forces dropped the atom bomb in the final days of world war 23 days later the city of mega sakhi was also devastated by a similar attack will stay with these live pictures will bring in one of our correspondents in the region mcbride saurabh clearly a moment to pause a moment to reflect. absolutely it's a very poignant commemoration it is commemorated every year but obviously being the 75th anniversary this is one of those very important anniversaries as you mentioned there the some of the survivors the hypocrite as they are known in hiroshima and also in neighboring i guess sakhi they are in attendance but their numbers dwindle through the years and this is probably going to be one of the last last anniversaries where we will see a large turnout by these 1st generation survivors even if they were children at the time that the bomb was dropped they would now be in their eighty's and ninety's as you mentioned there because of the covert 19 outbreak precautions are in place to safe safeguard their well being and health and so on but we have just had the one minute silence that was held

as sunday survivors and dignitaries are marking 75 years since the atom bomb was dropped on august sakhi in japan it's a scaled back ceremony because of k. coated 19 about 74000 people were killed after u.s. forces dropped a bomb in the final stages of world war 2 the attack came 3 days after the 1st atomic bomb exploded over the city of hiroshima. more issues has declared a state of environmental emergency after a japanese own ship began spilling tons of oil the islands appealing for help from france but a volunteer cleanup operation is already underway and only saw reports aerial and satellite photos show the extent of the oil spill off the southeastern coast of. the japanese owned ball carrier workers she all ran aground late last month and began leaking its $4000.00 tons of fuel into the indian ocean or 20 crew were taken ashore but rough seas hampered attempts to stabilize the ship and pump the fuel off after declaring a state of environmental emergency prime minister pravin jacques not appealed for help from france he says islanders don't have the expertise to clean up the spill pr