Will the beirut explosions cause a humanitarian disaster the devastation leaves hundreds of thousands of lebanese homeless hungry and fending for themselves with no help from the government can aid organizations cope with the immense challenge this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Levanon was in a dire state even before the enormous explosions which shattered beirut on tuesday many couldnt make ends meet as a 3rd of almost 7000000 lebanese dont have a job the government is bankrupt the currency almost worthless and lebanon is home to 1500000 Syrian Refugees the huge blast made things worse by destroying the main port for a nation heavily reliant on food imports lebanons only large grain silo is in ruins and the explosion destroyed hospitals and vital medical supplies needed to fight kovac 19 on top of all that there are complaints of no help from the government they now hold or reports. Volunteers in the streets of the lebanese capital providing much needed food and w
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Of the city lebanons Health Minister says theres been a very high number of casualties the blast wave from the explosion of course extensive damage to buildings within a large radius of the blast site kilometers away people felt lost including aljazeera say in a honda who is on the line for us now from Beirut Center just remind us of way you were and what happened when that blast struck. Was i dont know i dont see a problem that is trying to negotiate a way towards the port areas in it can you hear me its adrian on. Clearly chaos there is in a can you hear me its adrian youve been on the telephone or you but i was in a cab which winery. Now on the line is dropped again obviously as i was saying it is incredibly busy there the mobile phone networks inundated with people trying to work to call loved ones to contact loved ones loved ones to make sure that the safe will try to reestablish contact with xena and get it back on the line as they go back sorry you were you were in a queue were