President trump struggles in an interview as he tries to defend his handling of the Coronavirus Crisis and why the latest issue of British Vogue is making history, in front of and behind the camera. A massive explosion has torn through the lebanese capital beirut, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 4,000 others. Many people are still missing, believed to be trapped under the rubble. The blast, in the port area, was so powerful that it caused extensive damage to buildings over much of the city. The prime minister, hassan diab, said the blast was caused by more than 2700 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate. Heres our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. Just to warn you his report contains distressing images. It was a massive explosion. Shouting. Another view from the bay. And from the streets. What happened 7 oh, my god oh, my god. It looks as if dozens are dead and several thousand injured. And a country already deep in crisis has been hit by a catastrophe. Translation i dont know what happened. I was fishing. I heard there was a fire. I turned and started to head home. I heard something explode and then this happened. This was the fire in beirut port. The flashes, they say, wear fireworks. Then something much bigger ignited. Lebanons interior minister told local media it was ammonium nitrate, which had been stored there since 2014. Sirens. It can be used as fertiliser or to make explosives. Alarm bell. This is downtown beirut, close to the Parliament Building will stop since the end of last year, lebanon has been paralysed by a political and economic crisis, and street demonstrations, before the country was gripped by the pandemic. The damage is spread across the city. The shock will run much deeper. And this tragedy risks pushing the lebanese further into despair. Hassan diab, the prime minister, broadcast to the nation. He told them that those responsible would pay the price. Beiruts hospitals, already pressed hard by covid 19, are faced with hundreds of casualties. Translation we were at home. We heard what sounded like fireworks. We thought it was a container in the port that was on fire. A few seconds later, we were flying through the air. Lebanon will get International Help which until now, its friends have been reluctant to give because of corruption and incompetence in lebanons wealthy elite. But public anger, already strong, will demand real change at last, if lebanons rulers cannot heal the wounded, fix the damage and punish the guilty. And there is one big question. Who allowed the storage of so much deadly explosive for so long in a warehouse so close to the city centre . Jeremy bowen, bbc news. 0ur beirut correspondent, Carine Torbey has been at the American University medical centre in the lebanese capital. At the moment this is the gate, usually this is where people are coming from, but at the moment it is close because there are so many people, rushing to the hospitals to ask about their loved ones and their relatives. Because at the moment there is a large number of people who are still unaccounted for, and the relatives are rushing from one hospital to another asking if they are in there. Other than that, the number of injuries we have seen is unbelievably large. All hospitals in beirut are overwhelmed. I will take you inside one. This is supposed to be usually more like an administrative ill of the er. This is not supposed to be a normal place where people are treated. But because the hospital is overwhelmed and theres absolutely no other place to take the injured to, they are treating patients, being treated while literally anywhere in the hospital. In the offices and halls everywhere is be an er. You can see around me, all of the blood spilt all over the place. This is because of, as i said, all of the people who have rushed here in all sorts of conditions. This explosion, what he has damaged beyond any control. Not only for hospital, but for the whole country. What we have seen here is similar to the situation in every single hospital in beirut. They have all reach their full capacity. They have been calling on people to send all other cases to outside beirut because they are not able to cope any more with the extremely large number and pressure that they were under. This is not only the pressure of the injured, but also the pressure of the people coming here in total panic and shock asking about their loved ones. Wanted to know anything about them, about their fate or whether they are still alive, and or whether they are dead. The situation is beyond any description. Getting into the hospital is, by itself, a very difficult experience. First there is the traffic because of all of the people getting out in the street. They fear staying at home because of all of the damage caused to the properties, but also because they are searching for their loved ones and searching for anyone to help, because everyone is helping us much they could do. This is much more of the National Initiative at the moment. National rescue. People are not counting on the state, not counting on the usual services. They are trying their best to help each other, and all of the glass around, all the glass in the street, its impossible to describe it. Its more like an apocalyptic, to be honest. Like an apocalyptic scene getting here, and people are completely bewildered. They dont really know what has happened, they are searching for answers while they are still trying to understand whats happened, and understand the scale of that disaster that lebanon has been living in in the last hours. Earlier i spoke to sunniva rose. Shes a journalist based in beirut whose flat was damaged by the explosion. Im not very far from the port. Quite close and also quite residential. The everybody in the neighbourhood has the window shattered. He cannot even walk in the street, just covered in glass and there were body bags in the street down near my house, entire buildings have collapsed. The city is dark, its completely dark, theres no electricity now it has come back a little bit. As you know there is electricity problems in lebanon in addition to this. The whole city is in shock, people were crying in the streets and covered in blood. I dont know what the actual toll is an injury toll, but its going to just go up because people i think are trapped in the rubble as well. In the hospitals are overwhelmed with this going to hospitals