join the board. this is either your news live from berlin a root and shock after 2 massive explosions devastated the city. the blasts tore through the city's port killing at least 100 people and leaving many others trapped under rubble thousands have been injured and hospitals are overwhelmed the blasts were caused by tons of highly explosive material stored in

warehouses. also coming up india's prime minister inaugurated the building of a hindu temple on the site of a demolished mosque there are fears the construction could reignite the latest tensions at a simmering flashpoint. and with just 90 days left to the u.s. election we hear from lifelong republicans considering the unthinkable in november casting their ballots for a democrat. i'm sumi so misconduct thank you for joining us lebanon's capital beirut is in utter devastation today after shoot 2 huge explosions and they happened at a warehouse where tons of a highly explosive chemical were stored apparently without any safety measures at least 100 people were killed and 4000 injured according to the red cross rescue

workers are still looking for survivors beneath the rubble it is unclear how many people right now are missing. 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. 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. when we heard the 1st explosion we went to see what happened next and i didn't have time i didn't realize

there would be a 2nd explosion the glass exploded in front of me. the blast destroyed buildings not only at the port where it 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 lenya it will not pass without accountability and 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 what money. 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 can speak now 2 of them he's a doctor specializing in infectious diseases a few american university of beirut medical center dr b.c. thank you so much for joining us can you tell us what the situation is right now where you are one of them are. you.

ok doctor because we're having a little bit of trouble with the line but could you tell us how hospitals are coping we understand that they're overwhelmed. yes. well the. community. will. be in the pool with. a group. if you're on a. particular. horse. and you.

sort of. go to the. right but we still unfortunately having trouble with the lines we're going to leave our conversation there might be straight from the american university of beirut medical center thank you so much for joining us. and we can get some more perspective on this story now we have deep from arabic with us in our studio here among thank you so much for joining us 1st of all you are from lebanon you have family and friends in beirut is everyone ok we've been trying to figure that out since yesterday since the blast just making sure that everyone we know is safe and sound there are so there's a big number of missing was so i'm not sure how big that number is so obviously there are still people that we know that we don't know if they're still in good situation or not if they're safe if they're still alive even though it's been

a very tough past 24 hours i would say 20 hours and we're still trying to make sure that everyone we know is ok how about getting through the next days i mean we understand that there was no electricity for example many parts of beirut through the night i mean how are people getting through i mean ironically enough yesterday morning before the blast there was a big protest in front of one of the ministries protesting the lack of power supply in the power supply shortage in beirut city so there's obviously in the electricity crisis and it just adds up to the number of crises that lebanon is struggling with so the focus right now on the ground is for people to have access to it to power supply to water to basic food according to be what's governor almost $250000.00 lebanese people living in bay to it became homeless as a few yesterday that's one 4th of the population of does big number a lot of people escaped their home homes yesterday because they did their windows

were shattered their doors were broken they escaped to neighboring villages or to their relatives in other cities to spend the night many people spent their night in the street this morning yes this morning one even homeless person on a local broadcast of eternal said i'm in the street to report to us why are you in the streets he said i'm already homeless and now i can't even stay in the streets to that that's the extent to which the. the situation is devastating in lebanon and people are in dire need of aid we understand that this port is actually really important for supplies as well medical supplies were stored there also huge grain sites a silo so how important is it going to be to find another source of getting supplies and aid into the city i mean we can confirm comfortably say that this can be the sole the sole porritt of beirut of lebanon of the whole levanon you know in lebanon we suffer from a very mild functioning of the system obviously and having no good infrastructure

is one major component of that of that failed state system so veiled port was the main ports of lebannon not only were. sections with vital grains and food damaged but also medical supply i believe the doctor was also going to speak about that a minute to go. into medicine needed to treat really dark conditions have been contaminated or damaged as a result of the blast so now is the focus on perhaps transfer transforming to put the support north of north of beirut to a kind of a temporary port to receive the aid needed to either be its medical supplies or food supplies and so on you touched upon this already but lebanon was already in the midst of an economic crisis the coronavirus pandemic what is needed right now to help the country get back on its feet it's difficult to point it out there's a lot needed obviously 1st of all the focus is on saving people who are still there

saving the survivors from the rebels cleaning the area making sure the injured are being treated there aren't even enough hospital beds to treat people people who are being treated in the street last night so i think the main focus at the moment should be on direct relief providing temporary shelters for those who lost their homes treating the injured and so one but the next step is to kind of have a clear. lissie of how the government is going to deal with this crisis and how can the international community help here the international community has been showing supports and yes since yesterday already on its way today to lebannon various field hospitals from different countries including qatar i had it on and so on a lot of the western presidents have short supports the lebanese people what's needed right now is medical support but also a way to make sure that this health reaches the population and not so the hands of the corrupt states because that's also the that is the main question of who is

responsible for this blast and can this government if proved to be responsible for the blast be trusted in solving this crisis that's the main urgent question. arabic thank you so much for joining us here in a studio thanks. we'll continue to follow that developing story in lebanon for now let's take a look at some developments in the corona virus pandemic the global death toll from the virus has now passed 700000 according to numbers from johns hopkins university australia has reported 15 deaths from coated all of them in victoria state is the highest daily fatality there so far ukraine recorded a record daily jump of almost 1300 infections numbers there have been going up since authorities eased lock down restrictions and u.s. health chief aleksandar is due to visit taiwan to discuss strategies for fighting the virus china considers taiwan a renegade province and is lodged an official complaint with washington over that

trip. india's prime minister narendra modi has led a ceremony to inaugurate the building of a hindu temple at the center of a bitter century old dispute between hindus and muslims the temple will be erected on the site of a demolished mosque after breaking ground and pray at the controversial site mall the proclaimed the big beginning of a golden chapter and called the temple quote a symbol of unity and love in a decision criticized by muslim groups the supreme court awarded the disputed site to the hindu community last november the mosque once on the site was torn down by hindu nationalists during rioting in 1902 this year is file footage and there are fears that putting a hindu temple in its place will reignite tensions between the 2 communities. and let's bring in. delhi for more on the story behind him isha can explain why this site this location for the hindu temples construction is so divisive. i

assume you live right in question. by the hindu community as the thieves look you shouldn't which mark the blacksmith of law trotter lawyer and get him to stop the construction project long after a long and attention is mocking a kind of clergy training on the slate gotten into her going to in addition the gathering to go the step of as dreams were 2 decades and is very closely intertwined with the size of nadine's more these egypt beat this one to deliberately one promise of the egypt and the deity after an operation of the not keep were promised exactly one we are today the special status of christian new ones in world by delineating to come and this is when if people constantly leadership the and had and these is the esteem that's crucial to the integration of region into india as well as its economic do as mists however on the other side

that's also been strong criticism of to small by the government and this is what we can talk about what comes up. 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. to see the special status of jammu and kashmir is going to be automatically know and void i mean. 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 berri 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 it 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 illegal measures taken by india there is a new. there's a new wave a new way of of resentment against the across of these being committed or cross the . beautiful short the people of pakistan started with you and he adds kasmir 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. so nimish a year later what has changed for the kashmiris. that's only going to look at the decades of tension in the stock picture each and not much has now got months localist on the small task then economic development integration as well as security now into the security of the government dusky and that that haven't increased operations act at all but actions in the users because of higher management are result of this move however projects in this increased violence is also increasing insecurity amongst the people and the people are already traumatized by the world and feel disenchanted with the indian government as it is

out of it in addition the shutdown of the internet has also been a key issue for 6 months there was absolutely no internet and soon enough to do which internet that's it was it was the lot of us not dollars and this is ultimately a detriment to the economy official need some estimates of losses up to fight 1000000000 dollars and additional education especially has been hard hit as well as daughters. did his name is said as well reporting for us from delhi thank you. let's check in now and some other headlines making news around the world hong kong democracy activists joshua won in agnes child are on trial for involvement in the civil unrest that rocked the territory last year wang said now was not the time to give up the fight for democracy despite the draconian draconian new security law and pose on hong kong by beijing. the former colombian president i would hope would

be bay is being placed under house arrest while the supreme court decides whether he should stand trial for bribery and witness tampering his case is considered an important test of colombia's judicial system served as president from 2002 to 2010 . and 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 that people fight to have their ancestral lands and southern region return . in the u.s. the presidential election is just 90 days away and all the signs are that donald trump is facing a difficult path to reelection he's trailing in opinion polls and he's been criticized for his handling of the pandemic so some republicans are now mauling what was once unthinkable voting for joe biden and over. 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 ours 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 south produced videos. before you 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 them from a joke is because i believe the tomato can through was form 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. another republican anti trump initiative is the lincoln project they attack trump head on using guerilla tactics putting for vocative videos on the us t.v. news network fox each clip is a punch in the presidential stunning they show him as incompetent or as a lot of your putin's friend and comrade congress some clips seem to be addressed directly to the president himself has. 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 biden we focus on us for a day he's not focused on 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 the republican party as it 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 is i'm 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. let's get some analysis on this story now we have boys foreman with us he's an expert in u.s. politics and a professor at bard college here in berlin hi boris good to have you with us we should say that the president does still have a lot of support among republicans so how influential are these dissident republicans actually. think at this point it's hard to tell what we were are witnessing is that the g.o.p. is the new good to let up especially those politicians that have stuck to trump all

along and know that the economy's don't you have to go for a code crisis see biomet here's a problem some republicans are starting to think that how will their future look like after trying so they have to do strategic really organizing and we're seeing some political infighting that seems to be growing as a. force you just touch upon this i mean people are asking questions about what the party might look like if president trump isn't reelected so what do you think will happen to the g.o.p. will there have to be a massive restructuring of how it looks. i think that's a great question 2012 there was a similar reckoning with into g.o.p. party the conclusion was that the g.o.p. couldn't remain on its traditional trajectory and that there had to be a more diverse compared bringing in more women for minorities that centra trump was the reaction precisely to that attempt and so the kind of crisis and the

reckoning that happened at the time was postponed maybe until to those $21.00 big until 2025 we don't know yet but there will be a major reckoning that has to take place within the g.o.p. what about joe biden and all of this we've seen that he's opened up something of a lead in polls right now but at the same time he hasn't been seen much on the campaign trail hasn't been actively campaigning that much so what do you attribute to that boost in the polls too is that mainly president trunks handling for example of the pandemic. you know i think i mean biden is not seen as the most charismatic candidate but i think he's. a good run because he's basically. cut back. didn't really intervene in public discussions much trungpa most of the works were we shouldn't forget that a similar thing was true for hillary clinton at the time of this discourse so it's too early days but it's true that by. developing

a lead and he has given the most explicit presidential nominee yet to the time he might even book list or someone comes and you were in jefferson your reports for a month with us from bard college thank you for that analysis. ok we have some sports for you now the german football league has met to discuss bringing fans back into stadiums in the coming season a final decision will be made in conjunction with the government in 2 weeks but just like a clubs have so far decided that the matches starting september will feature no visiting fans no alcohol and no standing terraces clubs that will also collect data from fans to help trace potential outbreaks. and transfer news in football a premier league club manchester united have reportedly agreed on personal terms with dortmund winger jason sand show according to various media outlets the england international has agreed on a 5 year deal at old trafford with the goshi ations of the transfer fee ongoing

between the club's british record fee of 120000000 euros has been mooted sensuous dortmund's top scorer last season a scoring 17 goals in 32 league appearances. in tennis world number 2 referee on the doll has announced he will not take part in the u.s. open this year earlier the madrid open his home tournaments was cancelled male and female tennis players a traditionally used the event to prepare for the french open which is still set to take place organizers in spain felt the current rise in cases meant a cancellation was the only responsible action rafael nadal is the tournaments record winner. let's get a reminder now of our top story we're following for you here on g.w. lebanon's capital beirut is in shock after 2 massive explosions devastated city of blasts tore through the city's port killing at least 100 people and leaving

thousands injured rescue workers are searching for survivors. you're watching d.w. news coming up next did any business with bends resilin thank you for watching.

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