rahsaan solomon with the latest for us from beirut thank you very much and stay safe bellaver is getting ready to hold its most hotly contested presidential election in years and there are clear signs the government is seeking to hush up the media rights groups say several reporters have been arrested including freelance journalist alexander who are calls the reports for de de w. he's been sentenced to 10 days in prison meaning he'll be able to cover the election president alexander lukashenko is facing a wave of dissent over his dismissal of the covert $1000.00 pandemic and his human rights record. in india at least 18 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a passenger plane skidded off the runway in the southern city of korea code the air india express flight was from dubai was carrying one $190.00 passengers and crew heavy monsoon rain appears to have played a part in the crash. at the bottom of this 10 made to drop a passenger plane turned graveyard these are the remains of the boeing 737800 that skidded off the runway nose dived and split into 2. the pilot tried hard to l

our correspondent rahsaan solomon is in beirut and joins us now for us and give us a sense of just how destructive this explosion was. yesterday yesterday we were moving it around to watch take the aftermath to cover the aftermath of excuses that took place on tuesday and it's really tragic. i couldn't. see areas of the city i grew up in. a west bank shop in chalk and landmarks and they. would i think that they didn't they know more than 300000 teeth and they lost their home their home to where do you intend this. and this is in this in through at 135 people dead and. more than 5000 people in insurance and and people were still in shock until yesterday. well what happened what we do know is that fertilizer ammonia nitrate chemicals exploded but that we know exactly what caused those chemicals to explode. actually to not say we don't know what that reason behind a bush you know it's 1750. 4 stories and we're. invaded and but obviously there are patients who are under half now and the. government because why were they there in the 1st place and they were stored there for. for the past 6