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world remembers the. 75 years old scaled back ceremony owners the 140000 victims of the 1st atomic bomb attack on japan we'll go live to tokyo. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us rescuers in beirut are digging through rubble in a desperate search for survivors following explosions that left much of the lebanese capital in ruins at least 135 people are dead thousands more are injured in nearly 300000 lost their homes in an instant the blasts obliterated a warehouse storing a huge quantity of fertilizer chemicals exploded with the force of an earthquake several port officials are under house arrest and a 2 week state of emergency is in force for. 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. 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. yet we've never seen anything like this in our lives it's difficult and the scene is 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 a little. extra 15 minutes and i saw a lot of her if it seems i saw dead people i saw people running and screaming all the 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 port 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. this we are determined to investigate. yes there are you and reveal what happened as a possible. nish those responsible.

investigators have begun searching the wreckage at beirut's airport the 1st step towards fulfilling the president's promise to deliver justice. or correspondent rosen's home is in beirut and joins us now give us a sense of just how destructive this explosion was. back there yesterday when we were when we were going. to. sort of think those and i was actually shocked i couldn't even recognize. it. and the city i grew up in. i saw they were they were 100 actually thousands of putting. forward into the future and and others just were stating that they didn't and then once in child because they actually could enjoy a good night's debate with you know. there are more than 300 guys in 2000. with

their whole their whole. story and it turned into and that and there are more than one case you find that you can't because of the shock wave that that's what. came out of the explosion and more than 5000 people that were injured and there are dozens and there are still dozens of people who are missing. as you say many people still missing could there still be people trapped along beneath the rubble. say that the numbers that you've been in the next hour the next day because they are still thinking i'm going to go up or down i can knocking for it and it hasn't. been. their number before they are looking and to right the number in the next coming hours. is it clear what exactly caused this explosion.

i want to tell you there is no way i could act and that makes me. a fly explosion took place but you know is that there were 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that were stored in a warehouse in the port of beirut. and sick this is why the government ordered the house ordered to house arrest at some point. but they were justifying themselves and that they already and the government. there was a there was explosive. chemicals in their warehouse but these days that nothing happened and after they told the government so it's no it's not you know who is responsible for this. and we've just been looking at some pictures of the utter devastation there and. trying to deal with it must be a tremendous job to authorities have what they need to treat the injured for the

search and rescue operation person. actually you know when i've been on has been. has been the fighting that is endemic and with a very limited public health care and with the outbreak of the coup in a fire and with a creeping economy the worst economy since 1975 than civil war and so basically we have not been on with. a good thing. for us. thank you very much that was some solomon there in beirut. now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today twitter says it has temporarily blocked president donald trump's official campaign account because of a tweet containing misinformation about coded 19 the misinformation was

a claim that children are almost immune to the virus campaign will have a have to remove the tweet before it can use the network again. 12 people have been killed in a bus accident in morocco around 30 others were seriously injured when the vehicle overturned close to a deer on tuesday on the south west coast local media say the crash was due to dangerous driving on difficult mountain road. and sri lanka's political leaders have cast their ballots in parliamentary elections president go to raja pascua is seeking a big enough majority to allow him to push through constitutional reform so he can implement his economic and national security agenda. the olympic ring installed in tokyo bay for the 2020 summer games have been removed on what had been day 14 games the games have been postponed until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic after a wash and brush up rings back in december if all goes well the

world is marking the 75th anniversary of the u.s. bombing of hiroshima in japan the 1st atomic to attack killed more than 140000 people survivors and families of victims lay breeds peace memorial park they also remember the moment the bomb hit with a bell followed by a minute of silence. ceremonies for scale because of the global health emergency only a handful of foreign dignitaries attended few survivors are still alive today their stories speak of horrors that the world hopes will never be repeated. jiro how much sumi is. in japanese that means survivor of the bomb. he was exposed to radiation in his mother's womb as she walked around ground 0 and he rose shima looking for his father. but his father had been killed. that.

if we don't speak the bombing will be forgotten as if it had never happened that's why we must keep the history and people's testimonies on record with us. on august 6th 1945 u.s. president harry truman gave the orders to drop an atomic bomb on the japanese port city of hiroshima. the blast and shock wave instantly killed tens of thousands of people tens of thousands more died from strange new diseases caused by radiation. 3 days later the u.s. dropped a 2nd bomb on the city of nagasaki. truman succeeded in winning a decisive victory over japan and an end to the 2nd world war. but not a painless one the white house and the us military were well aware that their celebrations came at the cost of over 100000 civilian lives here oshima bombing

remains to this day the deadliest single act ever perpetrated by humans. few here are still alive to tell their stories sumi hopes their memories will live on but that his generation will have been the last to endure such horror. correspondent sonja blush is covering this year's commemoration ceremonies and joins us now from tokyo sunny 75 years since the bombing of hiroshima today tell us how this grim anniversary is being observed in japan. well in japan. there are many 1st in iraq and then 3 days later nagasaki. this year after very long rainy season they thought it was very hot. that the guests invited was sitting under a large umbrella and. before the start of the ceremony the peace bell rang you could hear the sound of the stick out of there was

a big play of yellow crittenden and flowers and you could see a lot of the surviving people actually in the audience. for them of course it's a very big topic and they would really like the younger generation to remember. what happened 75 years ago however sadly for the younger people it's really not such a big topic. it is cause less and less so for the young people it's really not such a big day and that of course contributes to the worries of the survivors who are now on average 83 year old. $136000.00 of them left to tell what happened back then japan like the rest of the world is coping with the kind of it 19 pandemic how is that weighing on the commemoration of events this year. as indicated earlier in the report they had to scale back a lot so usually there are

a lot more people in the park and they're looking at the displays and the peace bell and the train all that but this time they only allowed family members of the victims into the park and of course the invited dignitaries they had based out of the chairs far apart and most of the attendees were wearing masks but there were also actually quite a few empty chairs because the other you survived was so worried because of the coronavirus of course and also they didn't they couldn't do school trip with students this summer for the same reason oh again less common aeration of the events. of the threat of nuclear war is still with us is that something that people in japan are particularly controversial. nuclear or such i guess it always plays a role when the talk comes to north korea. we used to have

demonstrations against nuclear power or anything nuclear up until a few years ago but these days you can only see the tape because people including the facts are the survivors of the bombs however every year the the mayor of hiroshima and in a few days also the mayor not as lucky they will read out messages of peace and appeal to the government and to the world we implement a ban on nuclear weapons however this here again there has not really given any reaction to this and you so nice thank you very much i was correspondence on your blusher that in tokyo. well in the wake of the huge explosions that devastated by a route people in countries near and far have shown their solidarity palestine is crying for beirut reads this sign many people in the gaza strip waved lebanese as well as

palestinian flags. even in israel which is technically in a state of war with its neighbor the lebanese colors were lit up over a television vigil candlelight vigil also held outside occur in paris and the eiffel tower switched off its lights an hour. you're watching t.w. news i'm terry martin thanks for being with us. this . far more clusters from nigeria as the people you know that's what normally would.

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