A truly historic announcement in our battle against the journey of errors that will save countless lives. And u. S. President donald trump touts a major advance in the fight against covert 19 the use of blood plasma from recovered patients. To begin in syria where theres been a power blackout in large parts of the country after a major gas pipeline explosion firefighters have now managed to push out the blaze on the arab gas pipeline east of the capital damascus but this was the scene just a few hours ago images of a huge fireball appearing on state television and social media no detail yet could have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror for more lets go across to say shes our correspondent standing by in beirut said it was a huge blast we know what happens. Well like you mentioned an explosion on a gas pipeline according to syrian state media the fire that large fire which was apparently caused by the blast has now been put out an explos
But thats raising some concern among activists. Power is gradually being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity for fascism now managed to put out the blaze on the arab gas pipeline just northeast of the capital damascus this was the scene a few hours ago there are no details yet on what may have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror was an 100 joins us now via skype from beirut just bring us up to speed on the latest. The information that we have has been provided by the Syrian State News Agency as well as Syrian Government officials. What they have reported is that a large explosion on a pipeline in the early hours of the morning was the total blackout in many areas in and around the capital damascus there was a large fire we saw that on videos that were uploaded on social media but since then firefighters and Civil Defense teams have managed to put out the flames the sy
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