Below the line thats what it looked like after the explosion and this is pretty remarkable i mean let me just show you some highlights here just to tell us straight the significance you see that area that you see right there see that right there theres nothing there right i mean look at the size of the buildings that were essentially taken out just prior to that and just to show how it affects communities concentrator focus on that area right there you see that i mean those are homes that were 234 stories high right there you see them before the blast there were essentially leveled gone. Thats remarkable stuff. Now i want to show you what it looks like at ground level and why people there are still really dealing with the impact of what happened here yesterday morning and afternoon look at this look at the images this is whats left on the ground sam mazing. I mean you can begin to understand the magnitude of this explosion more than 100000 people have lost their homes hundreds and hundreds more are either dead or missing they cant even find them because of this blast. Because the look on these peoples faces. Estimates of those injured range in the thousands maybe 3000. 00 or more and then theres a concern over the dangers of the residue and the toxic gases remember what youre looking at there appears to have been caused by an explosion of tons of Ammonium Nitrate which is highly explosive and toxic so were left now with the question is right what is it is it possible that it was sabotage what are the usual suspects saying you know hezbollah israel what are they saying about this. We have Team Coverage on the still puzzling story right here on the news with rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. All right lets get right into it the list of the questions we think youll be asking tomorrow after watching our newscast today what happened in beirut and who might be responsible have russian scientists really come up with a usable kovan 1000. 00 vaccine theyre ready to start putting on people or using on people on the going tobe or is the u. S. State department sanctioning the faffed of other nations resources thats a trend were going to be looking into but lets begin with this were going to begin with what is being called a historic if not almost cataclysmic explosion in beirut right now the culprit seems to be the mere accumulation of Ammonium Nitrate stored in huge quantities for years at the port there in beirut and if thats the case by the way that in and of itself seems horribly negligent think about that what is Ammonium Nitrate you may not know look at this building thats Ammonium Nitrate this is the same agent Ammonium Nitrate that was used by domestic terrorist Timothy Mcveigh when he did this when he used that agent to blow up the Federal Building the alfred p. Murrah building in Oklahoma City killing by the way many many children were in a nursery and get this this Ammonium Nitrate im talking about its almost 50 percent as powerful as t. N. T. Its used as an agent to make fertilizer and it can go off with just a cigarette butt thats left on the ground so was it an accident or was it sabotage was it ignorance it was or a combination of all of these things that caused this explosion. We have Team Coverage of the story d for you today but ive got official Michael Maloof is an expert on this particular region r. T. Correspondent paula slayer is a middle east correspondent for us and rania colleague is an independent journalist who was on the ground there in beirut when the blast occurred and thats where were going to begin with ron yeah because she was there and she can share with us whats being felt there now and what it was like to be there when it happened runnion take it away. Well to be there and happened it was extremely terrifying. Like an earthquake and then the windows blew out and then there was a loud explosion and it was very frightening luckily i wasnt injured but a lot of people were i was at the hospital yesterday and it was just complete panic and chaos and people searching for their loved ones. Every single building Residential Commercial restaurants shops hotels nothing was left on touched in beirut theres just broken windows and apartments everywhere its completely devastating that the damage is widespread in a way like no ones ever seen. And today i mean today the cleanup began people started cleaning up of course theres theories about toxic fumes in the air but you know there were a lot of people apparently from the south of lebanon who came up to try and help clean up the mess. You know i spent the day cleaning up my own apartment there was a lot of there was damage inside my apartment lots of glass everywhere luckily i wasnt here to get hit by any of it but just a really really frightening day and now you know people are asking questions how did this happen. And it appears that you know it was known since 2014 when this substance was confiscated that its been stored at the port in beirut and people are really angry about that because there are regulations on how to store or Ammonium Nitrate that you know to make it to make sure its safe and the lebanese government for some reason decided to store it in a very dense and the most densely populated area of the country at the poor of the for economic lifeline of the country and now thats destroyed so theres a lot of anger in the streets at the authorities thanks so much we certainly appreciate you giving us a 1st person perspective of what its like on the ground paula i want to bring you into this conversation because as you know with a story like this if you and i were to go right now on social media or on the googles as they say we would find all kinds of stories all kinds of accusations. This. Terrorism that it may be israel what all or usual suspects in this case saying. About their possible complicity in this act. Well preface my comments by saying that we are hearing from the interior ministry in lebanon urging people not to speculate the Prime Minister saying that an official investigation has been launched and that those responsible will be brought to book but of course that hasnt stopped the speculation from happening and the 2 main culprits are people initially pointed fingers after israel and hizbollah israel almost immediately came out saying that they were not responsible in fact israel has since issued through party mediators an offer of humanitarian and medical assistance saying that it can treat up to 2000 lebanese in its hospitals the 2 countries technically at war but israel making that gesture and as of yet no response from the lebanese side now why speculation and why fingers pointing at israel of course is that israel in the past has carried out aerial bombings in lebanon aimed at warehouses belonging to his but now we know that Ammonium Nitrate was in this warehouse what is not clear is what was doing there and who was of belonging to we also dont know what was the trigger so some were suggesting that it was an explosion that was caused by the israelis in retaliation against hezbollah but as i say both israel and also hizbullah have denied that the other fingerpointing as against hezbollah is some speculation that hizbullah is responsible for storing this Ammonium Nitrate hizbullah has denied this and so theres nothing to back up the speculation that it could have been the his blood group of course this is what the investigation is to determine is why were these why was why was this Ammonium Nitrate of which we know 2750. 00 tons in this warehouse in the 1st place and who was responsible for it will probably bring you into. Conversation i know that you have a lot of folks there in beirut with their ears to the ground as to whats going on. Is it possible that it may have been a combination of ignorance. And sabotage and carelessness that caused this. And its probably all 3 the fact that that it was stored for for quite a number of years i think 5 or 6 years and nothing was done about a quarter 37 day get arrested there under house arrest right now there had been appeals to judges there to try and get it moved and the past nothing has happened. As to speculation i mean i have a friend who has a business that put that you can look go out on the balcony and see all that entire area his entire office was absolutely smashed the balconies caved. Have have fallen down he had to take a lot of his employees to the hospital so it really touches a personal cord at that point they said also that i was good at can i just ask you a question and i dont know in the control room of we have video of the explosion lets all watch it together if we have it because the thing i want to point out of were able to get this video of the explosion is there doesnt seem to be as weve seen in the past Paula Michael the. Any other discharge other than the accident where the explosion seeming to emanate from the ground itself we dont see any missile fire we dont see anything else around there that seems to have. If youll pardon the phrase stimulate the explosion michael ill let you have the 1st word on that. Level let me respond to that i have had 3 cent dependant sources tell me that and one up in june which is just up the coast from beirut in fact you can see the city is unique from beirut they a woman told me that 2 low flying jets came right over. Just before the explosion i had a and i got another video this morning of people looking up in the air listening hearing subjects fly over and its really just fly over there all the time and then all of a sudden you see this this wave the shock wave it and everything is a literate and and a 3rd source gave me information showing a touch of a missile coming in so i think these things need to be investigated im not saying that that they are actual you know im just saying that these are things that have to be looked at i understand the minister of interior is denial about but these things have to be looked at very very seriously i dont paula because it was put there actually was too much there was to talk to the people i imagine youve talked a lot of other people that anybody else say anything that you find curious at this point. You know in the aftermath of a lots of explosions and all countries that experienced them people often say oh i heard a jet. So far ive seen no evidence of that and i experienced it myself i didnt hear any airplanes furthermore you know. People close to have been saying that this was an accidental general security in lebanon is saying its likely an accident the israelis are denying it usually if the israelis are behind something they dont give an official denial they just kind of let you believe what you want to believe and they can sort of take credit for it but theyre denying it. So it does seem to be that this was an accident and furthermore you know the fact that lebanon has an extremely dysfunctional government its like im neal liberal dystopia in lebanon where theres really no rules and regulations and the government is a power structures made up of people who just are we believe exists you dont deal and youre not the 1st person to say that and its been employed by the covert 19 situation as far as we understand with some of the problems that theyre having their butt. Paula let me bring you in and i want you to have the last word on this what happens in a situation like this where you have so much scuttlebutt going about in a story with so much attention on it and so many deaths involved and do you fear this will turn into some kind of reaction in the middle east. Well no at this stage the need in the middle east is not that its going to turn into any kind of reaction what we have seen is an outpouring of support for the lebanese government as as we wish here and now the seems to be a consensus that it was an accident the israelis and hizbollah denying it and that seems to be taking the mainstream understanding in terms of what is happening and and so we have countries such as egypt canada the United StatesUnited Kingdom right across the International Community offering to support of course you might be aware that russia is sending 5 planeloads of aid and support so there is an outpouring of support and thats coming from the International Community and from the middle east so at this stage a lot of people seem to be adhering to what we were hearing the official word from the jordanian government is lets wait and see what in fishel investigation determines michael bohl if youre biting your lip to get in ill give you 10 seconds because thats all i got. 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Hey welcome back im rick sanchez it appears today that russia is taking a very proactive approach to vaccinating its citizens after a very short trial period that may have been cut short by one of well but what appear to be positive results the and i say that with a question mark the Russian Ministry of health has announced it will begin vaccinating citizens this coming october remember most countries working on some of the vaccines like fred. In the u. K. And the United States say at best at best we will probably not be vaccinating until maybe the spring or maybe summer of next year so what russia seems to be signaling that its comfortable enough with a vaccine for to use it 1st exclusively on Health Care Workers and teachers because thats the important part so kids can go back to school were going to ask a vaccine specialist what she thinks about this but 1st here is r t correspondent your shape of all. Rationals to be fast and prefer really fast and its not just about the country according to rush present the countrys Health Care System should be able to handle a potential 2nd wave of the disease that can happen this fall class of the country for claim success and getting ever seen before other candidates it sounds line other countries live it i dont love and there it soon main potential it seems much of that how the best prospects one of them was developed by the government led National Research center together with the ministry of defense its commercial launch is expected in september 2020 and the other one was developed by the state Scientific Center the actual in this siberian city of a serious the 1st batch of vaccine is planned to be producing 7 this year apparently Clinical Trials of both potential axes are being conducted for example the ministry of defense has announced the successful completion of the 1st clinical vaccine trial the scene has been proven safe try the 22nd group of disappearance where discharged from hospital and preliminary results indicate the militarys proposed scene has triggered a proper response to kind of the 19 men and women who took part in the trial well causing significant side effects the question is that how normal that response last and will it protect this Research Just answer theyre ready for why this test and while russian officials are confident that the country will be able to make enough im. The threat of arsenic seems for a nationwide United Nation and only 2021 scientists warn it will take some time before the vaccine as effective this can be properly measured they say it will be necessary to monitor the scene people whose for at least 6 months at todays full of the 860000 current harvest cases have been found in russia making the false last effects country in the wild over 6 100000 patients have recovered from the disease nearly 16900 lives by the current virus so far according to National Statistics were trying to rush it 11th globally the government attributes the lunch number of reported cases compared to the brothers of the jets race to the extensive Testing Program production russia since the start of the outbreak it gave a section of the disease according to researchers that make it difficult to increase the acts seen against her and a virus is very insufficient knowledge for the disease as the virus itself was identified quite recently in december 2919 and despite all the successes but think of it they say declaring victory still await us r c. So if its the 3rd not ready to declare victory then