Mysterious blast that occurred yesterday while we were on the air while in the area below d the line thats what it looked like after the explosion and this is pretty remarkable i mean let me just show you some highlights here just to tell us straight the significance you see that area that you see right there see that right there theres nothing there right i mean look at the size of the buildings that were essentially taken out just prior to that and just to show you how it affects communities concentrator focus on that area right there you see that i mean those are homes that were 234 stories high right there you see them before the blast there were essentially leveled. Gone. Thats remarkable stuff now i want to show you what it looks like at ground level and why people there are still really dealing with the impact of what happened here yesterday morning and afternoon look at this look at the images this is whats left on the ground and im basing. I mean you can begin to understand the magnitude of this explosion more than 100000 people have lost their homes hundreds and hundreds more are either dead or missing they cant even find them because of this blast. Look at the look on these peoples faces. Estimates of those injured range in the 5000. 00 maybe 3000. 00 or more and then theres a concern over the dangers of the residue and the toxic gases remember what youre looking at there appears to have been caused by an explosion of tons of Ammonium Nitrate which is highly explosive and toxic so were left now with the question is right what is it is it possible that it was sabotage what are the usual suspects saying you know has ball israel what are they saying about this. We have Team Coverage on this still puzzling story right here on the news with rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. All right lets get right into it the list of the questions we think youll be asking them are after watching our newscast today what happened in beirut and who might be responsible have russian scientists really come up with a usable coded 1000 vaccine that were going to start putting on people or using on people on the going tobe or is the u. S. State department sanctioning the fact of other nations resources thats a trend were going to be looking into but lets begin with this were going to begin with what is being called a historic if not almost cataclysmic explosion in beirut right now the culprit seems to be the mere accumulation of Ammonium Nitrate stored in huge quantities for years at the port there in beirut and if thats the case by the way that in and of itself seems horribly negligent think about that what is Ammonium Nitrate you may not know look at this building thats Ammonium Nitrate this is the same agent Ammonium Nitrate that was used by domestic terrorist Timothy Mcveigh when he did this when he used that agent to blow up the Federal Building the alfred p. Murrah building in Oklahoma City killing by the way many many children who are nursery and get this this Ammonium Nitrate im talking about its almost 50 percent as powerful as t. N. T. Its used as an agent to make fertilizer and it can go off with just a cigarette butt thats left on the ground so was it an accident or was it sabotage was it ignorance it was or a combination of all of these things that caused this explosion. We have Team Coverage of this story d for you today but ive got official Michael Maloof is an expert on this particular region r. T. Correspondent paula slayer is a middle east correspondent for us and ron your colleague is an independent journalist who was on the ground there in beirut when the blast occurred and thats where were going to begin with ron you know because she was there and she can share with those whats being felt there now and what it was like to be there when it happened runnion take it away. Well to be there and happened it was extremely terrifying. Like an earthquake and then the windows blew out and then there was a loud explosion and it was very frightening luckily i wasnt injured but a lot of people were i was at the hospital yesterday and it was just complete panic and chaos and people searching for their loved ones. Every single building Residential Commercial restaurants shops hotels nothing was left on touched and a roof there is just broken windows and apartments everywhere its completely devastating that the damage is widespread in a way like no ones ever seen. And today i mean today the cleanup began people started cleaning up of course theres theories about toxic fumes in the air but you know there were a lot of people apparently from the south of lebanon who came up to try and help clean up the mess. You know i spent the day cleaning up my own apartment there was a lot of there was damage inside my apartment lots of glass everywhere luckily i wasnt here to get hit by any of it was just a really really frightening day and now you know people are asking questions how did this happen. And it appears that you know it was known since 2014 when this substance was confiscated that its been stored at the port in beirut and people are really angry about that because there are regulations on how to store or Ammonium Nitrate that you know to make it to make sure its safe and the lebanese government for some reason decided to store it in a very dense and the most densely populated area of the country at the port the the economic lifeline of the country and now thats destroyed so theres a lot of anger in the streets at the authorities thanks so much we certainly appreciate you giving us a 1st person perspective of what its like on the ground paula i want to bring you into this conversation because as you know with a story like this if you and i were to go right now on social media or on the googles as they say we would find all kinds of stories all kinds of accusations. This. Terrorism that it may be israel what all or. In this. People. About their possible complicity in the uk. Well preface my comments by saying that we are hearing from the interior ministry in lebanon urging people not to speculate the Prime Minister saying that an official investigation has been launched and that those responsible will be brought to book but of course that hasnt stopped the speculation from happening and the 2 main culprits are people initially pointed fingers after israel and hizbollah israel almost immediately came out saying that they were not responsible in fact israel has since issued. Party mediators an offer of humanitarian and medical assistance saying that it can treat up to 2000 lebanese in its hospitals the 2 countries technically at war but israel making that gesture and as of yet no response from the lebanese side now why speculation of why fingers pointing at israel of course is that israel in the past has carried out aerial bombings in lebanon where houses belonging to his but now we know that Ammonium Nitrate was in this warehouse what is not clear is what was it doing there and who was of belonging to we also dont know what was the trigger so some were suggesting that it was an explosion that was caused by the israelis in retaliation against hezbollah but as i say both israel and also have denied that the other finger pointing is against hezbollah theres some speculation that his below is responsible for storing this Ammonium Nitrate his blood has denied this and so theres nothing to back up the speculation that it could have been his blood group of course this is what the investigation needs to determine is why were these why was why was the simonian nitrate of which we know 2750 tons in this warehouse in the 1st place and who was responsible for it. Bring you into. Conversation i know that you have a lot of folks there in beirut with their ears to the ground as to whats going on. Is it possible that it may have been a combination of ignorance. And sabotage and carelessness that caused this. But its probably all 3 the fact that it was stored for a floor quite a number of years i think 5 or 6 years and nothing was done about a quarter 37 it did get arrested there under house arrest right now there had been appeals to judges there to try and get it moved and the past nothing has happened. As to speculation i mean i have a friend who has a business that you can look go out on the balcony and see all that entire area his entire office was absolutely smashed the balconies caved. Have have fallen down he had to take a lot of his employees to the hospital so it really touches a personal cord at that point they said also that i was also can i just ask you a question and i dont know in the control room of we have video of the explosion lets all watch it together if we have it because the thing i want to point out of were able to get this video of the explosion is there doesnt seem to be as weve seen in the past Paula Michael the. Any other discharge other than the accident where the explosion seeming to emanate from the ground itself we dont see any missile fire we dont see anything else around there that seems to have. If youll pardon the phrase stimulate the explosion michael ill let you have the 1st word on this let me let me respond to that i had 3 2nd dependent sources tell me that and im one up in germany which is just up the coast from beirut in fact you can see the city is unique from beirut a woman told me that 2 low flying jets came right over. Just before the explosion i had a i got another video this morning of people looking up in the air listening hearing subjects fly over and its really just fly over there all the time and then all of a sudden you see this this wave the shock wave it and everything is a literate and and a 3rd source gave me information showing. Touch picture of a missile coming in so i think these things need to be investigated im not saying that theyre that they are actually there im just saying that these are things that have to be looked at i understand the minister of interior is denial about but these things have to be looked at very very seriously i dont follow this and there was actually was too much there was too pop all of giving us the official word the chief getting as a journalist from the officials there and thats what we wanted to do right let me just bring you in you were there youve talked to the people i imagine youve talked a lot of other people but anybody else anything that you find curious at this point. You know in the aftermath of a lots of explosions and all countries that experienced them people often say oh i heard a jet. So far ive seen no evidence of that and i experienced it myself i didnt hear any airplanes furthermore you know. d people close to hezbollah are saying that this was an accidental general security in lebanon saying its and the israelis are denying it usually if the israelis are behind something they dont give an official denial they just kind of let you believe what you want to believe and they can sort of take credit for it but theyre denying it. So it does seem to be that this was an accident and furthermore you know the fact that lebanon has an extremely dysfunctional government its like i knew a liberal dystopia in lebanon where theres really no rules and regulations and the government is a power structures made up of people who just are with the leagues and you dont. Well and youre not the 1st person to say that its been fired by the covert 19 situation as far as we understand with some of the problems that theyre having there but paula let me bring you in and i want you to have the last word on this what happens in a situation like this where you have so much scuttlebutt going about in a story with so much attention on it and so many deaths involved and do you fear this will turn into some kind of reaction in the middle east. Well no at this stage the mood in the middle east is not that its going to turn into any kind of reaction what we have seen is an outpouring of support for the lebanese government as as we are in now the seems to be a consensus that it was an accident the israelis and hizbollah denying it and that seems to be taking the mainstream understanding in terms of what is happening and and so we have countries such as egypt canada the United StatesUnited Kingdom right across the International Community offering to support of course you might be aware that russia is sending 5 planeloads of aid and support so there is an outpouring of support and thats coming from the International Community and from the middle east so at this stage a lot of people seem to be adhering to what were hearing the official word from the jordanian government is lets wait and see what in full investigation determines michael bohl if youre biting your lip to get in ill give you 10 seconds because thats all i got. Yesterday trouble said he after talking to generals that it looked like an attack it was pressed on that he reinforced that you know people are saying all come on thats true thats true but you know hes the one who said he was being spied on that no one believed him. And. To all 3 of you important conversation the one that people should hear otherwise they will feel like something is being a problem its all out there and transparent and in the open thank you to all 3 of you we are pretty. At the information on this devastation that were seeing in beirut were going to be right back this is the news reports that. I like it when the hosts ask the question for the guests and then actually listens to the guests answer and then react to that answer a folks Dennis Miller here ive got a new show. On larry king questioning listening learning you know ive always said i never learned anything when i was talking its important to listen. More. Ive seen the horrors that arise with money and evil. 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Hey welcome back im rick sanchez good appears today that russia is taking a very proactive d approach to vaccinating its citizens after a very short trial period that may have been cut short by what a well but what appear to be positive results the and i say that with a question mark the Russian Ministry of health has announced it will begin vaccinating citizens this coming october remember most countries working on some more vaccines like france and the u. K. And the United States say at best at best we will probably not be vaccinating until maybe the spring or maybe summer of next year so what russia seems to be signaling is that its comfortable enough with the vaccine so far to use it 1st exclusively on Health Care Workers and teachers because thats the important part and so kids can go back to school were going to ask a vaccine specialist what she thinks about this but 1st here is our t. Correspondent your shop of all of the. Nationals to be fun. And its not just about the countries according to our present the countrys Health Care System should be able to handle 2nd wave of the disease and how this whole class of the country for claim success and getting ever seen before all of the candidates it sounds line other countries leave it at the moment there are many potential it seems much of the best from states one of them was founded by the government man Optional Research together with the ministry of defense its compassion launches its absence of 10 to 20 times and the other one was developed by the state Scientific Center the actual in the siberian city of a serious fast fashion vaccine is fun to be producing 76 year currently Clinical Trials of special axes are being conducted for example the ministry of defense has announced the successful completion of. Trial. That scene has been proven say on try the 20th the 2nd group of patients were discharged from hospital and preliminary results indicate the militarys proposed scene has triggered a. Response to kind of the 19 men and women who passed in the trial. Significant side effects the question is that how normal that response you asked and protect this research is also there already pulled one is head and wild question fishbowls out confident that the country will be able to make enough time to cure any virus that seems for a nationwide in the United Nation any 20 to 21 scientists warn it will take some time before the vaccine is effectiveness can be properly measured they say it will be necessary to monitor the exceeding. For at least 6 months to date that the 860000 coronavirus cases have been found in russia recovered from the disease nearly 16900 lives by the current virus so far according to National Statistics were trying to learn and slowly the government attributes the lunch number of reported cases compared to the relatively low jets race to the extensive Testing Program group doesnt russia since the start of the outbreak gave section of the disease according to researchers the main difficulty increasing ive seen against her and a virus is very insufficient knowledge for the disease as the virus itself was identified quite recently in december 2919 and despite all the successes but. They say declaring victory still await you national sea. Shore fruits the 3rd not ready to declare victory then why are they putting the vaccine out there on the market leaving their own sort of thats a very legitimate question joining us now is dr Francis Richman is a professor of regulatory and Quality Sciences at the university of Southern California professor thanks so much for joining us what do you make of this. Do you fear as some do that the russians are rushing pardon the pun to get this back. I think everybody to some extent is brushing but theyre russian women most so yes i think that it is aggressive in a sense rolling it out as a sort of a common use product is going to be risky to some extent because they really dont have a good temple on how efficacious its going to be and then also longer. But the damage is ask you what the dangers are because but suppose people are dying in russia like they are in the United States they have a pretty high mortality rate over there and theyre saying look were getting it out we could get schools started we could save lives you know you sometimes have to measure want to get to the other right how would you do that a quick didnt. You do and i think every country measures it differently every country has its own respond of threat. But i do believe that there are concerns about advocacy so we know that is doesnt work does it do what it has to do we know it increases certain evidence of an unity but we dont know if that immunity is Strong Enough to counter the virus and we dont know if that is too strong in a sense that in some people it might trigger a response that is a kind of a super response and those people do you know be very sick so heres what i noticed what i hear you saying is the worst that can happen and this is your biggest fear is that it could make the people who are vaccinated more sick but if they hadnt been vaccinated in other words. Something like that when they get the disease we dont know what the reaction is going to be and we also dont know what the coverage is going to be it may be that only 30 percent are for. 80 percent of people. Have. An adequate response and if they see things that everybody has to do go back to school and maybe thats the wrong thing to do. So but the russians may be saying look we did our test we feel good we think weve done our Due Diligence and weve made a decision that were ready to go its hard to be able to look at it from so far away and make that decision but the questions that you were raised are important and viable and thats why were glad we had you on professor thanks so much we certainly appreciate you coming on and taking us through this next one i. Thank you we have been by the way tracking what appears to be a troubling pattern of light from the u. S. State Department One that appears to show a tendency toward what many are calling outright theft of other countrys resources the latest example of course is tech company the chinese are saying is being stolen from them thats what theyre saying but there are other accusations of the same in places like syria bolivia and venezuela heres our tease alex the heart of it with a report. Shock and awe pillage and plunder since the u. S. Invaded iraq in 2003 there have been claims that billions of dollars in oil revenue have been taken from that country there is little doubt that president george w. Bush and his v. P. Dick cheney helped make way for the u. S. Oil industry in iraq back into the popular belief that america is at least partially to blame for baghdads missing oil revenue fast forward from the bush cheney era to the days of trump in 2011 long before becoming president in a conversation about iraq donald trump told the New York Times youre not stealing anything were reimbursing ourselves at a minimum and i say more were taking back 1. 5 trillion to reimburse ourselves. Since hes become president the u. S. Seems to be applying the idea of the u. S. Reimbursing itself you know a number of renos next door iraq in syria under the guise of protecting oil from isis the u. S. Has signed a deal with its kurdish allies which according to senator Lindsey Graham will help modernize the oil fields in northeastern syria talking to a crowd at a rally in wisconsin earlier this year on the subject of syria President Trump said i kept the oil not only is this an admission to the accusation but some say the action could constitute a war crime halfway around the world in bolivia the countrys elected government was overrun by a u. S. Backed coup last year and many believe it was all because of lithium bolivia has the Worlds Largest reserves of the compound which is a key component of modern Battery Technology used in cell phones laptops and tablets electric and hybrid cars and grid storage in a recent tweet the c. E. O. Of the u. S. Electric car maker tesla all but admitted his support for the coup which benefits his industry in response to accusations that the u. S. Was behind the government takeover musk said we will kook who ever we want deal with it bolivias current right wing government which is supported by the us has already announced plans to invite a number of multinationals to extract the soft metal and then of course there is venezuela a country where the u. S. Has been trying to topple the socialist government for years for what it called humanitarian reasons the latest in the string of suspected american high speed is not in resources but rather in the world of tech. China is accusing the u. S. Of trying to steal to talk a Popular Video up that the trumpet ministration initially wanted to ban but now wants us for microsoft to buy according to the china daily newspaper china will not accept the theft of a Chinese Technology company and hes able to respond to washingtons move to push take talks on or bite dance. One could debate if americas actions could be deemed to stealing the argument seems to have some bearing one could say President Trumps unapologetic candor has helped add to the governance for news with rick sanchez im alex mileage. We hope youre better off having watched this newscast we hope you learned something we did just from listening to our guests and we look forward to seeing you again here as we like to say when its time once again. To do news again im richard. All across the board trump is down in the polls and not just by a pointer to traditionally incumbency alone is enough to win the election but this time around it is a very strong need and lets be clear this is little to do with joe biden how did we get. How can you explain love ive been to 82 countries i did in 12 but i came here and in those 3 days i just filled with hope. And he kept pretty isnt it sick show that. I made my decision to come here because d i felt i knew i could build a new life. 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