Beirut Explosion

There's been a few around the world in modern times, but this is probably the first to be captured so well on video

Indeed. I don't think that looks like an explosion in a fireworks factory. Apparently they could hear it in Cyprus!

BBC NC staying with their own coverage.

Shame US is so insular. But CNN International has been very good.

They are simulcasting World.

CNN rrporting live from inside the gutted CNN office. Sad to see.

Becky Anderson is still going on CNNi at 6pm. She's done a great job with the coverage. Quite glad CNNi continued with their own coverage and not switch to CNN USA. Mark Austin is on Sky News at the moment.

Technical problems on the Six as they failed to reach a correspondent so they had to move onto the other days news.

Adrian Finighan (Doha) and Zeina Khodr (Beirut) for AJE. Zeina has been by telephone up until now. She's live on the ground now at the port with a camera crew. Unbelievable scenes.

Most well known to those of us in the UK being Buncefield.

Of course Wikipedia has a list of Largest Artifical Non-nuclear Explosions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions?wprov=sfla1

CNN reporter at Beirut says that 2 hospitals have received calls for a total of 460 casualties combined with 400 for one hospital and 60 in another.

Ros Atkins taken over... sounds like he's in F? Certainly not C as the opt was noticeable and James was sat there as it opt-out.

CNN have ended their coverage. Now its a US simulcast.... they are not covering Beirut