A super tanker off the coast of sri lanka its carrying 2000000. 00 barrels of oil. And it has one of the worlds lowest ages of consent to look at the fight to protect girls in the philippines. Commemorations have been held in lebanon marking the exact moment one month ago that a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut people paused in a moment of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm thats the time almost 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate ignited in the citys ports sending a devastating blast wave across the city more than 200 people died and thousands were wounded lets go live now to beirut aljazeera is zenyatta is the senate will talk more about that ongoing rest. Behind you in just a few minutes but 1st talk us through what happened an hour ago during that commemoration. Lebanese that marked the one month since that explosion at beirut ports which really changed the lives of so many people in this city damaged and destroyed neighborhoods some 191 People Killed 7 people remain missing 6
Immediately after the explosion buildings lie in ruins theres broken glass everywhere people are in shock. Maybe a lot of berkeley get off the street or a very low hello. Less than a 2nd with most everything i so deeply loved was in 10. Days it was upon us that this is the oldest 911 more than 150 people are dead and thousands injured many others are still missing. The suspected cause of the blast in correct storage of highly explosive chemicals. The porch where the explosion took place is thought to be largely under the control of hezbollah a state structures have ceased to exist in many parts of lebanon and the shia has a law or party of god has exploited the power vacuum for years undermining lebanons political system. Supported and financed by iran hezbollah is dividing the country. As follows critics would say yes so this does destabilize the region has followed supposes would say that as well as military strength is an asset for loveman because that keeps israel away in the war i
Security council that any israeli annexation is a crime. The president of course of all indicted for war crimes he stands accused of nearly 100 murders. And the show must go on but when it the british theatre industry struggles to find a way forward amid the coded 19 and that. And as for the england cricket board save a series with pakistan will go ahead that is despite pakistan announcing that 10 of their players have tested positive for corona virus. A watershed moment that will cause the most serious violation of International Law thats how u. N. Secretary general. Has described israels plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank members of the Un Security Council and the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put into motion as soon as next week most of them were united in their opposition with warnings that israels unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region. If implemented these moves could dramatically alter local then i mean
Jobs saying it has to shrink to survive the pandemic and. Russia stages ground world war 2 parade storing patriotic fervor ahead of a vote that could extend that of evolutions presidency. New growth of ours cases in the u. S. Have risen to their highest level in 2 months thats now recorded almost 2 and a half 1000000 infections and 121000 deaths and researchers at the university of washington and now predicting that nearly 180000. 00 could die by october about half of the 50 states is seeing a surge especially in the self and southwest cases arising in the states seen hair and dark orange falling in those shaded gray light orange states are considered steady. And York New Jersey and connecticut have imposed quarantine perrie its for travelers from states with the highest infection rates we worked very hard to get the truck viral transmission rate damn we dont want to see it go up because a lot of people come into this region and they could literally bring the infection with them the. I
Record rise in cases and a warning for americans Top University predicts 118000. Deaths. And South Koreans the 70th anniversary of the war with north korea. Australias Largest Airline quantas is cutting 6000. 00 staff to reduce costs as it fights to survive the crown of virus pandemic the airline is grounding 100. 00 planes for at least a year and will keep 15000. 00 workers on leave for months its boss alan joyce says hes hoping to save 10000000000. 00 over 3 years in response to what he says is the biggest crisis the industry has ever faced. This crisis is still hit those very very hard and the impact will be felt for a long time particularly im sorry to say the impact on our people it is very clear that International Travel is likely to be stalled for some considerable time i outed the peak body for the Airline Industry says it will take more than train years for Global Travel to return to 2019 levels and make a leg aids joins us now live from kamber and so nick a call this is a big