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Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut on Tuesday. The chief executive of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, Dr Firass Abaid, told Martha Kearney about coping with the aftermath of the explosion. He said: "It was pretty chaotic, suddenly we had this influx of tens of casualties to our emergency room. Most of them were glass wounds and they were in shock." He went on to say: "Then we started having the ambulances bringing in the casualties from the explosion site and these were more serious injuries and some of them had passed away." With the BBC Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen and Lina Khatib, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Credit: European Photopress Agency