security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse huge crowds gathered in the center of the lebanese capital as protesters that storm several government buildings and calling for justice and accountability to choose days devastating explosion. rescue teams look for people still trapped under rubble the massive pool bus killed 158 and injured more than 6000. kids but. cool.

75 years after the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki by the united states japan marks the anniversary of the tragedy with a minute of silence japanese and americans what they think of the events of 945. terms of. justified i don't know i think it's trying to bully people for the mistakes of history i think the use of the atomic bomb was unacceptable there was no reason to do it. thanks for joining us you're watching here on r.t. international. there's been a tense standoff in the lebanese capital and an outpouring of grief and anger over tuesday's explosion security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds calling for justice.

we went to martyrs square to sort of gallows for those who did this to our country today will hey music. man a single government minister. a police officer was reportedly killed in the class is a large number of people injured over 700 some demonstrators reportedly trying to break through a barrier blocking a street leading to parliament a number of arrests were made oh just as we're demanding the removal of the country's political elite. will civil unrest has intensified following the massive

blast in the port area of beirut the tragedy claimed the lives of at least 158 people thousands more were left injured the city's health system has been overwhelmed by the disaster you must city buildings have been damaged with hundreds of thousands of locals now homeless here's a recap of the week that shook lebanon. no not all of a sudden we felt a boom everything turned over our hands but i turned around and i was he by something in my right hand people screaming kids screaming but if i saw it and i saw. the devastation here in the lebanese capital is very massive the blast was felt at 10 kilometers away from the border where it took

place i believe this is going to be a sleepless night for the lebanese and a very sad 9. 11 is army and fire fighters have been still trying to put off the fire which is still until today burning through the remains of the warehouses rescue workers are still trying to take through the rubble to find the remainder or the the missing individuals that they are allowed to clear to fight.

as russian rescuers are getting down to well what they have been flown in here for i want you to just look around and let something sink in about the sheer and ultimate demolition power. behind this explosion we are in the very epicenter as close's villian can get and this is the very 1st site where russian rescue is searching for survivors. amid all have occurred you can still pinpoint the telltale signs of people's panic of their rush to leave the area as they were caught up in the bluster but as people ran hundreds of thousands found out they may have no longer

a place to call home the last place is. going to be because he's going to start up the side. there of all our influence he said liverpool to the war. in iraq 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. while we are standing on the doorstep of martyrs square as you can see behind me the ambulances are still rushing in and out now these demonstrators to express their dismay over what they say is poor handling of the lebanese government of the aftermath of tuesday's a explosion. they

say they are going to stay here until their demands are met also at the same time you know that. in the district of a sheffield east of badal protesters have managed to storm into the foreign ministry. we are coming back open so far would you call this building belongs to the people of. hunger protesters has turned up at least one ministry is this ill addition to torching a number of buildings. seems like the last became the final the straw that broke the camel's back if i may say so and it seems like all the all the work that the volunteers had previously done yesterday the day

before yesterday it has to be undone by today's action we had time to speak with them are angry very sad we lost the country we lost beirut we have people. who didn't find out we have family members we don't know anything about the people will daily go back to the streets they will daily ask for the justice we need the justice they do doesn't deserve this and we would if you is what happened to us. loving 100 have been going through its worst financial crisis for years inflation is soaring and almost half the population lives below the poverty line about a 3rd of the potential workforce is an employed mass protests against corruption and the dire state of the economy have been sweeping the country since october the blast that destroyed the country's main port is only aggravated the situation on saturday demonstrators put a gallows in a location where people were hanged more than 100 years ago under the ottoman

empire protesters brace cardboard cutouts with ropes around their necks depicting lebanon's prime minister and hezbollah's leader as well as other officials in response to the surge and civil unrest prime minister has called for an early election he says corruption was to blame for tuesday's tragedy little analyst and international relations professor jamal wakim gave us their thoughts on what is happening to the country. there are some pretty sights ations or young people. think this amounts from going through the states watch a group that's thirst or as you need is right how you how is this really just for a show me the nation and it has to change from our fortunately lebanese politics couldn't have found the solution there are too many of these are. there is genuine and good by the people who are disappointed by the.

economic crisis in the country almost a year ago we need. really not just to go to the break that there are others but. to capitalize on. this point of view where the former government and there are a partially responsible for the economy. that. in addition they are all prompted by the united states escalate the lebanon as. i salute. lebanon isn't the only middle eastern country gripped by public unrest some 15000 people took to the streets of jerusalem on saturday they gathered outside the residence of the israeli prime minister denouncing corruption and the government's handling of the pandemic.

after midnight police ordered the demonstrators to return home forcibly removing those who refused to leave and netanyahu is facing charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust denies any wrongdoing the same time unemployment has sought as a result of coronavirus restrictions. it's been 75 years since the us dropped the atomic bomb on the japanese city of nagasaki it comes just days after the bombing of hiroshima on august 6th 2 attacks led to some $200000.00 civilian deaths people continued to die years after the tragedy because of severe burns radiation sickness and other injuries.

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me. moral events have been scaled back this year because of the pandemic but small survey still took place in both cities affected by the tragedy during commemorations japan's prime minister was joined by the few surviving witnesses of the attacks they marked the blasts with a minute of silence. he states in japan the forever linked by the tragedy is what people in new york and hiroshima say about the events of 945. take a drastic measure i like to say i feel like i haven't learned much about. against the us. japan has just. been the consequence of more

positive results are people like from harbor maybe pearl harbor had something to do with the us response to coral arbor. where. fixing our own terms of. it's justified i don't know i think it's tough to blame people for the mistakes of history. something like that catastrophic should go like an apology were like but i'm pretty sure i'm looking for reparations i'm native american the figure won't get any there's not going to happen it's not going to happen but it dip nice. i thought you were when my mother was 7 months pregnant with me the atomic bomb was dropped my cousin was also an atomic bomb survivor and died of leukemia after 75 years i'm still very sorry for those who died i didn't. know you when i think the use of the

atomic bomb was unacceptable there was no reason to do it the military situation was utterly hopeless for japan perhaps it wouldn't have taken much longer for the water end would have been over without the bombings and the war between japan and the us it's a shame the us hasn't apologized to japan for the bombings. it's very important to see it out loud to emphasize what the real purpose of the hiroshima bomb what if we keep silent the propaganda war when. the ties between the us and japan are now strong there are strains the latest coronavirus spike in okinawa where the us has military bases and get japanese officials and us steel tariffs and the white house's withdrawal from the trans-pacific partnership also haven't helped the situation. but the atomic bomb didn't just change the political landscape also the cultural want to ask it taylor looks at how the deadly blasts

help to form the pop culture we consume on a day to day basis. there are moments in history as a memory so powerful they have shaped our culture tragic but defining all the mushroom clouds billowing over the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. for decades us suppressed almost all footage it was only in the 1980s that color images sought by the us military posture be released to this day the material has never been shown in its entirety.

but out of the unimaginable suffering roy who's a new pop culture in america the devastating release of radioactive particles change the country's take on comic books and superheroes spite of the fantastic fool the incredible hulk all derived from exposure to radiation. we've never seen anything even close to your levels of exposure you find an event like. a superhero we smell better than ever it's the old regional series i don't believe in the us atomic power was mostly about heroism and influence but japan how different take associations were instead made with destruction and mutation take a nuclear mutant rampaging through the streets of tokyo to city chaos a kind of crisis powerless before it.

but. as relations between countries change so to do the movies to follow in king kong could sell an epic battle between the japanese and us pop culture icons atop mount fuji is defeated tell. it around $10000000.00 what to watch that film in japan and it remains the most watched in the cuts in the series to date but turned out japan had a knack for shaping our childhoods from penn come on to hello kitty in a root and they were as much hits a brought out so. i couldn't get enough of them it didn't matter if i could see the wires and the seams in the costumes and the least moving when the words didn't it was so fanciful and imaginative it was japan was at the forefront pop culture and technology from the nintendo game console to the last possible cassette by sony it's mainly the kids of america saying this is great we've got to have one for boys

in this country between the ages of $8.15 not having an intent is like not having a baseball bat japan continues to successfully export its pop culture like minder and animate some say that creates a sort of outlet for nothing is from the anxieties that paid trip that's why events back in 1905 but teenagers in the u.s. who consumed the poverty and colorful characters and stories don't see this fantasy is being created to escape from the darkness of tragedy. thousands of nurses in the u.k. take to the streets to protest being snubbed as the public sector workers get a rise in that story under this this break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic developments only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down

and. welcome back thousands of health care workers have rallied across the u.k. they're demanding the pay rise and recognition for their work during the covert $900.00 and make national service stuffed feel snubbed after the government announced last week that $900000.00 public sector workers will get salary hikes the measure meant to reward workers on the front lines of the fight against covert 19 but it did not include the majority of n.h.s. stuff is a separate deal with already been negotiated 2 years ago we spoke to some medical professionals at the march in london. ever since we've had in may depend on me and we've had these incredible time with people dying struggling we've been separate from our families we just want some recognition for what we actually did and what we feel like we deserve over the last 1015 years. it wasn't too long ago that we

were talking about. surviving on charitable donations and food trying to have a stop just because it came in just pretty crap we deserve back a professionally at home and i have to serve better and that was what stage that was really me to find out that 900000 public sector workers to get. this i think it's just appalling if we spent a good not going to be about like when i was doing. the job he's more like his new movie and we're not allowed to fly and this is moving and they know it is you know we have to fight because nobody out over literally no one else is going to. use a spoke with an. bennett who says morale among health care workers to set a new low. at the moment myself being on the front line we are actually put in our lives at risk to save the country however we've been left out

of this pay rise and it's absolutely diabolical really makes us know that we are not valued nobody's valuing us every day we get out we go and work with patients who have copd or potentially have copd we're not given enough equipment we're not given enough protection however our where now being disadvantaged even more because you know you get a pay rise i think is absolutely disgusting it's so bad and monster frontline staff we actually look at amber options in terms of is this what we really want to be doing because we will also have families it's a terrible shame that the government are not recognizing that frontline staff are more disproportionately being affected we've coped with 90 especially black nurses and from ethnic minorities also so that's another issue there's no risk assessment

in place to protect us and now a slap in the face. and the question of health care is playing a central role in this year's u.s. presidential elections as the cope of 19 pandemic ravages the country suffer though president trump signed a coronavirus relief order sparking another wave of criticism from democrats over his handling of the crisis with the u.s. accounting for a quarter of all the world's cases some voters are turning to the president's democratic rival joe biden on the scale of more pain looks at a new online campaign aimed at uniting opposition to trump november's vote. if your man for the white house lacks a little bit of that x. factor and has been playing it safe hiding in his bunker for months then perhaps what you need to spark his bid for the presidency is a catchy slogan something to stir up the emotions of the undecided something to rally the troops how about settle for biden sounds like a job right settle for biden dot org they describe themselves as a grassroots group of former elizabeth warren and bernie sanders supporters who

recognize joe biden's flaws but now our nation will out survive former years of donald trump so maybe it's not the most dynamic of slogans but can you blame those who came up with this when they admit they are not the biggest fans of their candidate they just prefer him over another 4 years of turbulent trump and they think they might be on to winner and there's merchandize who would have ever thought that settle for would be popular campaign terminology introducing the settle for biden teacher this 100 percent cotton t. shirt will let people know that you'll vote for an old out of touch democrat in november but you won't be happy about settle for biden because it could be worse it could be better but could be worse now of course republicans have jumped in on this to make satire but joe biden does not seem to get the joke and most importantly or should. i.

i i'm not sure a loser. now that is unlike all the voters all over twitter seem to be admitting that they are voting for joe biden out of necessity not enthusiasm was running errands in my settled for biden show today walking out of a store a guy said to mate joe biden i shrugged and said yeah i agree and then walked away there was much to argue but he's better than trump get in the loser we're going to enact some middling reforms to quash social unrest well continuing to perpetuate a racist and classist system that disproportionately benefits and protects the wealthy. settle for biden but jokes aside the only thing you need to know about this joe biden campaign is that his own motto seems to go against this very concept this is the united states of america we don't settle we is fire let's get to work

the united states presents itself as the democratic ideals of the world where free and fair elections reflect the popular will however nowadays it seems that voting isn't so much about backing the candidate you want as it is about stopping the one that you don't get worked up and r.t. new york let me rather today don't forget to check out plenty more new stories available on our website on t. dot com. no no crowd. no shots. actually. no. quench your thirst for action.

a short time ago an american airplane. hiroshima. state not going any thing in the middle class and. how until you do know that chin it's. like most americans growing up after the war the bombs were a great thing they ended the war they say hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and that's what my grandfather always said was his reason for the decision. truman was hoping for a dual strategy one was to drop the bombs and hope that japan would surrender and number 2 the americans were trying to send a message to the soviet union there was american poor planning in october 145 chosen 20 targets in russia.

during that year we talk about all those crazy problems out there and then during the summer we deal with solutions that's right so lucian's and today we're going to be talking with all be no sin of coin floor dot dot u.k. . i'll be doing this show day i die and i hope not i hope i don't have to spend my days going to save dogs and you know you can't save mall and then you drive by barnes and you look who on earth is a dog or. sad it's only fair allowed to do this to these dogs.

i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in cages outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow nothing they have no protection yet as soon as we take the dog it's just wants the case you need to see you know wants the affection. to get what you. know it's a. little. kid.