Big explosion, very sad, we have the biggest explosions though, we're number one because we can explode more bigly, I did that, no other President has ever exploded as much as me in the history of the country, lowest unemployment explosion, we're doing a good job and you know I like Budapest, I do, but the economy best economy a real beautiful economy.

Bloody hell, an insane number but I could well believe it when people were having their windows blown out 2km away.
Lebanon can't handle this alone, this is going to take a huge global effort.

Israel are going to have to play ball, which to be fair they seem to be so far.

Don't worry lads.
Raab has just announced we are sending £5mil in aid. Problem solved mate.

LivDiv wrote:

Don't worry lads.
Raab has just announced we are sending £5mil in aid. Problem solved mate.

I'm sure that number will grow over time but to be fair, the UK is staring brexit in the face along with the crippling covid 19 issue. I'm guessing funds are tight.

But... Wouldn't it be nice if the private capitalist side of the world finally stood up for once and pledged vast amounts of their money to this. It would be nice if other countries weren't the only source of aid.

And please, no strings attached. Just send the money and prove capatilism really is a force for good.

Such a shame. It's such a beautiful place. I went there for a holiday about 15 years ago and it was one of my favourite trips. Took a while to get over all the bullet holes in buildings from war times but once I did I realised how friendly and welcoming the people were. Seemed like they were just excited to have tourists in town. Delicious food, stunning scenery and beautiful weather.

About an hour after our plane took off the was a car bomb attack about 5 minutes walk from the hotel we had stayed in...

Some of these places just can't catch a break and it makes me sad. I wonder if the unrest and hard times will ever not be a thing for the countries in that region. I hope so.


Maybe Bezos can check one of his pants pockets for loose change and provide aid enough for everyone in Beirut.

No, but there does appear to be large portions of the plane intact, so hopefully there will be more survivors than not.

Shit. I thought it might have been just a holding area for agricultural nitrate. In which case it would just be poor design.

Yeah that's insanity. I thought one of the remaining structures in the port looked like wheat silos so I assumed it was a regular transit point for agricultural bulk.

Regardless, an absolute tragedy.

typically jemblery cobwin, not caring about are uk laws and trubbles!

What has Mauritius ever done for the UK? Let the foreigners deal with their own problems. © Twitter

Did anyone else just hear that Gurkha telling a story about his grandad in ww2? Told in detail about how he was fragging, then bayoneting Japanese before finishing off a bunch by smoking two out of a bunker then chopping their heads off as they ran out, because he was out of grenades.

7.20am on the Breakfast news, wtf.

WW2 - had the last horse mounted cavalry charges at it's start (the Polish attacked that way in at least one battle) and ended with 2 nuclear attacks.

Best to ignore it. It is just more nationalism and those celebrating wont listen.
I dont remember VJ day ever being much of a thing in the UK until recently.

Agreed, wiping out 2 cities full of civilians is arguably a war crime. Sure, they were unaware of the scale of the blast but the team who developed the bomb had to know due to their calculations.

They could've dropped a bomb into the sea as a warning shot and as an experiment to see if it works. They didn't tho, they dropped it on a city and when they witnessed the devastation they went and threw another bomb on a second city killing millions of civilians.

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They could've dropped a bomb into the sea as a warning shot and as an experiment to see if it works. They didn't tho, they dropped it on a city and when they witnessed the devastation they went and threw another bomb on second city killing millions of civilians.

Yes I've thought this too. Military and politicians are just bloodthirsty.