in their homes running out of food and water without power or communications. the government is not able to transfer the dead bodies some of them have swollen up i want the government to transfer the dead and move the injured to a safer place. the people of gaza a largely on their own the u.n. has no presence in the city the main hospital is overwhelmed and running out of supplies the red cross is ferrying fuel body bags and bandages to its doctors the roads in and out a contested the taliban claim to control every access heavy fighting in the city in the past three days has resulted in more than one hundred civilian casualties communications networks and electricity supply are currently down in the city resulting in water shortages and food is also reportedly running low residents say the taliban controls more than half the city there well equipped with trucks guns and rocket launches the taliban post victories on the twitter account of chick

points of iran and soldiers killed on monday the military deployed one thousand more troops to gaza and. the government is defiant that it's still under their control with every day comes a new declaration of victory but. it with the measures that have been taken by the government i can say with courage that within twenty four hours there will be a remarkable change to the situation in gaza province. but another day has come and people report nor change other than diminishing russians of food and water both sides are entrenched disparate to are in the city. is just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul lies on the motorway connecting the capital to southern afghanistan it's a high value with thousands of afghans trapped inside a shell of dallas. as head of communication for the asia

pacific region of the international committee for the red cross he joins us now via skype from geneva we appreciate your time. how quickly did the situation deteriorate. as you have been rightly reported was very quick. to have seen starting on friday and by today the shortest day of the heavy tried things that is leaving the. reality. leaving balshaw. huge chunk of people and on did every day large so. what are how much freedom of movement do your people have when it seemed when as we're irv's we're hearing from people on the ground that the taliban al controls more than half the city when the safety concerns for your staff how can they get to where they need to be to help people. maybe just to say that. people are working toward the

i.c.r.c. teams have been working in a gun stand for over thirty years and yes you see as an organization has over one hundred fifty years of experience of working in situations of the armed conflict so for diaz you see i dare say yes' not and therefore we have protocols and ways of working in situations like this in this particular case as the situation very badly and very fast we have been really looking into every opportunity to help people our focus have been the local hospital as well as as of today we had also trying to help to together or colleague strong d. of the constant red crescent to collect by the use and to transport them back to their families so we're also hearing then that the food and water is is becoming scarce. what is what's contributing to that are you do not do you have it and you can't get it to the people that need it or what's contributing to that. what we

know so far and what we can confirm mused that it is actually defect. specially because yes you see have been providing lifesaving threshold to to the hospital as well as electricity for surgeries of the wounded people as well as generators so we can confirm that there is a cut in boat but we cannot really know what was the source would it would who has has done what it means that that the scotties is actually happening so now of hiring process thank you so much for updating us on the work that your people are doing with the international red cross thank you very much thank you. plenty more ahead in the news hour including and consulting the people cubans have their say on the biggest change to the island in decades. outrages a former archbishop to spare jail time after covering up child sex abuse. and its warts makes a comeback from what was the worst loss of her entire career. place

in london are treating a crash outside the british parliament as a terror incident two people were injured when a mantra of a car through a group of cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into security barriers or insley reports. the palace of westminster is a sleepy place in august as the politicians are on holiday here during rush hour this was the scene as heavily armed police swooped on a car which had apparently been driven deliberately into the crash barriers surrounding the parliament the force of the collision clearly seemed to have crumpled the whole front of the small it's only occupant showing no resistance as officers calmly took him out and led him away the question is who is he and what was his motivation in my opinion it was deliberate it wasn't it wasn't over you know for sure if he if it was

a direct hit. as he crossed lanes on accelerated to point his car parliament the driver plowed through a group of cyclists at least one was injured though not seriously. by now the full security operates in there were no weapons in the car but the incident was soon treated as a terrorist related the driver was refusing to answer questions from the police and they didn't know anything about him a priority now is to formally establish the identity of the suspect and establish his motivation if we can. he is not currently cooperating with the morning more on it became clear there was no further threats though the government's full counterterrorism unit met to discuss what they did or didn't know about the matter if the aim of this was to repeat last year's attack on westminster bridge that it was more or less a complete failure but if the point was to prove that it is still possible to hit an emblematic targets but the houses of parliament then clearly it succeeded space

was of the same time not a major incident but something that the security services are taking very seriously indeed. of course through strong reasons for the security services to be worried last year a car attack on westminster killed six people including a police officer and injured fifty what this was isn't yet clear but it is at least a reminder that no security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london. of saucer office an assistant professor at nottingham university and a specialist on terrorism and religious extremism we appreciate your time very much what if anything does it say to you that this person who's been a drug arrest of this person is late twenty's is not cooperated with police not saying his name not saying why he did it does that say anything to you. well i think this is consistent with what i think happened in this case if you look at the way this attack was conducted in comparison with the attacks we had last year

it does seem to be the actions of a very confused and disturbed individual without the benefit of any planning for example when he drives around the the one way system around westminster he was in the right lane to go into the barriers had he wished to but he went the the wrong way and then turned towards oncoming traffic if that point there had been a bus or a lorry he would have gone nowhere he would have crashed into them but he managed on fortunately to hit a couple of cyclists fortunately they weren't seriously injured and then he went straight into a barrier that was designed to constrain the vehicle to. stop him from harming anybody which is exactly what happened so to me it does appear we

can't be sure of course at this stage the actions of somebody who hadn't planned this somebody even whilst he was conducting this attack wasn't entirely clear about what he was doing or what he wanted to achieve and it may well be that this is a disturbed emotionally mentally disturbed individual who only thought about doing this a few hours. beforehand so well that he was committed would that say to you that if that does bear out to be true would that say to you that that means more than likely he wasn't necessarily. in coordination with anybody else that maybe this is just something he decided to do. well that's very possible that he he decided to act on his own. but that doesn't of course preclude the fact that he may well have been influenced over a period of time by individuals we have in this country as in most

countries. people who are preach hate or whether in a religious context or a political context we just three days ago. managed to convict an individual called lewis twenty six year old. a native english convert to extremist form of islam who. was in the company of one of our major radicalizes child three who. has eventually been imprisoned for preaching hate so it is very possible that it's a combination of both things away appreciate your time in your insight as very much professor thank you very much turkey and russia say they want to find a solution to stop the fighting in serious and lead province the foreign ministers from both countries met in ankara turkey as against the syrian government's

offensive to retake a live album sessions last major stronghold of a service says that there is no reason to target the anti or provinces to read out armed groups. is on the just a little secret that she is the only these areas of deescalation was set up under certain strict conditions first of all there was agreement that the ceasefire arrangements do not apply to terrorists all the territory they occupy this agreement is about all the areas of deescalation but it libya's much more complicated because of the dominance of juba child who's right in the area which is defined as a terrorist organization by the un so her has a way this from beirut. turkey and russia stakeholders in the syrian conflict both countries have influence in syria both countries support opposing sides but they have been cooperating together for some time now through the so-called aspen a process but it is clear that these two countries do not agree on what to do in the north western province along the border with turkey is under the control of the

opposition the syrian government has repeatedly said that they want to recapture this whole province turkey has said no that is a red line because if you do that it would cause human suffering further displacement three million people live there and turkey does not want to take in more refugees so what these two countries have been trying to do is find some sort of an arrangement now russia the russian foreign minister lavrov when he said we are still looking for peaceful approaches this of course will be welcomed by turkey so maybe there is some common ground on how to how to try to resolve the problem is that we do know that the russians have given the turks a deadline really to get rid of and to eliminate groups that are linked to al qaida and live but so far those groups have not disbanded nor have they joined the ranks of the of the so-called moderate opposition military action has also not been taken against these groups but a lot really has changed to following the deterioration in relations with turkey

and the united states and russia and the united states now turkey and russia need each other more than ever and they do have common interests so they're going to try to find a way to reach some sort of an arrangement because we heard the turkish foreign minister say bombing the whole of the bombing hospitals bombing schools this this will only create in his words a massacre and it will not be just the if there are just a few in his words terrorist groups and so these two countries there's still no agreement on it but both of them saying that more discussions will be held. later of a party advocating independence for hong kong a skewes china suppressing free speech both the chinese and hong kong governments wanted to stop and. i'm giving a speech at the foreign correspondents club from a private parts. protest by prob aging supporters outside hong kong's foreign correspondents part is how do you know their anger aimed at the man speaking inside . andy chan leads

a small political party advocating independence from china leading to accusations that he's threatening national security due to the nature of how the chinese propaganda machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to these single word independence in reality what the national party is chasing after is no different from what many homeowners wish for the dream of democracy although he says he's not guilty of any crime the police have recommended his party be banned if that happens he says it sets a precedent for stifling all debate about independence but there is a very dangerous idea because they can accuse of you people in a restaurant to discuss about independence they say you have the potential to form a party and you have the potential to threaten their national security so we are

going to arrest you right now to take preventive measures. chan is from a new generation of activists which has grown out of the so-called umbrella movement four years ago that occupied the streets of hong kong demanding greater autonomy hong kong's then leaders see why learn with the target for their anger and his attacks on the foreign correspondents club along with other probe aging figures for allowing chan's lunchtime appearance has stirred up the protests i mean you know you might you ask me the f.c.c. should leave hong kong of course maybe even arrest them. which chinese would love our country why are you separating us from china. it's led to fears of this issue being used in a why to attack on press freedom they seem to be signaling the people who have the air beijing that they really would like to be much more like the chinese mainland where there are controls and more journalists can do what journalists can say and

indeed where they can operate for they doing it support is the word independence has become a red line that shouldn't be crossed the fear for pro-democracy groups here is that a future law may officially banned even mention of it and so rolling back ever further the freedoms enjoyed by hong kong people of macbride al-jazeera on call. and response chant to chant speech hong kong's government says press freedom is not under threat. we mustn't forget that concomitant constitutional responsibility to protect safeguard the national sovereignty territorial integrity and national security of the people's republic of china and hong kong is an alien copy of the people's republic of china so there's no question of our independence that's why we always say that we can't pull over any discussion that

a long promoter can paintings of for the sake of pushing forward the nationalism independence in the long run the cost of valgerd. time for weather with richard a look at some of the wildfires with that which have been hitting the northern hemisphere all summer here i mean obviously the extreme heat across europe richelle it's been a real issue in this we look at the weather map say for instance across iberia where we have those extreme temperatures across spain into portugal a little while far as their bit of this you've had a change in weather types of they have come to control actually being extinguished and of course we had really extreme conditions up across scandinavia with the law in a far as extending all the way up through well inside the arctic circle those temperatures hit an excess of thirty degrees celsius again those are as we've seen much cooler weather moving in significant rainfall i can't say the same about the weather making a contribution to the wildfires across in california because i'm afraid here we still have some severe fars and the south we've got to hold the far which covers

about knowing thousand hectares and it sounds like a lot so nine thousand football pitches but when you compare it with what's going on across the high arctic it's small beer because here we are across the summer months we have had something like two point nine million hectares of wildfires of which more than two and a half million hectares are still burning as we speak and of course all this makes a huge contribution to climate change on the evidence suggests that number of wildfires increased by more than ten times compared with just ten years ago all right richard we are going to miss you i think it's time now to tell our viewers what a loss it is that this is his last weather presentation with us after seven years of al-jazeera one of the smartest people most any of us know in this newsroom and we wish you all the best and i regret that you know the pleasure of working absolutely us well yes well. still ahead on al-jazeera. we turned

into the french radio station with the late message for refugees and asylum seekers and the mets out there are city rivals and major league baseball to excel since for . national bulletins the debate on migration is polarized to include too strident positions all close to madness how do you destroy an indigenous person who they benefit isn't this more about living with defense and human eases that and who do they contain people doing the right to live anywhere in the world who have the right to leave their country. goes head to head with a cold commie and on al-jazeera. when people need to be heard. he's been there a few jomo still as long as it's not. short and the story needs to be told we do

stories that have impact on society i testified in the fall to make sure that the bad guys pulled behind al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on air and on the. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you this hour at least twenty two people are now confirmed dead after a motorway motorway bridge that has collapsed in northern italy this is a look at the scene the aftermath that came down in the city of juneau would there . stormy weather sending cars plunging more than one hundred meters into

a river bed and buildings below rescuers are still trying to find survivors. present at a typewriter juan says turkey will be boycotting us electronic products or telling him for what he calls an economic attack on his country or one has repeatedly denied that the national currency is in crisis even though the lira has dropped forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this year. and place in london or trading a crash outside the british parliament as a terror incident officers arrested a man in his twenty's who drove his car into cyclists and pedestrians before crashing into security barriers police say the driver is not cooperate and he wasn't known to security agencies. heavy rains and flash floods in the philippines a force for than fifty thousand people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern islands emraan com reports. slowly picking through the rubble to recover what was left of their lives the mary keenan river burst its

banks at the weekend leaving behind huge mounds of garbage and sludge. disaster management officials in just eight hour was the river rose from sixteen to twenty one meter is. just shy of the record of twenty three meters nine years ago when seven hundred people were killed this cold mechanic is trying to rescue these tools . belongings were washed away including the supplies and everything is destroyed no old that is left a good for nothing just scrap metal and here we are trying to clean them up. his case is typical of the region's poorest who are living day to day before the floods and now struggle even more officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up the flood control infrastructure. there was and we are now we will be you know reading image. networks and as the typhoon season continues mary queen a city and other low lying parts of the philippines bracing for more flooding in

wrong card which is a. and the most senior catholic official to be sentenced for covering the trial sex abuse has avoided jail and philip wilson will serve his twelve month sentence as home detention and that is anger of this victim's dargaville him reports from sydney side story williams not only did he dodge jail time but philip wilson evaded pleas for an apology to abuse survivors one word of contrition philip will use side story somebody in the catholic church so i sorry to put a lot million dollars we is the contrition from archbishop former archbishop wilson he's grace as somebody just sit ups these has shown no grice on the sword myself about this the former archbishop of adelaide was convicted in may of failing to report a child sex abuse by a priest of two altar boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. he's the highest ranking roman catholic official convicted of such a crime but resigned from his post last month following intense pressure from

political leaders including the prime minister feeling actually quite happy it's a custody will sentence that has been handed down. and he begins the sentence today . in well new season a senior cleric to have been found guilty sentenced and start the sense that the court decided wilson will serve out his sentence at his sister's house due to a range of health issues including heart disease victims and campaign is say the law needs to be tougher on those who conceal child sex abuse had a false get to do their highnesses act because people are the conceal or ignore what they do this is totally unacceptable it's a betrayal of the victims of the trial of the community and it's a big trial about children of the future because if the lackluster laws of the present are going to be used again in the future then the results of the past are going to be the results of the future wilson intends to appeal his conviction but

this case is being seen as a landmark to. isn't with broad ramifications for the church it sends a message that the church is accountable and can't hide behind canon or the confessional seal to escape reporting crimes like this yaba mohammed al jazeera sydney to the court as a lawyer for victims of and satish on lies child abuse she says there is no accountability within the church the church has lived by it's our own can and war and basically for decades and decades has been getting a. very very serious crime so i'll just an interesting point here is that i did my doctoral research in this area six months out of the catholic church and whether our victims were finding justice and it was quite i was quite surprised that the most important element for criteria for justice for the victims and their

families was criminal accountability of the members of the hierarchy who covered up and enabled the head of files to commit their crimes that was more important to victims then criminal accountability of the offender himself so it is here now to the point the point you make is there has been no accountability within the church or even this is the very first time that there has been any criminal accountability for that very very serious crime so sure yeah it's great but we sure do have a long way to go. pakistan has been celebrating seventy one years of independence a presidential parade was held along with the five raising ceremony in central islamabad on tuesday morning prime minister elect imran khan tweeted that he is filled with great optimism for the country pakistan became independent following the one nine hundred forty seven partition of critics and the call hider as.

august gun bridge seventy fourth independence day amidst much very many entire families have come out are crushed by get on with their national flag and all have been firework displays across major kid to get on it in their time for people to decide and make cultural and linguistic barriers and unite there came back seventy one years ago all their dream over an independent homeland for the muslims. became a reality this independent film awkward much excitement because of the fact that that country has now a new political party at the helm of affairs a new prime minister will be taking more dirt. on celebrated independence day and the people of pakistan of course will be hoping that this time around their government did able to deliver on its promise and to ensure that that country had

a bright future for its people. to have a significant political change and more than forty years of the government wants citizens and vault thousands of community meetings are being held for people to share their thoughts on a new track constitution from the vanna reports. their work day is done at this hospital and have a nap but the staff can't go home yet. they're staying on to discuss the proposed changes to the cuban constitution thousands of these government organized meetings are taking place across the island over the next three months it's the most comprehensive change to the country's constitution in over forty years we're going to look at i'm here to fulfill my revolutionary duty i haven't read the full project but i think it's all great. last month cuba's national assembly approved the draft constitution after several days of televised debate. the main changes

proposed establishing term limits on the presidency was lamenting the communist party as the sole governing body on the island benefiting. the process will help strengthen the unity of all cubans around the revolution. but cuba's legislators had to make concessions to reflect an evolving society and to try to ensure a more sustainable economy for the first time since the castro led revolution to power the proposed magna carta recognizes private property long considered an enemy of a socialist society. same sex marriage has also been proposed perhaps the most visible of social issues to feature in the constitutional draft the government is encouraging cubans to repossess document in detail it's made available for sale at newsstands all across the island and to take part in the public meetings about it the leadership here says these meetings are emblematic of the country's democratic

process while critics of course dismiss the entire exercise appointment. the problem they say is that the government is only affecting changes to benefit themselves not ordinary people but for a society that has barely experienced any constitutional change since the soviet era many analysts argue that even small changes matter when i walk i think cuba is changing and the constitution is part of that change it won't make the change go faster. the constitution is not a change it won't protect everything people want nor will it give everything that they expect. the process from here is a painstaking one officials are expected to take down the participants commons and send them back to the assembly on a cuban's will then vote on a final document in a referendum early next year julia galliano al-jazeera. argentina's former president has denied any wrongdoing in a corruption case based on

a show for notebook kirschner says the accusations are politically motivated. that. she was once argentina's president but things have changed. since leaving office she's faced a series of allegations over corruption the latest in which her name is reportedly mentioned in the notebooks of a driver in the public works ministry in which he details how millions of dollars in cash were moved in he and delivered to the presidential palace when and then christina wearing office in the past week businessmen and politicians came to this courthouse to testify in this enormous corruption investigation several businessmen a minute they paid millions of dollars in bribes to members of the previous administration in exchange for public works contracts the lot was the first one to see the old folks as it was. a neighbor had a friend who was

a driver who gave them a series of notebooks which described how corruption operated in the previous administration and he was supposed to reveal them only if something happened to his friend. carried out be investigation but did not publish the findings instead he took the notebooks to a state prosecutor so he could initiate an official investigation silence was crucial not only for the case to move forward but also for his own safety. i held back publishing because i believed much more needed to happen i only published it when the investigation was on and those involved were being questioned what it shows is that the history of corruption in public works is not unique to the previous administration but it did happen and it is this that brought christina again to court. on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movements some political forces that have increased people rights and allowed thousands to leave poverty behind for many

the corruption investigation is the biggest in a country that has failed to prosecute white collar crime over the years you know. the reality is bigger than what we imagined we all knew that there was corruption but not that it was systemic like the notebooks revealed it is a difficult case to put on trial because it involves so many things it forces us to rethink the whole judicial process the former president her aides an important businessman for the prosecutors say all part of the same plot that shows for the first time the vicious cycle of corruption between private companies and the state . on august fourteenth five years ago hundreds of people were killed by security forces and robust square in egypt's capital human rights watch describes as one of the worst the world's largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history the group are protesting against the.