this is deja vu news live from berlin beirut lebanon in shock this morning after 2 massive explosions devastate the city. the blast tearing through the city's port area killing at least 100 people leaving many others trapped unease rubble thousands of the injured hospitals are overwhelmed the blasts were caused by tons of highly explosive material stored in warehouses also coming up. into muslim tensions in india

security is tight at this hour in the city of najaf as prime minister narendra modi prepares to lay the foundation stone for a hindu temple on the site of the demolished monks. and with just 90 days to go now until the u.s. election we hear from lifelong republicans considering the un's thinkable in november casting their ballots for the democrat. i'm brian thomas good to have you with us today beirut lebanon awoke to scenes of utter devastation this morning after 2 colossal explosions devastated parts of this country's capital they happened at a warehouse where nearly 3000 tons of highly explosive the money and nitrate were being stored apparently without any safety measures at least $100.00 people were

killed some $4000.00 injured that according to the red cross. we're getting these live images right now from beirut where smoke continues to billow over the blast site explosions shattered windows as far as 20 kilometers away rescue workers are continuing to look for survivors in these the rubble there it is unclear how many people are missing at this hour. a devastating blast followed by billows of smoke visible from all across the city. the massive explosion rocked beirut on tuesday evening flattening the city's port area with buildings destroyed and people trapped under the rubble. ambulances raced to and from the area transporting the injured to hospitals.

now that we were at home we heard what sounded like fireworks we thought it was a container in the ports that was on fire and they weren't able to put it out a few seconds later we were flying through the air. not when we heard the 1st explosion we went to see what happened. i didn't have time i didn't realize there would be a 2nd explosion the glass exploded in front of me. to. talk the blast destroyed buildings not only at the port originated but across much of beirut even kilometers away from the epicenter. shop windows were smashed walls and doors of people's homes knocked down. the prime minister said those responsible will be brought to justice len you know it will not pass without accountability of those responsible for this catastrophe will pay the price this is a promise to the martyrs and the injured this is

a national commitment to examine all funny. the blasts hit a country already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic and the deep economic crisis. hospitals already burdened with covert 19 patients are overwhelmed. countries including longtime rival israel have offered many terry an aid to lebanon . support is sorely needed to help the country deal with this enormous catastrophe . we're joined now by our correspondent. in beirut a very difficult morning where you are can you describe for us your experience of what happened last night. indeed brian this was really. when the explosion took place i was at my own house my house is like a peace away from the keys and of the explosion of the glass and my other friends

and my house were all exploded i have no strong in my house anymore i thought the explosion was right under my the day and then when i went to the location of the explosion when i was on the way i thought the ambulances they were taking casualties from us that were that are very far from the location of. the explosion the small was on the ground gave it you could see the smoke from any area you are and they looked. people there was a tool to the state of chaos and panic people who were kind of came at chase nobody knew what happened and then when they knew started coming you could understand what it was because their home care already destroyed even if they were very source of the face of the explosion. the glass was covering. the story from in all of down time they are only now on the streets and this comes out of

a hard time for lebanon where they've been on going from a diff very difficult. kind of a crisis and also when i was on the way people who were asking if they could they could put the casualties in my own cart but luckily there were many ambulances that were already picking people and this morning are. there at least 5 in a 100 got according to the red cross and at least 4000 injury. then as though there is no innate peace in the house the. people who are injured and yet rose on a very very difficult situation you're describing that we've been seeing scenes of the mountains of rubble around the blast site and farther away as well is there any idea how many people are trapped right now beneath the rubble that need help that need rescuers to get to them. we have no idea how many people need help.

at the rescuers are still digging under the rubble and there are helicopters that are. for people who where you want to wait to the speed because of the math of the massive explosion as so rescuers are still working there's looking for keep an eye and an area that one of the most every house because they don't want. buildings were coming in and out and there was a tool to panic and chaos didn't know because we cannot even they cannot even count the number of injured or and there are there are also people who are still lost and there is nobody knows what happened to them and looking for people who are lost. does does lebanon have the capacity to get to all of these people and to treat them medically. lebannon after all of the crew enough eyes that outbreak and lebanon was

a fine day because of this and then they and then the explosion came out came a very bad time so where is and. they announced the minister of health that he announced that they have no more capacity to come the injured people and they are treating. the injured people and the curry doors of the. outside. the time for one more question was on why was this ammonium nitrate stored so close to the city center so much of it 3000 tons right there in the port area who is responsible for that you have any idea. there is. the prime minister when they meet and they think he thank you very much and and he and assumption because and they will investigate to see who is responsible for this i had. the time of. the almost $2750.00 pounds of that and

money and nitrate were there since 2014 and they were stored without measurements according to the president of lebanon he said i wanted to see if you said this today during the meeting of the high mid high council of fed to talk. on solomon in beirut we'll have much more from the lebanese capital as the day progresses of course thanks very much for now rosen and all the best to you there in beirut. let's get more now with you on him paul he heads to beirut branch of the heinrich boll foundation that is a german think tank thanks so much for joining us a very difficult time are you your colleagues their families ok yes thank you very difficult time indeed we're. hartman's analysis is destroyed but we are who is not though all those people out there who suffered injuries those thousands and the

lebanese 'd who 'd had through and through from mom and month as such hardship and crisis from the coded pan and demick you're referring to there imagine. these these explosions come as beirut lebanon is in the midst of a social and political crisis a number of crises what needs to happen right now to get the country and its people through the shock. yes there levanon is in not one crisis it's in the midst of multiple crises so you mentioned the corona crisis corona came after. millions of lebanese protested against the government not only the government against the complete political system which is totally corrupt and which is not ready.

to start any reform and to open up the system which is exactly the problem and financial crisis hit 50 percent of. the country where destroyed the 'd message amount of people 'd were pushed under the pulp property line then came corona the month long several months long lockdown now is search and numbers of corona infection and then this if incredible. so you got these yeah if the current elite the business of political leaders is incapable of dealing with the current crisis and now this crisis who can help the country move forward. the demands of the democracy movement from the start from the 17th of october to for the government to step down and to not so well government of extreme

independence were not who do not belong or do not represent the traditional political legal political parties to take over with the limited men days to mandate to steer the country through the economic crisis and this did not have their know got them and negotiate with 'd the international monetary fund and and other international donors. knowing that international aid and international 'd financial support is the only way out of the huge mess of crisis the country's and now they haven't yet though it is an acute crisis and right now there's a new one we're looking at the port lebanon's imports of millions of lebanese depend on food for example passing through that port do we still have the connection it looks like we're going to wait for a 2nd ok we have

a connection that you know you i'm going to guess we can hear you again thanks so much i you walk him and i'm going to restate the question this port is essential to get the goods to the people of not only the capital but the rest of lebanon what needs to happen right now for the port itself so that it can get up and functioning so that supplies can get to the people of lebanon. exactly there needs to be. immediate but probably humanitarian operations to get the courts running again we should not forget the country depends to 85 percent of all the goods what ever it is being consumed including food supplies medicine etc 85 percent imports now the money didn't have the money in the country didn't have the money. to import this already it's. pretty.

high status. and this is i would say this and medicare 'd that you kill supply is the most urgent i mean. 18 in it but including other things that you know hold windows in been a schedule and destroy there's not one factory that produces glass in the country for example all of those need to be channeled through the not destroyed port ok. a huge task for the nation to rebuild certainly after this i'm sure the focus is right now on rescuing people but beneath the rubble we're going to have to leave it there you often paul boll foundation thank you so very much and all the best to you in the beirut thank. let's get you break down some of the other stories making in the news at this hour former colombian president obama wrote a rebate is being placed under house arrest while supreme court there decides

whether he should stand trial for bribery and witness to this case is considered an important test of the country's traditional system rebase served as colombia's president of 2002 to 2010. chilean police have used tear gas to break up demonstrations supporting the rights of the country's indigenous people violent clashes have picked up in recent weeks as people fight to have their incest for lands and chile's southern region return to that. in italy firefighters and volunteers are spending a 6 day battling forest fires in the eastern region of a bridge so america regional capital. said no one had been evacuated but contingency plans were in place if the blaze freds closer to residential or. it's to india now where prime minister narendra modi is due to lay the foundation stone for a hindu temple that has been at the center of

a bitter century old dispute between hindus and muslims the temple will be erected on the side of a demolished mosque. the temple site is heavily guarded at this hour ahead of the inauguration ceremonies coronavirus restrictions mean that the inauguration is likely to be located. the mosque once at that site was torn down by hindu militants and 992 this file footage there there are fears that putting a hindu temple in this place will reignite tensions between these 2 communities. for more on this let's bring in de w's and then we should just wall in delhi good day to you in the asia why is this temple and this ceremony so very important to so many hindus. well brian what's significant about this ceremony is not just the 100 that you just mentioned but ultimately the fact that this has been

a culmination of teen decades not by a prime minister that it's all these. now that the campaign actually set up this death of the 17 to demolish the mosque that started in the early ninety's actually got to be deeply into political significance and any manifesto students have to do the job is commitment to a lot of that object but and this was also mentioned in the 29000 general election manifesto we saw last year finally that egypt has been seen as delivering on this promise a promise that resonates close meet with many candles of sound and also look which is seen by a common just as a purely by his government do of the do that handle what of these was a significant as the date of the set many exactly one that it will today aggregation of machine you session just took place the government took an actual decision didn't move the special semi automatic it doesn't mean cleaning the that

this was what was what a state that demand and also has been a longstanding agenda out of to egypt and why this was given as a live shot and as such by some winners of the government that has been significant pushback as well as we can seem to support. outrage in the indian parliament on august 5th last year the indian government stunned opposition lawmakers by announcing it was revoking kashmir semi autonomy the basis of the region's complex relationship with india for decades. since the special status of jammu and kashmir is going to be automatically null and void. the hindu nationalist government said the move was necessary to spur economic development and to better integrate the region with the rest of the country the opposition was shocked. today the ruling party

b j p has sperry the constitution and the democracy. as a result 7000000 people in the kashmir valley were put under lockdown for months the government severely restricted freedom of movement and banned gatherings and cut landlines and mobile phones and even shut down the internet thousands of people were arrested including 3 former chief ministers reportedly hundreds of people still remain under house arrest or behind bars mostly without charge there are also reports of torture. indian authorities deny the allegations. neighboring pakistan still condemns india's actions since the 5th of august the in the good measures taken by india there is a new 1st of there's a new wave a new wave of resentment against the atrocities being committed or cross the.

beautiful short the people of pakistan stand with you and he adds kashmir will be part of pakistan. inshallah for speed but they go back a stop at the end of verse 3 of the autonomy revoke ation the kashmir conflict seems as far from resolution as ever and little seems to have changed in the region itself fearing violent protests the government has again imposed a new curfew. let me show one year after kashmir had its autonomy revoked what's changed for the for the people there for kashmiris. well primed it seems not my chest and optic john region number dominance. economic development better integration and a countdown into government support us with the aid of the increasing military operations on the ground and indicate that there's better access to intelligence

and that don't have an acting knee but critics of the government on the other hand see that this increased violence companied by a shake of the numbers the vietnam been killed which was demoralizing people on the south strongly this also been a deputy shot meant you have to decide a slightly longer will stop down the longest internationale in in a democracy is continuing to these folks is not the store was. to shut down and this has to be back to not just education but other substance as well is that all simply and about and living off some of those there's also been a lot of investments have not gotten it back to what today would be economically office 5000000000 so this is not to decide that the government has been what i do not want to be used and machines are disappoint me thanks so very much for bringing us up to date from delhi it's to the us now where the

presidential election is just 90 days away and all signs are that trump is facing a difficult path to reelection he's trailing in opinion surveys and he's been criticized for his handling of the covert pandemic so some republicans are now mulling what was once unthinkable for them voting for joe biden come november. brian mcgrath has been a republican all his life the military adviser had a career in the navy where he was commander of a destroyer conservative values are his compass but since donald trump took office he no longer recognizes his party he's turned his back on it and longs for change listen i disagreed with virtually every word that came out of brock obama's mouth i his policies were anathema to me but i was never not proud of him i see president trump as a man who has almost no ideological moorings. mcgrath is part of the new republican resistance movement they call themselves republican voters against trump many voted

for trump in 2016 but now they're turning against him with nearly 100 self produced videos. in all our lives. before the president has broken my. faith. riddled with guilt and very embarrassed that i voted for him and the d.n.c. run as a tomato. i will vote for the tomato because i believe the tomato can do was harm. that our current president. this initiative for rebellious republicans was founded by sarah longwell a conservative political strategist she hopes that the videos will encourage as many republican allies as possible to do the unthinkable they don't trust the media they don't trust elites they certainly don't trust democrats what they need is to feel like they have permission to kind of cross tribal lines and vote for

a democrat which is something they've never done before something's wrong with donald trump she another republican anti trump initiative is the lincoln project they attack trump head on using guerilla tactics putting provocative videos on the us t.v. news network fox each clip as a punch in the presidential stunning they show him as incompetent or as a lot of your putin's friend and comrade now congress has some clips seem to be addressed directly to the president himself trump has hit back calling the lincoln project a disgrace and the people they're losers when he's attacking us for a day he's not attacking joe by we focus on us for a day he's not focus of running a campaign so you know he's easily manipulated person some of the most vicious attacks on trump and simultaneous support for the democrats come from top flight republican political strategists. george conway the husband of trump's advisor

kelly conway is one of the founders of the lincoln project the conway couple is symbolic of how trump is dividing america's conservatives that the republican party is comprised today is infected by the virus of donald trump i don't think there's any saving it they don't want to be saved they don't want to walk away from trump and trump ism so i think the republican party is effectively dead bryan mcgrath still has hope for a post trump era in which republicans examine their conscience and renew themselves as a party donald trump connected with a lot of dark parts of people's hearts in this country i didn't think it was possible that it could happen so quickly but it did i'm hoping that his performance . turns enough people against his approach so that we can get on with the business of trying to be a trusted. force for good in the world to that end in november he'll do the unthinkable and vote for democrats joe biden but in 2024 he wants to see

a conservative candidate he can be proud of. we have some sports is now the german football league is meant to do so discuss bringing fans back into the stadiums in the coming season a final verdict will be reached in conjunction with the government in berlin 2 weeks time honestly good clubs have so far decided that the matches they're set to begin in september will feature no visiting fans no alcohol and no standing terraces. clubs also collect data from fans to help trace potential outbreaks. let's get your minder now of our top story at this hour. slowdowns capital beirut is in shock this morning after 2 massive explosions devastated the city's port area . the blast tore through the port going at least 100 people and leaving thousands injured rescue worker workers are searching for survivors right now it is unclear

how many people are missing. and wild more details of from beirut as they come in for now though for me brian thomas and the entire team thanks so much for being. such.

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