formed opinions years ethiopia on the verge of breakdown many parts of the order me at region are actually under a de facto state of analogies critical debate after he does look at a recent interest of the few people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. at least 135 people dead more than 5000 injured 300000 left homeless numbers and anger mount in lebanon after beirut's catastrophic explosion. and with investigations focusing on negligence officials responsible for storing a highly explosive chemical put under house arrest.

again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in peru raising more concerns about domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic. and 75 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 19 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. lebanon's government has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut giving the military full powers a day after a massive explosion devastated large areas of the capital at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about 300000 have been left without a home officials are blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium i. trait

which they say were kept in unsafe conditions at the port from beirut zina holder 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 building has been damaged many are dead thousands are injured rescue workers worked through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble telling them. my husband is an employee at the electricity company he survived but his colleagues didn't the only non 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. close the well how authorities are appealing for help from the international community the state is close to bankruptcy. it's like a bigger earth quake 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 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 '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 at 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 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. beirut where the comparison of satellite images is providing another stark perspective on the damage this picture of the port of beirut from planet lab was taken in the month of may this is how it looks today you can see their structures wiped out and a large section of the main dock is gone the focus is also turning to the long term

humanitarian impact more than 300000 people have lost their homes as we've heard and beirut's governesses fixing the damage will cost billions of dollars medical supplies are depleted and some hospitals are now 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 help however is arriving turkey russia cata iran and some of the e.u. countries are among those sending aid france says 2 planes are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters and medical staff the french president emanuel macro plans to travel to beirut on thursday and an iraqi delegation has met the lebanese prime minister promising to send fuel and wheat lebanon imports up to 80 percent of its foodstuffs. while investigators in lebanon increasingly blame negligence for what they describe as an accident the u.s. president isn't 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 type devices and things around perhaps perhaps it was that perhaps it was attack 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 and if some people that think it wasn't in any event it was a terrible event and a lot of people were killed. however secretary of defense appeared to contradict the president saying all indications are that it was an accident yesterday getting information on what happened i thought it a most 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 why i mean it's really really bad it could have been much worse. well whatever actually happened there are questions about why such large amounts of explosive material was stored in the heart of the city ahead of beirut supporters told lebanese media that it was kept in accordance with an early a court order he says letters were sent their removal for 6 years but those went on on while on how many is a lebanese politician who resigned from parliament in protest just after the explosion he says the broken political system probably won't get to the bottom of what happened so what's needed now is an international inquiry. now we have. the dative ship closer to to the fact of 2 parties hezbollah on one side and the party of the president down on the others and the only star provide the

christian government or christian ready and has the line. really whatever it wants the eternal and extended policies of clementon sport that he's relieved from the whole word with the western or eastern or out up now there is a there is a fight for democracy we had a 4th glory democracy but it's still it's still. function that one time we had to from the frenchmen date and we were the 1st parliament to be out of breath. and the fear press ever in the whole area but i think we have to regain our right to democracy i'm a veteran not be along with the previous system of which i was part of but i will fight for typically. and we immediate as and just

to ensure to our children and grandchildren a better future very the bankruptcy and trade state that. was reached by the present president and government. let's move on to some other top stories for you the coronavirus pandemic is killing one person around the world every 15 seconds that's according to a tally from the reuters news agency the number of recorded global deaths has now surpassed 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the surge in new cases and fatalities. and it's accelerating in peru where concerns are growing about the disappearance of women and girls approving women's rights official says more than $900.00 were reported missing between the start of the lockdown in mid march through until the end of june domestic violence is increased during the pandemic afghanistan's health minister says as many as

10000000 people may have been infected with the virus there that's one 3rd of the population it made the announcement after antibody tests on about 9 and a half 1000 people 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. 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. here cramer is head of the red cross and red crescent societies in afghanistan he says they've long suspected the virus is a much bigger problem than the figures are suggesting. it was the popular surprise back in march the ministry have to be careful already announced you know that potentially 60000000 people could be affected. and nobody took it very seriously

but at the same time during in may june we could see you know. visually i would say that the virus months the impact of the virus and the magnitude of the virus was certainly much bigger than. what the figures were all saying the situation can still be worsening that's pretty clear because it's a celebration and and today across the country you know the lockdown measures are even the so share this dancing protocol as you know i am very lengthy applied so so certainly the big peak is behind and the figure that has been announced today show that it has been brutal and it has been much larger. as has indicated before and bet it's not behind us let's say treated certainly be potentially wasson english in the next weeks and we need to be ready to beef with the virus as

a new normal across the country. still to come on this program. not. ready. in their own room moody rallies his base as construction begins on a controversial hindu temple on the ruins of a mosque. and dressed for success meet the fashion designers looking to add diversity to the rag trade. and i once again welcome to the look at the international forecast but they still have flooding concerns for the korean peninsula we have what remains of our old typhoon now making its way across the yellow sea this area of low pressure here but we have vast seasonal rains the my you front little further north and it has been recently that so those are going to engage are going to bring some very heavy rain right across the korean peninsula as we go through thursday it'll push

a little further eastward just see how it just links back across south korea all the way into west central parts of china and that will continue to drive its way further east which is we go through friday so further flooding does look almost inevitable here as you can see for japan on the other hand here it is largely dry at least away from western parts of honshu largely dry across southern parts of china want to choose showers but nothing much to speak of in the sunshine and showers too across the southeast asia some lively ones coming into central and southern parts of the philippines and was never really too far away from borneo as well as a shower was always on the cards there for indonesia but otherwise it's a lot of fine and sunny weather there were some heavy showers there once again up towards thailand longer spells of right across a good part of india bangladesh seeing some heavy showers the wettest weather of the west and gets.

a story of fine. anshul scandal with billions lost in the united arab emirates i have never seen and a story like this where 2 companies simple to explain involving the same group of people have failed at the same time but where did the money go is the $1000000.00 question al-jazeera world investigates the dramatic story of the rise and full of an indian tycoon to be our shanty and the missing millions on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera 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 are injured and roughly about 300002 be left without a home. the authorities are blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they say were kept in unsafe conditions for years several port officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blast. one other story the coronavirus is killing one person around the world every 15 seconds that's according to a tally by the reuters news agency the number of recorded global deaths has now surpassed 700000 with latin america remaining the epicenter. to hiroshima in japan where survivors of the world's 1st atomic bomb exactly 75 years ago have been remembering the victims it is a scaled back ceremony because of cope with 19 it's estimated 140000 people were killed when u.s. forces dropped the bomb there in the final days of world war 23 days later was also

devastated mcbride joins us live now from seoul so rob a kind of a truncated ceremony today partly because of covert 19 but also partly to do with the people who survived they're getting older. absolutely the cashew as they are called these are the 1st generation survivors from here and in august sacchi and a number something like 136000 people who are still around but all of them are in advancing years even if they were children on the morning of 6th of august 945 they'd be well into their eighty's and ninety's by now so this the 75th anniversary obviously it's a very important and a verse 3 but probably the last major anniversary where we're going to see a big turnout by these vibes but it has been a very poignant ceremony marked of course by the one minute of silence that is

always takes place at 8 15 am local time that was the moment at which this aircraft appeared over the skies of hiroshima a b. 29 bomber carrying the atomic bomb code named little boy that was dropped and then detonating 2000 feet above the ground causing tens of thousands of people to be killed instantly in the radiation flash and blast i think at the estimate is something like $70000.00 people died initially but then in the coming days and weeks and people died from horrendous injuries a lot of them flash burns and so on and then in the months and years to come of course started to die in their tens of thousands from a whole array of illnesses that the world had never seen before caused by radiation sickness nuclear fallout as the world got to know the horrors of the atomic age it had just ended what did you make of the comments from the mayor of hiroshima

a totally 100 percent contemporary message sending this kind of global war global warning about the rise of nationalism and what can still i guess in his mind follow that. it is something that is still very strongly felt in both hiroshima and nagasaki of course modern japan nationally is framed by its nuclear experience it remains to date the only country that has been attacked by nuclear weapons but there does remain a very strong sense in both cities that they should keep alive this this notion that no other city should be go through the kind of experience that they have and we heard a similar message from shinzo pan's prime minister in his address saying that japan should continue efforts to strive towards a nuclear free world it should remain to be

a bridge between nuclear armed and non-nuclear countries but also more human message about making sure that these are the stories of the survivors as they gradually reduce in number year after year are kept alive and that the world does not forget what this generation of japanese went through in those awful days 75 years ago ok rob many thanks for the bread our correspondent there reporting live from seoul. the un and international agencies are calling on the world to step in if india does not address the deteriorating human rights situation in indian administered kashmir it's now been a year since new delhi has stripped the disputed regions special status osama bin as more. 6 communities on the pakistani side of the disputed region are protesting many of the indian government's communications blockade has separated them from family in indian administered kashmir new delhi revoked its autonomy last

year effectively part of the territory and. we want to convey the message to the international community that we will continue to stand in solidarity against the violence the rape and the arrests of kashmiris until our land is free of occupation . on the other side of the line of control in the hindu minority in jammu and kashmir have been celebrating the anniversary. of the 5th is the day when the wall of hatred namely article 370 the divided kashmir from india was brought down and now residents of jammu and kashmir are probably calling themselves indian citizens earlier also there were indian citizens somewhere the sentiment of separatism was big fan of the slogans of self totally freedom that's over in the years since india made that decision it has imposed a lockdown cut off all modes of communication and its forces everest at several political leaders and young men. amnesty international says the entire population

of kashmir has been deprived of its right to freedom of expression and opinion through protected communication restrictions it's calling on the indian government to immediately release all political leaders journalists and activists from administrative detention restore 4 g. mobile internet the congested prisons and launch a prompt and independent investigation into the attacks on journalists indian officials say a curfew that's been imposed is essential to maintain security in the region. and human rights activists see it as a violation of india's international obligations more than 800000 indian soldiers are stationed in the picturesque valley nestled in the himalayas. there have been offers to mediate by the un secretary general and the us president but the government of their in their more d. has rejected 3rd party mediation and kashmir barcus on insist the kashmir conflict needs to be resolved under international supervision according to un security council resolutions. i think modi made

a strategic blunder the united nations describes the caution issue thrice during the last year for the 1st time since $965.00 it also published a report on human rights abuses in occupied kashmir pakistanis observed a one minute silence the military released a song and local officials in pakistan administered kashmir and build a replica of stream appears red square. c but unless the 2 countries engage in meaningful discussion families will continue to live on either side of the disputed border. with others there. and while the people of indian administered kashmir remained under lockdown india's prime minister narendra modi was laying the foundation stone of a hindu temple on the ruins of what was once a mosque elizabeth purana has more. than prime minister that in the morty prays before an idol of the hindu god brom ahead of construction starting on a temple in the data on earth it's a moment many of india's. 1000000000 hindus have waited decades for. this temple

will be the symbol of our perennial feet in 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 bobby mosque and 22 others. 18 of the muslims living in the town were killed including relatives of. and muhammad 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 . they tore up the koran in our mosque and started stomping on the pages we tried collecting the pages. kept 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 kind of force. that force ultimately. in the country. after the legal battles one of the sites on the ship the supreme court ruled last year that it belongs to him now 30 years after he joined the campaign for temple prime minister met him for more tea is inauguration it's construction and it's

a purana al-jazeera. and an advertisement celebrating the construction of the hindu temple in is on display on the billboard in new york times square it was paid for by a hindu group a coalition of muslim and secular activists lobbied unsuccessfully to stop it going up. firefighters in the u.a.e. have been working to put a massive blaze the broke out of the market on one of the 7 emirates is believed to have started at the soup which has been closed for several months because of the corona virus pandemic no injuries have been reported but a hospital nearby had to be evacuated as a precaution. the united nations says more than 50000 people have been affected by the flooding in sudan thousands of homes are damaged and the interior minister says at least 5 people have died in blue nile state burst last week because of torrential downpours more bad weather is on the way to significant cases involving hong kong's pro-democracy movement has been adjourned joshua warren agnes child and

. facing charges related to last year's protests against the shelve the extradition bill and the other case involves the 1st person charged under the new national security law which was imposed by the government in beijing joshua long expressed defiance outside the court where they call prosecutor shot that we face and under the fret of beijing is not the time for the surrender and is no reason for us to live in fear even the government tried to prosecute us with the protest through last summer outside of the police headquarters is still not the time for us to give up and surrender. the way you renewed protests against racism and police brutality in the u.s. this year has forced entire industries to reflect on how he treats and portray minorities this is especially the case for the big fashion houses which are under

more pressure than ever before to embrace greater diversity in jordan as more. reality is sometimes. garson is a fashion house based in new york and miami the word of 2 college classmates who want to offer men more than the usual black tuxedoes their business plan don't wait for the end history to welcome them with open arms you know want to be going to step in and we're going to break these walls out we've got to make sure we do it at an elite level well and pure accident. got us all duty or is responding to a very real problem in fashion it's lack of diversity beyond the runway black models designers and business professionals have long complained they're under represented in the business survey say they make up less than 10 percent of the workforce. it doesn't matter what they signed and i don't you know madam

a. i don't know that. it was a precedent it has no. bridges little's people this isn't the 1st time brands have been accused of being myopic companies such as prada and gucci faced backlash for selling clothes with offensive imagery in 2019 that helps little fashion designers of america unveiled an initiative to address the industry's problems with hiring and promoting black designers see f.t.'s goals improved mentoring business networking education and leadership training. some brands like dior have embraced diversity but others have yet to move beyond a social media. and in the wake of the killing of george floyd and of global protests against racism industry veteran say the time is now for action everyone is bad. and only. in your peers who look like you can find

value in your next. illiterate sanchez is optimistic but he's not waiting around who want to make sure that the same goals are applied every quarter want to make sure that he's business isn't getting still and these options so schooling are available to us pushing fashion to make good on its promises to change with the times rosalyn jordan al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories lebanon's cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut following tuesday's devastating explosion at least 135 people a day more than 5000 injured and about 300000 been left without homes in authorities are blaming vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they

say were kept in unsafe conditions for years several ports fishelson are under house arrest while investigators in lebanon increasingly play negligence for what they describe as an accident the u.s. president is not completely convinced donald trump says an attack still can't 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 it was there 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 cancer iran and the european union are among those sending aid to lebanon france 2 aircraft are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters and doctors the french president emanuel macro does plan to

travel to beirut on thursday an iraqi delegation has met the lebanese prime minister house and promising to send fuel and wheat slevin on imports up to 80 percent of his food stuffs. the coronavirus is killing one person around the world every 15 seconds that's according to a new tally from reuters the number of recorded global deaths is now surpassed 700000 it's exhilarating in peru where concern are 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 mid march through until the end of june. survivors of the world's 1st atomic bomb have been marking 75 years since the bomb was dropped on hiroshima in japan about 140000 people were killed after u.s. forces dropped the ball in the final stages of the 2nd world war up next the bottom line.

hi i'm steve clements and i have a question about america's elections what would lincoln do let's get to the bottom line. u.s. president donald trump set off alarm bells in america last week when he talked about delaying the upcoming election after the coronavirus pandemic public health officials recommended that people avoid long lines at polling stations and mail their ballots and instead the trumpet is juggernaut media machine have been relentless in discounting the credibility of mail then ballots climaxing in a tweet last week where he floated the idea of actually delaying elections day which is set for november 3rd that idea was quickly killed by the white house but

the fears remain especially after he said that he'll wait and see if he accepts the election results today we're joined by someone who's been involved in american.