this is g w news live from berlin tonight the race to save winds in beirut a day after twin blasts leveled much of the city the explosions flattened the capital support killing at least $130.00 people injuring thousands more. are demanding answers some 40 officials are now under house arrest also coming up tonight india's prime minister inaugurates the building of a hindu temple on the very sight of a demolished mosque there are fears the construction could remove night religious tensions and joe biden cancels his plans to accept the democratic presidential

nomination in person with the coded 19 pandemic still reaching the u.s. democratic convention we're now being an almost entirely virtual face. off it's good to have you with us rescuers in beirut are digging through the rubble in a desperate search for survivors following explosions that left much of the city in ruins the blast on tuesday leveled the city's port district at least $135.00 people are dead thousands more injured and tens of thousands are now homeless the blast took place in a warehouse storing highly explosive chemicals under very little oversight authorities have now placed a number of port officials under house arrest and declared a 2 week state of emergency for the lebanese capital. a day of

grief for lebanon as the country reckons with the losses and destruction caused by tuesday's explosion. with many people still missing rescue workers are desperately searching for anyone still alive under the collapsed buildings. and that this man was rescued after over 16 hours under the rubble. a glimmer of hope amid the devastation. shops and homes were destroyed across beirut hundreds of thousands of people likely unable to return to their homes for months. as the lebanese begin to deal with the aftermath a strong sense of community is emerging but a feeling of disbelief still lingers. she the year we've never seen anything like this in our lives it's difficult and the scene it's shocking and

scary i took everything in after all the destruction i looked for my family and gathered them and went out to the balcony to take a look it was a massacre. was the little. extra 15 minutes and i saw a lot of her if it scenes i saw dead people i saw people running and screaming a lot of carrying their children you know people who had lost their children others looking for their mom or their sister and it was horrific it was difficult. to get much that's all. planes carrying rescue teams and aid have begun to arrive from countries around the world the lebanese government announced the 2 week state of emergency and ordered a number of court officials to be placed under house arrest they include any officials involved with guarding and storing the explosive chemical ammonia nitrate that seems to have caused the blast in. feet we are determined to investigate. and reveal what happened as everyone

as possible. nish those responsible. investigators have begun searching the wreckage at beirut's port the 1st step towards fulfilling the president's promise to deliver justice and we take this story now to beirut i'm joined by our correspondent bosler e.d. good evening to you walsall it has been a day a little bit more than a day since the blast talk to me about what beirut is like tonight 3 let me use this word it's like it would go. better citizens specific 11 on the internet or they are still under the undershirt they are still bringing that pieces together 300000 citizen lost their own partially or completely displaced they they left alone they are seeking for homes i don't think in different areas so you can imagine how dramatic the situation is especially that

we're talking about damages goals billions we cost billions of dollars to rebuild. it is the middle of it is the middle of the night there right now balls and we know that there's not much electricity that's being provided in this city right now so what does that mean for these search and rescue efforts because they say that they exceed that there are still people under the rubble exactly. the spot behind me it's what is left of beirut o't. the rescue it's become harder and harder according to some sources involved in investigation told me this evening they they are looking for human pieces and the. fight to prove that i live to the area in the very beginning their 1st place. vanished it is not traced for them or

their vehicles according to same sources the explosion left nothing portrait and stick investigation everything turned into ashes and dust so every think it's completely destroyed the people in lebanon do they have confidence in the government to carry out a thorough investigation not a cold they didn't buy any of these promises they are asking to remove all the current politicians all the old regime. since the seventy's of top one the don't see action took place all over lebanon they still have same demands today some protests they try to block the you know for the prime minister the prime minister saad how do you want you to put it don't main squirt they like to block his way the. security guards. with these protesters so this week you give you a indicate or something. a little bit evidence the people look at the politicians

right now they are saying that it's not time for political issue political statements and political. debates it's time to put all these who are responsible for displaced and for responsible for the corruption and discounted that led to a total collapse since 30 years to put all of these guys. they need to look at us briefly bazemore go home. let me ask you what about the state of emergency for the next 2 weeks what does that mean for the people there in beirut. this means that the detainees on toast at the las will take control over debate which will be told the security agency's decent behind mainly to keep the situation under control the security situation the political parties the government afraid that the situation we do more chaotic clashes still more to move so actions that's

why they ask the i don't ask to take control by announcing the images emergency statement ok our correspondent bosler reidy with the latest from beirut tonight basile thank you very much thank you india has bolstered security in kashmir as it marks one year since scrapping the disputed region semiautonomous status the government stripped. india's only muslim majority state of its special rights last august prime minister narendra modi's government has said that the move was necessary to better integrate the region and boost its economy by the imposition of direct rule calls to anger as security restrictions choked the economy and kashmiris face to walk down communication blackouts and mass detentions a parallel to this anniversary indian prime minister modi led a ceremony to inaugurate the building of a hindu temple that has been the focus of

a bitter decades long dispute between hindus and muslims. it stands for an historic triumph for india's hindu nationalist government after a decades long dispute prime minister narendra modi left the ground breaking ceremony for the new hindu temple at the flashpoint holy site of a yoda. well marty this temple will become the modern symbol of our culture i'm using the word modern deliberately it will be the symbol of our perennial faith our nationalism this temple will also be symbolic of the united strength of millions. the security was tight in a u.t.i. leading up to the ceremony the city has long been a religious fault line at the center of intense sectarian violence in 1902 a hindu nationalist mob raise the barbary missouri mosque and i you know the incident triggered religious riots that left over 2000 people dead most of the

muslims. hindus believe ram one of their major deedes was born at the site and claimed the mosque was built on a temple there. this race has been going on for 71 years but now finally the divine moment has arrived and everyone is very happy to be able to witness this temple for lord ram where extatic. modi's b j p had long been rallying for the construction of a temple on the site after a lengthy legal battle in the us supreme court awarded the disputed a lot to hindus in november of last year the verdict caused disappointment among india's muslim community but many have since come to terms with their decision. to implore the muslim community has accepted the verdict and we want to help with the construction of the temple i mean there are. as muslims will be able to build

a new mosque on a nearby plot but prominent muslim leaders feared the new temple could in bold and hindu nationalists to target other mosques in the region. where some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world 12 people have died in a bus accident in milwaukee 030 others were seriously injured when the bus overturned close to the year on tuesday on the country's southwest coast local reports say the crash was due to dangerous driving on difficult road. in the united states at least 6 people with tropical storm. battered the country's east coast millions were left without power as driving winds and heavy rains caused havoc across several u.s. states the storm is now moving across eastern canada. well with 3 months to go until the u.s. presidential election campaigning is intensifying but the coronavirus pandemic has put a damper on big events and large audiences both for president trump and his democratic

rival joe biden democratic officials have announced that biden will not be traveling to milwaukee to accept the party's nomination as planned instead he'll be giving a speech from his home state of delaware the multi-day nominating convention which is set for the end of this month will now be taking place almost entirely online on me now is our washington bureau chief in his post good evening to you enos the 1st ever virtual democratic convention is this about being for extra cautious because of the virus or is there more to the story you're. i mean sure brant they want to protect not only joe biden but all the other speakers and off to also the community of milwaukee right because many thousands of people. traveled there but i find another x. as think actually really interesting we hardly see any rallies this year so the

conventions would have been a place where people could have experienced that candidate because we always have to keep in mind after all joe biden would be 78 years old on inauguration day the oldest president ever be sworn in so. people are eager to learn how his continuity abilities are and as we don't know if any abilities will happen the conventions which have been in place to get a little bit of a feeling about that strew been it's almost as if their campaign is not even taking place let's talk about the u.s. president donald trump he will not be attending the republican convention either and today he said that he might deliver his acceptance speech for the g.o.p. nomination from the white hells that would also be on president. is that going to happen. well it is unlikely i mean many

lawyers are working on that already because normally they relieved draw a clear line because between the presidential business and come pain so normally a candidate is really not allowed to use the stage of the white house i mean it's understandably why don't the trump wants to present himself there and make use of this powerful environment but i think brant this is also not the only reason why he's shying away from the conventions you know many republicans are getting uncertain if he is really the right candidate for them anymore and we don't know if they were planning on scanner these beautiful amount of peace and power at the republican convention so maybe he wants to play safe keep the play ball going his own hands in the white house well it certainly is playing it safe by not attending the convention keeping it in the white house that will definitely be controversial to say the least our washington bureau chief in this poll thank you. you're

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