with a route recovering from tuesday's devastating explosion lebanon's already severe economic crisis is now being aggravated by food supply and housing shortages and with rescue teams still searching for people under the rubble we speak to a nurse for save the newborns minutes after the blast. the time she needed me to intensive care units the problem the rubble is when i started to leave them songs of the unions i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed under the rubble. also this hour whoever wins the next us presidential election the country's national counter intelligence and security center already knows whose fault it will be either russia or china and going underground the stress of the difficult choice facing american voters with lost her and political activists cornell west. doors are. just mass incarceration

system. which we need to deal. with disasters. and social media giants go on a purge of accounts promoting the approach anti elites conspiracy theory and a move critics say will only bolster its supporters by confirming their fears. they're watching our 2 international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. we start with lebanon whose capital beirut is trying to get back on its feet after the devastating explosion there on tuesday the number of people killed in the massive blast has risen to 154 with thousands more injured search and rescue teams are still clear. in rubble in the hopes of

finding survivors where scores of people still missing the explosions shockwave wreaked havoc across the city to certain buildings businesses and homes the un has warned of a humanitarian crisis for 300000 people in need of aid and shelter charges as donna reports from the debris field streets of beirut. this bus station used to be one of the routes main public transport hubs it was far from an anonymous depo know thousands of people used to travel all around the country before the coronavirus. amid all havoc you can still pinpoint the telltale signs of people's panic over their rush to leave the area as they were caught up on the bluster there are

documents left behind on car seats there are luggage bags all over the place and in cars with everything still inside hence the heavy army presence we had to get through a number of military checkpoints on the way here they are holding off marauders and looters but as people ran hundreds of thousands found out they may have no longer a place to call home the son who lives a few 100 meters from the pool it felt something was wrong be food the main lost the house says it's never going. to send. me here that. work or the u.s. for war only if they're serious i was not good enough. for me because these guns are covers up. there of all. our influence he said over. the civil. war there want you have no gas now in oregon. nothing

nothing at all was over the head coming this was a girl because this is for older son and his wife with no means to mend their apartment by themselves are telling me they are ready to leave the ruins of no help comes and they among the lucky ones the actually have someplace else to strive for a better life lebanon already home to syrian and palestinian refugee camps now may need a camp for its own people with over 300000 displaced by the blast because donna from beirut in lebanon. for some locals the day was meant to be a big event for a very different reason here's the moment a wedding photo shoot was suddenly turned to chaos. with. the world health organization is warning that beirut's health care system has been badly compromised it was

already under severe pressure from the coast in $1000.00 pandemic and on top of that the destructive explosion on tuesday but 3 hospitals out of action medics are working around the clock to save the lives of those seriously injured in the tragedy here's one heroic nurse a story. i know that when the explosion went off the ground shook beneath us the blast told me into another room i opened my eyes and found myself covered in rubble i found my colleagues and friends line here on the ground covered in blood. in the neonatal intensive care units in the covered in rubble as well i started

pulling me to go in salt of the units i was terrified because i thought the babies might be crushed under the rubble of the fingo they were ok then i to come to this corridor and down nights of state. i carried the babies and i was determined to take them to now the hospital the only way less than 2 kilograms they had nothing on them except dying people in the street give me the t. shirts and clothes so i could refuse to simply continue the constant value on t.v. . i was holding the 3 babies and i didn't know if i was going to be able to rescue them moments of the times counting the heads on my chest to make sure they were still there. despite the tragedy there will be

a protest later on saturday calling on the current government to step down demonstrators say it's government incompetence that led to the deadly disaster meanwhile the lebanese president says the probe into the blast is looking at external interference as a possible cause at the same time the leader of the lebanese political and military group hezbollah has made his 1st public appearance since the explosion rejecting accusations of the group's involvement. but this was the bomb was it an accident or was something launched deliberately no one knows but local an arab media as well as people on social media started talking for knowing anything directly about what happened he only wanted to highlight of this was the fault of hezbollah and pass the message to beirut and all the lebanese people we respect public opinion and i can declare that we had nothing to do with this love and our struggle was not at all eluding and this is interesting the more that 11 on this once again full of all

kind of conspiracy serious and fortunately and see all kind of claims and we'll accept or which i don't share at all because. there are there is no reasoning at all why there that that there should be and or meant so it is it's very interesting that it's serious speech rejecting i would see even silencing does kinds of rumors and conspiracies this is a good sign. no matter who wins the next american presidential election the u.s. national counter intelligence and security center apparently knows already which external actor is to blame if trump wins think the russians if biden the chinese or the iranians or both play the statement by the center's director says there are many foreign actors that quote have a preference over the election results it tells us motors that china views trump as

unpredictable and doesn't want him to win as for russia it's using a range of measures against joe biden and iran could undermine american democracy donald trump so house's own views on the matter. i think that the last person russia wants to see in office is donald trump because nobody's been tougher on russia than i have ever the last thing that russia wants and china wants and iran wants would be free don't jump to an. to unpack that we're now joined live by journalist and author daniel laws are now the u.s. intelligence has singled out china iran and russia as foreign actors with a vested interests in the outcome of november's vote do you think that list is exhaustive. of course not i mean every country in the outcome of november is vote written france italy australia etc etc it's ridiculous it's a reductio ad absurdum. of course russia and china have their

preferences no doubt about it but their effort to any attempt by them to influence u.s. public opinion is. significant i mean the u.s. is filled with corporate media pumping out up propaganda at top volume around the clock the the the russians chinese and the rain ians can barely get a word meche was. how convinced are you by the case put forward that china iran and russia pose a threat to the democratic process in the us that i'm completely unconvinced it's ridiculous the threat of the democratic process in the us is entirely internal american democracy itself collapsing no one knows what the i don't remember elections will bring they may bring fighting in the streets lawsuits chaos no one knows but this is not the fault of russia or iran or china or britain

france or israel it's entirely 'd of america's own doing the political structure here is just disintegrating whatever the outcome and november the result is going to be divisive do you anticipate a repeat of 2016 when everything was blamed on alleged outside interference yes yes definitely i mean. both sides setting themselves up for this the republicans who are accusing the democrats of cheating trump is already doing that through the misuse of mail ballots and the democrats are repairing to blame it from fiction way on russia so i so both sides are now as down now building up their excuses and case they lose to blame it on the other person it's a recipe for disaster this wide that could very easily be some kind of political meltdown in november it's this latest report comes just days after the state

department issued a report on an alleged russian propaganda campaign is the timing of that a coincidence. it's hard it's hard to say i mean there are all kinds of strange elements at work in the american beer ocracy some trying to undermine tromp some trying to strengthen tribe it's very hard to know but the point is that they're they're able to pull these charges out of their hat they have no evidence because there is no evidence there's no indication of any kind of major russian interference and us electoral processes. so politics as usual we've been speaking with daniel is our journalist and author of think you for your time my pleasure going underground talk to american philosopher and political activist cornel west about the upcoming election and also the rise of the b.l.m. movement here's a preview of that interview. i've

got to say angela davis on this show endorsed endorsed joe biden in the member norm chomsky is endorsed joe biden do you think that joe biden will save us from another nuclear conflagration as we commemorate the dead of hiroshima. do group one of the . biggest. were of course now we. were russia and china 30. 30 we've got $4800.00 military units in the whole world including the united states are they more important to legacy is one in which we have to take very seriously the relation between the body and all of militarism at home and abroad i can never get divorced an architect of the largest mass incarceration system in the modern world that will target poor people disproportionate black at brown poor people i had a choice between

a deal liberal disaster or the o. s. task i would go to the older would disaster that so bite me americans a say in pie is a spiteful impact it's a most unpleasant and by number one what human being on the inside we've got some movement on the inside we've got a magnificent courageous and visionary citizen on the inside but we are losing. we were losing we were resisting but we're still losing the green the hatred wall street. is they are in control of the empire and they are all what is different about these uprisings this is what's in los angeles in 165 and before and after the beautiful thing is that you have. coming together and making the connection between not just police our police murder but the tweet police least murder wall street car wall street crime and to gun power and then to gun crimes once you make those connections connect to the more loose change make them up the

mix may develop big make the family look rabbi abraham joshua heschel as able to make. greatest intellectual alone with no chomsky and been making for most of his intellectual life once every day people begin to make those connections then we're on to something those can actually be make more now than they were before. if you want to watch the full upset about programming you can catch it later here on r.t. . facebook has become the latest social media platform to crack down on q. anon conspiracy content after deleting a group with some 200000 members for violating the platforms guidelines believers of the fringe far right conspiracy theory have been voicing their support for trump ahead of november's election but as donna quarter explains the movement has only grown despite being stabbed by the political and media elite. in the world of q.

and a not labeled by the us government as one of the most dangerous conspiracy theories of all time humanity is at war and president trump is here to save it he went on which essentially believes the entirety of the democratic party are conspiring and running an underground pedophile sex trafficking ring pacifically what cua not is a fringe. in which many baseless conspiracy theories are discussed on the internet the synergy of interest in q one comes as the u.s. skews a predilection a few years ago it was a fringe theory and tomorrow the headlines will be massive protests a few is a bunch of people there on the inside to the good guys and they know the real story what's going on and it's all about in the deep state it's not in the spirit of act donald trump was picked by military leaders to run for president as

a way to kind of bring down the deep state it's still on the f.b.i.'s list of domestic terror threats but as of late it's been entering into the mainstream even made an appearance on america's most watched television network q. can do some crazy stuff with the pizza stuff and the way for stuff but they've also uncovered a lot of great stuff when it comes to epstein and it comes with a deep state 2020 has been a year like no other and one big events happen people look for explanations so it should come as little surprise that politicians are looking to capitalize on that sentiment around 70 former and current congressional candidates have already given their public approval would you consider yourself a follower of q. and on what does that mean. well i think what we need to recognize and actually most people do know a lot about it is that there is a deep state that exists it's not clear whether these people really believe in killing on or they're just trying to win some political points but whatever the case queuing on has some seriously high profile supporters and the media is raising

the alarm over it but for many q. a non's rise in popularity is the result of that media went on is this just in a mall the mace you know all of the greatest conspiracy theories thrown into one big elite i've only been actively posting it say for the past couple of months but the response is insane constantly focusing airtime on attacking the president could very well have pushed trump supporters to more radical ideas in a ministration defined by ignorance of the world so that's partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience you know the credulous boomer rube demo that backs total troll combined that with the violence many people are facing in the us and you have yourself a very alienating situation if you have a group of people who say that there are insidious forces working against in them to keep the word of trump from being disseminated and their band yes that fuel that that shows them you're right when you

are being overwhelmed right now by everything that is so not just left wing but radically left wing the only response that people can have the only rational response that many many people can add to that is a pendulum swing to the right which might be which might lead to a some case an over exuberant. too robust embrace of war law and order and rules and regulations in policing and that may be fine for some people. but the point must be made that you are going to be encouraging people and recruiting more americans or more voters to take on positions that a few years ago they might not positions that many many people today would be considering right away or even ultra right or fringe right whatever that means.

schoolchildren are often told that unlike sticks and stones words will never hurt them but a 9 year old girl in germany has been punished by her teachers for speaking her native turkish on the playground her parents are now planning to sue the school or your correspondent peter over a story there's a row brewing in southwest germany over the languages spoken in school it's after a 9 year old girl was given this punishment essay to write to speak turkish the children speak german school in germany a definition language is german you want us to speak german the schools are german if we speak turkish the children won't understand us we're not allowed to speak our mother tongue so we can speak german that's all i know the local school authority told r.t. that the german only policy is in place so that everyone students and teachers all speak a common language 43 percent of children are from migrant backgrounds so it's important

for everyone to speak the same language so the school can fulfill its educational mission the rule we all speak german is also part of the class rules a school which drawn up jointly by all pupils and explained at parents' evenings it was agreed that in the event of a violation of this rule an essay on the topic why we speak german at school must be written that's not good enough for the family all their lawyer who says that this rule targets the turkish language in particular it was didn't we. the school break the soaking 1st sample through an english or 2 in french for food chinese perfume let them i cannot believe that the teacher would say oh this is probably didn't happen you don't do this i think every teacher would say and show this person as an example or a good teaching and good knowledge the family will want to know if there was an

equal treatment or that child you cannot forbid to talk in your mother tongue you know and this of course affects all of your personality or your identity and also perfect the human rights of the german constitutional law there was not such a general rule to solve only in a german language in the school building and also this issue which happened was. one by one situation between 2 students were still fish origin and in such a situation i think it was not lawful to give. well it's. also.

a little loose. the next logical step if they don't. respond well look this. group called the legal action underlying this situation leaves everything in a very messy place stuck between a german schools insistence on it being spoken and respect for the languages of the many different groups that make up germany peter all over altie early in. the chinese video sharing out tick tock says it's shocked by recent us sanctions and is considering going to court for donald trump issued to executive orders banning all transactions with the owners of tick tock and we chant from next month earlier the president threatened to ban tick tocks u.s. operation unless it was sold to an american company r.t. america has been bused looks into the conflict by banning. major competent consequences for companies u.s.

companies especially apple even though apple is not owned by ten's and but apple will be the most affected because if we chat is removed from the apple app store no chinese citizen will be buy another apple i phone because we care is integral to everyday lifestyle of virtually everybody in china and ironically as apple sales decline the biggest winner and biggest benefactor would actually be while a the chinese saying they want to be fair if so goody goody let's be fair they can open up their market to c.n.n. b.b.c. washington post new york times wall street journal and i could go on they're not they don't allow us to use skype and they don't allow google search so let's go back and say you want to be fair this is how we can be fair and christie made a very good point about the fact that the irony of it is actually while weigh them will become stronger in china. but the thing is it's the chinese also that are scared the chinese a so scared that's why they banned even facebook on top of all the things i mentioned so what's important here so look at fairness the chinese have never been

fair that's not my personal opinion that's just the simple fact they can open up their markets and open up ours i think was one of the 1st presidents to actually say wait a 2nd we're not going to do this here if we can't do that there that's what he's been saying whether it's the e.u. or whether it's china let's be fair open up china and that's a different discussion but they're not going to do that this ban is coming from the same place as the ban on the hallway it's a place of fear that the u.s. is no longer the global dominant tech innovate of the world the u.s. has led tech innovation for the last couple of decades but recently ever since the rise of the rise of 5 g. that threaten the u.s. its dominance on communications with the rise of tik tok that there in the u.s. is dominance and social media and eroded on its influence and finally we chat in the us as dominance in the area of digital payments and then tech so everybody knows that the future is tech and whoever dominates tech will be the next superpower.

to india now where officials confirmed that 200 people were killed when a passenger plane skidded off the runway as it tried to land in the southern state of corolla more than 150 people were injured among the dead are both the pilots the air india express jet was returning from dubai and it was carrying 190 passengers home after they were left stranded overseas by the crowbars and. the boeing $737.00 broken into pieces after leaving the runway at high speed officials suspect the tragedy was caused by heavy rain and all of this ability though a full investigation has yet to be carried out in his prime minister house and his condolences to the families of the victims. the russian city of. a 5th consecutive weekend of uncertain protests. in support of its acts governor local authorities say almost 3000 people have taken to the streets sunday from golf regions former head was detained over accusations he ordered contract killings in

the mid 2000 he denies all the accusations. arrests has led to mass protests his supporters demand an open trial and are also wanting moscow to stay out of local affairs. the family of a russian girl suffering from a rare disease is struggling to help her because of the pandemic she was supposed to start her treatment in april however at the last minute the medicine became unavailable as international flights have been canceled now though the health ministry says it might be possible to arrange a special flight on tuesday to bring the drug into russia. the moment a sauna has already undergone 2 operations to remove the tumor and 2 rounds of camera therapy the growth of the 2 mobile stopped but was not completely removed.

or she raised 1000000 rubles in record time the whole region took part in the collection in april she was ready for hospitalization she was expected at a federal clinic for therapy. due to the lock down it was impossible to deliver the drug and it is still impossible because there are no flights. that's off of this hour news wires but if you're looking for more head on over to our website r.t.

dot com thanks for telling us. in august 1 9452 atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki and. to this day opinion remains divided as to the real reason behind america's decision to use nuclear weapons with no possible military justification for dropping a bomb i have no question that there were those in the us military who pursued the next instant so during the planning in october of 1945 had chosen 20 targets in russia in the 70 years since the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki

countless books and films have off the many just of occasions for and arguments against dropping the avons however declassified documents give weight to the arguments that the bombs were dropped not so it's a military necessity to intimidate the soviet union. the 1st ever atomic bomb to be used in war.