your family from the caesars and the home by plying the 5 keys to see for to use them you also have a role to play you. this is you got the news live from berlin i'm a very warm welcome we begin this broadcast with breaking news from lebanon the capital beirut has been hit by a nasty of an explosion dozens of people are said to be injured and there are some reports of people trapped under the rubble the calls of the blast is not

yet know it's caused widespread damage and appears to be centered on the city's port area it is the to the winds the blast wave has turned cars upside down absolute devastation in the lebanese capital sadly a country that is used to explosions but this is an entire different magnitude altogether i'm joined here in the studio by my colleague joel a dull boy to talk about this breaking news story this is altogether something else we haven't seen anything like that in lebanon in recent contemporary times and these pictures we've been seeing are just incredible and lots of people have been sharing them on social media that have been captured from the city you see a massive explosion or huge white cloud and then there's another cloud inside that seems to be of a different color red and so forth and if you look closely at some of these images you can see what appears to be flashes inside those clouds and what we're hearing

from some of the state media reports is this could have been involved it could have been fireworks involved there's there's some suggestion. that it may have taken place in an area with fireworks restored but of course all of this is conjecture it has only happened in the last half hour we're still just trying to find out what's going on there and also we have no idea about how many people may or may not be injured in this but explosion of that magnitude you would have to assume that there has to be somebody has been hurt as a result of this and that as you were rightly point out joe we can't rule anything out at this point it does appear that the blast happened in the port area of the lebanese capital some are presuming that this could have been an industrial accident again i want to caution our viewers as well we just don't know yet this is still a very fluid situation and i want to point out that you are watching live pictures

from the area i mean an absolute massive explosion and it comes just at such a terrible time for the country its economy and doldrums protests happening since months and well we just are left to wonder what's going on in the minds of the lebanese as again sadly they have to deal with this explosion so some more of what we're hearing from people on social media who were there in the city there may have been at least 2 explosions that have been heard across the city we know that the last not windows out as far as 10 kilometers away from the area where it happened which again was in the port district of the city so 10 kilometers away people's windows were broken and. we can see cars overturned on the road and of it's just sending plumes of smoke up into the sky and as you said later this

is a city that's certainly known its share of trouble and you would expect that that the . well there you know very. well look look at these images they're just really quite incredible on the billowing smoke billowing there from what we presume is the port area there alive pictures that were showing a mangled buildings as well we're going to keep track of this story you are going to keep track on this breaking news story for us and well now we're getting reports of dozens of people injured which is of course something that could be expected to seeing from the devastation that we're seeing for right now jill dougherty we're going to leave it there thank you so much for bringing us the very latest to do come back please to fill us in on the developments there. and we're going to leave that breaking story in beirut lebanon for

a moment but we'll bring you details as soon as we get to know more about what's what's happening right there but i want to turn our attention to bolivia which it finds itself in a region at the f.b.i. center of the global coronavirus pandemic the country's health care system overwhelmed by the spread of the disease most of the more than $80000.00 infections are in the capital la paz or hospitals labs and funeral homes on the brink of collapse in just 5 days the police collected more than 140 bodies from the streets . in this car a 68 year old man has died as a result of cove it 19 he never made it to hospital just a few hours earlier a friend and family members had tried to get him help at 5 medical centers but they were denied bulldozers because all the hospitals are full we were sent to the hospitals in la porte donna and in cold to houma he stopped breathing when we were underway and that's why we're here the dead man's sisters says your goodbyes while

the police examined the corpse. an officer hands over the death certificate since the coroner hasn't turned up the officer says people aren't just dying in their cars they're also dying on the street and at home hospitals are at breaking point and it's becoming harder to access treatment thing but even little even while searching for help people often go from one hospital to the other some of them die in their cars. our department records deaths that occur in private vehicles and on public transportation but it will add to this if you go. blip he is currently in the community transmission phase santa cruz la paz and cochabamba are the worst affected regions the average age of death is about $75.00 with more men dying than women. rebecca's father died in his home because no hospital in an alto would admit him. into the well we can do is bury him that's all we can do

my father's no longer with me. the stories of being shuttled from hospital to hospital are repeated every day during the pandemic and there's no end in sight cemeteries are almost full and funeral parlors have run out of coffins. this man complains that he had to say goodbye to a family member in a particularly painful way they're not they simply put him in an improvised box you can't even barter with them about the price saying you're willing to pay for better but there is nothing else better than an annoying. family members aren't even allowed to enter cemeteries and they have to say their final goodbyes from a far touching flowers at the perception of cars bringing in the bodies for burial and every day police pick up an average of 70 bodies from the streets 85 percent of them infected with covert 19. some very harrowing stories there we can go now

to the possibility of a 2 journalists to all the vargas in who is standing by good to see all the i mean it's hard breaking to hear these stories coming out of bolivia seeing this people suffering so much how has the government responded to all this heartbreak. that's right libya is in a desperate situation at the moment most of the hospitals have declared themselves to be collapsed mixing new patients people who don't have any access or medications and actually. pays a political element to this as well large sections of the country accuse the government of not. not taking a sufficiently public approach so for example the movement towards socialism which is ever morale is party they passed a law in the legislature that would require private clinics to take on some of the

load to treat some of the coven 1000 patients referred to them by the public system free of charge however although the legislature has passed and the president. has not yet signed into law so there are now accusations that she is protecting the interests of private clinics were making a great deal of money throughout this crisis charging patients up to $3000.00 u.s. dollars per night for hospital stay. in the public system has almost nothing and wants to see themselves providing almost no medications to ordinary people and because of that what you just reported many bolivians we're getting reports are turning to fake. toxic a quote a virus a cures like corn dioxide to treat the virus why is that. well a number of people are. turning to those sorts of solutions untested solutions

precisely because people are so desperate in some policies especially in the big cities in the now karni even by basic painkillers in some locations our i think there's been another phenomenon was quite interesting which is so return of ancestral traditional medicine indigenous medicine and so the region i'm in now i'm as you know in a puzzle in the tropical cochabamba the mine which is a rural area which is the base of support for evermore and is willing to of socialism i want people who are long forgotten traditional indigenous knowledge around the disciplines that knowledge is having to be reactivated people relying on things such as ginger law aimed honey i've seen serious made out onions and garlic so you clipped. there's a plant here called weed out ouida which does have medicinal properties and can help with the systems but the world health organization is being clear that these

are not. these are not good solutions of people having to turn to them not through ignorance of things out but syria a desperation they sue the government is not doing anything for those the last majority people who can afford to go it's private clinics desperate desperate times in bolivia reporting for you from bolivia only vargas thank you so much thanks very much. and here in germany others country is wondering whether it should brace itself for a so-called 2nd wave of covert 900 because the head of the german doctors union is so alarmed by what she sees she's now come out and says it's already here in a newspaper interview this is on a year now said there was a danger in germany. that it could squander away the success it had achieved so far there has been a steady uptick in the number of cases in recent weeks with over 870 new infections

felt it on tuesday iona said hospitals were prepared but still she urges people to stick to social distancing washing your hands and way maps. and we can talk more about this we do have a political correspondent simon a young simon what measures are now in place to deal with this uptick in cases here in germany. your one of the things the government's been particularly focused on is people going on vacation particularly around europe and coming back. to germany potentially importing the disease here so that's why there's been a big focus on the testing regime at airports and ports railway stations bus terminals and so on to make sure that that doesn't happen those tests of being offered for free at the moment the system is mandatory but it's soon to be made

compulsory early at least for people coming from particularly affected areas so that's one area of focus another thing i think we're seeing the police getting a bit tough on people who are not of paying the distancing rules or wearing their face masks when they're supposed to there are things they can do for instance imposing fines in some cases and intervening so i think we are seeing police talking about doing that and moving in in some cases the other thing is the reopening of schools that's happening that's just begun here in germany where there's a lot of talk about exactly how that should be handled whether children should be required for instance to wear their face masks not only in the corridors and in the communal areas but also in classrooms there is some discussion of that and so i think there's a lot of focus on some of these key areas where it's feared that new outbreaks

could occur and push the infection numbers up again some young reporting thank you . the washing didn't mean years here's a reminder now of our top story that we're tracking for you this hour lebanon's health minister says there are a high number of injuries and widespread damage after a massive explosion in the capital beirut the blast tore through the city's port district leaving many people trapped under rubble the cause of the blast is still unknown. bolivia's health care system is being stretched to breaking point amid a surge of corn a virus infections hospitals are being forced to turn away the sick into many people dying in the streets. and us children in germany start returning to school the head of a german doctors union has warned that defined social distancing those puts germany success against the coronavirus at risk she says

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