Practical support in the terms of the medical teams and Financial Assistance to beirut and hes offered a routine moral support as well but hasnt come from lebanon zobel little classes they havent been able to do that and theyve been conspicuous by their absence from the streets since the catastrophic explosion did not i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and its not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the Financial System so there arent as for the short term that we need as we know the answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems the customs we need transparency for imports and exports we need reforms for all the sectors and insist on these changes quickly. Many beirut as most people have been left to their own devices we spent the day Walking Around parts of beirut and we saw armies of young people with brushes and dustpans and pickaxes and shovels beginning to clean up we didnt see the m
Dozens of people remain missing many of them employees at beirut port the site of those massive explosions they were telling us its not enough that these the authorities were that diligent enough to keep highly explosive material at the ports but the search operation is just so slow but we managed to talk to red cross workers in the Lebanese Army and theyre telling us that the destruction its just very very difficult because lebanon does not have the equipment and now rescue teams from abroad are coming to help in the search operation but there is little hope that they are going to find more people alive over 100 people dead and thousands injured many of them still in Critical Condition one woman said i dont know if ill ever see my husband again he was a daily wage earner barely earning 2. 00 a day and now she has nobody left to help her feed her 3 children so there is anger at a government that has not stepped in at a time of crisis and this anger like you mentioned is not new levanon
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To lebanon greek and kasuri planes arrived in beirut on wednesday carrying medical supplies Turkey France and germany also plan to send help and the french president emanuel will travel to lebanon on thursday to meet with its leaders earlier i spoke with dr i mean could see from the American University hospital in beirut he told me about the patients the hospital was treating on tuesday. We. Had the opportunity the fortunate the fortitude to train for the mass casualty instance so most of our associate get sent to the hospitals have gotten some extent experience and the plans for deployment getting such incidents over certainly has. An excellent one thats one that weve discovered and published internationally so however yesterdays mass casualty incident was peculiar when the blast happened we went immediately into for activation for explore the disaster plan and automatically all our faculty and their sis and stat activated then mobilize and showed up on scene without making phone call
[inaudible conversations] thank you all for joining us this evening. Im gavin kleespies, director of programs and communications for the massachusetts historical society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250 anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena zabin on a great new book the boston massacre a Family History. As a regular guests know, we very quickly pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the materials we have within our holdings that illuminate the evenings discussion. To date we entire expedition, so we didnt need a small exhibition this time. Our exhibition features our speaker this evening so if you didnt see it shes on one of the video monitors upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us planned exhibition and sitting for an interview. We couldnt have done our current exhibition without her help so our debt of gratitude. Serena zabin is a professor Early American History director the programs american studie