this is news coming to you live from berlin the world reaches out to be rooftops of the massive blasts that killed nearly 150 people and injured thousands more emergency aid and rescue teams are flying into the lebanese capital a number of officials are under arrest over the explosions in a state of emergency is in force. the race to find a corona virus vaccine russia says it aims to start mass production as early as

next month but many scientists are skeptical. and japan marks the 75th anniversary of the her off from a bombing the 1st atomic bomb remains the deadliest single act ever perpetrated by humans we meet one of the survivors. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining 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 137 people are dead thousands more are injured nearly 300000 lost their homes in an instant the blasts obliterated a warehouse storing a huge quantity of fertilizer the chemicals exploded with the force of an

earthquake. 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. he the high 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 that i look for my family and gather of them and went out to the balcony to take a look it was a massacre. was the. shifty i'm innocent 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 sisters it was horrific it was difficult and much i believe how much it'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. future we are determined to investigate. and reveal what happened as it soon

as possible that's very british those responsible. investigators have begun searching the wreckage at beirut's airport a 1st step towards fulfilling the president's promise to deliver justice. our correspondent rosen salma is in beirut and joins us now for us and give us a sense of just how destructive this explosion was. yesterday and yesterday we were moving it around to watch take the aftermath to cover the aftermath of excuses that took place on tuesday and it's really tragic. i couldn't. see areas of the city i grew up in. a west bank shop in chalk and that marks and they did what i did that they didn't they know more than

300000 teeth and they lost their home their home to where you into a mess. and this is in this into 155 people dead and. more than 5000 people in insurance and and even we're still in shock until yesterday. well what happened what we do know is that fertilizer ammonia nitrate chemicals exploded but we know exactly what caused those chemicals to explode actually to now say we don't know what. the reason behind it. it's $2751.00 united states that were stored anywhere. and obviously there are christians who are under have now and the. government because why were they there in the 1st these and they were stored there for. for the past year. felt lebanon already had massive problems

before the explosion are people in the city confident that the city of beirut confident that the government is capable of dealing with this crisis. i actually say from what i saw yesterday when i was lucky. the social workers. rushed into the streets to help others because they thought that if they don't do this they don't they are not confident they don't have chucked in their government that they're going to actually i'm eager to help and not noting that and i've been on has been. has been fighting the worst economy crisis. it's me economy thing to be under arrest and at the coolidge 1000 when to call good night 1000 i could break their way again limiting health care public health care so basically so basically navy they couldn't the people that the government could

would not be able to deal with the aftermath of the switch. thank you very much that was. in beirut. international operation is underway to help beirut return to a measure of normality in them urgency medical aid and rescue teams have begun arriving in the lebanese capital from countries around the world. french search and rescue personnel gather at sharm to go airport in paris france is sending 3 planes to help with the rescue efforts in beirut lebanon is a former french protectorate and the country's retain close political and economic ties. the heart of the lebanese family and lebanon is part of the french family we share their grief and will do our best during this catastrophe. lebanon has asked for help and has received many positive responses

e.u. council president charlotte michel tweeted that the e.u. is ready to provide aid and support the european commissioner for crisis management confirmed that more than 100 search and rescue experts from greece the czech republic and the netherlands have already arrived in beirut. put them in the fire fighters are highly skilled in search and rescue missions in urban areas we have also activated the copernicus satellite system which enables us to obtain very detailed photos of the disaster area who didn't smoke and. germany is also sending 42 rescuers complete with search dogs to beirut in the past 9 years the e.u. has invested more than 2000000000 euros in lebanon. as a stock like its lebanon has an important strategic position in the eastern mediterranean and it is an important partner for the e.u.

yet it's either been in the past experience has told us that unrest in lebanon and the stabilizing the region you on vita festac that may be the reason why iran and israel have also offered humanitarian aid. one couple getting married in beirut had a narrow escape from the explosions the couple were posing for a bit and photographs near their wedding venue when the blast struck. shock waves caused extensive damage in the surrounding streets centers nearby square thankfully the newlyweds were uninsured and were able to take shelter and see. 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 covert 19 misinformation was

a claim that children are almost immune to the virus trouble's campaign will have to remove the tweet before it can use the network again. former us vice president joe biden has announced he won't be traveling to milwaukee to accept the democratic party's presidential nomination dude to coronavirus fear. instead he will give a speech from his home state of delaware the nominating convention at the end of this month will be almost entirely. higher than the olympic rings installed in tokyo bay for the 2020 summer games have been removed on what would have been day 14 of the games games have been postponed until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic after a wash and brush up the rings will hopefully be back in december. the world us marking the 75th anniversary of the u.s. bombing of hiroshima in japan the 1st atomic attack killed more than 140000 people

survivors and families of victims laid reads that rush missed peace memorial park they also remembered the moment the ball hit with a bell followed by a minute of silence ceremonies for scaled back because of the global health emergency only a handful of foreign dignitaries attended. a few survivors are still alive today their stories speak of horrors that the world hopes will never be repeated. hiroshima's peace memorial on the motu yes the river part of the peace memorial park now a green space that used to be a city neighborhood. used to live there before it was obliterated on august 6th 140 thoughts 4000 people died horrific deaths here including how my family his father mother and 2 siblings are. do if you go there are good i thought they were

just hiding i couldn't believe they were dead i kept looking for them. for me this is not a piece memorial it's a graveyard. when i see people there it's like they're stamping on the heads of my parents and siblings. and i was. just some i was 11 when the atomic bomb known as little boy annihilated hiroshima bomb i was staying with his uncle outside the city at 8 16 am he saw the flash felt the explosion and then the mushroom cloud rose in the morning sky. over here today is said to tell his story in a public interview series for a long time he couldn't bear talking about the bombing his family was dead but the subject was taboo in japan and survivors were stigmatized but that's changed. i still don't know what we're going to talk about there's no script we'll just see

. the host hiroki ishikawa a singer musician and a music producer. his grandfather never mentioned the hiroshima bombing so he lets others talk now he wants to know the title of the series is atomic bomb eyewitnesses and today is the 178 episodes online because of coronavirus restrictions. because this is in the he was you want to go to the museum there are things that don't really affect me but these talks are almost like being with family you learn good important details and the events pass them on. the day you know some of those 2 hours of live stream talks for peace against war and a surprise. photograph now colorized by a young woman who got to know him a few years ago it's a gesture that helps make history feel more alive. the possibility of talking

directly to people who are affected will soon disappear these colorized photos help make their memories more accessible and that incurred. just people to share them in the new. 2 days after the atom bomb destroyed the city i looked through the rubble and found the wall clock from his father's barber shop it's now in the her piece museum a gift and how my eyes contribution against forgetting. spring an explosion here he's chairman of the german chapter of international positions for the prevention of nuclear war thanks for being with us this resident dr rose i should say what does the 75th anniversary of the hiroshima bombing mean to you. well it's a day of looking back of commemorating the events that happened 75 years ago of grieving with the victims for what has been lost but it's also

a day of looking forward looking forward to a world free of the nuclear threats and today and we're actually expecting a number of states to hand in their educations of the nuclear ban treaty which seeks to stigmatize to prohibit and to eliminate nuclear weapons once and for all yet nuclear weapons are still with us and there's little sign of them being eliminated is there any reason to believe that the world will ever be free of nuclear bombs. yes there's a lot of reasons one being that the situation has gotten so bad. the security architecture that we've built up during the cold war has basically been annihilated by the cancellation of the i.n.f. treaty we are seeing the end of the new start treaty coming up so there's a dire need to do something about this situation and the ban treaty that is on the table right now expecting to become international humanitarian law as the 50th state ratifies it is the way to go forward as we see it it's

a way to expand on the n.p.t. treaty and to really go forward and eliminating these weapons of mass destruction just like biological or chemical weapons landmines of cluster munitions as been internationally banned and abolished yet those weapons are there other countries are still trying to get over talking about nuclear weapons and you can't put the genie back in the bottle what do you see as realistic in terms of reducing the nuclear threat given the fact that those bombs are there. well we have to work on many different levels these bombs won't be eliminated by a decision of a few leaders we have to look at a grassroots level we have to educate the population about the humanitarian effects of these weapons and we are seeing right now that a lot of countries a lot of people are waking up to the realization that even a regional nuclear war will affect the humanity on

a global scale we will see global effects on the climate we will see famine victims by even a regional war for example between india and pakistan and that means that a lot of people in africa and latin america and southeast asia have woken up to the fact that they too are affected and that's not just and u.s. or russia or european issues so we're seeing a lot of international outcry a lot of international engagement and this is fueling the current drive to to ratify this treaty as mentioned your medical doctor and had nuclear activist when you're out campaigning for your call what sort of response do you get from younger people today. a lot of the young people actually do not realize that this threat is still out there a lot of people imagine that with the end of the cold war the nuclear threat is also over and as they learn that there is for example still nuclear weapons in germany that they are actually being modernized that the u.s.

and russia are stepping up their nuclear armaments they are shocked and they are in horror because they thought that this is an issue that that's long been passed and we see in icann an international campaign to volitionally weapons a vast number of especially young people who are taking on this issue not as an alternative to issues like climate change but seeing this as sort of the nexus combination they are aiming to work against the threats that are endangering humankind on a global scale and this is climate change on the one hand and the threat by nuclear weapons on the other and they go hand in hand dr rosen thank you for taking time to talk with the start was dr alex rosen from the international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war. getting back to the coronavirus crisis says infections in the u.s. continue to rise the dollar is taking another hit leading to gains for other

currencies including the euro in recent months the european currency has been climbing against the dollar start of the year at $1.12 and is now hovering at around $1.00 a team sprint qatar bosun and frankfurt he's our financial correspondent there good to see you color at a stronger hero and a weaker dollar what's the story behind these developments. the story behind this terry is that if you compare the economy in the united states to the countries of the euro at the moment at least investors have more confidence that europe will manage to return to growth soon to you know an activity that warrants the backing of international investors this idea got a boost this thursday by fresh economic data from germany in june the german manufacturers caught around about 28 percent more you orders that in may and that

ease a development much much stronger that one than what economists on average had for cost because so some sectors are looking up in europe but the german carrier look tons or reported a massive quarterly loss what are investors making of the. well terry the share price of fuel is on the rise today but not for optimism the loss of $1500000000.00 euros at lufthansa and is much stronger than anticipated and the outlook is so bleak that now times our plans even more rigorous job cuts than it had planned out but they have to now so far the number of planned job cuts was $22000.00 today of times that says maybe we will be able to cut those jobs in you know soft way with social compensation plans or something and that of course is seen as a sign that the management of the fans are really wants to play tough with the

unions rather thank you very much that was our financial correspondent in frankfurt . so you look now at the latest developments in the crime of virus pandemic the global death toll has now exceeded 700000 with one person dying every 15 seconds in recent weeks or than 18000000 people have had the virus and some 11000000 have recovered the world health organization says there's been a troubling of infections worldwide among people aged 15 to 24 infection rates have risen from 4.5 percent to 15 percent in recent months and germany's hospital association says its facilities are well prepared for potential 2nd wave of the pandemic ospel say they also have better stockpiles of protective equipment than at the beginning of the year. russia says it's aiming to start mass production of

a coronavirus vaccine as early as next month a senior minister says the country's pharmaceutical plants could be turning out millions of doses a month by next year but the world health organization says it has received no official notification of this and some scientists are warning that russia lacks the capacity to mass produce a vaccine. the streets of moscow 5 days ago 16000 people running the half marathon many without masts and without keeping their distance the city has opened up again many here seem to trust that a new vaccine will soon be available to everyone. who is of course have heard of that meeting and i think that's a very positive development that should vaccinated. this is where the 2 new vaccines were developed at the moscow gemmell a institute and the vector institute in a visit built both state from the vaccination program is supposed to start as early as october at a video conference russian president vladimir putin if you days ago the deputy

prime minister made this announcement they wish both vaccines a highly promising oneness to be approved already in august and that was lead with just skim center. but both vaccines were only tested on less than $100.00 volunteers the important phase 3 of the testing will only be done with a few 100 people for vitalis there yet this is highly irresponsible he has already researched many vaccines at the research institute. so if that were true more than you do it's possible to develop a vaccine within one week one month or half a year as it is the case now that it's impossible to prove in this time frame when it is going to be harmless or planned. russia plans to produce $30000000.00 vaccine doses by the end of the year another $170000000.00 a supposed to be manufactured and brought russia wants to be the 1st country to

introduce a vaccine to the world market possible risks one stand in its way critics say. the . post with joe's delicious being from this right now in the something completely new look at the when the judges vaccines are done with this if we don't know how they're going to act when somebody gets to do what more do we. i don't know how long the unity will last us from for going forward with the new deal. moscow is returning to normal life and that is partly due to a possibly false sense of security that the promise of a vaccine this brings. us the effects of global warming are becoming alarmingly clear at the top and bottom of the world the poles are melting scientists say the arctic has been warming up for years even ing out the temperatures and the differences in temperature between the north pole and the equator the result is an increase in the number of extreme weather events. he's still wearing

a woolly hat but it's no longer really necessary the ice in spitsbergen is melting it's a problem that no ways most famous poet of research i came home and has long been warning of we are losing the arctic as we know it because of climate change. this is a for war news all the hardship and problems start to spread around the planet. as the grand melts it gives up its secrets here a mammoth skeleton pulled from the mud in russia's arctic after 10000 years in the permafrost rising temperatures here are delivering riches to some researches. of sit ups and i'm not a complete skeleton is always a valuable find because the individual bone fragments basically don't hold any information here we know the exact location of the origins of the mammoth and that is one specimen. of. the arctic touches russia canada the us and

greenland but its demise will affect the whole world. temperatures are rising faster than in the rest of the world particularly in the last few years. as the differences in temperature between the poles and the equator reduced the jet stream winds which move weather around the globe a slowing down. the result extreme high and low pressure systems remain at the same spot creating floods and it's 12 degrees in spitsbergen might look relaxing but it's 7 degrees warmer than usual and that spells disaster. you're watching t.v. news just reminder the top story we're following for you here today an international aid operation it is underway to help the lebanese capital beirut return to a measure of normality rescuers are still searching for survivors of

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fools party. conflicts of. next difficulty. on august 9th 1945 west dropped an atomic bomb. the gen zinni was flying in seconds and is still suffering a terrible consequences to this day. some historians have argued that the bombing was a necessary one for us drop the 2nd bomb not just. in 45 minutes on d w. the time and place captured in pictures. images of cars on.

the flu studios are kind of documents lives in bygone eras. and leads to those living today. they are guarding gaza's past in a box. moment is seen in black and white a. collective memories start of august 14th own d.w. . looking detail at how beijing uses its national security laws on the mainland you don't really understand the real situation the phone call i offer you will come back to the situation. hong kong how one country 2 systems clearly operate this week we're replaying an interview about hong kong recorded in early june by then many fear that a new security law to be imposed by beijing would seriously damage the independence

of hong kong's judging my guest was regina king chair of the probating new peoples party she dismissed.