yes please get here. the devastating fertilizer factory explosion in texas subjects fifteen people like david in over one hundred and sixty are wounded in massive blast like into a nuclear bomb leveled buildings for blocks in every direction. in what's become a dark way for the united states in boston the images are reason which could show the suspect behind the marathon bombings while an envelope place with toxic rust in is sent to president obama. it's four pm here in the russian capital you're watching on t.v. live it with me to bomb would say this hour we'll bring you the latest developments in the u.s. a state of texas way a massive blast has ripped through

a fertilizer plant and police say up to fifteen people have been killed and at least one hundred sixty injured but emergency crews of fear as a many as a seventy may have died. well you know like nobody i think. you know. the explosion had the full size of a mine a f quake and destroyed several buildings they suing blaze it spread to nearby apartment blocks and schools apply a houses have been abroad on those control but several firefighters and police officers see it officials have shut down pos applies and evacuated house the town amid concerns that another such lies a tank at the facility could blow up because of the charges he is not yet made police say they will begin an investigation once rescue operations are over but that so far there is no evidence of foul play artie's romandie linda told me the latest from the scene

a little enya. that's right the mayor of west texas spoke to was just a few minutes ago and just confirmed some of the facts of the disaster that we created here sixteen homes have been damaged in this explosion those are the homes that are closest to the black shite that we were in town just a few minutes. and saw that there were several other businesses which also sustained some damage to the windows which were blown out educated still a search and recovery situation we try to get as close to the site of u.k. police put in a radius of about a mile or around the site which is still considered to be dangerous for people to approach however about half of the town of twenty six hundred people have been evacuated so far because i just want to remind of you was that moment when that blast went off i let's just take a look here. well you know

like i think we're going to he's going to hear any preliminary assessments although the destruction. of the those that you have mentioned terms of the building in some of the homes but the mayor gave a man of the extent of the damage here today and even before that when he was. trying to describe the scene of the explosion he described it as the nuclear blast we've seen other first responders call it you know compared to iraq and one witness who i spoke to earlier this evening said that when he showed up at the scene. row of houses that were nearest to the fertilizer plant were not even recognize what had been leveled down to pretty much just rubble and garbage so that is why earlier today we were hearing from church responders at the main that there must be dozens

of casualties just because of the of the sheer size and the sheer power of this explosion and the fact that so many people live so close to this volatile plant romana let's take a listen now to early on we had a conversation with the spokesman of a local hospital way patients receiving treatment do you mentioned the casualties i just want us to listen to what he had to say and our facility we are one of the issues we were speaking to. the pressures from the from the blast right now we have seen sixty five patients one of which is critical the majority of the ones we've seen and had already been broken bones head injuries and a lot of them and then and hydrous ammonia elation probably from the fertilizer plant we've had a massive. response from our medical our doctors our nurses are written towards her . and i have been able to. in release most of the one choosing to have had

the exposure to the to the mountain we have had twelve admissions of the sixty five punches we've seen preparing. for disasters i will say i've been here for thirty years i have never seen anything to the to this magnitude but on time very time full that we planned for this day and we did this on a routine bank since there is plans in place to be on on alert for the rest of the evening and on into tomorrow how did the authorities plan to deal with such such devastation there had been the law enforcement agencies and first responders coming from throughout the state of texas to respond to this emergency we saw when we were in the inside of the town just a few minutes ago law enforcement officers still patrolling the streets trying to keep people away from the danger areas and frankly trying to keep looters from

going in there we saw dozens of ambulances also take the dozens of injured but the hospital is still ready for the potential of more patients coming in given the fact that. it is still a search and rescue operation happening here and the fact that you know a lot of these evacuees are being taken out of their homes because of the possible talks of vapors coming from this fertilizer plant it is a very very windy day here in central texas so far as health concerns while there has been a very very rapid response by purchase ponders health concerns still still linger here in central texas you know we did speak to the texan department of public safety who does odd c.s.s. and all of the child let's just listen to what he had to say hang on i can say i was there i walked through the blast area i searched. some houses earlier tonight

massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and harder sticks floated so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking out there. i know there was at least seventy five to fifty fifty to seventy five houses damaged there's apartment complex that has about fifty units in it that was completely. just skeleton standing you know there's a nursing home there that one hundred thirty three people in the nursing home we've got them evacuated i don't know what their injuries are are there right now but all injuries have been removed from the scene and taken to local hospitals in the waco area we had numerous agencies helping us all the way from the dallas fort worth area mclennan county limestone field bosky and all the surrounding areas so we've had a great turn out. to come out to help us get through this tragedy that we've had in this small community. the explosion at the texas fertilizer plant has highlighted

show coming from the u.s. system of industrial risk a management cynism urgency planning document the fertilizer plant reported having over twenty four kilograms of a high dose ammonia in the hand and the report stated no and file explosive risks the worst possible scenario is invisible was a ten minute release of ammonia guest spot without any casualties but this blast sure causes a run to eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths are g.'s gammage again she's calling the off to most of the disaster from washington d.c. than it is so why did the authorities calculate to the risk of correctly. well first of all we have to say we heard the local police say unless they prove it was an industrial accident like a chemical accident and they treat the area as a crime scene obviously there's going to be an investigation into what caused this

massive explosion officials are very reluctant to expand on that at this point but we actually have information emerging about this plant this bird flies a plant that exploded in west texas on wednesday night was fined by the environmental protection agency in two thousand and six full failing to have a risk management plan that met federal standards so that was back in two thousand and six according to the e.p.a. a risk management plan is designed to ensure chemical accidents don't happen by having safeguards in place to prevent them according to construction permits admitted in november that the year this company west fertilizer valves to meet all standards expected for niagara's ammonia storage tanks and he was one of those tanks that blew up this wednesday night and again officials are reluctant to give any specific information as to what cost and the explosion at this point what do we know about the possible ramifications of this explosion. well one good

news that we heard from the authorities there is that the fire is contained there is no danger of another tank full of chemicals exploding but the bad news is the way and the toxic chemicals that it's spreading around the area many of those who've been hospitalized suffered from ammonia and lation here's what experts say about the spread of those toxic chemicals. were fertilizer as we know is extremely combustible so it's been used in bombs and so it's manufacture is extremely delicate and can easily if handled wrong or if handled in safely can lead to explosion so we have to assume at this point that it's such a chemical explosion that's happened there at the plant and when you're handling chemicals like this there is a possibility that there can be chemical contamination that could that would need to be cleaned up in the aftermath of the explosion so they'll undoubtedly be extensive monitoring of the areas around the plant in order to make sure that

whatever chemicals have been spread around can be cleaned up to reduce future toxicity to the residents with the kinds of winds that blow in such big intense fires there will be airborne distribution. so there's nothing that can be done while the event just happening what will be done is is assessment and cleanup in the aftermath currently people are being evacuated because of the dangers to for further explosions for fire to spread and also for spread around of some of the chemicals from the plant however those will almost certainly be deposited close to the plant and it will be possible to get in there make assessments and to clean up some of the area in the future so those are the primary dangers. why there was damage again there reporting live from washington just giving us some of the updates and on the ramification of this explosion right now emergency services say ammonia may have been the cause of of this explosion live now to talk to us

a little bit more about that is a professor christopher buzz by from the european commission committee on radiation risk now professor the company reportedly had up to twenty tons of and hydros ammonia on his side could you tell us a more about the substance and what the risks poses. well it's unlikely in my opinion as a chemist and hydrous ammonia would be the cause of this this disaster. and hundreds of monia on its own would not be able to produce the kind of devastation that we hear is occurring over there it seems much more likely to me that like the other monium not great plant explosions in history particularly the one in one hundred twenty one in germany and there was one also in texas in one hundred forty seven is somehow the ammonium nitrate so the fertilizer material that was produced by this long to explode it now is quite easy to detonate ammonium nitrate in fact

ammonium nitrate was used in the war as i am a tall as a as a war explosive and ammonium nitrate is a constituent of many explosives now so i do it for the photo to start off with i don't i don't think that this was caused by an ammonia by iran harder simonyan ammonia tank exploding although probably that would have exploded when when the main explosion took place so so i don't think it was caused by an hardness of mine a tank exploding but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respected tree irritant and it would cause lots of serious response to treat drug problems but then of course it's also produced when ammonium nitrate itself is heated up so if you heat ammonia nitrate to about three hundred fifty degrees it dissociates into ammonia and not discuss it and so these two things would be quite toxic fumes or anybody inhaling them now the texas commission on you by mental quality investigated the west fertilizer plant back in two thousand and six over

the concerns of ammonia on site does this tragedy represent any kind of regularity of failure from the side and from the environmentalists themselves. well of course they would have to store ammonia on the site since i'm running and making ammonium nitrate for that and that's what the fertilizer plant does and it may be that the environmental protection people were concerned about the possibility that these ammonia tanks were not safe and could themselves leak or explode. and that of course in itself would have been a has a just business because it would have affected people i mean as i said before nine years there is quite toxic it does affect the heart but it's an acute toxicity but as i say i don't think that that that i don't think that that could be the cause of the level of explosive force that we've seen here i mean something very much larger has happened here and to my mind the only thing that possibly could have happened is that ammonium nitrate the product itself exploded and as i said

a minute not to as a well known explosive professor christopher was by from the european a company of radiation risk i'd like to have more time with you but i'm running out of time thank you ride the explosions timing is reminding some people of america's most plying men to human tragedies made april has seen bomb attacks a chemical plant exposures and sieges arches john thomas looks back over events which have caused a dull cloud over america's spring. let's look at the eerie timing of this you have the waco siege which ended on april nineteenth seventy four people killed in a very significant very big fire reminiscent of the images that we're seeing seeing that was the culmination of a fifty day standoff between a.t.f. agents and the branch davidian david koresh he set the complex on fire killing himself and these seventy three others to end of that that was twenty years ago almost to the day one day shy of that then two years later so eighteen years ago in

oklahoma city bombing the federal building the murrayfield are building there also happened on this date and kind of eerie as well the sixty sixth anniversary exactly to the day of the texas city texas fire and explosion which killed twelve hundred people that was at eight months santo chemical plant that was in a town very near to houston so very significant timing and very eerie as well when it comes to the day. online team have been closely following the tragedies since the beginning lining up footage from eyewitnesses gauging twitter reaction and pictures of from the scene had to come to keep across as developments minute by minute. with more reaction to the taxes in a couple of minutes plus when we come back the letters that lays with the toxic ricin the which was sent to president obama and to all the officials just the

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america international airport in the very heart of moscow. you're back with us here on r.g.p. the explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of west texas could have killed up to fifteen people and if these one hundred sixty have been injured there are fears that the number of killed could be much higher buildings around to the bloss area have been reduced to rubble some homes have been leveled and witnesses say the explosion felt like a bomb went off it registered as

a two point one two point one in seismic medically achieved emergency services say ammonia may have caused the explosion the town was evacuated amid fears of possible further explosions of a leak of toxic gas firefighters say they have the blaze under control many of the injured are mainly suffered cuts broken bones and injuries associated with flying debris. by strong winds in the area are causing concern that toxic are more near midnight trade fumes could spread across the area risking the health of thousands of people dr john price a joins us now a professor of mechanical engineering in australia dr what kind of contamination issues could the texas town be forced to deal with given the nature of the chemicals in the explosion. the risk do you. actually know the poisons remain in. water. and

darkseid so it's a market they're doing. so so why were the authorities very worried about evacuating everybody if if there were if it wasn't a concern for them. well i was sure that you had with them before the explosion that's what i think. this is the nightmare of. ok i'll read the thing. ok all right sorry that what went with me safety concerns out when he came to building such a plant me a large residential areas and particularly if they're using it working with chemicals harmful and i asked what the question is the ammonium nitrate now the quantities of money are not traits exploded during the. event and so better i would say somewhere in the order of one hundred times over money and not try to explode it which means that it was being stored in the next local on the side of the time

and the result of that explosion his name of course ripped through that town with a very strong pressure holes which has. damaged many buildings. all right and dr i just want to tell our viewers right now that what they're looking at now while you were speaking is live pictures up from that site. those are the latest pictures that we have of the site with the mushroom cloud the from that plant how long could it take a community this small to recover from an explosion like this whether it would take some time actually i was hoping to talk to you about the actual revere that somebody took from or sucked let's go out of the let's talk about that let's talk about that because we did we did see a little bit of better talk to me about that what were your feelings when you saw that. we see a people who watch in the trial from a distance of about

a kilometer away from the plant and the fire is very large at that stage and what happens is that the fog then goes underneath the only one of the among the i'm not trade storage vessels and eventually heats it up and sort of explodes it takes about a half an hour to an hour for a file to explode and then money i'm not a trade storage vessel so this is this is want has happened is the fire has gone out of control them basically heated up the best of what seems to me to be wrong about this whole incident and is that they didn't instead of evacuating the plant when the foster and they couldn't control it they seem to have been brought up more and more. people and if they pay them putting them at risk than are done it sounds a lot of defense among far to go all right had talked to john price professor of mechanical engineering thank you very much for your time on the story.

the explosion in texas came soon after two of the events that shocked america the boston marathon bomb blasts and also a mail poisonings letters laced with the deadly poison ricin was sent to president obama and two other officials the packages were intercepted by the authorities and a man has been arrested in mississippi in connection with the case police say the suspect is well known as if we can lead to right it'll make this incident has brought on welcome echoes of the post nine eleven attacks which killed several people so well government offices across the u.s. have been logged on to other suspicious packages. as to details what we know so far and what the f.b.i. and secret service has disclosed is that a letter addressed to president barack obama contained a substance. that is considered

a poisonous substance that according to preliminary tests the letter that was addressed to him. was opened intercepted on tuesday it included that poisonous toxin some would argue that all these increased levels of security and encroaching on civil liberties which critics say the u.s. does has been a waste of money we should also remember that when u.s. president barack obama addressed the nation and finally called boston marathon bombings a terrorist attack he said he doesn't know who is behind the attacks and why they would they would execute such an attack by a suspect in a perpetrator will be brought to justice what that indicates is the fact that the united states at this point can't pinpoint an enemy it's not like how it was in the aftermath of the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks there is no all summer bin ladin anymore that u.s.

officials point of finger at and be true. on september eleventh and now the u.s. has waged two very long wars also participated in military interventions and many experts would argue has created many many enemies all over the world so now at this point the u.s. can't pinpoint its enemy they do not know if the person or people behind the boston marathon bombings is someone that is located domestically is someone that's working with of foreign organization they do not know and i think that puts many would argue that that puts the united states at a major disadvantage. more news from me in about thirty minutes time that's all for the latest keyser reports.

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