also terrible devastating explosion in a in an industrial area and we've seen similar cases also in toulouse in texas so it's not just developing countries that experiences it happens time and again in different areas fabienne schmidt from d.w. science thank you for your insight. and we can get some more perspective on this story now we have. arabic with us in our studio here a month thank you so much for joining us 1st of all you are from lebanon you have family and friends in beirut is everyone ok we've been trying to figure that out since yesterday since the blast just making sure that everyone we know is safe and sound there are so there's a big number of missing was so i'm not sure how big that number is so obviously there are still people that we know that we don't know if they're still in good situation or not if they're safe if they're still alive even it's been a very tough past 24 hours i would say 20 hours and we're still trying to make sure that everyone we know is ok how about getting through the next days i mean we understand that there was no electricity for example many parts

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toulouse has introduced new rules requiring face mask in its busy streets with paris and other cities travel restrictions are being introduced in australia tonight as the country battles to reduce the number of new coronavirus infections. from midnight, anyone taking a domestic flight from the state of victoria to new south wales will be forced to self—isolate in a hotel for 14 days, at their own expense. it's the latest in a series of new measures to curb a sharp rise in cases in victoria. fifty million face masks bought by the government in april will not be used in the nhs because of safety concerns. the respirators were supplied by the investment company, ayanda capital, and came with ear—loop fastenings rather than head—loops. the government says they may not fit tightly enough. later we'll get an update from the bank of england on how they think the economy will recover after covid—i9. injust underan time, in just under an time, actually. nina's here to explain what we might expect. it is seven o'clock they will come out. i'll be optimistic that the bank of england is optimistic

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well, actually, this all comes from an almost identical explosion that happened in toulouse in the early001, i think it was, and in the uk we had a look around at what we had in the uk and were ammonium nitrate was being stored and how it was being looked after and it was quite alarming here, actually. so quite a bit of work done on how we store it and how much you should store, and how safe it was. and of course, most farms across the uk and across the world use this stuff, just as a fertiliser for their plants. and what conditions does it need to be stored under? there has been a lot of questions about what has happened. in beirut, but how this material was stored. the way this stuff is stored is really important. it sounds to me as if this stuff had been left in a warehouse, which is probably the worst way you could do it. of course, ammonium nitrate on its own is not dangerous. it is only when fuel oil gets added to it and then some kind of ignition, and that's what we saw, it appears, yesterday. so it is really important that you actually know how to store it, you don't store it in

the city of toulouse has introduced new rules requiring face masks to be worn in its busiest streetss are expected to follow suit. further travel restrictions are being introduced in australia as the country tries to reduce the number of new coronavirus infections. from midnight, anyone taking a domestic flight from the state of victoria to new south wales will have to self—isolate in a hotel for 1h days, at their own expense. it's the latest in a series of new measures to curb a sharp rise