in black and warning. of course for teens on g.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin and they root in shock after 2 huge explosions devastate the city. and the blasts tore through the city's ports 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 a warehouse 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 religious tensions at a simmering flashpoint. and with parts of the u.k. seeing a rise in college infections millions of people in northern england are having to live with tough new restrictions. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us lebanon's capital beirut is an otter devastation after 2 huge explosions 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 underneath the rubble it is unclear how

many people right now i'm missing. the sun casts an eerie glow over berates obliterated port. once a vital artery for imports and home to the country's wheat and grain stores it's now a sea of metal and concrete. levanon is a nation in mourning among them the staff at this nearby hospital. being kidnapped that suddenly. there are a lot of victims we lost 4 nurses and patients visitors many dead and many injured and we have like 200 injured on the scene we face i think. it was a sleepless night at the rest of the city's hospitals overwhelmed doctors treated the engine hallways vital supplies are running low outside agonized families waiting for news of their loved ones many remain unaccounted for. a

little of socialism he is 29 years old it is that from 7 pm in the evening we have been all over every hospital in beirut and they were waiting for the names to come out and nothing has come out we do not know if he is dead or alive and we do not know where whom a lot of. questions to as to how thousands of tons of highly explosive fare to lies are ammonium nitrate ignited sending shock waves across the capital. of blasters had hundreds of kilometers away in cyprus. political leaders called for unity while visiting what remains of the port even for a people accustomed to horror the aftermath is unprecedented was applied. after this catastrophe and we have to stay strong we have to stay calm but this is too much for a nation. a

massive cleanup is slowly underway but officials say the rebuild could take years. 300000 people have been left homeless the prime minister has declared a state of the magic and called on the international community to provide humanitarian assistance. let's go right to beirut where do you get these buses is standing for by for us thank you for joining us 1st of all can you describe for us your experience what happened yesterday. let me say but it might be worse this way it was the 1st time i've seen such thing in journalists in 20 years i covered forcing dejan too many conflicts too many all

kind of stories i covered. the 1st time i did witness such things that you suction it's unbelievable you don't know how much goes to what happened yesterday. the. nice people do live in lebanon and all complete shock everyone is asking what happened why it happened how could it happen. all these questions without any clear on some few moments ago the cabinet start. to thank you all of us at the beginning of this meeting president the president michelle on the nation and all the friend countries. can't use to have it was kind of a may day call. the prime minister. at the beginning of the same session same cabinet meeting also said. what happened or the sponsible of what

happened yesterday will be responsible to trump know and they will be judged but believe me most of the they want these words because they're used to every single time what it is that there is an issue that. related case of corruption or something. to kind of course option or political issues mainly the. accused people remain unknown. no one go to jail i think this is this is an unfortunate. we're trying to get an idea of the scope of the devastation here and we saw that the governor of beirut said that this is an apocalyptic situation and said as many as 300000 people might be temporarily homeless i mean how are people getting by right now. the minute that many people outside of beijing ask. a. fellow only about new citizens who

are homeless right now to go to their home homes. get community close to toast or home as well as the. nearby bay who they said they are going to come any time in so they're trying their best to. manage themselves in peace. hot days. would go at that go to some sources that won't be sold 2 months before 2 months. one comes all sort o. will be given and. financially economically socially politically all kind of these dramatic collapse.

yesterday was totally complete damage control to collapse so what happened yesterday was like the end of if that's what you thought you know . few hours ago former prime minister thought how do you try to get to work at this place some some protests knocked its way they still some stone some troops brought in troops and he's gone for they said that this time it's not for political statements it's not for. the same old story again and again and again now it's time to act now it's time to told those who were told what happened to be people so did last 30 years with them they want to see someone to. court. and we can get some more perspective on this story now we have amended from arabic

with us in our studio here a month 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 and the power supply shortage in beirut city so there's obviously in the

electricity crisis and they 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 to power supply to water to basic food according to the what's governor almost 250000 lebanese people living in bay to it became homeless as a few yesterday that's one 4th of the population of that's big number a lot of people escaped their homes 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 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 are siloed 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 vade which port was the main ports of lebannon not only were. sections with vital grains and food damaged but also medical supply urgent 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 aids 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 want but the next step is to kind of have a clear policy of how the government is going to deal with this crisis and how can the international. unity help here the international community has been showing supports and yes since yesterday already on its way today to 11 on various field

hospitals from different countries including qatar 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 to 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 and solving this crisis that's the main urgent question i'm a arabic thank you so much for joining us here in a studio thanks. let's check in now on some other stories making news around the world in france almost 3000 people have been evacuated from an area close to the southern city of mar say due to a raging forest fire some 1800 firefighters are battling the blazes which broke out on tuesday afternoon the fires are threatening residential areas and campsites near

the coast. emergency relief efforts are underway in south korea after 4 days of monsoon rains at least 15 people are dead and 11 others missing in the southern mountain district of on song flash floods and mud flows caused by rain storms that damaged many roads and submerged large areas of farmland. and hong kong democracy activists joshua wang and agnes child are on trial for their involvement in the civil unrest that rocked the territory last year one says now is not the time to give up the fight for democracy despite the harsh new security law imposed on hong kong by beijing. of a man on trial for the murder of a program few german politician has confessed to the fatal shooting in june last year stefan a far right extremist told the court in frankfurt that he pulled the trigger. the trial focuses on the killing of. a member of chancellor angela merkel's

conservative christian democrats and a regional politician in the west of the country who was shot in the head on his porch on june 1st last year and he died later that night. our political correspondent kate brady is following the story for us hi kate the defendant confessed to firing the shot that killed. what else did he tell the court. but this of course is a huge development in this court case but he also made some serious allegations against his alleged perfectly legit. accomplice as well saying that he had actually allowed himself to be radicalized by his suspected accomplice in the shooting but at the same time he also expressed some words of remorse as well in a dress involved because of family saying that what he did would never be inexcusable almost an apology for what he did saying that he was guided by wrong

thoughts and has also asked to participate in a in a dropout program if you will to leave the far right extremist seeing prosecutors do say that he and the 2nd defendant acted indeed on an extreme far right and zina phobic motive so what does this case tell us about how big a problem right wing extremism is in germany. this is just of course one case but a very very high profile and serious tragic case as well in the broader picture over far right extremism in germany right now the interior minister who 1st said just earlier this year that fall right extremism is the biggest danger facing germany right now and we saw it just last year in 2019 an increase in the number of politically motivated crimes as well specifically by the far right extremists see and say there are growing concerns as to how big a problem this is for many years the have the has been growing criticism far too

often with ortiz of being turning a blind eye and underestimating the extent to which the far right extremist scene is active in germany and also the extent to which it is even already managed to infiltrate a state institutions as well including the military and also the police force are political correspondent kate brady reporting for us thank you so much let's take a look now at some developments in the corona virus pandemic the global death toll from the virus has no past 700000 according to numbers from johns hopkins university australia has reported 15 deaths from cope with 1000 all of them in victoria state it is the highest daily fatality told there so far ukraine recorded a record daily jump of almost 1300 infections numbers there have been going up since of the word eased lock down restrictions and u.s. health chief aleksandar is due to visit taiwan to discuss strategies for fighting

the virus that china considers taiwan a renegade province and has launched an official complaint with washington over the trip. in britain researchers are warning of a 2nd coronavirus wave twice as severe as the initial outbreak if schools reopened in the coming weeks some regions stopped easing lockdowns after a spike in new infections that means people in northern england are having to live with tough new restrictions. brit's i'm asking up and not just inside and advising covert 19 infection rates and public warnings of a 2nd outbreak more and more people choose to don a mask outside as well of course i will but my boss can i put it when i go close connection with the individuals most british people just obey the rules i think will there be a 2nd wave yes northern region such as greater manchester recently witnessed a spike in infection rates in a bid to stem transmissions authorities have tightened restrictions again we want

to pursue a local approach where we take decisive action where it's necessary where the data shows that we have to do that. leading scientists have criticised the government's approach to testing and breaking the chain of infection they say the current system is not sufficient we need to scale up tests of seem to my g.p. and have a certain level of tracing of their contacts in order to avoid 2nd and that is what the government has admitted that there's room for improvement they're planning to roll out rep a test that will show results for the 90 minutes the down side they will only be used in hospitals and nursing homes. 3 of more headlines now from around the world former colombian president alvaro de 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

would be best served as president from 2002 to 2010. and shalane 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 the muppets a people fight to have their ancestral lands and chile's southern region return. india's prime minister narendra modi has led a ceremony to inaugurate the building of a hindu temple at the center of a century old dispute between hindus and muslims that the temple will be erected on the site of a demolished mosque the book ground and prayed at the site and proclaimed the beginning of a golden chapter he called the temple a symbol of unity and love last november the supreme court awarded the disputed site to the hindu community and a decision criticized by muslim groups the mosque once on the site was torn down by hindu nationalists during writing in 1902 and this year is file footage there are fears that putting a hindu temple in its place will reignite tensions between the communities. and

let's bring in did a while in delhi for more on the story kind of russia can explain why this site this location for the hindu temples construction is so divisive and the really frightened question. by the hindu community as the the location which marks the what the law trotter argentine lawyer and get him to stop the construction project long. long. friendship is a mocking a kind of could teach eating meat on the site called the and community in addition the gambling to the stack as dreams you would see decades and is very truly intertwined with the size of nadine's movies b.g.p. this one to deliver one promise to be g.p. and dick off to not be she tied in with the not well promised exactly one year to

date the special. one zoomed by julian and this is really if he was conscious of the leadership i had and the to be a scheme to who should do the integration after region into india as well as economic demands missed however on the other side that's also been a strong criticism of this move by the government and this is what more we can go out and 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 because. 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 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 will receive since the 5th of august the illegal measures taken by india there is a new. there's a new wave

a new video for resentment against the across of these being committed or cross the . beautiful short the people of pakistan starting with you and he adds kashmir will be part of pakistan. controlled. by their 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 and we're going to look at the decades of tension in the swamp pictured in each and not much has changed now the government's locust on the small time spent economic development integration as well as security now into the security of the government dusty and that that have

been increases for operations and act at all but actions in the season because of higher than engines are a result of politics in this increased violence is also increasing insecurity onto the people and the people are already traumatized by it and want 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 what you internet that's it you get what streams it was the last not dollars this is also been very detrimental to the economy official need some estimates of losses up to $5000000000.00 and additional education especially has been hard hit as well as daughters. did have his numerous attacks while reporting for us from delhi thank you. now we have some sports news for you now of 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 abundantly the clubs have so far decided that the matches starting in september will feature no visiting fans no alcohol and no standing terraces clubs will also collect data from fans to help trace potential outbreaks. and tennis world number 2 rafael nadal has announced he will not take part in the u.s. open this year earlier at the madrid open his home tournaments was cancelled male and female tennis players traditionally use the event to prepare for the french open which is still set to take place now organizers in spain felt the current rise in cases meant that a cancellation was the only responsible thing to do rafael nadal is the tournaments record winner. let's get a reminder now of our top story here on d w 11 on's capital beirut is in shock after 2 massive explosions devastated the city the blasts tore through the city's ports killing at least 100 people and leaving

thousands injured and we're looking now at live pictures of the site of the disaster down at beirut's ford we see rescue workers active there still searching for people under the rubble thousands have been injured as we said hospitals are overloaded and there are more and more calls for international help to arrive in you. you're watching the news coming up next hour show eco africa thanks for watching. i'm going.

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