algis iraq. every generation has a higher purpose. ours is to stay out. at least 135 people dead more than 5000 injured 300000 left homeless numbers and anger mount in levanon after beirut's catastrophic explosion. and with investigations focusing on negligence officials responsible for storing a highly explosive chemical put under house arrest.

you're watching all jazeera live from our global headquarters here in doha also coming up the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in peru raises more concern about domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic. and 75 years after hiroshima the threats of cope with 19 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. lebanon's government has declared a 2 week state of emergency giving the military full powers a day after the massive explosion devastated large areas of beirut at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about $300.00 thousands of now been left without a home officials are blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which

they say were kept in unsafe conditions at the port area from beirut xina harder 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 does. struct if then 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 building has been damaged many are dead thousands are injured rescue workers work through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble so. my husband is an employee at the electricity company he survived but his colleagues didn't the only now moving 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 the damage spread several kilometers more than 300000 people are now displaced its people are not in a position to cope with this disaster. but 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 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 gotten their day will come. to close the well how authorities are appealing for help from the international community the state is close to bankruptcy. it's like a bigger earthquake hit lebanon in beirut 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 and 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 'd and mr mankell 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 but anger is also growing out a 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 especially at beirut ports in order to. eligible for financial aid have gone on 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. beirut when a comparison of satellite images is providing another stark view of the size of the explosion and the damage this picture of the port of beirut from planet lab was taken in may this is how it looks today you can see the structures there wipes away and a large section of the main dock is gone well the focus is also turning to the long

term humanitarian impact more than 300000 people as we are reporting they've lost their homes and beirut's governor says fixing the damage will cost billions of dollars medical stockpiles are depleted and some hospitals are in ruins those that are functioning have largely been overwhelmed and lebanon's main grain silo was destroyed at the port leaving less than one month's reserves. we expect that the damage the port will significantly exacerbate their economic and food security situation and lebanon which imports about 85 percent of its food. our colleagues at the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs also expect that this will of affect our ability to provide aid to syria because the port in beirut was one of the ways that we are shipping it and of course we also use the airports so we'll need to find alternate plans but 1st joe will need to do damage assessment and see what is needed. to repair the port and to go about our operations. well

help is arriving turkey russia cats are iran and other european union countries remembers sending in aid france says 2 planes are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters on medical staff the french president emmanuel michel plans to travel to beirut on thursday john from little is the emergency coordinator of doctors without borders in lebanon he says they and other aid and charity organizations are doing what they can to support an already strained health system . in the last 24 hours. it's a place we've been mobilizing where medical supply and there is a huge shortage of medical supplies. where it's. actually wonder when one explosion. system i'm going on was hit by a 3rd crisis. comes on top of me and i'm a crisis. member.

of the i'm sure i'm so we've been stepping in to try and provide some on ship support who looks like we're also trying to see how we can convert one part of the . summer but. we live. and. talking across the city i can point where we can respond when we get nationals or whether it's you who don't. like. distributions to people that are homeless that. this was an. explosion so we were stepping up and mobilizing and quite but we kept that. scene where we were there because. well while investigators in lebanon increasingly are blaming negligence what they're calling an accident the u.s. president's donald trump is not completely convinced mr trump said an attack still

cannot be ruled out they don't really know what it is nobody knows yet at this moment they're looking it could i mean how can you say accident somebody who is you know left some terrible 'd explosive type devices and things around perhaps perhaps it was that perhaps it was a sack i don't think anybody can say right now we're looking into it very strongly right now it's when you have some people think it was an attack and here some people that think it wasn't in any event it was a terrible event and a lot of people were killed. well mr trump secretary of defense appeared to contradict the president saying all the indications are that it was an accident yesterday getting information on what happened i must believe it it's it was an accident as reported and beyond that i have nothing further report on that it's obviously a tragedy you know we mourn for the dozens if not hundreds of lebanese possibly killed and thousands hurt and it's just you know lebanon struggling right now in

a number of ways and it's just it's a shame to see it happen it's when you see the video it's just devastating and and you you wonder what i mean it's really really bad it could have been much worse ok let's move on to wrap up some of the top stories starting this half with the coronavirus pandemic which is killing one person in the world every 15 seconds that's according to a new attorney from the reuters news agency the number of recorded global deaths is now suppose 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the search in new cases and fatalities and it's exhilarating in peru where concerns also growing about the disappearance of women and girls proving in women's rights officials says more than $900.00 were reported missing between the start of the locked on the in mid march through to the end of june it's feared domestic violence has increased during the pandemic live now to john holdren who's in mexico city so john just talking about the situation in peru they expecting this to

continue. well this is a problem in terms of domestic violence and in terms of women and girls going missing that's been happening long before this pandemic it's just really intensified it in terms of do they expect this to go on the intensification well the pandemic can prove it's got one of the worst def rates in the world and it's got one of the worst case rates in the world so it is opening up a bit the country but various different departments regions of that country remain closed down and women's rights officials say that that's really what's intensified this the fact that women a cooped up with the use of partners really is really no way out and that leads to an uptick in violence and of course to the cases of missing girls and missing women just got off the phone actually to our producer who's just been speaking to an ngo

in peru about this problem and she was asking actually where the majority of these cases are and the n.g.o.s basically said something interesting the fact that this is a lot of cases are in the cities as in the case for example in mexico a lot of them are in rural areas where perhaps there's more of a coach or of much she's more of men feel in that they own women in some in some respects and that a lot of the cases are happening there i should add as well that 2 thirds of these more than $900.00 cases in peru are actually minors these are girls rather than women so there's a another sort of added layer of vulnerability that young girls are going missing in the country another thing that the n.g.o.s been telling us is that they could be many more cases because in their experience families just don't report these girls because they feel that the authorities don't take them seriously that they don't go

out to search that they say well he just went she just went off with her boyfriend she will turn up sooner or later a difficult situation there are actually some of those poor. it's a really echoed in mexico a country where 10 women are killed a day there's a real history of femicide here and juries have told us in this country in mexico as well there's been a real tick in cases up ticking calls to help lines from women's shelters and help lines have been set up in new centers here in mexico city but here in mexico in trustingly the president and his mother will preserve retaught has sort of denied that he said that domestic violence isn't increasing. during the pandemic and that things remain as they work so i think in latin america in general and specifically in some cases there's really these high incidences of domestic violence and the pandemic isn't making things any easier in those countries and perhaps authorities not taking it as seriously as they could do as there is

a long history of happening ok john we'll leave it there many thanks john heilemann our correspondent there in mexico city. still to come here on this program. in their own remove the rallies his base as construction begins on a controversial but long promised hindu temple plus. i'm lawrence lee in the northwest of england at the height of the tourism season where some hoteliers are 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. hello we have the remnants of what was hurricane making its way into eastern parts of canada now you can just see that area cloud here just pushing up in the process

of dissipating even some of this area cloud right down the eastern seaboard there still more rain in the forecast for many eastern areas then as we go on through thursday some heavy burst of rain or. around the middle and states just around the carolinas pushing up into the cheney was he said what's the weather pushing towards d.c. as well as some rain to just making its way across the appalachians for a time i will just slot a little further race was as we go through friday central parts could catch a lot of warm sunshine for many central areas of kind of the said he say some rather wet weather along with basically some cloud and rain just tumbling in here but the western areas of the u.s. or hot and sunny pretty much summed it up once again that sunshine stretching down into a good part of mexico. is now across much of the camera been some live to into central america western areas of the campaign probably seeing the wettest of the weather but we are going to see some heavy right just around the way in which and also into the leeward as we go on through thursday and on into friday by friday dry close to

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0 coming to you live from doha i'm peter dhabi your top stories lebanon's cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut after tuesday's devastating explosion at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured 300000 people have been left homeless. your thought is of blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they say was kept in an unsafe condition for years several officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blast. in other news the coronavirus is killing one person around the world every 15 seconds that's according to a new tally from the reuters news agency the number of recorded global deaths just passed 700000 with latin america remaining the epicenter. ok a developing story for you this half hour let's go straight to hiroshima in japan where

survivors of the world's 1st atomic bomb exactly 75 years ago marking it with a moment of silence this is a scaled back ceremony because of the reality of covert 19 it's estimated more than 140000 people were killed when u.s. forces dropped the atom bomb in the final days of world war 23 days later the city of mega sakhi was also devastated by a similar attack will stay with these live pictures will bring in one of our correspondents in the region mcbride saurabh clearly a moment to pause a moment to reflect. absolutely it's a very poignant commemoration it is commemorated every year but obviously being the 75th anniversary this is one of those very important anniversaries as you mentioned there the some of the survivors the hypocrite as they are known in hiroshima and

also in neighboring i guess sakhi they are in attendance but their numbers dwindle through the years and this is probably going to be one of the last last anniversaries where we will see a large turnout by these 1st generation survivors even if they were children at the time that the bomb was dropped they would now be in their eighty's and ninety's as you mentioned there because of the covert 19 outbreak precautions are in place to safe safeguard their well being and health and so on but we have just had the one minute silence that was held at 15 minutes past 8 local time that was the exact moment at which on the 6th of oldest in 1905 the bomb was detonated right over the top of a hiroshima 2000 feet with a devastating impact tens of thousands of people died in the initial blast and the

initial flash and then in the subsequent days weeks afterwards people died from horrific burns and other injuries and then in the months and years afterwards people died from these mysterious illnesses that were linked to this thing was called radiation that the world. eventually came to know all about as it entered the atomic age and it all began awful morning and also it's maybe worth recapping i guess as well rob because august the 15th japan surrenders having absorbed these 2 atomic blows if you will but it did cause unparalleled destruction in astonishing levels of destruction. absolutely and it's a debate that continues to this day about the justification for the dropping of these horrendous weapons there was a debate at the time about whether the devices should have been set off as an

example of what potentially the united states had come up with with the manhattan project and the development of nuclear weapons for the 1st time but the decision was taken to drop it over living targets there was also a debate at the time which continues now that says that in a way in the war it didn't the allies didn't have to invade the mainland and shane which would have cost hundreds of thousands of allied casualties but also arguably millions of japanese casualties from civilian population that was brought up to believe in the day of the emperor that they had to give up their life potentially although since then there has been a lot of historical evidence that maybe japan wanted to surrender wanted to find some sort of way of ending this horrific war that it wasn't so obsessed with

defending the island chain so it is a debate that continues to this day about the dropping of the weapons but certainly the experience of being the only country in the world to have been attacked with nuclear weapons as shaped modern japan and also talking to people in hiroshima there is in the previous days leading up to this event there is still very strong feeling both there and in nagasaki that the memories of these 1st generation should be kept alive even after the 1st survivors themselves have faded away and also that they the local populations there remain committed to this idea of having a non nuclear future many thanks for brought our correspondent in the region taking us through what's going on in hiroshima right now some 5 years after the u.s. dropped the world's 1st nuclear device. u.n. experts are calling on the international community to step in if india doesn't urgently address the deteriorating human rights situation in indian administered

kashmir it's been a year since new delhi stripped the or ptolemy of this disputed region a coronavirus lockdown is being enforced more strictly by the military which will stop protesters from gathering on the anniversary several local politicians journalists and activists have been detained for months and high speed 4 g. internet services have been banned since last year protests were held in the capital of pakistan administered kashmir. they were in solidarity with the people of indian administered kashmir and while the people of indian administered kashmir remain under the law the indian prime minister narendra modi was laying the foundation stone of a hindu temple in the ruins of what was once a mosque here's elizabeth purana. prime minister not in the morty praise before an idol of the hindu god from the head of construction starting on a temple in the days he's on earth it's a moment many of india's nearly 1000000000 hindus have waited decades for. this

temple will be the symbol of a perennial creating nationalism it will also be symbolic of the united strength of hundreds of millions. but division of the side has led to some of the worst religious violence in india's history and security has been heightened. in 1902 thousands of hindus from around the country came to the town and destroyed the 16th century babi mosque and 22 others. 18 of the muslims living in the town were killed including relatives of. and mohammad shine had. lost everything in the violence my sawmill is here we have thousands of dollars worth of wood they set everything on fire they killed my husband and brother in law. up the koran in our mosque and started stomping on the pages we tried collecting the pages. getting. started

attacking people. the religious violence spread beyond iowa mohammed child's father and uncle had to have more than 2000 people who were killed around the country leading members of the hindu nationalist bought at the edge on the party are on trial for conspiring to destroy the mosque the b j p had long promised to build a temple it was 1st elected to govern the country in the general election following the mosques destruction. then. that is where the destruction really created a new. created new force. that force. in the country. after the legal battles of the sides on a ship the supreme court ruled last year that it belongs to him dues now 30 years after he joined the campaign for a temple prime minister met him for more he is inaugurating its construction and is

about piron an al-jazeera you daddy. afghanistan's health minister says as many as 10000000 people may have been infected with corona virus one 3rd of the population he made that announcement after antibody tests on about 9 and a half 1000 people were given out and taken back in nationwide half of the cases were found among adults nearly 50 percent of the children who tested positive were asymptomatic officially afghanistan has only counted 36000 infections 90 you do now general result of the survey says that 31.5 percent of the afghan population which is equal to 10000000 people have been infected by the corona virus during the pandemic 37 percent have been infected in cities and 27 percent have been infected in rural areas the palestinian president is extending the state of emergency there as the virus spreads across the occupied territories the government's eased some restrictions for social gatherings are still banned will be imposed only across the

weekends scotland has imposed a lockdown on its 3rd biggest city in the 1st minister nicholas sturgeon has ordered all hospitality venues to close and visitors to stay away bar and city center is thought to be linked to a new cluster of 54 coronavirus cases. british tourists are choosing to stay in the u.k. this summer rather than travel abroad have come under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons lawrence lee explains why not from the north west of england. jackie's entire reputation and her livelihood depend on her ability to promise to keep her rooms clean and free from coffee at 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 and it was for this reassurance well i hope so yes i mean i think that people are desperate to get away they want to convey is that right this

straight and they just need to know that where. going is exceptionally clean and that it's safe for them to go into those regions this was the lake district just 2 months ago virtually deserted 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 and the money is we get $1.00 table or 6 but then more joining and then more joy when they end up becoming in a larger group a group of what's attended a yeah we're all fortune we've got to turn some on the way on especially on a saturday night just when we tend to come out and just explain to him we're not going to buy your book if you don't follow the rules. we have to do we have to follow the rules so they have to fill holes this is what's supposed to happen wait should 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 clearly have less regard that 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 business is 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 confused rules and public in different supposing that 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. recapping our top stories here on al-jazeera the lebanese cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut after tuesday's devastating explosion at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 are injured around 300000 have been left without homes the authorities are blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they say were kept in unsafe conditions for years several court

officials are now under house arrest and while investigators in lebanon increasingly blame negligence for what they describe as an accident the u.s. president is not completely convinced donald trump says an attack still cannot be ruled out. they don't really know what it is nobody knows yet at this moment they're looking it could i mean how can you say accident somebody was you know left some terrible 'd explosive tape devices and things around perhaps perhaps it was that perhaps it was a sack i don't think anybody can say right now we're looking into it very strongly right now it's i mean you have some people think it was an attack in year some people that think it wasn't in any event it was a terrible event and a lot of people were killed turkey russia cats are iran and some other e.u. countries are among those sending aid to lebanon france's 2 airplanes are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters and doctors the french president emanuel micro plans to travel to be roots on thursday the coronavirus pandemic is killing

one person in the world every 15 seconds that's according to a new tally from the reuters news agency the number of recorded global deaths as nasa passed 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the surge in new cases and fatalities and it's exhilarating in peru are concerns also growing about the disappearance of women and girls a peruvian women's rights official says more than $100.00 were reported missing between the start of the lockdown in march until the end of june. let's wrap up with some live pictures from hiroshima in japan where survivors of the world's 1st atomic bomb attack on marking the somber anniversary of exactly 75 years ago about 140000 people were killed when u.s. forces dropped the atom bomb in the final days of world war 2. those are your top stories up next counting the cost once welcome now fear. and dividing

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