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On a better path so i think right now its going to be about you know counting the losses and i think we havent scratched the surface yet have a good start to many thanks have. Found out of beirut reports it is 1800 hours g. M. T. Hello im Adrian Finighan this is aljazeera if youve just joined us theres been a huge explosion and lebanons capital beirut at least 10 people have been killed Lebanese Security Officials Say the blast was triggered by explosive material that was stored in a warehouse in the force area which is at the heart of the sense here lebanons president has called an emergency meeting of the Prime Minister has called a national day of mourning on what the state the head of the Lebanese Red Cross says that hundreds of injured people have been taken to hospital but that many people are still trapped in the homes the cause of the blast is still on clear at the moment israel however has issued a statement denying any involvement. Omar shelby is a criminal justice analyst he
A terrible accident but as i say the problem in beirut is going to be able to people will find it difficult to believe that such terrible explosion could just be an accident and theyre going to be looking for who to blame and depending on your affiliation or will take share it was them sunni muslims christians on he will point the finger of blame natural enemies and that sadly is going to sound plausible to what the people even if its not true and what are the dangers then all of this finger pointing at the moment swed that is absolutely no concrete evidence because at the moment theres talk of a far webspace. Container bring up but their heads obviously speculation is far more to it than that how damaging could some of those. Blame game when you see partly because you have this really terrible economic state of affairs where huge numbers of people lebanon well almost on the edge all. Kinds of economic collapse and the. Simple calamity to that main port of entry is going to make Econom
Hello, i am david asman, this is bulls and bears, thank you for joining us, joining me, steve moore, caroll roth, capri caforio and john burnett, what progress has been made. Reporter trying to hash out what a economic stimulus package would be, could look like. President , to that end up to capitol hill today, had lunch with Senate Republicans to discuss possible options Going Forward, so far president , and the treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin have talked about following, a payroll tax cut. Potential small be loans, paid leave, deferred tax payment and help for airline, cruise and hotel industry, were told in meeting that president floated idea of bringing down payroll taxes to zero. That would be very both employer and employee. Keep in mind, white house numbers project, over next 12 months, that would be about 1. 2 to 1. 3 trillion in taxes. After the meeting today with Senate Republicans, president tried to provide reassurance. It really working out. A lot of good things are goin