Politicians are yet to reach a deal on extending an expired aid package. And president and Prime Minister rajapaksa early results from sri lankas parliamentary elections show the brothers are set to cement their grip on power. The coronavirus gets underway as the wounds based players compete at the p. G. A. Championship. The french president has pledged support during his visit to lebanons capital today is off to it was devastated by a huge explosion a die humanitarian situation is developing there as International Relief teams arrive in the crisis hit city at least 138 people have now died while still missing and more than 5000 have been injured our correspondent anaconda begins our coverage from beirut. Search and rescue teams are still digging through the rubble at beirut port the site of massive explosions that damaged or destroyed much of the lebanese capital families are desperate for news about their loved ones dozens are missing there is pain and grief zainab fears she will never see her husband allie again. Theres a still are still i dont know where he is i havent heard from him since 6 pm monday i want to know if hes alive or dead. Rescue experts from abroad have started to arrive to help a country that wasnt prepared to cope with a disaster like this all of us are. Hoping to each other with. The fund says theres still a lot of destruction we need to move the stock to building to find. Somebody. The blasts were felt kilometers away killing dozens and wounding thousands buildings homes shops all destroyed 300000 people displaced billions of dollars in damage investigations are focusing on possible negligence in storing tons of highly explosive material at the port officials have promised assistance and compensation to those affected by the explosions but driving around the city the state is noticeably absent in destroyed neighborhoods like this one it is the people who are helping each other they are cleaning the streets clearing the debris and distributing food and water to those in need public anger against the Political Class many believe is responsible for lebanons near economic collapse is not new decades of corruption in the glare triggered an antiestablishment Movement Last october weve been fortunate growing used to this day not being present for its citizens we dont have properly just city we dont have a proper garbage infrastructure we dont have proper water infrastructures and unfortunately the people have gotten used to it but its its a time for change its weve been asking for. For quite some time and i think this last task is going to make change for the country much better the priority now is to help the victims many are still in hospital in Critical Condition calls for accountability and justice are growing louder for now people are focused to rely on themselves i need money tools to manage myself nobodys baby. Can i leave everything also and i didnt want to be mean so this is why im here i want to. At least leave. The street. Some may call it resilience but for many this is about survival nearly half the population of 5000000 lebanese were below the poverty line before this disaster the situation has since got worse. Beirut a crowd of protesters in beirut vented their anger at the government and the french president as he visited demonstrators surrounded a monologue on and one of the citys west hit areas told them he wasnt there to condone the government and that french aid will not fall into what he calls corrupt hands he also said hell push lebanese leaders to implement reforms. Its let me know how its my duty to help you as a people to bring you medicine to make sure you are fed and to help you reconstruct i can guarantee you that this will be transparent and i will guarantee it will not go into corrupt hands well lets now speak to our correspondent Bernard Smith who is on the ground in beirut for us but as weve been saying the despair of the last couple of days turned very much to anger nor on the streets there let me start by asking you how rescue and recovery is going. Well weve seen all day and stay here is armies of volunteers armies of. Shovels with brushes cleaning up digging up the rubble not helping in the search effort or we havent see. Representatives on the government safety officials. Police the military we havent seen them anywhere around here people have been left to do this themselves yes this is an extraordinary catastrophe that has affected home the city where there are about 2000000 people and every street like this little bit these buildings for example here blown out in danger of falling as well this is the problem now is theres a very dangerous situation here where people who are out helping because the reson any real management of a walking on the buildings only just in the last half hour has been put in place by some french emergency workers whove just passed by here so local lebanese government representatives Emergency Services we havent seen then and you say government officials on top of the ground are we hearing anything from government about how theyre going to deal with this catastrophe beyond this investigation that theyve said will happen. Well of course theyve promised an investigation but what they really need to do now is to try and rescue people in the hope that there are some people still alive under the rubble but it cant do that at night because there arent enough generates is to provide the light that is needed i can do that on their own because they just dont know what was already before this catastrophe a very bare bones so its a provision by the state in terms of Emergency Services fire. Fire brigade staff Police Military already fairly thin on the ground so when they really needed them to help in a catastrophe like this just on around on that just arent enough of them to help so the government has been left pleading for help from the International Community and you saw Emmanuel Mark from the 1st foreign leader here to have a look at the devastation from the south and bennetts method on the streets and buried for us well be bringing you everything as it happens from the lebanese capital here on out of there thank you bound. Well theres plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including. Remembering the victims of hiroshima japan marks 75 years since the worlds fast atomic bomb which killed 140000 people. Crime quarantine and an economic crisis and. Find out how people and officials are coping. And in sports this formula one driver gets the green light to compete again off to coaching the corps in a virus thats coming up with pizza. Now the number of americans filing for Unemployment Benefits dropped to 1200000 last week hiring picked up in may and june as states began lifting coronavirus restrictions after a record loss of 21000000 jobs in april will than 16000000. 00 americans are now collecting Unemployment Benefits from this state but a federal aid package of 600. 00 a week in addition to that state benefits expired at the end of july and now nearly a week later politicians have failed to reach a deal to extend it all political disputes of also meant that rental moratoriums which are backed by the u. S. Government are also expired millions of americans who lost their jobs during this pandemic are worried about becoming homeless many of them are now facing eviction and youve got to go reports from miami. Even as unemployment rates remain at historic highs the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of slowing with so many out of work in the midst of a Health Crisis the specter of massive victims is now real temporary moratoriums meant to prevent renters losing their homes have been lifted in 30 states and millions of facing a harsh reality the landlord here has started an addiction process against us when my mom lost her child and her father. 19 pandemic and i am completely scared and frightened because i dont want to come home which i dont why my family be split in half left at home by shelter over the last few months is job losses of grown so too have the lines that food banks that massive loss of income and increasing desperation not only affects renters but landlords to somebody who own one property in their service. To pay their bills and they have duplex and they make. The other without parental. Care not pay their bills this is absolutely to be journalists and provide additional federal leave to people whove been a lot of in washington negotiations between the Democratic Party and the republicans continue over a new Relief Program some Unemployment Benefits officially ended last month with no new plans in place that combined with an end to protection from a vision could have a devastating effect housing experts say without action the u. S. Could witness a tsunami of addictions that may affect tens of millions of people without homes many are forced to live with relatives or in shelters increasing their risk of contracting cope at 19 the court system is overwhelmed hearing addiction cases as a safety net designed to protect the most vulnerable seems to be straining according to the Data Companies to distance 40. Of americans at risk of a vixen for some its already happened its heartbreaking. You know i lost my job data lost everything oh no money no not ok i dont sleep well after worried about stuff by some estimates 40000000 people could lose their impacting poverty rates homelessness and why do economy and to go across Miami Florida while in the wilds a 2nd west affected country brazil more than 13 percent of people are now unemployed thats the highest level in 3 years nearly 9000000 jobs were lost between april and june because of this pandemic and at least 13000000 people are now looking for work and south americas biggest economy. Moving to other news an early results from sri lankas parliamentary election suggest a big lead for the governing party the sri lanka peoples front led by the budget hawks about those who serve as president and Prime Minister is set to consolidate its power this was so that the south asias 1st major vote during this pandemic which had forced a delay of over 4 months we can now speak to our correspondent in elfin and astris in colombo for us well we are starting to see some of the early results what are they telling us. What many people had expected the s o p p or the party of the rajapakse galloping ahead in terms of the results released so far weve had final results for 2 of this countrys 22 districts thats the goal and the martha districts board districts in the south of the country and these are overwhelmingly in favor of the p. P. 70 percent of the war going the way of that party and the 2nd essentially in the running the is b. J. That is the breakaway faction of the biggest Opposition Party the United National party they are way behind they have Something Like just one 4th of the votes polled by the p. P. So all indications from the early results that have been released so far and us asia showing that the p. P. Has brought in that massive victory it was aiming for the situation that weve gathered so far in terms of the official results that have come out so far as i know theres all potentially has a huge impact on sri lankan politics what kinds of changes does president rajapaksa want to make it. Essentially we had heard that the as a p. P. As a whole was asking for a man and it basically they had gone to the voters asking for 2 thirds of the seats in parliament thats like 150 of the 225 seats up for grabs in parliament because the president go tubby rajapaksa and his brother behind the rajapaksa the Prime Ministerial candidate essentially said that they want to change this countrys constitution they had found issue with the constitution as it stands after the last set of changes brought in by their predecessors the previous government now there was some really important changes he did see some dilution of the powers of the president to strengthen the hand of parliament it strengthen the hand of the Supreme Court it gave it certain fundamental rights jurisdiction over the executive powers of the president and there were certain issues so bored a century the Prime Minister and the president had said that some of this does not allow them to move forward with their vision and that they had promised to bring in a new constitution so by all accounts if they have control and overwhelming control within parliament they will press ahead and that is cause for some concern among human rights activists that been talked talking about reversals of certain democratic sort of institutions that were set up and things that sort of strengthen democracy now theyre also another set of changes the Opposition Party the United National party essentially fraught by division a stager is almost a nonentity at this election theyve still in terms of the kind of seat allocation that people are predicting they havent seemed to have won a single seat so you might find a situation where the oldest party in this country is voted out of parliament for the 1st time in history so a lot of changes obviously a clearer picture coming forth in the next few hours as the rest of the results come out showing the true picture of where this countrys Going Forward in the next few years and will indeed be bringing all those results as counting continues there in sri lanka now fernandez in the capital colombo for us thank you anna. Survivors of the worlds fast atomic bomb have been marking 0. 75 on hiroshima at about 140000. 00 people were killed after u. S. Forces attacked japan in the final stages then. It has the story. A poignant commemoration of the moment 75 years ago when the world entered the atomic age and the whole city was destroyed with the numbers of the socalled hit the original survivors of the attack declining each year this is likely to be the last major round of bursaries they will attend in large numbers special precautions in place to protect them from the coronavirus that hiroshima is mair referred to as a new threat facing the world accompanied by a worrying increase in nationalism. We must never allow this painful pass to repeat he felt that the most rejects selfcentered nationalism and unite against all threats i take 15 in the morning local time a single atomic bomb code named little boy exploded 2000 feet above the center of the city killing tens of thousands of people instantly with tens of thousands more dying in the months and years that followed many from radiation related illnesses michiko could die was a child when the bomb was dropped. With the pandemic innovative ways have been found for her and other survivors to share their stories with the present generation each of whom there is a sense that we dont have much longer to live im now 82 i dont know when i wont be able to speak so in some form we need to preserve our stories of the 3 days after hiroshima nagasaki was attacked with a 2nd bomb another round of verse or e with more survivors to market and in both cities both among the generation who endured the attacks and also the generations that came out after them theres a strong piece called true that really focused on abolishing Nuclear Weapons the experience of being the only country to be attacked with Nuclear Weapons help shape modern japan. By urging action from each country japan will take the lead in the International Communitys efforts towards the realisation of a World WithoutNuclear Weapons its a goal still far from being realized but one held still is strongly in the 2 cities that have suffered most from such weapons rob Mcbride Al Jazeera now north korea is preparing for flooding and landslides after days of heavy rain that followed among the west hit areas state media released this video showing people trying to repair damage to their farms parts of south korea have also been flooded after 44. 00 consecutive days of rain some highways have been closed and at least 16 people have died there and around 1600 s. Now gimmes governing party has asked president alpha conde to seek a 3rd term in office at elections to this year found that despite months of protests against extending the 82 year olds term in office now under going in law president s can only serve 2 terms but conde pushed through a new constitution earlier this year which essentially reset the term counter to 0 allowing him to run for office again. Now the president of barriers has warned that unauthorized protests will not be tolerated after sundays election Alexander Lukashenko is seeking a 6th term in Office Election officials have bought his 2 main rivals from taking part but a wave of protests over the weakening economy and the governments handling of the coronavirus pandemic threatens 26 year rule when our correspondent vasant is live for us in the belarusian capital minsk 7 really does seem that your sankoh is facing the biggest challenge of his career and yet how has he been responding to all this. Exactly is facing unprecedented opposition and it seems the teams increasingly getting worried not only have lots of people been detained in the last couple of weeks also the last probably largest opposition rally planned for today was a band at the last minute but the sri female opposition leaders who have combined forces to face have said they have urged everyone all their supporters to come to this park where i am right now to attend a socalled education friends held by the government basically this is a way to avoid not a bad day will arrive here in the next hour or so but also a lot of police it is here there are Police Trucks surrounding the park so it is a lot of fear of course that there will be a crackdown at this. Rally as well also today because the brain leader of the