on board are mainly men from the rock of bangladesh, egypt and syria. international guys, asian migration says more than a 1000 migrants have died in the mediterranean. this year. i just clicked on main stories now in afghanistan. government forces are trying to prevent 3 key cities from falling to the taliban. they fight the group on multiple fronts. violence is intensifying and the southern city of kandahar rockets, rain down on the airport and all flights have been cancelled. taliban of also launched a campaign to take control of lash could guard the besieged capital of helmand province. but the do i advocate in 3 provinces, the security situation is critical, especially in alaska. the enemy had some movement security in defense, the forces of planning to intercept the enemy's movements 1st,

then build defensive line and later launch offensive operations. radio was killed in 3 hours injured when the afghan air force bond a private hospital in lash gone. the owner of the hospitals as african forces mistakenly believe that taliban fighters were being treated there. now in the headlines, the international mpeg committee has spoken with an athlete who is seeking to stay in japan off the falling out with team officials, allergies and sprinter. christina humanist sky was seen at the airport in tokyo on sunday, asking japanese police officers for help. she told a journalist, she was taken to the airport against her well off to making a public complaint about her coaches. mister, i'm asking the international olympic committee for help. there's pressure against me and they're trying to get me out of the country without my permission. so i'm asking the i o. c, to get involved in this 6 months after seizing power and occur me and miles military to enter his name itself can take

a government he didn't mean on lie will become the prime minister. he has promised to lift the fate of emergency by late 2023 and told multi party elections, but protested, and me and law of continued the military for the military rule is to step down. and the us says it's now confident that iran was bind an attack last week on an israeli manage tanker off the coast of alon. but caron continues to deny any role in the strike on the, and the mercer street which kill 2 people. the u. k. government has also condemned the attack. the full report is a program coming out next, following the investigations into last year's bay roots port explosion. the

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broke everywhere. d the, with so much is destroyed. the biggest point is in the heart of the capital, along a busy highway and close to densely populated neighborhoods. the without warning, what is the largest non nuclear blast in history kills more than $200.00 people, injures thousands and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless. ah, authority saith the blast was caused by highly exclusive material stored at a warehouse in the in that highly exclusive material was ammonium nitrate at the time authorities problem is that transparent

investigation. they promised results in 5 days. but it's been a year, and the lead judge in the case has been facing fierce political backlash as he attempts to prosecute some of those beliefs to be responsible for unsafely storing the chemical out the ports. there are still many questions surrounding the ammonium nitrate and how much of it was inside the warehouse. at the time of the blast. the multiple videos that were taken moments before the blast till part of the story . there was a fire at warehouse twelth at $554.00 p. m minutes before the explosion. the fire brigade received a call from the police 9 fire fighters and a female paramedic immediately responded the short drive to the port would be their last journey. ah, she said it would be,

it would be the saturday this solid been a habit chavez, low over capital should have been shut up. that how this, how does it love it? get out of a box. and then adjust the how the how do i look for so knowing how to show it, how does it come mother shut alone. i don't have to miss out if any, my so i'm gonna look, i had a lumber seca hadn't had an initial fee and had to do their colleagues. they were sent to their almost certain death. they weren't told about the dangers, they weren't prepared and they couldn't protect themselves. some of the firefighters are seen in the photo trying to force open one of the doors of the burning warehouse, because no one at the court had the key. ah,

that was moment before the explosion. there was a smaller one before a larger blast seconds later, believed to have been caused by the soft pile of ammonium nitrate. before i'm wondering, my trade can mottled mamma well then you hear the fuel as miss and all as if and all her daughter alcohols had the most with my daughter last got it can feed my where we're starting, how much time and famine vapors, vapors mom, ammonium nitrate horn and abolish hopper in ammonium nitrate is used as a fertilizer, but it's also a component to make box. the photos that have since emerged showed a disaster and waiting a cocktail of flavor. able materials were unsafely stored together. ammonium

nitrate? what not? is it not a directive that's not a efficient matter hand fisher law, as i'm not nearly ammonium nitrate mechanical trig hadn't mechanical triggers. it was a billboard kenneth filed them on fireworks. the cam said you may not be unless you allow a fire or can mechanical trigger. the pressure actor or the ammonium nitrate will be lucille. but what started the fire investigators who have still to find the answer, say it may be hard to find the trigger. the sight of warehouse 12 was pulverized replaced by a large water filled crater the lead judge and the case study

baton has been looking into 3 possible theories. the 1st is a mistake in the welding process during repair work that was being done to the warehouse. the 2nd is unintentional fire. some have suggested there might have been an attempt to hide evidence of theft. and the 3rd theory is that the explosion was caused by a targeted air rocket attack. this was later downplayed following a report by french investigators. in the days and hours before the blast was pear work was being done on warehouse 12. they were the 1st of their kind to secure the facility. since the ammonium nitrate was confiscated from a dove and flagged cargo ship and stored there in 2014 lebanon's chief prosecutor on our debt gave the order after state security want about possible theft,

not the potentially explosive materials stored there. this photo purportedly shows the syrian laborers who were doing the work, but they don't appear to be taking any precautions with the materials inside days after the port explosion, they were detained along with the owner of the contracting company. there's still no proof. they had a role in starting the fire and our beliefs to have less support in our before. but they're still being held without charge documented surface showing that throughout the years. top officials, politicians, civil servants, military and security officers knew about the dangerous chemicals and did nothing about it. i now me, braxton, the head of the manifest department report was among those who warned about the

potential for disaster. his wife or roar. so now he has document that show bracks began warning about the ammonium nitrate in 2014, after learning it was being stored in warehouse 12. hi natasha. inside, out at the oberlin beyond what i wanted it to be out of archie and to show our center about tosh. you know, the, what the target, it's not me. i don't have the lumber see my web want to have your name, but the coffee there for my wife wants to have it to stay my way to stay. how does all you love and shot hosted with a wife at the head of the lawn and the holy food you have too much of my feeble martha. and so that i pick up my number for the long and it can kid was put. so what or or says her husband feel compelled to go above his authority to raise the alarm bell. she says he's now paying the price for speaking up. now be brax is being held without charge,

along with other ports and customs employees and security officers. and i may, but so it has that, or i became a put one upside mostly on hand who come on the mckenzie. i'm with dr. mon heck, i've been heck murphy was about to do. but i found with dash 9 to cut the fellow here, to whom i know i suddenly my love leisure, his eminent danny now cut the solid year to solomon bella flora, and joseph in the day and who would be i'm the w, a low national mom, but a dollar and casual medic, but to keep it a dollar can come and dollar weeks before the explosion. the now caretaker, prime minister, has done deb and the incumbent president michelle and acknowledge received a letter from state security warning about the presence of ammonium nitrate. they said they referred the case to the relevant authorities. the state security report dated july $22020.00 says there was negligence on the part of the port authorities and various pages instructions in securing the warehouse so that the ammonium

nitrate will be stolen or catch fire. it also mentioned the 2016 correspondence between the army command and the customs director. it in which the arm command suggested offering the ammonium nitrate to a local explosives company or sending it back to the country of origin. it was signed by the commander at the time, john apalachee, who is among a number of suspects who could face criminal charges. unfortunately, the army did not take any measures, not in and you know, containing them and not taking any measures. you know, re exporting them. that's below the $137.00 munition loss that states that the, the force of the army is responsible for them. i shall sophie dean is a lawyer who specializes in export compliance. he has analyzed scores of documents

and explains why he believes the shipment was not legal from the start. the, the laws as all the nitrate ammonium. they need a lot of administrative process before thinking of importing them. there's a process by law that should be done before entering them. and what's included in this process is the responsibility of the army, philip and his army that's included in this process. so when they entered, they did not get the approval of the army. they just, you know, a just took a decision and unloaded the product inside lebanon. to find out how the ammonium nitrate ended up inside warehouse 12. a team of investigative journalists have been digging deeper into its origins. what they discovered is that the shipment involved a network of shadow actors who they say use secretive companies and took advantage

of lacks government oversight. and the weaknesses in the maritime shipping industry discovered that this company was, was that it just as an added ok. that usually is used to just the companies that act, that companies fit on how to me is an investigative journalist who has been trying to piece together the circumstances that led to the explosion. including the origins of the explosive material. it's believed to have started with a russian vessel called roskus, which set sail from the portal, but to me in september 2013. while dr. greece, the crew was told to make an unscheduled stop and bay route to take on extra cargo to be able to pay for passage through the swiss canal. the dishes and the russia captain boris purchase said the order came for the man who he believed to be the

ship's owner. russian, businessman, eager, gretsch's skin and you've got that morning. we pulled together an international team of generalists in europe and in the middle east. and just look through public documents and registries we found in the mall, doug registry that the roses was in fact earned by a panama corporation. that was ultimately owned by a business men in cyprus. and that it was being leased by the russian businessman ego creatures, kim, who had previously been named as the owner of the ship. this potto is purportedly of the supreme businessmen shipping magnet cheryl ambrose monopoly. his name has been implicated an offshore finance and money laundering activities. he has admitted that one of his companies once owned the roses, the duck ended in june, 2012. then there's the company that organized the shipment of ammonium

nitrate. a u. k. registered chemical trading firm called civil row, which purchase the material from georgia and factory by all appearances. so barbara was acting as a shell company, which had since been de registered, but it shares the same address as the businesses of 3 syrian nationals, george, ha, swanee. and brothers a mad and madonna, haughty, they've denied legs to several, but all 3 have been under sanctions by the u. s. government for eating the government of syrian president bashar and asset in 2015 medulla, who was accused of serving as an intermediary for government for attempting to procure a tonia nitrate in late 2013. that was with have been question with the chemicals on board. arise in beirut. pseudo said to me,

says he has information that links the owner of the roses, the 3 syrian nationals, and the supreme bank. that bank was called f b m e, which was lebanese, owned and based in cyprus. so we had the owner of the ship understand business man, acting on the clients of the thing bank, which is by the way, it closed back. i mean, it's not a bank that you can come in and like to open an account or to take loan or to take a check book of checks or something. no, it's just a close langley to the lines in 2014, the us treasury department sanctioned the bank for alleged money laundering and financing terrorists, including the iranian back. lebanese armed group has bella and facilitating the purchase of chemical weapons for the syrian government. it went out of business,

not long after f, b, m e in the very notorious bank has been connected to multiple corruptions, smuggling sanctions, but in cases around the world, it's something that add bears further investigation. when the ship docked and they report in november 2013, it wasn't able to load heavy cargo because the ship was in a state of disrepair. there was a lengthy legal dispute over port fees and debts, which meant the captain and $3.00 crew were held there for nearly a year. that was until the authorities impounded the ship in 2014. this captain and his crew were allowed to leave the details surrounding the ships. true destination still remain a big question. it wasn't until the 4th explosion that journalists discovered shipping records, which indicated the ammonium nitrate was supposed to be delivered to an explosive

company in mozambique. but it never arrived because the roses were stuck in beirut . when the company was contacted, it confirmed, it ordered the chemicals from silverado, but because it was such a route that was the end of the transaction. not everyone buys this. let's be professional. it was not intended for muslim bank. that's my, that's my view of the shipment. why? because these are international laws. even if you want to some these for this product to muslim, be there are lots of administrative processes. that doesn't happen. you don't have only a bill of lading saying that this shipment is going to mozambique is not enough for this type of shipment to go ahead. another question, journalists are trying to answer is exactly how much of the chemical compound was

inside warehouse 12, at the time of the blast government documents and officials say 2750 tons were offloaded from the ship and stored in that hanger. when the ship was was unloaded, there was a document that said that out of the $1750.00 bag that was unloaded. 1950 bag, which is that 2000 bags was damaged and they could not be used anymore. last, actually we talked to several people who witnessed the whole process. one of them was the driver of the game, one loaded ship. one of them was the owner of the company that was hired by the port authority to unload the ship. they doubt that the amount that was removed from the ship was $2750.00. they did. they believe it was much

less. i'm all ok. and the 11 of the guys who signed the document that says 1950 bag with damaged. he. he said, he said clearly that he did not count. he just sign a paper. this is not unusual given that many state institutions are riddled with corruption. the way the port operates, leaves room for security lapses and theft. more often than not, the equipment used to scan cargo doesn't work. emily and b, b, c, dot, tennessee. and it ought to modify an l. j on the generic. and i'm going to donate one that i'm going to have done to me licking mfc. she has all the industrial on it . and then at the new thought, well, because it was there is little audit and oversight. proper inventories are rarely conducted. i believe those 2000 and phone

$1900.00. they were they moved from the ship before it was the unloaded. the missing amount was there was a move in one way or another from the ship in an illegal way. of course, what many experts have said is the size of the blast indicates that the amount of 2750 tons did not explode the us domestic intelligence agency, the f b i. and french forensic teams provided some technical assistance in the investigation. and even though their findings have not been made public, it's believed the f b, i concluded, the amount that exploded is 500 times the evidence available so far, just point to incompetence, bureaucratic ineptitude, and demik corruption. the perfect groundwork for what some call a man made national catastrophe me with

the design. it's very tempting to look for an agent simple solution that this was all a big conspiracy and everything. and it was a criminal effort to, to smuggle ammonium nitrate to syria on the evidence we have right now, we can conclude something like that. what we do see was that there was the use of a lot of very typical tricks that used to hide ownership and to make things complex and buried them underneath. behind this might be criminality. it might also be incompetent, and more likely it's a mix of the sir is in a country where there has been a culture of impunity. the battle for justice has rarely been one of those in the hospital and legitimately over. i'm a lead the mission of us that possible i thought dimension on,

on the higher when the blast happened, lebanon was already a broken country. a state close to collapse, after decades of corruption and mismanagement by a political class, still in power. it's that corrupt system that many blame for the failure to respond to the threat i'm looking for to know for whom the nitrate came. who kept this nitrate in lebanon, who allowed this nitrate to answer lebanon, who knew about it and kept this nitrates here? i mean, we how we want a whole complete justice. we don't want partial justice. oh yeah, i

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secrets matawan death of a super spy on al jazeera. when the news breaks taliban has taken a handful of border crossings and that's kind of some north way with exclusive interviews and in depth report, mice and baldwin is full of hope. you had on the grounds. there's no infrastructure to deal with the human way and toxic chemicals to bring you more award winning documentaries and live on air and online. i care about how the u. s. engages with the rest of the world. i cover foreign policy, national curity. this is very much a political impact here. the conflict. how do we illustrate it? are we telling the good story people, what we're trying to do here? they're living outside and make sure this is not the way any family wants to raise

their children. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise. it's actually feel as if you were there the. ready know i'm marianna miles in london with a look at our main story. now. government forces in afghanistan and trying to prevent 3 key cities from forwarding to the taliban as they fight the group on multiple fronts. in an attempt to reverse major military setbacks, violence is intensifying the southern city of kandahar where rockets rang down on the airport and all flights have been canceled. the group is also launched a campaign to take control of the vital provincial capital of lasha gar. that is.