Youre watching all jazeera live from our Global Headquarters here in doha also coming up the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in peru raises more concern about Domestic Violence during the coronavirus pandemic. And 75 years after hiroshima the threats of cope with 19 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. Lebanons government has declared a 2 week state of emergency giving the military full powers a day after the massive explosion devastated large areas of beirut at least 135 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about 300. 00 thousands of now been left without a home officials are blaming vast stores of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate which they say were kept in unsafe conditions at the port area from beirut xina 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 does. Struct if then 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 work through the night and into the morning as people and bodies were feared trapped underneath the rubble so. My husband is an employee at the Electricity Company he survived but his colleagues didnt the 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. But the. 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. To close the well how 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 on 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. Beirut when a comparison of satellite images is providing another stark view of the size of the explosion and the damage this picture of the port of beirut from planet lab was taken in may this is how it looks today you can see the structures there wipes away and a large section of the main dock is gone well the focus is also turning to the long term humanitarian impact more than 300000 people as we are reporting theyve lost their homes and beiruts governor says fixing the damage will cost billions of dollars medical stockpiles are depleted and some hospitals are in ruins those that are functioning have largely been overwhelmed and lebanons main grain silo was destroyed at the port leaving less than one months reserves. We expect that the damage the port will significantly exacerbate their economic and Food Security situation and lebanon which imports about 85 percent of its food. Our colleagues at the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs also expect that this will of affect our ability to provide aid to syria because the port in beirut was one of the ways that we are shipping it and of course we also use the airports so well need to find alternate plans but 1st joe will need to do Damage Assessment and see what is needed. To repair the port and to go about our operations. Well help is arriving Turkey Russia cats are iran and other European Union countries remembers sending in aid france says 2 planes are being sent with supplies as well as firefighters on medical staff the french president Emmanuel Michel plans to travel to beirut on thursday john from little is the emergency coordinator of Doctors Without Borders in lebanon he says they and other aid and Charity Organizations are doing what they can to support an already Strained Health system. In the last 24 hours. Its a place weve been mobilizing where medical supply and there is a huge shortage of medical supplies. Where its. Actually wonder when one explosion. System im going on was hit by a 3rd crisis. Comes on top of me and im a crisis. Member. Of the im sure im so weve been stepping in to try and provide some on ship support who looks like were also trying to see how we can convert one part of the. Summer but. We live. And. Talking across the city i can point where we can respond when we get nationals or whether its you who dont. Like. Distributions to people that are homeless that. This was an. Explosion so we were stepping up and mobilizing and quite but we kept that. Scene where we were there because. Well while investigators in lebanon increasingly are blaming negligence what theyre calling an accident the u. S. President s donald trump is not completely convinced mr trump said an attack still cannot be ruled out they dont really know what it is nobody knows yet at this moment theyre looking it could i mean how can you say accident somebody who is you know left some terrible d explosive type devices and things around perhaps perhaps it was that perhaps it was a sack i dont think anybody can say right now were looking into it very strongly right now its when you have some people think it was an attack and here some people that think it wasnt in any event it was a terrible event and a lot of people were killed. Well mr trump secretary of defense appeared to contradict the president saying all the indications are that it was an accident yesterday getting information on what happened i must believe it its it was an accident as reported and beyond that i have nothing further report on that its obviously a tragedy you know we mourn for the dozens if not hundreds of lebanese possibly killed and thousands hurt and its just you know lebanon struggling right now in a number of ways and its just its a shame to see it happen its when you see the video its just devastating and and you you wonder what i mean its really really bad it could have been much worse ok lets move on to wrap up some of the top stories starting this half with the coronavirus pandemic which is killing one person in the world every 15 seconds thats according to a new attorney from the Reuters News Agency the number of recorded global deaths is now suppose 700000 latin america remains the epicenter with brazil and mexico driving the search in new cases and fatalities and its exhilarating in peru where concerns also growing about the disappearance of women and girls proving in womens rights Officials Says more than 900. 00 were reported missing between the start of the locked on the in mid march through to the end of june its feared Domestic Violence has increased during the pandemic live now to john holdren whos in mexico city so john just talking about the situation in peru they expecting this to continue. Well 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 do they expect this to go on the intensification well the pandemic can prove its got one of the worst def rates in the world and its got 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 just got off the phone actually to our producer whos just been speaking to an ngo in peru about this problem and she was asking actually where the majority of these cases are and the n. G. O. S basically said Something Interesting the fact that this is a lot of cases are in the cities as in the case for example in mexico a lot of them are in rural areas where perhaps theres more of a coach or of much shes more of men feel in 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 that young girls are going missing in the country another thing that the n. G. O. S been telling us is that they could be many more cases because in their experience families just dont report these girls because they feel that the authorities dont take them seriously that they dont go out to search that they say well he just went she just went off with her boyfriend she will turn up sooner or later a difficult situation there are actually some of those poor. Its a really echoed in mexico a country where 10 women are killed a day theres a real history of femicide here and juries have told us in this country in mexico as well theres been a real tick in cases up ticking calls to help lines from womens shelters and help lines have been set up in new centers here in mexico city but here in mexico in trustingly the president and his mother will preserve retaught has sort of denied that he said that Domestic Violence isnt increasing. During the pandemic and that things remain as they work so i think in latin america in general and specifically in some cases theres really these high incidences of Domestic Violence and the pandemic isnt making things any easier in those countries and perhaps authorities not taking it as seriously as they could do as there is a long history of happening ok john well leave it there many thanks John Heilemann our correspondent there in mexico city. Still to come here on this program. In their own remove the rallies his base as construction begins on a controversial but long promised hindu temple plus. Im lawrence lee in the northwest of england at the height of the tourism season where some hoteliers are warning that their livelihoods are being put at risk because some visitors are failing to follow basic guidelines to control the spread of the virus. Hello we have the remnants of what was hurricane making its way into eastern parts of canada now you can just see that area cloud here just pushing up in the process of dissipating even some of this area cloud right down the eastern seaboard there still more rain in the forecast for many eastern areas then as we go on through thursday some heavy burst of rain or. Around the middle and states just around the carolinas pushing up into the cheney was he said whats the weather pushing towards d. C. As well as some rain to just making its way across the appalachians for a time i will just slot a little further race was as we go through friday central parts could catch a lot of warm sunshine for many central areas of kind of the said he say some rather wet weather along with basically some cloud and rain just tumbling in here but the Western Areas of the u. S. Or hot and sunny pretty much summed it up once again that sunshine stretching down into a good part of mexico. Is now across much of the camera been some live to into Central AmericaWestern Areas of the campaign probably seeing the wettest of the weather but we are going to see some heavy right just around the way in which and also into the leeward as we go on through thursday and on into friday by friday dry close to Greater Antilles well they could catch up sharon jamaica kingston with a high of 31. 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In other news the coronavirus is killing one person around the world every 15 seconds thats according to a new tally from the Reuters News Agency the number of recorded global deaths just passed 700000 with latin america remaining the epicenter. Ok a developing story for you this half hour lets go straight to hiroshima in japan where survivors of the worlds 1st atomic bomb exactly 75 years ago marking it with a moment of silence this is a scaled back ceremony because of the reality of covert 19 its estimated more than 140000 people were killed when u. S. Forces dropped the atom bomb in the final days of world war 23 days later the city of mega sakhi was also devastated by a similar attack will stay with these live pictures will bring in one of our correspondents in the region Mcbride Saurabh clearly a moment to pause a moment to reflect. Absolutely its a very poignant commemoration it is commemorated every year but obviously being the 75th anniversary this is one of those very important anniversaries as you mentioned there the some of the survivors the hypocrite as they are known in hiroshima and also in neighboring i guess sakhi they are in attendance but their numbers dwindle through the years and this is probably going to be one of the last last anniversaries where we will see a large turnout by these 1st generation survivors even if they were children at the time that the bomb was dropped they would now be in their eightys and ninetys as you mentioned there because of the covert 19 outbreak precautions are in place to safe safeguard their well being and health and so on but we have just had the one minute silence that was held at 15 minutes past 8 local time that was the exact moment at which on the 6th of oldest in 1905 the bomb was detonated right over the top of a hiroshima 2000 feet with a devastating impact tens of thousands of people died in the initial blast and the initial flash and then in the subsequent days weeks afterwards people died from horrific burns and other injuries and then in the months and years afterwards people died from these mysterious illnesses that were linked to this thing was called radiation that the world. Eventually came to know all about as it entered the atomic age and it all began awful morning and also its maybe worth recapping i guess as well rob because august the 15th japan surrenders having absorbed these 2 atomic blows if you will but it did cause unparalleled destruction in astonishing levels of destruction. Absolutely and its a debate that continues to this day about the justification for the dropping of these horrendous weapons there was a debate at the time about whether the devices should have been set off as an example of what potentially the United States had come up with with the Manhattan Project and the development of Nuclear Weapons for the 1st time but the decision was taken to drop it over living targets there was also a debate at the time which continues now that says that in a way in the war it didnt the allies didnt have to invade the mainland and shane which would have cost hundreds of thousands of allied casualties but also arguably millions of japanese casualties from civilian population that was brought up to believe in the day of the emperor that they had to give up their life potentially although since then there has been a