if you bring fame. and power to one of one east investigate on al-jazeera. the arab the air. at least 135 people dead found injured many homeless numbers and anger mountain levanon after a major explosion in beirut another morning though sifting through the wreckage of the blast at a war warehouse the officials believed to be responsible under house arrest. player watching al jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha i'm fully back t. ball also coming up u.s. president donald trump's campaign account is briefly banned from tweeting over

a coronavirus polls deemed to be misinformation the same post has been removed by facebook the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in her rule raises more concern about domestic violence during the coronavirus pandemic. flu. 75 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 1000 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. levanon government has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut a day after a massive explosion devastated launch areas of the capital at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 are injured and about 300000 have been left without a home investigations are focusing on. negligence with the officials believed to be

responsible now under house arrest as in a harder report somebody. 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 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 god their day will come. 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 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 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 a comparison of satellite images is providing another strong perspective of the damage this picture of beirut sport from planet lab was taken in may and this is how it looks now we can see structures wiped out in a large section of the main dock is gone now the focus is also turning to the long

term humanitarian impact more than $300000.00 people have lost their homes in beirut governesses fixing the damage will cost billions of dollars medical stockpiles are depleted and some hospitals are in ruins those that are functioning have knowledge lead been overwhelmed and lebanon's main grain silo was destroyed at the port leaving less than a month's reserves help is arriving turkey russia kataki ronn and the european union are among those sending aid france says 2 planes are being sent with surprise as well as firefighters and medical staff french president emmanuel mccollum plans to travel to beirut on thursday and any iraqi delegation has met the lebanese prime minister has promising to send fuel and wheat lebanon imports up to 80 percent of its food now whatever happened there are questions about why such large amounts of explosive material was stored in the heart of the city they had available sport has

told lebanese media that it was kept in accordance with an early a court order he says letters were sent urging their removal for 6 years of those went on and sits. in other world news twitter has sent prairie restricted president donald trump's campaign team from tweeting it was in response to the account sharing video of a fox news interview with charm where he made false claims about the coronavirus links to the tweets now arrive at this page twitter says the polls violated its rules on covert 1000 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign appears sort of complied. facebook removed the same video from president trump's main page mike hanna has more from washington. well president trump stated in that interview phone interview with fox television that children are almost immune from coburg 19 or virtually immune he

said as well at a different stage now this is clearly an peyton falls the centers for disease research research the c.d.c. says that some quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted to corona virus and at least 6 have actually died of egg and acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is clearly incorrect but what has got to be looked at as well is the context that president trump has used this phrase virtually immune he has done it before in public on a number of occasions and the context is his absolute insistence that schools must open in the us in their entirety he does not want virtual education he wants all the classes to open at the beginning of the new school year because he argues the economy cannot provide and this children are back in school freeing their parents to go to work so this is the context of these repeated false woods being made by

president trump with regard to children and covert 901 let's speak to rob pegoraro about this he's a freelance tech writer for fast company usa today and forbes is via skype from washington very good to have you with us on al-jazeera twitter has been aggressive in the past with president trump's tweets labeling several tweets from the president misleading but rocking his campaign from tweeting is quite significant are you at all surprised that they finally did this. i have more so facebook and twitter twitter seems to decided a while ago and crossed all ends. the and in those clearly misinformation misleading and demick breaks those rules but for instance when trump suggested that somehow and ingesting bleach or disinfectant might treat the coronavirus facebook that stay up because the argument was you didn't tell people to do that and now facebook is better that it will actually block hostings from

president yeah as you say facebook until now had resisted taking strong action and mocked that has long been a proponent of free speech on his site what do you think led to this shift in position from facebook. i guess it is there with 257000 americans dead from this disease that's part of it and i think also this book this story clearly over the last few years we've seen the do not want to upset to new people around the president to the extent where a very pro trumpet inaccurate news source like great art does not get banned does not get what gets a privilege spot in the face that missed out on their mobile app. and they have gotten a lot of criticism including from a lot of fiscal ploys. because trying not to get sense to the president and his

supporters and imagine the fact that they were nosing advertisers also might have led to the shift in position it is in business ties or is don't want to be in a place. i would assume that having a say with conspiracy theories would not make it. right a model that a bright face some tough questions on capitol hill last week especially from republicans who were basically accusing him of censoring conservative voices do you think actions such as these will drive more people away from facebook or on the contrary or actions like this too late to think i don't think this is going to drop to drop too many way from facebook the complaints people have about it i was just writing both here but the rest are so special we're number one complaint right is not is facebook mean to conservatives or not is different true that some of the same people in that house committee hearing. and the other

executives of being biased against republican voices will have another talking point even though actual evidence of that bias i haven't seen it transcends to done very well using facebook as a megaphone is certainly has been a mislead large audience i thank you so much for talking to us and sharing it is a rob pegoraro a freelance writer joining us there from washington thank you for your time thanks . still ahead on al jazeera crime quarantine and i meet on the crisis in argentina find out how people and officials are coping and daya warnings from whites groups about the situation in indian administered kashmir as the territory marks one year since it not said special status.

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 dissipate and even some of this area cloud right down the east the sable the still right in the forecast many eastern areas then as we go on through thursday some heavy bursts of right around the middle and 6 states just around the carolinas pushing up into the cheney some wet weather pushing towards d.c. as well as some rain to just making its way across the appalachians for a time i will just slide a little further race was as we go through friday central parts could catch a shower too lots of warm sunshine for many central areas of kind of the said he say some rather wet weather along with b.c. some cloud in the 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 lively showers

too into central america western areas of the caribbean probably seeing the wettest of the weather but we are going to see some heavy rain just around the way in which and also into the leeward as we go on through thursday and on into friday by friday a slushy dry across the greater antilles well they could catch up shower in jamaica kingston with the high 31. a $150000000.00 trees disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear from uk cycling to save the forests the famous yellow dress fade from blue jeans bill to conserving the world's dwindling wetlands 3 of the aids world's global bird migration routes are sick right where we are the basic discovered a treasure trove it is one of the most special that lands on the planet after ice ecosystems and land it on al-jazeera.

welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera this hour lebanon's cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut on tuesday is the ever stating explosion at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured in about 300000 have been left without homes authorities are blaming vast tours of highly explosive ammonium nitrate which they say were kept in unsafe conditions for years several more officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blasts and twitter temporarily restricted president donald trump's campaign team account from tweeting on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of

a fox news interview with trump where he made false claims about the corner virus hours earlier facebook removed the same video from president tom's main page. now the united nations and international agencies are calling on the world to step in if india doesn't address the deteriorating human rights situation in indian administered kashmir it's been a year since new delhi assert the disputed region special status osama bin jabot reports. on the pakistani side of the disputed region are protesting many see the indian government's communications blockade has separated them from family in indian administered kashmir new delhi revoked its economy last year effectively an extinct part of the territory and it is clear by pairing 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 some

in the hindu minority in jammu and kashmir have been celebrating the anniversary apartheid goes to her august the 5th is the day when the wall of hatred may be article 37. 0 the dividing kashmir from india was brought down and now residents of jammu and kashmir probably calling themselves indian citizen it's earlier also there were indian citizens somewhere the sentiment of separatism was being fanned the slogans of self rule total freedom that's over now 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 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 on kashmir by. conflict needs to be resolved under international supervision according to un security council resolutions. i think modi made a strategic blunder the united nations discussed the crushing 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 st nigger's red square. but unless the 2 countries engage in meaningful discussion families will continue to live on either side of the disputed border. with their. moving on to the corona virus pandemic which is killing one person in the world every 15 seconds quoting to a tally by the voices news agency the number of recorded global desk has surpassed 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the surge in new cases and fatalities in colombia former president are already has tested positive for coverage 19 just a day after the supreme court ordered he be placed under house arrest has been detained over allegations of witness tampering and fraud which he denies. reports from bogota. the 2nd day of startling news for former president i would just as he

prepares to begin home detention amid the witness tampering investigation he announced he tested positive for covert 19 but for many colombians he's undeserving of any sympathy. like jacqueline christie you know who considers him responsible for the death of his brother jaime a decade ago for doris day how the who lost her son the same way there are 2 of thousands of men that were abducted and murdered by soldiers during his administration been declared rebel combatants to boost war statistics and justify us a scandal known as false positives the evidence is that not these the court's decision gave us great joy we know it's not about the false positives yet but we think it's a great step forward we thought it was out of reach i think it will open the way to the continuation of other investigations into all the other things we know he's implicated in the been a towering figure in colombian politics for the last 2 decades and has been

investigated for ties to drug traffickers paramilitary groups and illegal spying. dozens of his government appointed close allies and even family members have been found guilty of a number of crimes yet there. he himself has always managed to avoid prosecution. millions of colombians support him and believe he is the victim of a conspiracy of the left in response to the supreme court decision his party is calling for a constitutional assembly to change the country's justice system. let the courts this is an is totally arbitrary and a step in the face to the immense majority of colombians who believe you rob is honest and demonstrates the columbia's justice is politic ised and not impartial but political analyst arlene tickner says the fact that the court went on to detain with this spite incredible pressure against it is unusual do you do you

a case is unprecedented in terms of the level of the politician involved and so i believe that if indeed convicted this will set a tremendous precedent in terms of future investigations of high level politicians in colombia. jacqueline in dari say they're not interested in retribution they're just hope that after more than a decade the decision to put their house arrest could become a turning point in the search for justice and truth at least in the room and just. 4 months of corn teen and an economic crisis have left many in argentina feeling insecure the situation has been worsened by a rise in crime reports on how the government is tackling the situation. security personnel on the ground in winter sightings their target is a drug trafficking ring involved in armed robberies. the operation is money toward

by the province a security minister said. he sell a 10 in cornell in the army a surgeon and a lawyer he says the only way of stopping when a site is going out of control is to be on the ground every day. we accompanied him on one of more than 40 security operations that take place every day in this province of 12000000 people. who want to save the province of borno state is going through a pandemic is the region as a virus but we already had other intimate problems like in security it's getting deeper and we need to approach it with all sorts of policies and. the rate is not an easy one members of the group try to escape and shots are fired as great. barrier when high poverty rates and weight insecurity has been on the right and major challenge for the government is keeping the situation in this part of the country under control. the police searched the homes of the suspects for drugs and

guns children are terrified. poverty has been on the rise in recent years but says the pandemic began the situation has deteriorated even further the government has increased cash and food handouts but it seems much more needs to be done. better he says the situation can be compared to the 2001 crisis when argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt. even though looting and riots are under control for now inequality has been on the rice. mental the crime we're seeing now is younger people involved in criminal activities people with no criminal background it's more disorganized the crisis that is coming it's worse than 2001 because it's deeper and sharper but we're trying to control it. for people are detained on drugs confiscated but with more security personnel on

the ground human rights activists say abuse has increased and. we're seeing cases of abuse all around the country with different levels of violence abuse from the police and provincial and federal forces this is not new but it reaffirms that these are not isolated cases and there is a structural problem. argentina struggling to contain the spread of ovid 19 and is coping with an economic crisis the challenge is to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control once again. it is how will one of scientists and it's accelerating in peril where concerns also growing about the disappearance of women and girls and women's rights official says more than $900.00 where reported missing between the start of the lockdown in mid march through until the end of june john heilemann explains from mexico city. 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 today expect this do to go on the intensification well the pandemic improves quote one of the worst def rates in the world and it's 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 abusive 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 a lot of cases aren't in the cities as is the case for example in mexico a lot of them are in rural areas where perhaps there's more of a culture of my cheese more of of men feeling that they own women in some in some

respects a lot of the cases are happening there i should add as well that 2 thirds of these more than $100.00 cases in peru are actually minors these are girls robbed of the women so there's a another sort of added layer of vulnerability that young girls and going missing in the country hundreds of people have protested in istanbul against the government's plans to quit an international treaty on violence against women present bedouins party is said to decide by next week on whether to withdraw turkey from the council of europe accords which was signed in 2911 activists recently launched an online campaign about the problem of violence against women after he male student was killed in southwestern techie. to sri lanka now where the counting of votes is underway after wednesday's parliamentary election turnout was down the elections on to be delayed twice because of the pandemic present go to by rajapaksa as parties hoping to get

a 2 thirds majority so that it can change the constitution go to buy a comes from a political family his brother mahinda is the current prime minister and previously served as president. survivors of the world's 1st atomic atomic have been marking 75 years since the bomb was dropped on hiroshima in japan it was a scaled back ceremony because of call it 19 about 140000 people were killed after u.s. forces dropped the bomb in the final stages of world war 2 robert jacobs works with the hiroshima peace institute he says the threat from nuclear weapons is still high . well there's several overall legacies obviously interpersonal the the legacy is harm that was done to people loss of family members destruction of families loss of wealth so here in hiroshima the legacy is personal and some of the commemoration is very much about people and ancestors but for us as

a society the legacy is that we moved forward from here roshumba into a world full of nuclear weapons in which we all faced risk from nuclear war so as you know there is a treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons that is moving through the united nations mechanisms and this is to address the fact that 75 years later we all still face risk and threat from these weapons so that's one of the primary legacies for those of us who don't have a familial connection or a community connection to these attacks it is easy to forget that and actually there have been over 2000 nuclear weapons tested since 1945 we think of the cold war as a period of time in which nuclear weapons were not used but statistically a nuclear weapon was being detonated every 8.6 days during the cold war millions of people were exposed to fall out and it's pertinent that you mention the court case

with the black rain survivors those were people who were outside of the city so they weren't affected by the blast or the heat of the radiation but they were affected by the radioactive fallout. on what was meant to be the final weekend of the 2020 m. pix in japan the rings that symbolize the games are being taken down they are temporarily being removed for maintenance the rings were installed in tokyo bay earlier this year for the sporting events this summer but the olympics have been postponed to july next year because of the pandemic. the and the arrogant i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera lebanon's cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in the capital beirut following tuesday is devastating explosion at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about 300000 have been left without homes authorities are blaming

a vast stores of highly explosive ammonium nitrate switch they say were kept at the port in unsafe conditions for years several officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blast twitter temporarily restricted president donald trump's campaign team account from tweeting on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of a fox news interview with trump in which he made false claims about the coronavirus . facebook remove the same video from president trump's main page icon has more from washington. well president trump stated in that interview phone interview with fox television that children are almost immune from coated 19 or virtually immune he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly and peyton clearly false the centers for disease research research the c.d.c. says that some quarter of

a 1000000 children have contracted coronavirus and at least 6 have actually died of and acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is clearly incorrect. the coronavirus fund demigods killing one person in the world every 15 seconds as according to a tally by voices news agency the number of recorded global desk has surpassed 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the surge in new cases and fatalities and the virus is accelerating in peru where concern is also growing about the disappearance of women and girls a peruvian women's rights official says more than $900.00 were reported missing between the start of the lockdown in mid march until the end of june those are the headlines coming up next earthrise. 15 years ago an explosion ripped through lebanon's capital killing prime minister graphene a hobby and 21 others now the special tribunal for lebanon in the hague will

deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted and follow all the developments on a 0. to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the vast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half that area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regulate our planet.