al jazeera america. >> indian rescue teams continue searching for people trapped in the rubble of a collapsed bridge. 21 are known to have died. hello there i'm felicity barr, and you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up. security forces targeted buy car bomb in southeastern turkey. the least seven he known dead. iraq's shia leader, the government has new

representatives in the government. hotel. emergency workers in india are still trying to to rescue those, 100 meter section collapsed on a busy road in north calcutta. rescue teams believe many more are still trapped beneath the rubble. they are using sniffer dogs and special cameras to see if there are any trapped. divya gopalan is there. tell us what you know. >> reporter: that's right, femmfelicity. there is a huge slab of the

runway that's fallen on the ground and part of it hang over the fly over. so whacell. what this equipment is trying to do pulling the iron girders and owner debris, they believe a mini bus was under that debris, trapped around midday, quite a few hours ago when that part of the bridge collapsed. it is very, very slow going. the efforts are chaotic mainly because the area is very congested. they close to the flyover. as far as maneuvering these machines they have to be very careful. they don't have to just go at it. it's a lot slower than it should be. >> horrific scenes there divya, as the fight, the struggle to release those trapped people continues. but what about what caused this

accident? what made there bridg this brid? >> there was much contention over this bridge way before. residents complaining it was being built too close to the walls of their residence. if you could see where the fly-over is the either edge of the fly-over is virtually touching the buildings. so once again, it would have been a huge issue for residents and the buildings in the area. but also, the builders have been at this building since 2009, there have been delays time and time again and they have been under pressure to try and finish the bridge before the end of the year as it was costing going well over budget. the builders have spoken, said they are still trying to figure out what happened. but the spokesperson had said that it is not negligence on their part, but an act of god.

many people are taking offense to that and they want further investigation. the chief minister has said she will be investigating this carefully but it is turning to be a bit of political fodder as elections are coming up in the state in the next month and olot of political parties are now coming in pointing fingers, blame-game at each other. but the hardest hit, many people don't know exactly what happened. whether there was faulty term or corruption and that's still -- will need a larger investigation. >> divya gopalan reporting live on the scene of the terrific collapse in ca calcutta. a car bomb has exploded in southeastern turkey. the target was a mini bus

carrying turkish special forces. omar al saleh has the story. >> now president recep tayyip erdogan speaking from washington, d.c. did not directly say who was behind the attack but he indirectly referred to the kurdistan workers party, pkk. he says terrorism will not deter or end turkey's effort to confront terrorism. dibakar is an essentially area, district of sur where many of the kurdistan workers party, the

pkk, the government says, were taking refuge. >> the prominent iraqi shia cleric muqtada al-sadr has ended his sit in, calling for changes which they say will end corruption. announce diversity to ministerial post. the parliament has recessed until saturday to consider that list. >> translator: after all these demonstrations, because b abadi announced a new government cabinet today, except the interior and the defense ministry.

>> for political analyst ahmed, risti explains the new cabinet list. >> it is about 16 names for 16 ministries, which is -- well, it is slirchgd t shrinked to 16, is supposed to be 22. the names are not famous names but still on the underhand of mr. abadi. he is going to work on these names with the parliament. until now we don't know what the parliament going to say. what are the positions of the blocks of the political blocks about inside the parliament and outside the parliament. still it's a problem that it has been sofd in solved in a way te demonstration will be withdrawn.

>> at least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured at air strikes in syria. the strikes hit the only hospital in the eastern damascus country side. other air strikes hit a school and two civil defense buildings in the area. a serbian ultranationalist accused of war crimes in the balkans conflict of 1990s has been found not guilty at the rnl war crimes tribunal at the hague. al jazeera's paul brennan reports. >> scandal master, whose ultr ultranationalist many view, after a marathon trial spanning 13 years of legal ran wranglinge

verdict, not guilty. >> vislav sheshel was killing for ethnic cleansing eve cleans. be vislav sheshel was just participating. >> at his political headquarters in belgrade, he had expected a 25 year sentence. in any case having been released from the hague in 2014 he had no intention of ever returning to the netherlands. >> translator: from the moment i went to the hague i knew they couldn't prove any of the crimes i was accused of. to tell you honestly, after i finished my job and won, i wasn't much interested in the

delivered punishment or the delivered verdict. >> reporter: but in the croatian town of vukova, the view is very different and the verdict in the hague shocking. >> this verdict is shameful for the hague court, a failure by the hague prosecutors. the man we all know and here in vukova today has done evil and shown no remorse. >> reporter: the verdict leaves the international criminal tribunal in a difficult position, at least hiding or at worst distorting the evidence presented to the court. >> we will review the arguments put forward to the trichamber in order to determine if we are appealing this decision. >> sheshel is himself campaigning for reelection in

serbia. boosted his standing amongst ultranationalists. his acquittal may catapult him even higher. paul brennan, al jazeera. south africans are calling for the impeachment of jacob zuma. in order to repay some of the $16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home. from johannesburg, tanya page reports. >> judges delivered a unanimous ruling against south africa's highest ruler. >> failed to uphold defend and respect the constitution as the spresupreme law of the land. >> they said jacob diseum a zums

mijtseminister failed to respece law. they now want zuma impeached. >> it means that zuma was always wrong when he said he was above the law, above the constitution and come first. he was always wrong and today we say the constitution reigns supreme. >> alleged he was cozy with the guptas who offered people ministerial jobs on his behalf. possibility of a down grade by credit ratings agencies. the court ruling on president zuma and the national assembly is damning. zuma enjoy the full support of the anc. pushing this decision behind

closed doors out into the open. the anc and the president say they respect the constitutional court judgment and will study it before acting. unlikely to succeed with getting an impeachment through parliament which is dominated by zuma answer party, african national congress. seeing what voters do in this year's local elections. >> many people for years for decades perhaps even for a century believed in and supported the anc are going to be second thinking, second guessing themselves. >> the political uncertainty around zuma is hurting the economy and better fits the economy for mills of families to put food on the table. whether hunger for change is matched by the voters will be be still seen. tanya page, al jazeera johannesburg. >> all right still to come on the program, republican

candidate donald trump sparks controversy again, this time over his comments about abortion. and tributes to the celebrated is arced the zaha, who has decide at the age of 65.

>> hello again and a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. add least 21 have been killed and dozens more injured after a flyover under construction collapsed in the city of calcutta. police officers were killed

in turkey, the target a vehicle carrying special forces. and the prominent iraqi cleric muqtada al-sadr has ended his be are protest in the green zone after the iraqi parliament has presented him with a list. u.n. says alleged majority of victims in the central african republic is miners. >> secretary general is shocked to the core at the latest allegation of abuse in the central african republic. his focus is on the victims and their families. women, young children who have been traumatized in the worst imaginable way. yesterday the central african republic inaugurated a new

president, the interventions of the international community helped in this regard, but the troops who were sent to help people acted instead with hearts of darkness. these issues fester in violence, the secretary-general is focusing on these deeply disturbing allegations. raising it proactively at every opportunity. this constant and loud advocacy must be matched by actions of member states who alone have the power to discipline their forces with real consequences. this is essential to restoring trust in the invaluable institution of peace keeping and more importantly to provide measures of justice and healing to the affected communities. >> leaders from over 50 countries have gathered for a nuclear security summit in

washington, d.c. hosted by u.s. president barack obama, the goal is for countries to lock down all vulnerable atomic materials. remaining poorly secured. the fear is that i.s.i.l. will secure some nuclear material for dirty bombs. patty culhane is in washington, d.c. >> this has been a pretty big blow to u.s. president barack obama. he made it clear one of his top foreign policy priorities was to do securing of loose nuclear material. russia has attended in the past, said they weren't going to weren't consulted enough on the agenda. just a sign of how tense the u.s.-russian relationship is.

90% of the weapons in the entire world are held between the united states and russia. the question is in this final push how much progress can you make without the two major players? the white house is saying this will basically serve to isolate russia. they reiterated they would like to speak to russia about reducing both occurrence' stock piles, but realloccurrence --co. symphony of motorcades passing by, 50 countries, traffic is quite bad. they are saying they hope to make progress. they think they can get the countries to live up to the commitments they have already made and perhaps get other countries to provide further commitments. it's really loud isn't it felicity.

>> yes, patty. in washington, d.c. we bet there will be a fair few sideline meetings shall we say. >> and it's very telling when you look at who the president has chosen to meet with. there are all sort of reports that president erdogan asked for a private meeting with the president, and that was rebuked. he has only a couple of leaders. he already has japan and south korea, trilateral meeting, and xi jinping with china, and brief meeting with president hollande of france. really the focus is north korea. they are growing concerned about some of the missile tests el we've seen and enforcing those new u.n. regulations, and we have heard from south korea that they want to see even more sort of sanctions on north korea. so behind the scenes here's what's happening. the u.s. feels that the north

koreans could listen to the chinese if the chinese would bit more. about the potential of putting consume of potential of putting a defensive missile system in south korea. south korea obviously there are informal talks with that, but to china they are adamantly opposed to that. u.s. is hoping to use that as leverage to potentially get china to exert more influence in north korea. >> patty culhane, live from washington, d.c. thank you so much. u.s. presidential candidate donald trump is in damage control after he suggested women should be punished for having illegal abortions if the u.s. banned the procedure. be allen fisher reports. >> it's not been a key issue in this election but donald trump just made it one. this was his response to.

>> do you believe in punish many for abortion yes or no? >> the answer is there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yes, there has to be seasonal form. >> trump never apologized but clarified. >> the doctor: is. >> there was the predictable condemnation from his opponents. >> what he said today is just one of thamong the most outraged dangerous things i've heard him say in a long time. >> to punish a woman is beyond comprehension. >> and donald trump's rivals. >> he'll find a way to say he was misquoted but that's not an appropriate response.

>> be often a woman makes a decision out of desperation and the last thing she needs is a threat of punishment. >> trump has been called under are this be add ver advert star. >> it is a problem form because of his kind of lack of understanding of the issue but also his sort of continuing this narrative that he really doesn't see women in a positive light. >> thank you, everybody. >> donald trump has managed to overcome other issues like this. it ever really hits his support. this time the damage may be

longer-lasting and may have more impact for the republican administration. allen fisher. al jazeera. washington. neavmenamnesty internationas evidence of abuse northbound qatar. are caroline malone reports. >> work is progressing on qatar's are world cup venues. but amnesty international says the be work on workers rice is not progressing -- rights is not progressing enough. my rant construction workers rebuilding the calipha stadium. >> we've seen some workers going for many, many months not being

paid, working extreme long hours in very harsh conditions. >> reporter: withholding pay is against qatari labor law. requiring businesses pay workers on time. you wonder why workers don't just leave then, it's not that simple. >> you can't work in qatar without a sponsor. the sponsor has complete control. you cannot change your job without the sponsor's approval or leave the current without his approval. >> one worker said could he leave and forced labor as defined by the international labor organization. sponsorship laws are being updated in qatar. workers will be allowed to appeal when a sponsor refuses to give them a go-ahead for an exit visa. they are make ugh progress in penalizing companies which break the law. >> we've always said we will face set backs, and it's a

journey, it's not going to be an immediate solution. nevertheless our standards did succeed because in 2016 through or own accord and applying our own start standards we have beee to catch these abuses and evolve them. >> human rights said he laws need to be better enforced. >> it is not just a case of passing new legislation. there is a lot of legislation already in force in qatar and it's a question of also stepping up enforcement. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of workers like these are on construction sites in qatar, 36,000 are expected to be on world cup projects in the next two years but human rights groups says more needs to be done to protect their lives to make sure they can make a fair living without abuse. caroline malone, al jazeera, doha. >> the renowned architect da haa

hadid has died. be jonah huljonah hull reports. >> her works are widely known. at home she's known for the aquatic center built for 2012 london olympics. her futuristic decency are be described as have multiple fragment points. as seen here in the be maxi arts in roam. hadid studied math at beirut university before be architectural association in london. by 1979 she'd be established her own london practice fast becoming a revolutionary force

in an industry heavily dominated by men. in 2004 she became the first woman to win a p rititger prize. >> acknowledged for work which was really not mainstream, was very deliberately trying to yes all the things that kind of took for granted. and weave away a new urban life in the city which was to do with connectivity and malleablity and accessibility. >> it is said her angular designs evoked modern life. is a statement from he from here

said she had contracted be certain bronchitis and suffered a heart attack. she was 69 years old. >> you can be get more news from our website, aljazeera.com. the address again, aljazeera.com.