we're just learning this is going to feel. this is news coming to you live from berlin the world reaches out to beirut after the massive blasts that killed nearly 150 people and injured thousands more emergency aid and rescue teams are flying to the lebanese capital a number of officials are under arrest over the explosions at a state of emergency is in force. in japan marks the

75th anniversary of the hiroshima bombing of the 1st atomic remains the deadliest single act ever perpetrated by human me 20 of the survivors. 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 137 people are dead thousands more injured in nearly 300000 lost their homes in an instant blasts obliterated a warehouse storing a huge quantity of fertilizer 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 favorite 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. yes 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. victim and i saw

a lot of her effects teens i saw dead people i saw people running and screaming all carrying their children you know people who had lost their children others looking for their mom or their sister it was horrific it was difficult. for much that's all . planes carrying rescue teams and aid have begun to arrive from countries around the world the lebanese government announced a 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. grade feet but we are determined to investigate. that yes there are you and reveal what happened as soon as possible. nish those responsible should. be him. 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 we were moving it around to each take the aftermath to cover the aftermath of the excuse and that took place on tuesday and it's really tragic. i couldn't. see areas of the city i grew up in. keeping a west bank shack in chalk and landmarks and they did what i did that they didn't they know more than 300000 tikkun they lost their homes their homes where you intend this and this is and this and to you at 135 people dead and.

more than 5000 people in insurance and and people were 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 united states that queer story dinnerware. invaded and there are christians who are under half now and the. government because why were they there in the 1st place and they were stored there for. 13 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 to be if they. didn't use 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 trust in their government that they're going to actually. be able to help and not noting that and i've been on has been. has been fighting the worst economy crisis. the. economy think it will be under arrest and at the coolidge $1000.00 when the. 1000 i speak at there were very limited health care public health care so basic so basically maybe they could people that the government could not be even to deal with the aftermath of the switch. thank you very much that was. done in

beirut international operation is underway to help beirut return to a measure of normality emergency medical aid and rescue teams have begun arriving in the lebanese capital from countries around the world. french search and rescue personnel gather at child 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. is the heart of the lebanese family and lebanon is part of the french family we share their grief and we'll do our best during this catastrophe. lebanon has asked the e.u. for help and has received many positive responses e.u. council president sharon 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. women of these firefighters 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 will forgive me. 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 it's never been on has an important strategically positioned in the eastern mediterranean and it is an important partner for the e.u. yet it's ivan as we knew him in the past experience has told us that on unrest in lebanon and he stabilize the region your own vitae festac that may be the reason why iran and israel have also offered humanitarian aid. now is taylor small the

stories making news around the world today the australian state of victoria reported a record rise in covert 1000 cases and deaths as it went into lockdown to guard against the 2nd pandemic wave state premier daniel andrews urged people to stick together and not to panic as he announced that meat production would be reduced due to the risk of virus transmission in taurus and processing plants. 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 trumps campaign will have to remove the tweet before it can use the network again. the world is 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 wreaths at russia's peaceful morial park they also remember the moment. hit with a bell followed by a minute of silence. share money for scaled back because of the global health emergency and 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 masoom e is. in japanese that means a survivor of the bomb. he was exposed to radiation in his mother's womb as she walked around ground 0 in hiroshima looking for his father. but his father had been killed. 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 a few here are still alive to tell their stories how masooma hopes their memories will live on but that his generation will have been the last to endure such horror

. russia says it's a ring to start mass production of a coronavirus vaccine as early as next month's a senior minister says the country's pharmaceutical plants could be turning out millions of doses a month by per month by next year but the world health organization says it has received no official notification of this and some scientists are warning russia lacks the capacity to mass produce a vaccine for the streets of moscow 5 days ago 16000 people running the half marathon many without masks 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 and i think that's a very positive development question 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 with president putin a few days ago the deputy prime minister made this announcement they wish both vaccines a highly promising new one is to be approved already in august and that was littered with to stimson. 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. there yet this is highly irresponsible he has already researched many vaccines at the research institute. says that. it's possible to develop a vaccine within one week one month or half a year and as it is the case now that it's impossible to prove in this time frame when it is going to be harmless and. russia plans to produce

$30000000.00 vaccine doses by the end of the year. another 170000000 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. that of. course the jones deal is being 3 news right now in the something completely new look at the when the judge is back and saying we're done with this is we don't know how they're going to act with them but it gets nothing to do with what i do we also don't know how long the immunity will last us from for going forward with the need to. 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 in soccer news italian giants in trouble on say they have signed a lexus sanches on a permanent deal after the striker impressed while on loan from manchester united so much has struggled in manchester after a big money transfer from arsenal in 2018 he scored only 5 goals in 45 games at old

trafford prompting the club to loan him to inter the chileans form improved in italy and his permanent signing means that he can play in the rest of enters europa league campaign. you're watching t w news from berlin coming up next we got a documentary film on why a 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on japan on the city of nagasaki 75 years ago thanks for. more posters from nigeria you know that's what money would sponsor their unique. authentic. and successful beyond belief

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