a devastating fertilizer explosion in texas up to fifteen people are dead and over one hundred sixty wounded the massive blast likened to a nuclear bomb leveled buildings four blocks in every direction questions now being raised over why such a plant was allowed near a school a nursing home and a hospital. in what's become a dark week for the united states in boston images now released which could show the suspect behind the marathon bombings while an envelope laced with toxic rice it is sent to president obama. and no formula one protests in bahrain denounced souldier glamorous race while human rights abuses bout with fresh reports of police firing tear gas and furious demonstrate.

near a mosque of this thursday night one story dominating our coverage tonight with me kevin oh it will bring you the latest developments in the u.s. state of texas where a massive blast has ripped through that fertilizer plant police saying tonight up to fifteen people have been killed and at least one hundred sixty are injured but emergency crews fear as many as seventy may have died. well thank you i think very. terrifying for the people that explosion of a force of a minor earthquake the scientists say destroyed several buildings the ensuing blaze then spread to nearby apartment blocks and the fire at the plant is under control now but several firefighters and a police officer and feed dead officials have shut down the power supply as an evacuation off of the town and concerns that another of the tanker could block

because of the tragedy tonight still picking through all that debris police say they'll be getting investigation once rescue operations are over but so far there's no evidence of foul play. reports now from the scene. the mayor of west texas spoke to was just to confirm some of the disaster that we've seen here sixteen of all had been damaged in this explosion and you're doing both at the moment or close to. it we were in the few minutes here so that the other businesses which also sustained some damage to the windows which were blown out. search and recovery situation we try to get as close to the fed if you can police put in a radius about a mile around which is still considered to be dangerous for people to approach about half of the town of twenty six hundred people have been evacuated so far but

the mayor gave a dire assessment 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 a nuclear blast sixteen other churches ponder's call it you know compared to iraq and one witness who i spoke to earlier this evening said that when he showed up at this. seen. row of houses that were nearer to the fertilizer plant were not even recognize what had been leveled down to pretty much shit the rubble and garbage oh yeah and we had a conversation with the spokesman of the local hospital way patients receiving treatment do you mentioned the casualties as one does to listen to what he had to say i had our facility we are one of two to leave receiving to. the patients 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 the right even broken bones head injuries and a lot of them as bad bad and hydrous ammonia a little ation from the from the fertilizer plant we have had a massive. response from our medical our doctors our nurses are written for therapist and they have been able to freaking released most of the one students who have had the exposure to the to the ammonia we have had twelve admissions of the sixty five patients we've seen there have been law enforcement agencies and first responders coming from throughout the state of texas to respond to this emergency so i can tell you i was there i walked through the blast area a search some houses earlier tonight massive just like iraq just like the murray building in oklahoma city same town and honduras exploded 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 his 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 why. thirty 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 to your boss and all the surrounding areas so we've had a great turnout. to come out to help us get through this tragedy that we've had in this small community well this huge explosion at the texas fertilizer plants highlighted shortcomings in the u.s. system of industrial risk management now the fertilizer plant reported that it only held around twenty four kilograms of an hydrous ammonia far less than the twenty

tons that's believed to ignited here on the report stated to there were no fire explosive risks the worst possible scenario with a visit it was a ten minute release of ammonia gas but without any casualties at this bus shook houses around eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of deaths and injuries as was sadly finding out tonight a washington correspondent says safety at the plant had been questioned before. this fertilizer 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 legend plans 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 a chemical accidents don't happen by having safeguards in place to prevent them according to construction permits submitted in november that year this company west fertilizer valid still need all standards expected for and i addressed ammonia

storage tank said he was one of those tanks that blew up this wednesday night to the bad news is the way that the toxic chemicals that it's spreading around the area many of those who've been hospitalized suffered from ammonia and whole 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 and safely can lead to explosions so we have to assume at this point that it's such a chemical explosion that's how their plant 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 is 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 we'll take a look at the map of the area in a moment but meantime we've been getting scientists views on what could have caused the explosion at this fertilizer plant in texas professor christopher busby from the european committee on radiation risk says the most likely culprit is the highly dangerous compound ammonium nitrate. and hydrous ammonia 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 mono nitrate plant explosions in history particularly the one in nine hundred twenty one in germany and there was one also in texas in one hundred forty seven is that somehow the ammonium nitrate itself the fertilizer material that was produced by this long to explode it now it's quite easy to detonate ammonium nitrate in fact ammonium nitrate was used in the war as am a toll as a as a war explosive and then you nighter is a constituent of many explosives now so i do for the photo to start off with i don't i don't think that this was caused by an ammonia by an harder simonyan ammonia tank exploding although probably that would have exploded. when the main explosion took place but of course ammonia itself is very toxic it's it's it's a respected three irritant and it would cause lots of serious a response retract 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 nitrite acid and so these two things would be quite toxic fumes to anybody inhaling them but are as i say i don't think that that that that i don't think that that could be the cause of the level of explosive force that we have seen here i mean something very much larger has happened here. and i guess those details will come out in the fullness of time scientists christopher busby there this center this chemical factory had been the center of regs re concerns before but he didn't stop of course obviously what happened on wednesday is take a look at where it is there's a map and that's where the plant is that big area there that's the whole lot that went up but you can see the close proximity to the nursing home the hospital the middle school heck you know what it is that in a different type of a day children are playing they're awful even now. it could have been so much worse how come so much for clothes a fertilizer was allowed to be stored there well there are questions to be answered

in the future of course but it's not just there there are many of these plants around the united states making fight to nitrogen phosphate potash there they are look at that some of them in heavily populated areas that's what it's looking like it's a worry no of course for people living nearby those and there's going to be a thought about how this is going to be tightened up maybe in the future let's get some sort of vesta journalist david lindorff. over and over companies get cited for not having these risk plans in place and they get a small fine and then they don't do anything you know they they they maybe go through the motions of having a risk plan but their reality is that it makes absolutely no sense to even have a plant like this in a town but all over especially in the west where you've got fertilizer plants oil refineries and so on they are right in the middle of these small towns with houses all around them and schools and nursing homes the problem is that in the united

states the entire regulatory apparatus that oversees these kinds of safety issues has been captured by industry by corporations through their control of the politicians and through their campaign contributions it's really not a lesson for the authorities it's a lesson for the american people that we've allowed our country to be taken over by corporate interests you simply don't get any regulations and at the local level where you know the state or local level where these permits would be issued as to whether a plant could even be built in a inside of a town they control over the regularities even worse so we centrally have a free for all in the united states for game tourists factories and producers of these kinds of explosive chemicals they can build them anywhere they want and you know right next to a hospital a nursing home a school what have you and there's no control at all so this tragedy in texas has

highlighted risk management failures in the u.s. and raise concerns over aging infrastructure is to say discussed earlier with a new correspondent when point nine. it is no secret that america's crumbling infrastructure is considered the most dangerous domestic circumstance lurking in every corner of the country for many many years the american society of civil engineers has given the u.s. grade d. plus when it comes to its infrastructure and there's many reasons that the first first and foremost is because the u.s. is not investing in fixing its infrastructure its bridges its tunnels its airports its security system environmentalists also are saying that safety inspectors are going in inciting certain facilities such as the one we're seeing in texas with failing grades for not having the appropriate risk management plans in place or not having the right upgraded systems we've seen that massive explosion in texas and of course the recent the boston met boston marathon bombings let's talk

a little bit about that how flaw weigh all in terms of investigating and catching the public trade to open up a trade to all the mess of bombing what federal officials say so far is that they are going in on finding a man who was that they saw in surveillance video that dropped a bag shortly before the bombs ignited that's it's been quite a dark week for the united states you know in texas we see a scenario where looks like a nuclear bomb was was set off and then in boston it was similar to an i.e.d. bomb you know set off or one that you know iraq and afghanistan is quite familiar with scorning to two officials including secret service and the f.b.i. there was a letter that was sent to president obama but it was intercepted on tuesday and letter allegedly had a rice in in it which is poisonous ingredient and in addition to that there's also

been reports that at least two u.s. senators both republicans received a suspected suspicious mail which turned out to be. containing also mail that contained rice and it was tested positive for that rice and that's not something that dissipated clearly by members in washington to happen so quickly after the bombings that took place in boston that claimed the lives of at least three people and left more than one hundred seventy people hospitalized from every corner right now we are seeing a lot of. you know cautious and dangerous things happening to two innocent civilians and going up as high as the president of the united states lots of frightening events that. we're all going to follow both in texas new boston since beginning a lot of footage from eyewitnesses gauging reaction pictures from the scene. to keep cross developments minute by minute. the glamour of the grand prix is coming

to bahrain but repressed does a play to. blood after the break that i've gotten straight as a struggling to draw attention to human rights abuses that. old. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. see.

america international airport in the very heart of moscow. hello get in bahrain protests against this weekend's formula one grand prix have turned violent demonstrators are furious the authorities decision to go ahead with the elite event despite growing complaints of human rights abuses in the country but police responded with tear gas and stun grenades out the protesters threw petrol bombs at the officers say they've arrested six people for blocking roads and

setting colors ablaze activists accuse formula one of ignoring rights abuses as security forces clamp down in the lead up to the event and as wiki leaks founder julian assange told us it out see the international community is turning a blind eye to bahrain. it's disgraceful and the british involvement is even worse . you had formed. by the former organizational teaches calling yob going over to bahrain to help them control the rain in the same way that one of its relation to police. control demonstrations. the united states. could be hated by the united states of course has to do with the u.s. naval base. in. turkey politically bahrainis very close to iran. its close the strait where a lot of oil shipping is done your response to this naval base in order to control this area. and that's all well it's flemington cardassian and these are

the people who will sell their soul to murder the bahraini regime. putting out a tweet after tweet about how wonderful it is raising funds to the she thought it is disgusting these people are disgusting. everyone should know the. similarly with the former one exactly the same thing brain support but you know what to cover up its human rights abuses and its bad reputation there's another way of keeping with things. washington is not yet ready to recognize the results of venezuela's presidential election according to u.s. secretary of state john kerry sunday's polls in the oil rich nation saw the designated hitter of hugo chavez nicolas maduro win by a razor thin majority prompting the large scale rallies across the country both for and against his victory meantime venezuela's supreme court ruled there's no legal basis for a recount which was demanded by a majority opposition rival and the u.s.

the newly elected president also claimed that washington's been trying to destabilize venezuela sociology professor dr william robinson told us this is nothing new when it comes to u.s. tactics in the region this is not a new tactic on the part of washington another type of the. not a new tactic on the part of the new the venezuelan opposition and generally the far right in latin america which aligns with washington the idea is you have an all out these devils and this civilization campaign this is simply another tactic within that campaign there's been diplomatic isolation economic sabotage our military activity the atlantic put it in two thousand and two massive us financing for the internal opposition including for property that is and for the organizations that he represents and so we see this very often when this all the action which is very close and when the united states wants to get rid of the government in this case the. government around an election it will launch violence and trying create chaos and instability and the united states will not recognize the results and this is

the this is an incredible the focus is on the part of u.s. foreign policy because mexico just had elections in which there was massive for it was mexico's of course ally of the united states it's the us immediately work recognizes the results in the north the charges by opposition to this war the result has no moral authority whatsoever to talk about the going to have them elections. in challenging times many turn to the church for solace and support but it britain the growing number of atheists there has led to the creation of an essentially new congregation in which religion is taken out of the equation artist bullyboy because spoke to some of the nonbelievers about what drives them to use the house of god anyway. if you want to britain's growing number of atheists the sunday morning might present itself as an opportunity to just sleep in and relax after all there's no sunday mass to attend well not exactly more and more of london's atheists are waking up on a sunday morning and going to church. thank you i could in.

all of you but there's no talk of saints or sinners him we cause you simply assume that posture will be shallow because you sure. this is why. you want to move out of the world and living better in the sunday assembly sense of the term features singing. dancing. and moralistic tales told by stand up comedians i think that takes off probably takes off because it gets into our very basics of what we need as humans and being welcoming is a really big hearted thing i like me because we don't have the force that has to be handed. out by notions that we're forgetting sometimes to be well since its launch london as have been clamoring to attend with more non wash up as turning up

then can fit into the venue i was leaving the house since you seem to use so lot of there are a lot you know unity trying to get seeds old the old model was nice meeting you ought to show you. that quarter of brits now describe themselves as having no religion and that figure is going up by three courses of a million annually at the same time christianity is losing more than half a million followers a year with trends as they are the number of atheists is set to overtake the number of christians by twenty thirty congregations are getting older and older and i think we're getting now to the stage where the second generation is a people who just never been in a church more and more people are finding that the church here is not relevant and

particular. you really where we have the leaders of churches taking positions on women's rights and on on gay rights which are choke clear variance from what the majority of people in the congregation think but these modern day atheists to still seeking out some sort of spiritual solace we were really shocked at how many people would hear we weren't expecting this number of people and i think it says something about how people feel that if it is easy for you to say to the something i thought you know it be interesting to try to be in a group of people. having a chat about how to live our lives which you don't going to get except in hopes that a meeting at church for a few years first time ago but it did not cross no cross except put it first a cross over here that's the only one it seems all part i think just because you don't believe in god doesn't mean that you don't want to hear really interesting talks to think about improving yourself to sing with others and then to have

a cup of tea with people at the end i mean this is really all the best things about church without the one thing which i'm uncomfortable with which is the religion part fourteen point one million brits now describe themselves as faithless and label that these known washed up as feel comfortable celebrating was. at sea london. just a little after twenty five minutes past eight at night now here in moscow thanks for being with us we'll keep you up to date of course of what's happening in texas throughout the night after that blast of that fertilizer plant there up to date coverage continuing hour by an online at r.t. dot com breaks coming up next after that when we come back because of a poll. wealthy

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