A demolished mosque there are fears the construction could rig night religious tension set a simmering flashpoint. On the parts of the u. K. Seeing the rise and covert infections millions of people in Northern England are having to live with tough new restrictions. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us lebanons capital beirut is in utter devastation today after 2 huge explosions they happened at a warehouse where tons of a highly explosive chemical were stored apparently without any Safety Measures at least 100 people were killed and 4000 injured according to the red cross rescue workers are still looking for survivors beneath the rubble it is unclear how many people right now are missing. The sun costs an eerie glow. Overby roots obliterated port. Once a vital artery for imports and home to the countrys wheat and grain stores its now a sea of metal and concrete. Levanon is a nation in mourning among them the staff at this nearby hospital. Because the. It certainly. There are a lot of victims we lost 4 narcism patients visitors many dead and many injured and we have like 200 injured on the scene we face i think. It was a sleepless night at the rest of the citys hospitals overwhelmed doctors treated the engine hallways vital supplies are running low outside agonized families waiting for news of their loved ones many remain unaccounted for. A little of socialism he is 29 years old it was from 7 pm in the evening we have been all over every hospital in beirut and they were waiting for the names to come out and nothing has come out we do not know if he is dead or alive and we do not know when whom a lot of. Questions too as to how thousands of tons of highly explosive fare to lies are Ammonium Nitrate ignited sending shock waves across the capital. The blasters had hundreds of kilometers away in cyprus. Political leaders called for unity while visiting what remains of the port even for a people accustomed to horror the aftermath is unprecedented was applied get after this catastrophe and we have to stay strong we have to stay calm but this is too much for a nation to fight about eilish are. A massive plane up is slowly underway but Officials Say the rebuild could take years. 300000 people have been left homeless the Prime Minister has declared a state of a magic and called on the International Community to provide humanitarian assistance. Lets go right to beirut where he does hes. Standing for by for us thank you for joining us 1st of all can you describe for us your experience what happened yesterday let me say but at my worst this way while the 1st time i see such thing in journalists 20 years i covered for some dejan too many conflicts too many all kind of stories i covered and outside the region the 1st time i did witness such things you suction its unbelievable you dont know how much goes to what happened yesterday. The. Nice people did of 11 and all complete shock everyone is asking what happened why it happened how could it happen. All these questions without any clear on so few moment ago the cabinet start meeting thank you all of us at the beginning of this meeting president the president and michelle on the nation on all the friend countries the arab countries to have it was kind of a may day call as well as the Prime Minister. At the beginning of the same session same Cabinet Meeting also. What captain. Sponsible of what happened yesterday will be responsible to tromp of know and they will be judged but believe me most of the bodies they want to go to use to every single time but if there is an issue that issue. Of corruption or something. Who kind of called option or political issues. The. Accused people are remain unknown. No one go to jail i think this is. An unfortunate bustle were trying to get an idea of the scope of the devastation here and we saw that the governor of beirut said that this is an apocalyptic situation and said as many as 300000 people might be temporarily homeless i mean how are people getting by right now. The minute that many people outside of beijing ask old. Fellow about new citizens who are homeless right now do you go to their homes homes. Every time you need close to toast or home as well as the. Nearby bay who are going to come any time any so theyre trying their best. To manage themselves. If. You cant days. Go. To some sources that wont be sold 2 months before 2 months. One comes off d what all the issues 7 and. Financially economically socially politically all kind of these dramatic collapse. Was total complete damage. Culture collapse so what happened yesterday it was like if thats what you thought you know. Few hours ago former Prime Minister thought how do you try to get to work at this place some some protest knocked its way so some stone some troops brought in troops and hes gone for they said that this time its not for political statements its not for. The same old story again and again and again now its time now its time to put told those who were told what happened people so did last 30 years. They want to see someone. Of course so theres real frustration there in beirut basle and can you give us an idea of how hospitals are coping i mean thousands of people have been injured some severely. The hospital the many could sector in very heart shape i can say that according to what i saw yesterday and what happened. Yesterday until this morning the hospital and then you could check your work. For what happened just before the. Damages and these huge number of injuries and there and lost. People. That you could sector ask people to. To follow up the protocol of coverage. And then make. The number of infected people in lebanon. During the past 10 days. So the American People take all measures. Spend time nic but what happened because they said also according to the medical sector the hospital reached about the. No. And id like to say. Cant accept the. Fact that so what happened yesterday with all the sector. Was overloaded hospitals in beirut was overloaded. And. Too much of the info that the main hospitals are completely damaged one of the hospitals was completely. During the. Day will have to leave it there. In beirut for us thank you so much. And we can get some more perspective on this story now we have amended from 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 weve 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 theres a big number of missing was so im not sure how big that number is so obviously there are still people that we know that we dont know if theyre still in good situation or not if theyre safe if theyre still alive even though its been a very tough past 24 hours i would say 20 hours and were 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 of beirut through the night i mean how are people getting through i mean ironically enough yesterday morning right before the last there was a big protest in front of one of the ministries protesting the lack of power supply in the power supply shortage in beirut city so theres obviously in that electricity crisis and it just adds up to the number of crises that lebanon is struggling with so the focus right now on the ground is for people to have access to it to power supply to water to basic food according to a whats governor almost 250000 lebanese People Living in bay to it became homeless as a few yesterday thats one 4th of the population of this big number a lot of people escaped their home homes yesterday because they did their windows were shattered their doors were broken they escaped to neighboring villages or to their relatives in other cities to spend the night many people spent their night in the street this morning yes this morning one even homeless person on the local broadcast of eternal said im in the street to report to ask him why are you in the streets he said im already homeless and now i cant even stay in the streets so that thats the extent to which the. The situation is devastating in lebanon and people are in dire need of aid we understand that this port is actually really important for supplies as well medical supplies restored there are also huge grain sites silo so how important is it going to be to find another source of getting supplies and aid into the city i mean we can confirm comfortably say that this can be the sole the sole porritt of beirut of lebanon of the whole levanon you know in lebanon we suffer from a very mild functioning of the system obviously and having no good infrastructure is one major component of that of that failed state system so very good ports was the main ports of lebannon not only were. Sections with vital grains and food damaged but also medical supply urgent medicine needed to treat really dark conditions have been contaminated or damaged as a result of the blast so now is the focus on perhaps transfer transforming to put the support north of north of beirut to a kind of a temporary port to receive the aid needed to be its medical supplies or Food Supplies and so on you touched upon this already but lebanon was already in the midst of an economic crisis the coronavirus pandemic what is needed right now to help the country get back on its feet. Its difficult to point it out theres a lot needed obviously 1st of all the focus is on saving people who are still there saving the survivors from the rubbles cleaning the area making sure the injured are being treated there arent even enough hospital beds to treat people people who are being treated in the street last night so i think the main focus at the moment should be on direct relief providing temporary shelters for those who lost their homes treating the injured and so want but the next step is to kind of have a clear policy of how the government is going to deal with this crisis and how can the International Community help here the International Community has been showing support and yes since yesterday already on its way today to lebannon various field hospitals from Different Countries including qatar it on and so on a lot of the western president s have short supports the lebanese people whats needed right now is medical support but also a way to make sure that this health reaches the lebanese population and not to the hands of the corrupt states because thats also the that is the main question of who is responsible for this blast and can discover meant if proved to be responsible for the blast be trusted in solving this crisis thats the main urgent question im a arabic thank you so much for joining us here in a studio. Full amid an economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic as we heard there are real concerns about lebanons ability to recover from this catastrophe chief Political Editor michel akutan i spoke to folk i pad is the director of the German Institute for international and Security Affairs about the possible consequences. Is a part of what was your 1st thought when you heard the news could this potentially push an already unstable lebanon past the brink of becoming a failed state. I guess in the short term thats not serious. Lebanon is already weak but the lebanese people have in the past shown a great capacity go for cooperating in crisis situations and i think they will do so in the mid to long term i think protests against the government the government and some way lebanese government would increase what will be the impact on europe on germany if we see further destabilization through what has happened in lebanon well lebanon is a. Mediterranean neighboring country there are a lot of refugees in lebanon economic political and social crises do not tend to stay inside that country but to migrate in a way to europe now germany says it wants to show solidarity no doubt there will be immediate assistance but what does germany what does the e. U. After all germany has the e. U. Presidency currently now have to do right now to preserve its own interests in the region when again its short term and and long term short term of course we have to hope that that could include medivac flights field hospitals and other things and the midterm it is important for europe that lebanon becomes a stable country again so as efforts are necessary to speed up negotiations with the i. M. F. Was a world bank and was a you about both our support to follow up on an economy and sincere reforms to lebanons at ministration a political system in 2015 and the german chancellor recognized this herself it was the reduction in assistance to refugees in the region also in lebanon to lead to that lead to many heading for europe and for germany is that what europe has to prevent right now i dont think that anybody is thinking about reducing support to vulnerable groups or right now to what we certainly know now. He is in fact its not only corona its not only the war in syria its lebanon as such that is a sick man on the mediterranean and needs support but not on the support of house reform from from within does this catastrophe also bad the opportunity that sides that havent spoken to each other will now do exactly that i dont think there will be much new dialogue lebanese politicians are in dialogue with one another as a result the main question is where theres a lebanese political elite is prepared to give up some of sour prevail each side some of their free for support and and actually get into a conversation with Lebanese Civil Society about performance country whats your estimate will that happen a little bit of it will happen but probably too little too late look at how to strike you very much. Lets check in now on some other stories making news around the world hunger condom ocracy activists joshua awad and agnus chauhan are on trial for involvement in the civil unrest that rocked the territory last year wang says now is not the time to give up the fight for democracy despite the draconian new security law posed on hong kong by the. And she lay and police have used tear gas to break up demonstrations supporting the rights of the countrys Indigenous People violent clashes have picked up in recent weeks as the people fight to have their incest all lands and Southern Region richer. Indias Prime Minister night and imo the has led a ceremony to inaugurate the building of a hindu temple at the center of a century old dispute between hindus and muslims the temple will be erected on the site of a demolished mosque they broke ground and prayed at the site who claimed the beginning of a golden chapter he called the temple a symbol of unity and love last november the Supreme Court awarded the disputed site to the Hindu Community in a decision criticized by muslim groups a mosque once on the site was torn down by hindu nationalists during rioting in 1902 and this here is file footage there are fears that putting a hindu temple in its place will reignite tensions between the communities. And lets bring in. While in delhi for more on the story kind of misha can explain why this site is location for the Hindu Temples construction is so divisive. To live site in question the dirt bike that Hindu Community as the thief the location which marks the bloods leave the law trotter fortune lawyer and get him to stop the construction project on the site often want things and then she is mocking a kind who could teach eating meat on the site called the and community in addition the campaign to get the step little has changed in what she decades and is ready to leap into trying the same opportunity and more of these the chippie the slow to deliberately well promise to be g. P. And to dick off to not be she died in that the not to keep well promised exactly one her today the special status of ones you buy i believe. This is british people homes of the leadership i had and recently a scheme to who should do the integration often region into india as well as economic do as mist however on the other side thats also been a strong criticism of this move by the government and this is what more you can go into what comes up. Outrage in the Indian Parliament on august 5th last year the Indian Government stunned opposition lawmakers by announcing it was revoking kashmir semi autonomy the basis of the regions complex relationship with india for decades. Since the special status of german and cush mia is going to be automatically know and void. The hindu nationalist government said the move was necessary to spur Economic Development and to better integrate the region with the rest of the country the opposition was shocked. New jersey and today the ruling party b j p has sperry the constitution and the democracy. As a result 7000000 people in the Kashmir Valley were put under lockdown for months the government severely restricted freedom of movement and banned gatherings it cut landlines and mobile phones and even shut down the internet thousands of people were arrested including 3 former chief ministers reportedly hundreds of people still remain under house arrest or behind bars mostly without charge there are also reports of torture. Indian authorities deny the allegations. Neighboring pakistan still condemns in the us actions on those who since the 5th of august the illegal measures taken by india there is a new. Theres a new wave a new video for resentment against the across of these being committed or cross the. Beautiful short the people of pakistan starting with you and he adds kashmir will be part of pakistan. Inshallah for speed but they go back a stop at the end of verse 3 of the autonomy revoke ation the kashmir conflict seems as far from resolution as ever and little seems to have changed in the region itself fearing violent protests the government has again imposed a new curfew. So nimish a year later what has changed for the kashmiris. Thats and were going to look at the decades of tension in the swap picture and each team not much has changed now the governments localist on the small task then Economic Development integration as well as security now in terms of security the government dusky and that that havent increased operations act at all but actions in the decent because of higher management are result of how i look at exeter this increased violence is also increasing insecurity onstott people and the people already traumatized by it are more and feel disenchanted with the Indian Government as it is other fit in addition the shutdown of the internet has also been a key issue for 6 months there was absolutely no internet and soon enough to do which internet thats a few of us get what streams it was not a lot of last not dollars here this is also been very detrimental to the economy of need some estimates of losses of up to 5000000000. 00 and additional education especially has been hard hit as well as daughters. Did at his new mission desk while reporting for us from delhi thank you. In britain researchers are warning of a 2nd coronavirus wave twice as severe as the initial outbreak if schools reopened in the coming weeks some regions stopped using lock downs after a spike in new infections that means people in Northern England are having to live with tough new restrictions. Brits unmasking up and not just inside amid rising covered 19 infection rates and public warnings of a 2nd outbreak more and more People Choose to don a mask outside as well of course i will get my mug scanned i put it when i go close connection with individuals most british people just obey the rules i think will there be a 2nd wave yes Northern Region such as Greater Manchester recently witnessed a spike in infection rates in a bid to stem transmissions authorities have tightened restrictions again we want to pursue a local approach where we take Decisive Action where its necessary where the data shows that we have to do that. Leading scientists have criticised the governments approach to testing and breaking the chain of infection they say the Current System is not sufficient we need to scale up tests of symptomatic people and have a certain level of tracing of their contacts in order to avoid secondary what the government has admitted that theres room for improvement theyre planning to roll out record tests that will show results for the 90 minutes the down side they will only be used in hospitals and nursing homes. Lets get a reminder now of our top story here on t w levanon scapel beirut is in shock after 2 massive explosions devastated the city the blasts tore tore through the citys courts killing at least 100 people and leaving thousands injured and these are live pictures at the site of the disaster there at the fortune beirut right now for rescue workers are still search. 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