Again piece it over here in doha youre watching elf to 0 also coming up the u. S. President Donald TrumpsCampaign Account is briefly banned from tweeting over a coronavirus pose deemed to be misinformation the same post has been removed by facebook also ahead. 75 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 19 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. Lebanons government has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut a day after a massive explosion devastated large areas of the capital at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 are injured and around 300000 have been left without a home from beirut zina harder reports. The people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and comprehend the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than any explosion lebanon has ever seen just before sunset on tuesday highly explosive material stored at a warehouse at beirut port caused the blast sending shock waves across the city now in ruins. Almost every building has been damaged many are dead. Thousands are injured rescue workers worked through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble so they said my husband is an employee at the Electricity Company he survived but his colleagues didnt there only now moving their bodies from under the rubble this is a country already reeling from a dire economic crisis where 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line the damage spread several kilometers more than 300000 people are now displaced its people are not in a position to cope with this disaster. Material losses are sad but its nothing compared to those who lost their lives this is my taxi its my livelihood and im still paying for it. Everyone has a story of survival or tragedy many are blaming those in power for the catastrophe. This was lebanons hiroshima we trusted them with our money our souls our lives and they betrayed us why are they still in power they should all resign we only have gotten their day will come. Authorities are appealing for help from the International Community the state is close to bankruptcy. Its like a bigger earthquake hit lebanon in beirut this will cost billions of dollars to restore the economy will get even worse because businesses have been hit entirely in order for it to relaunch and nice new investments we will not despair some countries have started to send much needed medical supplies the Health Care System was already close to collapse hospitals have been laying off staff in recent months because of the financial crisis d and mr mankell we are an afflicted hospital there is no hospital as you can see hospital is closed and now we wait for our directors in order to receive instructions because we want to start the recovery workers cannot get in also as you can see because its unsafe the ceiling is falling down it is a critical situation. Lebanons leaders are promising an investigation to determine who was responsible for storing Ammonium Nitrate without Safety Measures at the port for years and. We are determined to investigate and reveal what happened as soon as possible and bring those responsible to justice and punish them accordingly we will transparently announce the results of these investigations but those who hold power are being blamed for negligence incompetence and corruption people are in shock but anger is also growing out a Political Class many blame for mismanagement and being responsible for running the economy into the ground months of protests calling for a new leadership have been met by a militarized state and demands by the International Community to fight corruption especially at beirut ports in order to. Eligible for Financial Aid have gone and hurt what many call a manmade disaster is the latest crisis to hit a country already on its knees so much has been lost when there was already so little said of. Beirut well a comparison of satellite images is providing another stark perspective on the damage this picture is of the port of beirut from planet lab it was taken in may this is how it looks now you can see the structures wiped out and a big section of the main dock has gone. The focus is also turning to the long term humanitarian impact more than 300000. 00 people have lost their homes and the governor of beirut says fixing the damage will cost billions of dollars medical stockpiles are depleted and some hospitals are now in ruins those that are functioning have largely been overwhelmed lebanons main grain silo was destroyed at the port leaving less than one months reserves help however is arriving in Turkey Russia cattle iran and the e. U. Are among those sending in aid frances 2 planes are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters and medical staff the french president emanuel macro plans to travel to be root on thursday an iraqi delegation has met the lebanese Prime Minister. Promising to send fuel and wheat levanon imports up to 80 percent of its foodstuffs. Lets wrap up some of the top stories twitter has temporarily restricted president Donald TrumpsCampaign Team from tweeting it was in response to the account sharing video of a fox news interview with mr trump where he made false claims about the coronavirus. Links to the tweet now arrive at this page which is as the post violated its rules on coup in 1000. 00 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign appears to have complied earlier facebook removed the same video from mr trumps main page michaela joins us live now from washington so mike what was the nature of this false information. Well President Trump stated in that interview phone interview with Fox Television that children are almost immune from 19 or virtually immune he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly false the centers for Disease Research research the c. D. C. Says that some quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted to corona virus and at least 6 have actually died off an acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is clearly incorrect but what has got to be looked at as well is that context that President Trump has used this phrase virtually immune he has done it before in public on a number of occasions and the context is his absolute insistence that schools must open in the u. S. In their entirety he does not want Virtual Education he wants all the classes to open at the beginning of the new school year because he argues the economy cannot provide and this children are back in school freeing their parents to go to work so this is the context of these repeated 4 swords being made by President Trump with regard to children and covert 19 and facebook pulled the post as well mike. Well this was significant because its the 1st time that facebook has actually pulled a post by President Trump himself it has pulled some posts that President Trumpery tweeted in recent weeks but this is the 1st time its actually removed a post. By the president now this is important because for a period of time theres been a lot of pressure on facebook to take some kind of action against the president and what are sometimes educationally false suits that he puts out and certainly yes well theres been occasions of hate speech some would argue but facebook had resisted taking strong action against President Trump insisting that there are freedoms that its got to observe that it merely moderates a platform it cannot be a sensor on that particular platform but this clearly is a shift in the situation is a shift in facebooks position and this is something that certainly is going to be very important in the weeks and months leading to the elections in november thanks mike a correspondent there in washington. The pandemic is no killing one person around the world every 15 seconds thats according to attorney from the Reuters News Agency the number of recorded global deaths as nurse a past 700000 latin america does remain the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving surge in new cases and fatalities its accelerating in peru where concerns also growing about the disappearance of women and girls a peruvian womens rights official says more than 100. 00 were reported missing between the start of the long in the middle of march through to the end of june john holeman is in mexico city he says the evidence to shows violence against women has worsened the longer the pandemic has gone on. This is a problem in terms of Domestic Violence and in terms of women and girls going missing thats been happening long before this pandemic its just really intensified it in terms of today expect this to to go on the intensification well the pandemic can prove its got one of the worst def rates in the world and its one of the worst case rates in the world so it is opening up a bit the country but various different departments regions of that country remain closed down and womens rights Officials Say that thats really whats intensified this the fact that women a cooped up with the use of partners really is really no way out and that leads to an uptick in violence and of course to the cases of missing girls and missing women a lot of cases are in the cities as is the case for example in mexico a lot of them are in rural areas where perhaps theres more of a culture of my cheese more of men feeling that they own women in some in some respects and that a lot of the cases are happening there i should add as well that 2 thirds of these more than 900. 00 cases in peru are actually minors these are girls rather than women so theres a another sort of added layer of vulnerability there young girls and going missing in the country coming up on this program. Note and remove the rallies his base as construction begins on a controversial hindu on the ruins of a monk school. Also vote counting is due to begin in sri lankas parliamentary elections which could give more power to the islands most powerful political family. Hello once again welcome to the look at the. National forecast but they still have flooding concerns for the Korean Peninsula we have what remains of our old typhoon now making its way across the yellow sea this area of low pressure here but we have vast seasonal rains the my you front little further north than it has been recently but so those are going to engage are going to bring some very heavy rain right across the Korean Peninsula as we go through with day itll push a little further race words just see how it just links back across south korea all the way into west central parts of china and that will continue to drive its way for the race which is we go through friday so further flooding look almost inevitable here as you can see for japan on the other hand here it is largely dry at least away from western parts of honshu largely dry across southern parts of china want to choose showers but nothing much to speak of in the sunshine and showers today across the Southeast Asia some lovely ones coming into central and southern parts of the philippines and was never really too far away from borneo as well it is a showers always on the cards there for indonesia but otherwise its a lot of fine and sunny weather there were some heavy showers there once again up towards thailand longer spells of right across a good part of India Bangladesh seeing some heavy showers the wettest weather of the western ghats. History has called it the great in the 1st episode conscription draws hundreds of thousands of our troops into both sides of the conflict their story is rarely told but had a huge impact on the course of the. World moved on. But my own knowledge is a very. Diverse range of stories from across the country from the perspective of the networks journalists on aljazeera. Welcome back youre with aljazeera coming to you live from doha your top stories lebanons cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut after tuesdays devastating explosion at least 135 people more than 5000 are injured around 300000 been left without hope. Your thought is of blaming vast stores of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate which they say were kept in unsafe conditions 3 years 40 bushels an hour the house arrest in connection with the blast. Twitter has temporarily restricted president Trumps Campaign team from tweeting that was in response to the current sharing video of a fox news interview with mr trump where he made false claims about the coronavirus. The un and International Agencies are calling on the world to step in if india doesnt address the deteriorating human rights situation in indian administered kashmir has been a year since new delhi struck the disputed Region Special status osama bin has more. The. Communities on the pakistani side of the disputed region are protesting many see the Indian Governments communications blockade has separated them from family in indian administered kashmir new delhi revoked its autonomy last year effectively an extinct part of the territory and it is here back here where we want to convey the message to the International Community that we will continue to stand in solidarity against the violence the rape and the arrests of kashmiris until our land is free of occupation was on the other side. Of the line of control some in the hindu minority in Jammu And Kashmir have been celebrating the anniversary. The 5th is the day when the wall of hatred the article 370 the divided kashmir from india was brought down now residents of kashmir probably calling themselves indian citizens earlier also there were indian citizens somewhere the sentiment of separatism was big fan of the slogans of self rule told the freedom thats over in the years since india made that decision it has imposed a lockdown cut off all modes of communication and its forces ever arrested several political leaders and young men Amnesty International says the entire population of kashmir has been deprived of its right to freedom of expression and opinion through protected communication restrictions its calling on the Indian Government to immediately release all political leaders journalists and activists from administrative detention restore 4 g. Mobile internet the congested prisons and launch a prompt and independent investigation into the attacks on journalists. Indian officials a curfew thats been imposed is essential to maintain security in the region. And human rights activists see it as a violation of Indias International obligations more than 800000 indian soldiers are stationed in the picture rescue valley nestled in the himalayas. There have been offers to mediate by the un secretarygeneral and the us president but the government of their in their more d. Has rejected 3rd Party Mediation on kashmir last year on august the 5th india for kashmir is autonomy this year its Prime Minister marked the day by carrying out another election promise laying the foundation for a temple on the grounds of a 16th century mosque which was destroyed by hindu mobs in 1902. Barcus and insist the conflict needs to be resolved under International Supervision according to Un Security Council resolutions. I think modi made a strategic blunder the United Nations discussed the caution issue thrice during the last year for the 1st time since 1965 it also published a report on human rights abuses in occupied kashmir the pakistanis observed one minute silence the military released a song and local officials in pakistan administered kashmir and build a replica of street niggers red square. C but unless the 2 countries engage in meaningful discussion families will continue to live on either side of the disputed border. There survivors of the worlds 1st atomic bomb have been marking 75 years exactly 75 years since the bomb was dropped on hiroshima in japan it was a scaled back ceremony because of qubit 19 about 140000 people were killed after u. S. Forces dropped the bomb in the final days of the 2nd world war bride joins us now from so rob just sum up for us what the atmosphere was like. Well thats right i mean this was a very poignant ceremony especially for the hit back these are the atomic war survivors now they number of around 130000 or so residents are not a sack and hiroshima who survived the bomb attack of course in hiroshima 70000 people were killed in the initial blast itself but over the decades thousands more from this generation of survivors have passed away a number of them from illnesses associated with radiation poisoning so it is has been a poignant occasion for them and its thought that this is obviously one of the big anniversaries 75 years and given their increasing age even if they were children on the morning that the bomb was dropped all of these people are now well into their eightys ninetys this is probably the last big anniversary where well see a large turnout of survivors but it is something that continues to be a legacy in japan in fact just in the past couple of weeks there has been a court case brought by a group of survivors who were campaigning to be included in the victims of socalled black rain this was the phenomenon in the days after the Nuclear Blasts when debris was thrown up into the atmosphere a venture he came down in rainstorms in the days after these bomb attacks which is radioactive that people got sick from and so this group of people has finally after years of struggle in the courts has managed to be included so they can get Health Benefits so its still a Nuclear Legacy that japan and in particular the people in nagasaki and hiroshima are still very much living with rob many thanks rob and brode in seoul joining us now Robert Jacobs who works with the Hiroshima Peace InstituteRobert Jacobs welcome to aljazeera as far as the city of hiroshima is concerned and the people who were alive then and the people who went to todays commemoration whats the overall legacy for you. Well theres several overall legacies obviously interpersonal a the legacy is harm that was done to people loss of family members destruction of families loss of wealth so here in hiroshima the legacy is personal and some of the commemoration is very much about people and ancestors but for us as a society the legacy is that we moved forward from here osama into a world full of Nuclear Weapons in which we all faced risk from nuclear war so as you know there is a treaty to on the prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that is moving through the United Nations mechanisms and this is to address the fact that 75 years later we all still face risk and threat from these weapons so thats one of the primary legacies for those of us who dont have a familial connection or a Community Connection to these attacks and as we look at pictures from the commemoration that took place what 3 hours ago is it too easy to forget another legacy of hiroshima you know one could assume incorrectly that hiroshima and nagasaki just happened in a bubble but there were 8 countries in old the United States and russia and the soviet union plus 6 other countries they tested over the following 25. 00 or 30 years hundreds and hundreds of Nuclear Devices from places like you know the South Pacific to lesser vegas thats partly why we got last vegas i guess in its current form. And its easy to forget that. It is easy to forget that and actually there have been over 2000 Nuclear Weapons tested since 1945 we think of the cold war as a period of time in which Nuclear Weapons were not used but statistically a Nuclear Weapon was being detonated every 8. 00 days during the cold war millions of people were exposed to fall out and its pertinent that you mention the court case with the black rain survivors those were people who were outside of the city so they werent affected by the blast or the heat of the radiation but they were affected by the radioactive fallout this is exactly the effect that people who lived in test site communities as you mentioned in French PolynesiaMarshall Islands kazakhstan algeria a variety of other places nevada those people werent close enough to be to suffer from the blast in the heat the way that people in hiroshima were who were directly attacked but they did receive substantial amounts of radioactive fallout and the world has been extremely slow at recognizing the Health Impacts on people for whom that is their interaction with Nuclear Weapon effects is there one other thing robert that hasnt changed despite what were looking at as you and i are talking were looking at pictures of the commemoration ceremony and the eternal flame its the gung ho attitude towards the value of human life the people that dropped the ball means didnt care about human life the people that experimented with radioactive devices didnt care about human life and im trying to dovetail that side with the message from the mayor of hiroshima just 3 hours ago now talking about the rise of nationalism talking about look this is a danger still to come perhaps. Absolutely it is a danger and we see nationalism rearing up all around the world and we see all kinds of hatreds and conflicts in a number of countries all around the world and i would say more specifically rather than the lack of value to human lives its more that theres a lot of belief in a lot of places that some lives matter more than other lives so if you want to look specifically at the Nuclear Testing for example in england or france 2 major Nuclear Weapon states they never tested Nuclear Weapons with inside their own borders they decided that other peoples lives were less valuable than the lives of their own citizens. But when you have a weapon of mass destruction like this of course its one of the most egregious things about it is that it treat human beings as a matter it doesnt its indiscriminate it just kills all human beings that are within the effects within the range of the effects of the weapons so it does reduce the humanity of all who encounter it ok we must leave it there were really good to get your thoughts on this particular day thank you for joining us here on aljazeera projects there in hiroshima. The former colombian president has tested positive for covert 19 just a day after the countrys Supreme Court ordered he be placed under house arrest hes been detained over allegations of witness tampering and fraud which he denies. From bogota. Was 2nd startling news for former president alberto just as he prepares to begin home detention and me the witness tampering investigation he announced he tested positive for covert 19 but for many hes undeserving of any sympathy. Like Jacqueline Christie you know who considers him responsible for the death of his brother jaime a decade ago. Who lost their son the same way they are 2 of thousands of men that were abducted and murdered by soldiers during his administration then declared rebel combatants to boost war statistics and justify us a scandal known as false positives rather than presented the courts decision gave us great joy we know its not about the false positives yet but we think its a great step forward we thought it was out of reach i think it will open the way to the continuation of other investigations into all the other things we know hes implicated in. Been a towering figure in colombian politics for the last 2 decades and has been investigated for ties to drug traffickers paramilitary groups any illegal spying. Dozens of his government appointed close allies and even family members have been found guilty of a number of crimes defend. Himself has always managed to avoid prosecution. Millions of colombians support him and believe he is the victim of a conspiracy of the left in response to the Supreme Court decision his party is calling for a Constitutional Assembly to change the countrys justice system. The courts this isnt is totally arbitrary and a step in the face to the immense majority of colombians who believe europe is honest and demonstrates that colombias justice is politic ised and not impartial. But political analyst arlene ticknor says the fact that the court went on to detain this spite incredible pressure against it is unusual beauty of a case is unprecedented in terms of the level of the politician involved and so i believe that if indeed convicted this will set a tremendous precedent in terms of future investigations of high level politicians in colombia. Jacqueline in dorrys say theyre not interested in retribution theyre just hope that after more than a decade the decision to put their house arrest could become a turning point in the search for justice and truth at least in the room. Hundreds of people have protested in istanbul against the governments plans to quit an International Treaty on violence against women the president wants a k. P. Party deceptive decide by next week on whether to withdraw turkey from the council of europe accord which was signed in 2011 activists recently launched an Online Campaign about the problem of violence against women after a female student was killed in the south west of turkey. Afghanistans Health Ministers as many as 10000000 people may have been infected with corona virus thats one 3rd of the population he made the announcement after antibody tests on around 9 and a half 1000 people nationwide half of the cases were found among adults nearly 50 percent of the children who tested positive were asymptomatic now officially afghanistan has only counted 36000. 00 infections. General result of the survey says that 31. 5 percent of the afghan population which is equal to 10000000 people have been infected by the corona virus during the pandemic 37 percent of the infected cities and 27 percent have been infected in rural areas. Counting is due to begin shortly in sri lanka the 1st asian country to hold elections since the start of the pandemic turner was down but polling wrapped up without any major incidents of violence that are played previous elections in march president rajapaksa dissolved the 225 Member Parliament 6 months out of churchill to call the snap election. This is al jazeera these are your top stories lebanons cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in beirut after tuesdays devastating explosion at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured and around 300000 are homeless. The authorities are blaming vast stores of highly explosive monium nitrate which they say were kept in unsafe conditions for years several port officials are now under house arrest. Twitter has temporarily restricted Donald TrumpsCampaign Team from tweeting that was in response to the account sharing a video of a fox news interview with mr trump where he made false claims about the coronavirus links to the tweet arrive at this page twitter says the post violated its rules on 19 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign does appear to have complied just hours earlier facebook removed the same video from President Trumps main page mike hanna has more from Washington WellPresident Trump stated in that interview phone interview with Fox Television that children are almost. From. 1000 or virtually immune he said as well at a different stage now this is clearly payton falls the centers for Disease Research research the c. D. C. Says that quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted coronavirus and at least 6 have actually died of an acute in planetary situation stemming directly from coburg so this is clearly incorrect survivors of the worlds 1st atomic bomb have been marking 75 years since it was dropped on hiroshima in japan and it was a scaled back ceremony because of covert 19 about 140000 people were killed. Hundreds of protested in istanbul against the governments plans to quit an International Treaty on violence against women president make a party a set to decide by next week on whether to withdraw turkey from the council of europe accord which it signed in 2011. Folly will keep you company from 3 g. Up next slavery a 21st century evil i will see you very soon. As protests rage over Police Brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u. S. Elections on a. 300 years the most powerful nations on earth group richer and stronger on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children were forcibly transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is a life that is thriving and it is bigger than ever