for more of this i'm joined live by michael arnold for the t r t world a research center thanks for being with us here on our team international such an extraordinary circumstance lebanon's interior minister has said that the blast seems to have been caused by 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at the port how could that have been allowed to have been there. yeah i mean that's that's the 1000000 dollar question so to speak i mean there's a lot of conflicting information right now some from the interior ministry have said that it was stored there on route to africa others including prime ministers that it was stored there for 6 years in any case whatever the case may be. the responsible party of course should be held to account the issue here of course is that you know those in the government specially within this new government has an idea which has been in office for the last several months you know there is an attempt to divert attention away from itself by placing the blame on others so for example you had an official from the interior ministry saying that the lebanese people should

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