pakistan's prime minister has called india and oppressor the year of to new delhi stripped the autonomy of indian administered kashmir he accused it of turning the muslim majority region into an open air prison the area is not done to prevent protesters from gathering on the other verse 3 the curfew is being overseen by the military many local political leaders have been detained for months and thousands of people rallied in pakistani administered kashmir in solidarity they gathered in the regional capital to suffer about as well as other cities now a minute's silence was held at a rally in the capital islamabad. where the moment will be speaking to elizabeth

randomly standing by for us in new delhi but 1st let's cross over to kamar hyder in the pakistani capital islamabad and kemal we were waiting for the prime minister to speak he has spoken what's he said. well indeed the bug assignee prime minister. administrate if capital of pakistan he had minister to. the legislative assembly. touching up on the top of india's move on article 370 he said it was a blunder by the government. based. points one day hate card to windy election then decided to revoke article 7 because he wanted to expand his support base and then he also according to prime minister imran khan that pakistan would keep silent because it wanted to extend an

olive branch. to india also the fact that more banking on the fact that the international community was more concerned about countering china by using india and therefore keeping quiet on the issue of kashmir so it touched upon those facts and also the fact that he said that it's a dangerous policy exploding. a nexus between the r.s.s. and the b j p government in delhi which called for the minorities earlier the pakistani president spoke to protect and outside. parliament he said that india would embark on a policy of demographic change and. following the same lines that were doing on the west bank and saying that pakistan would never accept india unilaterally moved so indeed strong rhetoric and strong show of support by pakistan needs to cross the

country. in the pakistani capital islamabad i think school let's go to elizabeth for all the india correspondent and. new delhi india obviously has been the focal point for not just the media but for the international community for quite some time. the mark down has been described as an open prison for those in kashmir allowed any freedom of movement or assembly especially today. good evening so how so people in kashmir are under a complete lockdown they have been for a number of weeks now the government said it was to stop the spread of the coronavirus well on monday the indian government said that the region would be put under curfew putting in even more restrictions on tuesday and wednesday citing the possibility of protests to mark one year since the regions or tommy was for

a vote the government went back on that all but joining the sub spoken to say that whether it's a few or not people they very much feel that the restrictions which are in place to die for the opposition on the one year anniversary political leaders who have been planning to meet today to try to find a political solution have not been allowed to do so there are police outside their home and while on the roads but meanwhile members of the country's governing body at the party or in. the capital they met and hoisted indian flag and celebrated by sharing sweets now they has not been much the indian government hasn't said much if anything at all about me today the entire focus today of the government the mainstream news media has been what's happening in a town called in northern india which has been india's most controversial and

contested religious site and that's because it's many hindus believe that it's the birthplace of their god and it is where 1992 a 16th so. mosque was destroyed it has been a legal battle for decades and prominence to that end of morty when there today to ignore all the raids the the building the start of construction on this temple a very long standing promise by the b j p government to build this temple and of course is revoking autonomy and so both of these things happening on the same day and prime minister that is the more it was joined by some of the country's most prominent hindu nationalist leaders despite the fact that coronavirus restrictions for bids people gathering he was all there was something like $175.00 people invited to the event and who who attended it was withdrawn already

a correspondence to be updated. exactly 10 years since 33 miners were trapped in a copper and gold mine explosion in chile is not a cayman does it the rescue effort was watched by millions around the world a lot in america to tell you see in human who covered the story at the time now looks at what's happened to them since it was the spectacular rescue of the 33 chilean miners trapped nearly 70 days 700 meters underground. and brought to the surface against all the odds in a capsule damaged memorize the world. a 1000000000 people watched the scenes live on television. the miners became global celebrities with all expenses paid trips from jerusalem to disney world. it was even a hollywood movie. but there was no fairy tale and 10 years on edison pena

wishes it had never happened. he was one of the media's favorite because of his passion for elvis presley. and now he lives in a coastal industrial town far from the at the comma desert on a meager state pension like many of the others he says he couldn't get work again because it really was get him on a limb it took me a while but i finally understood that they don't want one of the 33 miners who might become a leader or cause trouble or whatever that's what the company executives must think if the sun still has nightmares of 59 year old wholesale hill that is the miner who wrote the famous note saying that the 33 were still alive today he can't walk without crutches because of his advanced diabetes. everyone thought we had been left with a lot of fame and money but it's not like that i have is a very small peach and. the binders who want to proclaim heroes at home and abroad feel cast aside many living with less now than what they had before. but one thing

is the same the president who staked his reputation and millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to try to get the miners out and then bask in the glory of the rescue is now back in to his presidential palace but today civil stamping at us seems to feel that his death to the miners is paid by the state is appealing a court ruling to compensate each miner with a $1000000.00 could negligence that led to the mining accident and then there's the issue of the movie and book rights. or. where they were coaxed into signing very complex contracts that they of course did not understand that handed over rights of their story to others a lawsuit for fraud and other crimes against the lawyers who snared them is still in process. 10 years after the accident that marked their lives forever the 33 miners are certainly remembering their miraculous survival but for every some

binya as for most the promise of a better 2nd chance at life has now faded you see in human al-jazeera some people. well time for the weather now little bit of sunshine over europe's a little bit of sunshine not just you yes lots of nice little sunshine across europe not often we get so about something a little bit nicer it's almost like oh a week on from last week we've got this little tiny heat wave just building in across the west and the northwest of europe now having settled that you can see plenty of cloud around and it has brought some have human heavy amounts of rain this is into law which is to the west of glasgow you can see here some pause it did cause a fair amount of flooding in fact that was the 2nd time in just a few days meanwhile into western turkey sunny skies very nice and warm however this warm dry weather always comes the downside and this is it now these fires are in the south of france a region very close that some all say kind of surrounds the city and there's

another far as well very close spine of this particular fire 1400 firefighters are on the ground fighting it from the air as well and so far 22 people have been injured in fact 14 of those are the firefighters now as for the conditions it's going to stay fine and dry across much of the west so nobody helping the firefighting efforts but we have got plenty of rain some of it very heavy really across these areas across the southwest across the balkans really from croatia down towards greece so a few more showers and spells of rain pushing in across the u.k. but by my thursday you can see that next band of rain actually stays out in the atlantic we've got these clearer skies building and this is what's happening with the time which as you can see the massive area of red so look at this for london for the next few days this is what i mean about it been a week on from last week it's almost exactly the same forecast temperature 34 against an average of a $23.00 warming up as well in zurich $31.00 by the weekend and that's against an average of $22.00 and somewhere typically fairly warm this time of year but even so temperatures above the average is book arrest in the southeast so that's what i

mean about a little bit of a brief heat wave lovely thanks very much. still ahead here on the news our polls are closed in sri lanka an election that could further increase the power of the rajapaksa dynasty plus. i'm lawrence. in the northwest of england at the height of the tourism season was somehow tell us a warning that their livelihoods are being put at risk because some visitors are failing to follow basic guidelines to control the spread of the virus. and the hungry return for the money moldings up to the crowing about. that story coming up in schools with peta. users. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of the lives. of the stories as long as people are pretty calm and there is no traffic and to stand providing a glimpse into someone else is what you are pursuing in the dream or off your life

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welcome back to the al-jazeera news are reminded of our top stories beirut's governor says 300000 people have been displaced after a massive explosion at the industrial port that sent shock waves into the city at least 100 people have been killed and more than 4000 wounded. lebanese president michel aoun has promised an inquiry into what happened he says 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited in an industrial facility is calling on the global community to send assistance. and pakistani prime minister has called india an oppressor year after new delhi stripped the autonomy of the indian administered kashmir area the area is in lockdown to prevent protesters from gathering on the anniversary. the polls have closed because twice to lead parliamentary elections in march. dissolved the 225 member parliament 6 months ahead of the

show to all show called the start election now the people's front party which is led by his brother prime minister mahinda rajapaksa is a frontrunner in these elections and if it holds a majority in parliament it will give the rajapaksa brothers more power and control over the island's politics the some. believe in god and the united national party its main challenges the economy national security and the pandemic as well as corruption are some of the major concerns amongst sri lankan voters enough and joins me now live from colombo and of course middle it's been a busy day for sri lankan voters the polls were supposed to close what's going on behind you. right now basically the action has shifted to her from obviously the 13000 or 30000 polling centers which closed a little while ago to counting centers like this this is one of the biggest

counting centers one of 4 in the colombo district and this kind of activity replicated around the country as each district essentially gathers all the ballot boxes into those centralized counting centers now for the 1st time in sri lankan elections the counting of those votes will not start over night for reasons of the corona pandemic in minimizing that this you know people being tired they may need to be greek sort of walking throughout the night the election of oddities of bringing all the ballot boxes into counting centers like this they will be locked down in their 11 counting rooms and the counting proper will begin at 8 am on thursday that's tomorrow when they start taking stock still who essentially has garnered what a number of wards obviously. the party of the rajapaksa clan the s p p very confident but even the opposition saying that that contradiction they've done well

so that's the situation in colombo and right throughout the country as this kind of activity continues throughout the night while all of the ballots are brought in and of course we'll be coming back to you as well with updates through the night and certainly into tomorrow thanks very much well let's bring in tom 11 to via go and he's a lecturer in international law the group of college in dublin ireland with us on al-jazeera so i mean turnout was not as high according to some of the analysts would be speaking through to through the day because mainly covert 19 and also i wondered whether election apathy was an issue with the candidates that were on offer to the sri lankan electorate thank you very much for having me i think in the end of the day there lect words is coming to the polls they think that pandemic does play a. role in this regard we have seen at the presidential election the turnout was 82

percent in the early hours as far as i understand the election. people coming to the polls were 30 percent nonetheless i think there is a degree of. believe in the candidates forward in particular at someone like that are there. to speak with bill clinton. people want also additionally the security. guard and i believe there will be and i would come in favor of that article actually if it will emerge through 2 thirds we will see only tomorrow or on friday. and of course what we also. focusing on was that the rajapaksa hoping that their party can win that 2 thirds

majority how important is it for them as a political party to get the 2 thirds majority to be able to change the constitution. very good question thank you very much well the point is i belong to a scholarship which is called the 3rd world approaches to international law and 3rd world approaches international says basically that we have a state kept show 3rd world elites in as. ality in order to further their own neo liberal agenda that out of work shows are just adding to and they lead to development intra long with the band that i j about than us in the past and obviously one of the major casualty is absolute election would be the 19th amendment which has secured under the previous government independent oversight and it has limited the powers of the president and

obviously the. the p. s are looking for. power in the country so they can cater towards a foreign policy that favors them and also a new liberal agenda that will help them as well one of the 1st casualty is obviously on the international arena was backtracking from international commitments such as a 2015 or a c.h. or resolution and now the 19 amendment will be the next casualty in this regard at the end of the day it is not about good governance it's about effective governance bosler that our departure of the brother of my head and go the way that our departure. has looked at the communist party and the b j p as an effective. execution of an elite power it'll be just what the results are and how this all sort of pans out in the days ahead so

the. thanks so much for joining us from dublin thank you very much thank you very much. sputum breaking news coming in from lebanon and the country's cabinet now has agreed to place all of socials involved in the port explosion under house arrest that's just news coming in from beirut because we're trying to more on that and who will actually be under house arrest as we get it's. 2 major cases involving hong kong pro-democracy movement individuals have been adjourned now activists joshua wong chow and ivan lamb are facing charges related to protests last year against an extradition bill there the case involves the 1st person charged under the controversial national security law just one expects defiance outside of court where they call prosecution that we face

and under the fret of beijing is not the time for us this render it is no reason for us to live in fear even the government tried to prosecute us we have to protest last summer outside of the police headquarters is still not the time for us to give up and surrender so clark is following both cases in hong kong she explains why the bail hearing has been particularly closely watched. this is an unprecedented legal challenge simply because it's the 1st test of how the hong kong judges will operate well how they would deal with number one the common law verses of the national security legislation that's just newly introduced now under common law these laws they plan can apply for bell but this right has not been granted under this new law and as a result of tom's lawyer has said he's going to challenge these bell conditions he's even said there are many question marks that still exist about this particular law and those conditions now the case has been adjourned that the prosecution has to respond more time to deal with this particular quest and the case will turn to

the courts or back in the high court on august the 20 or other high profile hearing we've had has now been adjourned but that's the case of the pro-democracy activists joshua wong agnes chow and ivan lander these are the 3 founders or members of the dems to start a political party that was disbanded on the eve of those national security laws being introduced in hong kong now one has pleaded not guilty as has learned of a child has pleaded guilty and as a result she says she's expecting the parents of mentally to face jail time but a joshua long and i have a man who said they'll fight these charges on arrival at court they said it's not a time for us to surrender or live in fear of the national security law and they'll fight the charges which will go back to court later to see in october and november a senior u.s. government official is to lead a delegation to taiwan in a move further likely to put strain on washington's relationship with china whole secretary alex as ours visit is aimed at strengthening economic and public health

cooperation creamy us in beijing with the latest on the chinese government's reaction to the upcoming visit. china's foreign ministry spokesperson says that beijing has made an official complaint to washington about this visit he described taiwan as a red line issue for beijing saying it was a more sensitive issue when it came to us china relations now beijing is so angry of course about the upcoming visit of u.s. secretary of health and human services alex as are to taipei over the next few days washington says that this visit is meant to strengthen cooperation between taipei and washington when it comes to the fight against the car of a 19 pandemic taiwan has been touted for its response to contain the outbreak and its population of 24000000 they've had less than 500 cases but taipei says it's been a frustrating having its efforts acknowledged in the international community because it's blocked from becoming a member to the world health organization by the mainland now this particular visit is so significant because it's the highest level visit by an american official to

taiwan since $979.00 that is since the u.s. ended official diplomatic relations as diplomatic relations with taiwan in favor of the mainland now taiwan taiwanese leaders signed one who is herself independence leaning tweeted on wednesday afternoon saying that she was welcoming alex as are looking forward to this visit which she considers a celebration of the friendship and cooperation between the u.s. and taiwan and this is surely going to anger beijing who will be watching this meeting very closely it's urge washington to pull back from any any words that would encourage pro independence forces in taiwan it's a washington to abide by the one china policy and says that any challenge to this will end and what it says is certain failure. just about every news coming out of lebanon that the cabinet has agreed to place all of the officials involved in the port explosion and also rest its news coming from beirut let's go to our

correspondent there who is also a hearing this what do you make of this particular announcement right now. well the lebanese cabinet called for an extraordinary emergency session to discuss the explosion that caused so much damage and lost many many lives in beirut they decided that court officials will be placed under house arrest pending an investigation pending the outcome of the investigation on what exactly happened not too long after the explosion security officials said that it appeared highly explosive material which was stored at one of the warehouses at beirut port to caused the blast and the port officials said that they were aware that these explosives this explosive material was that was present at the ports this is the government trying to show the people that they are doing something that they're going to take action we've heard time and time again officials since since the

blast they say that they will hold those responsible to account and that perpetrators will face justice they want to show a skeptical lebanese population that they're going to do something because people are angry and people do not have faith in those in power they believe that those in power are responsible for this catastrophe they blame them for mismanagement and corruption for the past few decades really that grand economy into the ground so the lebanese cabinet decided that port officials are not going to be placed under house arrest pending investigation but the opposition the politicians in the opposition say that what is needed is an independent international investigation because there is little faith in. those in power the political parties who really have a say and have influence over what happens in state institutions because the state

is very very weak. thanks for the update. flash floods have hit several provinces in yemen killing at least 20 people including children the regions of madiba east and west of the capital sanaa are some of the worst affected the 2 weeks of heavy rains have made thousands homeless . explains. to eventual rains fill up this dam in the yemeni region of moderate forcing it to overflow. since it was rebuilt in the 1980 s. there are growing fears it could collapse nearby refugee camps have been damaged the rains have also downed power lines and destroyed crops. there is a lot of damage many farms and properties were hit by the floods many displaced people but directly affected. the floods have killed or injured dozens the u.n.

estimates more than 10000 people who were displaced have been operated once again i am as an acknowledgement of my family is under siege from the water the floods are separating me from them and my homes that in danger because the surface is being eroded around them. around 200 kilometers away in a province the floods damaged more than 5000 tents is trying to salvage what he can but. i was in chiffon district when i came back and saw my home destroyed i looked for my children they went to another tent i've been collecting some belongings like food household appliances but it's covered in water. heavy rain started 2 weeks ago battering several provinces. at the in the capital sana'a floodwaters swept through parts of the city last week damaging shops and markets residents watched on as cars drifted away.

there. are some trying to rescue those caught up in the current. around 24000000 yemenis are in need of assistance many live without basic necessities food water sanitation. safe shelter why don't i. know how i came from her i'm sick and import condition with a broken leg i've been handicapped here for a year no one can help. that. medicine is in short supply and aid groups are overstretched nearly 6 years of fighting between the who are yemen's internationally recognized government has left the country in ruins it's all for battling the world's largest cholera outbreak and now coronavirus the government has called for international support but with more rain expected yemenis can only

wait until help arrives while trying to rebuild whatever they can. charge a 0. scotland doesn't pose to lock down on its 3rd largest city aberdeen 1st minister nicolas sturgeon ordered pubs to close and visitors to stay away she says extreme caution is necessary after a cluster of new cases emerged in the city of 200000 people and the behavior of british tourists who are choosing to stay in the u.k. this summer rather than travel abroad has come under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons complaints have been growing about large gatherings of visitors who refused to obey the social distancing rules lawlessly reports northwest of england . jackie's entire reputation and her livelihood depend on her ability to promise to keep her rooms clean and free from coffee 19 once people have checked out she fills the room with ozone and ultraviolet lights to kill any hiding anywhere and then

just to be extra sure they go in and disinfect everything in these times there is no alternative for this reassured well i hope so yes i mean i think that people are desperate to get away they want to converse but i think straight. they just need to know that where they're going is exceptionally clean and that it's safe for them to go into those rooms this was the lake district just 2 months ago actually dessert. during lockdown the tourism industry on its knees but look at it now it's always a magnet but especially now that british tourists have been told they might have to quarantine for 2 weeks if they want to go abroad businesses here need them but they also need them to behave properly these few weeks before the schools go back in september are absolutely critical for the tourism industry in places like this much of which is still family run but of course the great irony of the virus is that the same people on whom they rely to stay financially or floats are the very people who

could shut them down if the virus gets in this is what isn't supposed to happen large groups ignoring the rules this pub has already been forced to refuse entry to young people particularly who appear not to care about the risks they take 1920 year olds who are going to get in and they say they live in the same house in which he separates them your money is forget when taylor 6 but then more joining them then more joy when they end up becoming in a larger group a group of what's attended a year. or 14 we've got to turn some on the way on especially on a saturday night just when they tend to come out and just explain so we're not going to borrow your book if you don't follow the rules. we have to do we have to follow the rules or they have to fill holes this is what's supposed to happen wait to turn into the table becomes free put up with minor inconvenience for the greater good but it isn't these people the tourism industry is worried about there are a few people who have clearly have less regard the would be ideal for distancing

which is sad because the last thing we want is to put any of our paypal here at risk going to visit is at risk and certainly if we do have any businesses that need to close or operator to further reduce capacity it puts them at risk as well. it's happening all over the u.k. not least where the hot weather is driving people to the beach look at the difference between the south coast of england and the cost in spain confuse rules and public indifference a putting at risk the health and livelihoods of the people making sure tourists have a nice summer holiday it hardly seems a fair deal largely al-jazeera in the english lake district. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a buzzer beater lifts the suns in the n.b.a. that's coming up in sports the fetus that echo what sounds. by every.

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book my time was upon his peter so thank you so much u.s. open tennis champion rafa nadal has confirmed he won't defend his title at this year's tournament spend it has pulled out of the events which begins at the end of august citing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic this year's competition will be staged without fans and will be the 1st grand slam since the main draw with flushing meadows in 1990 not feature either nadella or roger federer who is currently recovering from knee surgery they'll see if he feels safe at home at that stage. my personal feeling my heart's ace. have

long rattles. without knowing exactly what can happen so my decision is to. call him a look at that situation looks good looks under control here. and wait for future opportunities. one team that knows the dangers of coronavirus well is the m l b's miami marlins having had 18 players test positive a couple of weeks ago they were finally cleared to play again with replacements on tuesday although the game against the baltimore orioles was delayed by 40 minutes as the final test results came in the way it was worth it as the marlins shot out the orioles winning phone nothing. he's over in oakland the athletics beat the texas rangers 51 but the rangers had the catch of the day until the great bird who had the night off and was relaxing in the empty stands made it looks easy because the ball is that softer teammate told frazier

hatred towards the dugout. over in the n.b.a. in florida the brooklyn nets pulled off one of the biggest upsets in years they were the underdogs going into the game in the eastern conference leading moki bucks and up against reigning m.v.p. john assented to comfort but the nets were not going down easy rookie hole got into a scrap with n.t.t. compound that fired up brooklyn. with 26 points as the nets edged the bucs 119160. and an incredible final moment in the phoenix suns game with the los angeles clippers devin booker capped the game high 35 points with a passive beating basket to shock the clippers the suns winning 117150. 5 they're very. very similar to the n.b.a. the n.h.l. stanley cup playoffs are taking place in 2 separate bubbles both of them in canada

and on tuesday in toronto the new york islanders were up against the florida panthers jordan abeles scoring twice for new yorkers they won the game full to the islanders take a 2 nothing lead in the best of 5 preliminary playoff game 3 of shadows fellates one win stay. elsewhere the vancouver. defeated minnesota wild $43.00 in a game in edmonton j.t. miller and with a goal and then with each vancouver that means the series is now tied at $11.00. manchester united manager. believes winning the europa league can be the 1st step back as he seemed try to return to their former glory so is yet to win a trophy since taking over at old trafford nearly 18 months ago united lead 5 nil going into the 2nd leg of the last 16 time with the las k of austria at one taking place on wednesday the final stages of the season's competition are being played in

germany over single legs because of the coronavirus for me personally when i won my 1st trophy as a player it made me more hungry because you you saw the highs of it so how much it meant for everyone and as a coach i wonder that i won the league 1st time with mold in that was the 1st time for the club in 100 year history and since then we've won it 4 times in about 8 or 9 years so it was a big change for the club for me for this team as well i think if we can get our hands on the trophy it's a big big step forward elsewhere if he copenhagen are looking servitor in a 10 deficit against turkish champions. here are checked out on the at score $21.00 up against for spurs and into a tough they did not get to play a 1st leg because of the coronavirus so their match will be a single leg fixture. the world's top golfers are putting their final preparations

together for the delayed a 1st major of the season the p.g.a. championship teed off on thursday brooks kept at the end of the tournament as the 2 time defending champion but 15 time major champion tiger woods is also in this week's field he's only played once since golds returned from the coronavirus hiatus but the 4 time p.g.a. champion remains confident of his chances of victory. just in the world we live in and we just have to get used to it as far as the focus part of it i haven't had a problem with that those 4 rounds i was i was pretty into it. it's different and you know most of times when you go from green to tee people yelling or trying to touch it that you know that part is different as far as energy and while i'm competing and playing you know that's that's the same up i'm pretty intense when i play and pretty into what i'm doing. more sports news

later so thanks very much peter you have been watching al jazeera news hour with me so wrong with more news with being on the other side of the break into a lot of free time and your company. frank assessments seeing. thinks look this is an informed opinion is ethiopia on the verge of a breakdown in many parts of the omeo region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate after the use of proxy he does not understand the interest of the libyan people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera among the lower castes dullards also known as untouchables sit at the very bottom of the hindu hierarchy they perform the lowliest tasks such as manually cleaning sewers often with no

protective clothing or breathing apparatus given sing right or is a valid i'm no lawyer he's taking us to meet some members of the community some of whom he represents carla benvar galas family a cleaner as her husband was poisoned in a sewer 4 years ago to have her 3 sons now do the same work despite protections under the constitution dullards untouchables are treated as outcomes many dullards have escaped their predicament by converting to other faiths such as islam or christianity the b.g.p. controlled state of what the british has prepared a 90 conversion law under which religious conversion would require permission from a state official human rights groups say the law is aimed at keeping dulux in their place 150000000 trees disappear every year into the clothing that we all wish from uk cycling to save the forests the famous yellow dress fade from blue jeans. to

conserving the world's dwindling wetlands free of the aids world's global bird migration flight intersects right where we are the basic discovered a treasure it is one of the most special that lands on the planet after ice ecosystems elaborate on al-jazeera. owns cabinet designs to put some officials under house arrest after a massive explosion flattened beirut and killed over 100 people. in the blast caused the new $3000000000.00 worth of damage and made $300000.00 people homeless. collapse of the.