A heroic rescue worker in Beirut has explained in an interview that he still has hope to find a survivor after a pulsing sound was detected, one month on from the devastating explosion that rocked the city on August 4.<br /><br />Twenty-five-year-old Ramis Alhasan was interviewed today at the scene of a recovery operation where heartbeats have been detected within the remnants of a destroyed building.<br /><br />Aid workers have been working for over thirty hours in the hope of recovering some form of life.<br /><br />Interviewed by Matt Kynaston, Ramis is heard explaining what was going on today (September 4).<br /><br />He explains: "I’m volunteering to help the moving if there’s any life there."<br /><br />Ramis says he's been at the site since the early hours of the morning and been working all day.<br /><br />"We had some hopes this morning. They told us there are only 80 centimetres and we can go under, now they’re telling us we have two and a half metres, so [I’m] a little bit disappointed.<br /><br />"What are the latest signs of life?" Kynaston asks.<br /><br />"An hour ago, there was a little bit of signs of life....Heartbeats, like seven. <br /><br />"They decreased 18, 15, now seven. We are afraid they might get any lower."<br /><br />Ramis explains that he's happy within himself regarding the work but makes it clear he's disappointed about the situation and the progress made.<br /><br />"The guys in there are heroes, really they are heroes to us," he says when talking about the rescue team.<br /><br />When asked "Do you have hope?" Ramis adds "Yeah, I do, if we have one per cent chance I’ll be doing this, even if it was a cat I’ll be doing this. I don’t mind, it’s a life after all."
