Ignite religious tensions. On land i thank you so much for your Company Everyone movie guinn this broadcast in lebanon where rescuers in beirut are searching for survivors after 2 explosions left much of the city in ruins well the blast happened at a warehouse where tons of a highly explosive chemical were stored apparently without any Safety Measures in place at least 100 people were killed and thousands injured authorities have placed a number of the report officials under house arrest the government has now declared a 2 week state of emergency for the city. Casts an eerie glow over b. Routes 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 of. The sudden. There are a lot of victims we lost for nurses and patients visitors many dead and many injured and we have like 200 injured on the scene with his happy. It was a sleepless night at the rest of the citys hospitals overwhelmed doctors treat to be ended in hallways rightful 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 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 where home 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. After this catastrophe and we have to stay strong we have to stay calm but this is too much for a nation to fight of not eilish are. A massive cleanup is slowly underway but. Officials say the rebuild could take years. 300000 people have been left homeless the Prime Minister has declared a 2 week state of emergency and called on the International Community to provide humanitarian assistance. And we can take you to beirut now because shortly after the blast the capital hospital which full capacity lets find out how they are doing right now were joined now by raymond terabit he is a partner coordinator for the Aid OrganizationMalteser International a surrogate to have you here ill show you a Facility Operating at full capacity right now. Greetings from beirut 1st from an almost entirely destroyed downtown of the city actually we were trying to offer and our primary Health Care Center has emergency and 1st aid due to the explosions in the center where for the 5 lebanese hospitals were destroyed some of them entirely they became dysfunctional there was a huge load on the other hospitals. In the area so d all primary Health Care Centers where asked to open the doors for injured people and thats what we did we took over parts of. Slightly wonder that for sure primary yes because at that cannot offer for fletch. Tertiary medicine so we took dozens of injured people to our primary aska center and treated them with 1st aid stuff like this and what do you do with patients who come in who require well who are in a critical situation and require more medical a treatment then you can offer. We tried several times to transfer them to nearby hospitals or even far away. Because that art of insanity often quite 102030 kilometers all hospitals almost all hospitals off lebanon or working yesterday to receive the patients for from downtown beirut and when you really have severe cases you try to get them a place in Operations Room an emergency room what whatever was needed that situation and what are the cases that you were getting what type of injuries are you seeing. What we have seen a lot of you know people injured with glass. Ones. A lot of burnt syndromes. And stuff like this you know it was we see people with broken legs broken arms and weve seen a lot of diverse various. Injuries if you have seen the blast yesterday i think this gives you an idea about how enormous and strong the explosion was and how many people were really affected now of course a lot of people some International Community are sending a teams over to provide and help also with their medical assistance what would you need what would you like them to send over. I think as a 1st response the medical situation was kind of you know coped with what we would actually need that the country would need the people who would need much more in the coming future. Shelter. Humanitarian pure humanitarian assistance basic assistance anything that can help people i mean we have more than 100000 people who are homeless now so we need shelter if we need homes we need people to open the houses and International Donors to contribute to this catastrophe that happened yesterday to raymond from our teaser international so we wish you your team and the people of beirut all the best. And earlier dealy news had the opportunity to speak to dr hedge and medical director at kamal solar Medical Center in beirut and we asked him how hospitals in the city have been coping. You know its its kind of a very unexpected situation were doing our best to. Keep up with grown up artist and theres and because she is and dealing with the mass casualties coming to us because its been the story of the scene in most of the big b. To construct a hospital was so in our situation we had to be to get people to do like the. Engine people and their family and friends was months in the emergency doing our stuff going on protected with different types of mice and 5 or regular mice and hoping this wouldnt think these you know. Effect of going up so we have. More guys are going to enjoy this in that sense so many compounding at factors that lebanon has to deal with dr asimov had speaking to us from kim also a Medical Center in beirut well with me here in the studio now is my colleague amandeep from our w. Arabic a desk a so good to have you with us here and i cannot imagine your lebanese the anxiety that you must have been experiencing 1st of all how are your relatives how are your loved ones how is everybody back home thank god everybody i know is fine and safe and survived the blast plucking my parents the north and North Lebanon and not in beirut and they were able to survive this but it has been a very very tough 24 hours for me and everyone who lives abroad where old worried about our loved ones. Theyre still searching rescue operations ongoing to find those who are still missing its been a very very tough time and the least i can say is that were all traumatized from that despite having lived wars and several catastrophes another one on this seems to be. Just different level what are your friends workers your family telling you the day after theyre still in shock thats for sure everyone the chalk i hear different stories from friends and family members who rushed to beirut to help today one of them is actually my brother he went to be able to do to help in the rescue efforts people are still not really aware of what just happened theyre still trying to search through the rubble was for their belongings for their loved ones for the lives theyve lost. And talk just you know the blast happened at the airport how central is that just give us a sense of the location and the reverberations of these explosions for the people who are living there i mean definitely a lot of analysts are saying its a good thing that the explosion happened at the port because half of the magnitude of the actual blast went into the sea and not into the city you know like theres a circle when the blast happens only half of the plot blasts affected the city imagine if this would have been in a central area the whole city would have been even much more damaged ports the ports where it is the only point in almost 11 on and its the one that receives and stewards all the importance that come in terms of food and medical supplies weve seen we are going to see a lot of shortage in the in the in the coming few days if theres no proper aid provided. There have been news also about the destruction in nearby warehouse where. Medication specific ones for serious conditions were completely damaged so its a very serious situation at the moment. And there hasnt been yet a clear idea about the damage to the reader. Its mayor is estimating 3000000000. 00 to 5000000000. 00 in damages in the city and almost 300000. 00 people slept outside of their homes last night so were talking about one 4th of. The residents are homeless as of yesterday one 4th of just want to stress that again out without a home or roof above their heads what is most needed right now for the people of beirut support help medical assistance thats the most urgent thing at the moment as hospitals are collapsing they were already struggling with covered 19 demick and they were really struggling to find the proper medical supplies a lot of countries have offered to help a lot of countries namely european ones also french cole is due to fly tomorrow to beirut to meet with political leaders and assess the situation. Helicopters fill full of aids and medical supplies have are reaching big whats airport at the moment providing groups of aid workers or Health Workers but also food and supply lebanon needs food because theres a real hunger crisis that is due to happen lebanon was already dealing with such a big economic crisis and no its even more serious than that but also medical supplies thats what lebanon needs of the moment and of course lebanons also hosting a lot of refugees as well so its all around a very precarious situation and rest assured we are thoughts go out with the people of levanon we wish you all the best in these very very trying times in the debate from our arab desk thank you. So you know about some of the other stories making news around the world. 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This it stands for an historic triumph for indias hindu nationalist government after a decades long dispute Prime MinisterNarendra Modi led the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hindu temple at the flashpoint holy site of a yoda. This temple will become the modern symbol of our culture im using the word modern deliberately it will be the symbol of our perennial faith our nationalism this temple will also be symbolic of the united strength of millions. The security was tight in a year leading up to the ceremony the city has long been a religious fault line at the center of intense sectarian violence in 1902 a hindu nationalist mob raise the mosque in najaf the incident triggered religious riots that left over 2000 people dead most of the muslims. Hindus believe ram one of their major deedes was born at the site and claimed the mosque was built on a temple there. This case has been going on for 71 years but now finally the divine moment has arrived and everyone is very happy to be able to witness this temple for lord ram where extatic. Modis b j p had long been rallying for the construction of a temple on the site after a lengthy legal battle in the Us Supreme Court awarded the disputed a lot to hindus in november of last year the verdict caused disappointment among Indias Muslim community but many have since come to terms with their decision. To import the Muslim Community has accepted the verdict and we want to help with the construction of the temple. As muslims will be able to build a new mosque on a nearby plot but prominent Muslim Leaders fear the new temple could have bold new hindu nationalists to target other mosques in the region. How significant is this project for Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and his international stature. You know i mentioned. In our. God one sentence wasnt better. Than this new variant. And ill. 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Lets take a look now at some developments in the current virus pandemic the global death toll from the virus has now surpassed 700000 thats at least according to numbers from Johns HopkinsUniversity Australia has reported 15 deaths from covert 19 all of them in victoria state its the highest daily fate tallaght toll there so far while ukraine recorded a record daily jump of almost 1300 infections numbers there have been going up since authorities eased lockdown restrictions u. S. Health chief alex a czar is due to visit taiwan to discuss strategies for fighting the virus china considers taiwan a renegade province and has lodged an official complaint with washington over the trip. Meanwhile in Great Britain researchers are warning of a 2nd coronavirus wave twice as bad as the initial outbreak if schools we open in the coming weeks will some regions stopped easing lockdowns after a spike in new infections well that means people now in Northern England are having to live with tough new restrictions. Brits im asking out and not just inside and advising uncovered 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 mom scanned i put it when i go to place connection with the individuals most british people just obey the rules i think will 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 you know to avoid secondary what the government has admitted that theres room for improvement theyre planning to roll out rep a test that will show results for the 90 minutes the down side they will only be used in hospitals and nursing homes. When i go back an hour to our top story and bring you the latest from beirut the lebanese government has now announced a 2 week state of emergency in the city all thats after a massive explosion a devastated the response on tuesday killing at least 100. 00 people and wounding thousands governments around the world have been offering aid and assistance while the World Health Organization says it is airlifting supplies to the country all of videos and photos of the a massive explosion and its destruction have been proliferating on social media days of use a digital a news team has been following online reaction are now joined in the studio by reporter joel. Or to speak out more about this how are peoples personals personal posts adding to our understanding of what happened yesterday or the very blusters again demonstrated the power of social media some of those images we saw were coming from peoples mobile phones and some of become particularly iconic like this one here we see the Mushroom Cloud the red blossom this one was posted by twitter user 30 roomy and now has over 7000000 views but there are also more intimate and touching videos that show how people reacted to the blossoms in this one you can see a father comforting his son and then he hides him under a table to protect him and he can really get a sense of what it was like the fear and the confusion and the concern that there was worse to come and then we have another image that shows what it was like to not feel in a city that is notorious for having Power Outages the image shows just a single candle light that is visible and the user writes here i cannot explain how much calm this small what keeps lending me. Really that image just gives me goosebumps just looking at it so poignant social media i understand is also being used to help with Recovery Efforts there is an Instagram Page that is trying to help people locate their missing relatives it is called locating victims beirut it has almost 100 photos of people with Contact Numbers and pleas from family members and friends for information now some of them are described as firefighters who attended the scene and it really gives you an idea of the scale of the tragedy and this is of course only a small fraction of the number who are missing one of these men is still presumed missing here it says last seen in the polls of beirut of course the epicenter of that blast and this man however thankfully we can also see in real time how some of the located in the comments it says that he has been found hes just has some injuries so hopefully we see more images more stories like these ones oh absolutely we hope so and people in lebanon are being asked of course to donate blood is there anything that we can do outside of lot of people around the world are opening up their wallets to help one group that is running a Crowdfunding Campaign is called impact 11 on a it says it stands against government corruption and is therefore channeling its money to local n. G. O. S now impact levanon is run by the dia spore the lebanese dias bora and its Crowdfunding Campaign has already raised over 2700000. 00 british pounds another group in need is the Lebanese Red Cross now they operate ambulances in clinics in beirut and they were on the front line to have used really great great impact to that social media is having at the during the catastrophe that unfolded in lebanon thank you so much for bringing that side of the story that doesnt personally iraq and building on behalf of all of us thank you for spending part of it there thats. Right. Comes. Into. Play. Cheat mean more so. Discounted and inexpensive but animals are suffering from environment is trying out. New trends healthier and female resource a. Price war on the plate just how good is cheap. Made in germany. Next on d. W. I. The truly rich meter just shows the number if such a threat shows how much. The men such mob. Boss. Tom. Smart ways to get when youre going to. Read. D. W. 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