Facebook the disappearance of hundreds of women and girls in peru raises more concern about Domestic Violence during the coronavirus pandemic. And 5 years after hiroshima the threat of covert 1000 forces japan to scale back ceremonies commemorating the victims. The end. Thank you very much for joining us levanon skull from untested cleared 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 about 300000 have been left without a home investigations are focusing on negligence with the officials believed to be responsible now under house arrest as in a hard one has a report from be. 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 materials. Stored at a warehouse at beirut port caused the blast sending shock waves across a 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. Last summer how authorities are appealing for help from the International Community the state is close to bankruptcy. Its like a big 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 got 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 a comparison of satellite images is providing another strong perspective of the damage this picture of beirut sports from planet lab was taken in may this is how it looks now we can see structures wide town and a notch section of the main dock his gone now the focus is also turning to the long term humanitarian impact more than 300000. 00 people have 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 a months reason. Help is arriving in Turkey Russia iran and the European Union are among those sending aid france says 2 planes are being sent with surprise as well as firefighters and medical staff french president demanding mccraw plans to travel to beirut on thursday and an iraqi delegation has met the lebanese Prime Minister husain job promising to send fuel and wheat lebanon imports up to 80 percent of its fold. In other world news tweets or temporarily restricted president Donald TrumpsCampaign Team from tweeting on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of a fox news interview with sean in which he made false claims about the coronavirus links to the tweet now arrive at this speech twitter says suppose violated its rules on covert 19 misinformation and the owner must remove it before they can tweet again the campaign appears to have complied hours earlier facebook removed the same video from President Trumps main page mike hanna has more from washington. Well President Trump stated in that interview phone interview with Fox Television that children are almost immune from coburg 19 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 some quarter of a 1000000 children have contracted to corona virus and at least 6 have actually died of acute inflammatory situation stemming directly from coburg so this is clearly incorrect but what has got to be looked at as well as the 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 false woods being made by President Trump with regard to children and covert 19. Rob pegoraro is a freelance take writer he says its notable that facebook finally took the step of removing toms video and he believes a pandemic is playing a part in changing the companys approach. 257000 americans dead from this disease thats part of it i think also facebook this story glee over the last few years weve seen the do not want to upset to new people around the president to the extent where a very pro trumpet inaccurate news source like right art does not get banned does not get what gets a privilege spot in the face but missed out on their mobile app. And they have gotten a lot of criticism including from what if this were complete. Because tried not to get sense to the president and his support it is a business advertisers dont want to be in a place. I would assume that having a site overrun with conspiracy theories would not make it. I dont think this is going to draw to draw too many way from facebook the complaints people have about it i was just writing both served at the steamer so special of the number one complaint described as not is facebook mean to conservatives are not it is definitely true that some of the same people in that house many hearing who cusack are grrr of and the other executives of being biased against republican voices will have another talking point even though actual evidence of that bias i havent seen it trump seems to have done very well using facebook as a megaphone he certainly has an immensely large audience. The counting of votes is underway in sri lanka after wednesdays parliamentary election turnout was down but polling wrapped up without any major incidents of violence that of space previous elections we now fernandez reports from colombo. Pulled open early on wednesday to choose sri lanka as members of parliament when the coronavirus pandemic made the National ElectionCommission Job extremely difficult the 1st. And lawyers. For the election both each all aboard. Employed at least that was probably kill me. This is more than being. Roys our house. Says it was important to ensure the health of tens of thousands of state Workers Police military and 16000000 voters the election was postponed twice because of Health Concerns observers see when the vote was one of the most peaceful in recent years and that is an achievement. The preference Voting System usually causes much rivalry between candidates from the same party but new restrictions on campaigning minimize can transition election day proceedings are ok but some undistorted pending issues related to 3 the lection campaign. During the Campaign Reveal that actually they were unable to create a level Playing Field because. Candidates over really feel candidates were able to spend millions off. The head of the Election Commission agrees definitively we need Campaign Finance or x. One because. We thought that we can build it and other thing we have some laws. Not to come to all the media are some sort of that regularly this weekend is that it then asked them to. Work according to the Media Outlets a number of complaints were made about mass Media Coverage during the lection is iraq voters in colombo what mattered when make their choice we had to board wisely to select the good. Person who is free from correct corruption and all signs of understanding so it is quite important because we will be sending 225 people to the parliament and they will be governing this country for 5 more years. Good leaders decide the future of the country those with brains will choose good candidates the others wont. Yes muslims we have problems because they are telling us that we cant cover their hair that we have bad days and all the problems so we have come on board should look at Peoples Party led by the rajapaksa brothers who serve as president and Prime Minister is expected to win a majority in parliament that happens the party would be in a strong position to change the constitution and revoke some of the reforms lost by the previous government limiting the poems of the presidency a week opposition is not expected to pose much of a challenge the results of sri lankas twice delayed elections are expected to be released late on thursday whoever wins a majority of seats in parliament theyre expected to face the challenges of improving the economy and tackling the coronavirus pandemic Mina Fernandez aljazeera colombo. Still ahead on aljazeera. Never end raimondi valleys his base task construction begins a controversial but long promised. Fast crime quarantine and an economic crisis in argentina find out how people and officials michel. Hello once again we still have some very heavy showers just around the western side of yemen lots of plants still showing up here but elsewhere across the middle east its business as usual in dusty weather that dust and sand certainly a possibility with a keen wind blowing as we go through thursday and on into friday 48 celsius in kuwait 46 in baghdad in the civil temperature here in doha we want to show is just around the southern end of the red sea then into western yemen just into the far south west of saudi arabia and those showers there into eritrea stretch across a good part of the fee opiah making the way across south sudan southern parts of sudan also seeing some live you shall see some pretty wet weather too just making its way across chad and heading over towards nigeria big downpours coming in here then the likelihood of some localized flooding further flash flooding a possibility into south sudan as we go on through the next couple of days as showers really never too far away i know the president got a group of congo are also seeing some heavy showers but to the south of that it is generally dry until you get into the southern cape of south africa still a fair bit of cloud rolling through here some rather cold air in the forecast 14 celsius and wet weather there for Port Elizabeth and turning cool if its 100 by friday. Kidnappings and murders in crimea says russias forced an extension of the black sea financial. I dont understand why the speed now. Scores of crimean to toss have been arrested tortured and killed. Most believe by Russian Security forces. Crime in russias dark secret on aljazeera. The arab the on. Youre watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back to go a reminder of our top stories this hour lebanons cabinet has declared a 2 week state of emergency in the rules following tuesdays devastating explosion at least 125 people are dead more than 5000 injured and about 300000 have been left without homes authorities are blaming vast tours of highly explosive Ammonium Nitrate which they say were kept at the port in unsafe conditions for years several officials are now under house arrest in connection with the blasts and twitter temporarily restricted president of trans Campaign Team account on wednesday it was in response to the account sharing video of truck making false claims about coronavirus. Facebook removals the same video from President Trumps main page. Former colombian president out of viral raby has tested positive for coverage 19 just a day after the countrys Supreme Court ordered he be placed under house arrest has been detained over allegations of witness tampering and fraud which he denies i was on that im getting reports from bogota. The 2nd day of startling news for former president i believe just as he prepares to begin handing detention amid the witness tampering investigation he announced he tested positive for covert 19 but for many colombians hes undeserving of any sympathy. Like Jacqueline Christie youre who considers him responsible for the death of his brother jaime a decade ago or dory still how the who lost their son the same way they are 2 of thousands of men that were abducted and murdered by soldiers during his administration been declared rebel combatants to boost war statistics and justify your. A scandal known as false positives they havent presented this year 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 legal spying dozens of his government appointed close allies and even family members have been found guilty of a number of crimes yet then. He unself as always managed to avoid prosecution. Millions of colombian 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. Let the courts this is an is totally arbitrary and a step in the face to the immense majority of colombians who believe you rob is honest and demonstrates the columbias justice is politic ised and not impartial. But political analyst arlene ticknor says the fact that the court went on to detain would even despite incredible pressure against it is unusual do you do it cases 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 dari 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 and just eat over with. 4 months of corn teen and then economic crisis have left many in argentina feeling insecure or the situation has been worsened by a rise in crime reports on how the government is tackling the situation. Security personnel on the ground in winter sightings their target is a Drug Trafficking ring involved in armed robberies. The operation is money toward by the provinces security minister said. He sell a 10 in corn and in the army a surgeon and a lawyer he says the only way of stopping when a site is going out of control is to be on the ground every day. We are kompany to him on one of more than 40 Security Operations that take place every day in this province of 12000000 people that live in so i want to say that the province of borno state is going through a pandemic is the region is a virus but we already had other intimate problems like insecurity its getting deeper and we need to approach it with all sorts of policies. The raid is not an easy one members