terrorist related the driver was refusing to answer questions from the police and they didn't know anything about him car scene now is to formally establish the identity of the suspect and to stop his motivation if we can. he is not currently cooperating with the morning more on it became clear there was no further threats that the government's full counterterrorism unit met to discuss what they 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 like the houses of parliament then clearly it succeeded space was of the same time not a major incidents but something that the security service is taking very seriously indeed. of course are 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 the new security can protect everything lawrence lee al jazeera london still had on al-jazeera was the multi billion dollar treasure trove that's been underwater off colombia for three hundred years. hello and welcome back we have an area of low pressure which is giving some very heavy rain across the far south of china and also influence the weather across much of indo china and indeed across into the philippines so we look at the forecast you can see the circulation giving heavy rain for hong kong and further towards the south and west getting into northern parts of vietnam to this whole flows really encouraging more showers of effects in the philippines certainly northern areas

salutes on is looking particularly wet at the moment and we've got plenty of heavy showers again for me i'm are looking wet in yangon and staying that way through thursday but you see that low pressure center moving to northern vietnam so some flooding is likely up over the hills and i think for could turn to be a very wet day indeed stage some improvement expected for hong kong so we head across into south asia here folks the rains across northeastern areas that we have had some heavy showers being reported in islamabad causing significant amounts of rain and probably some localized flooding to the forecast suggest further showers across northern parts of pakistan some showers possible for delhi but again that concentration of rain across more eastern areas because those can be a wet one in kolkata meanwhile down through the western ghats we're expecting further heavy rain here during the day. whether online this isn't some abstract issue we need to be introduced into their

stoops or if you join us on sacked rather than stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue and just the community is want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be unveiling a short while everyone has a voice and welcome civil society i need to go but i never get listened to by those in the chorus is a vote join the global conversation. on now to zero. zero these are the top stories right now at least twenty two people are confirmed to have died after a motorway bridge collapsed in northern italy this are live pictures of the

aftermath this is the city of genoa this happened during a storm seven cars plunging more than one hundred meters into a river bed and buildings below rescuers are still going through the rubble trying to find survivors. after eventual governor in yemen has escaped a roadside bomb attack thais cover a main mood survived the blast in aden province several others were entered attacks in shootings have escalated in that area and recent days. president says turkey will be boycotting u.s. electronic products in retaliation for what he calls an economic attack on this country or go on as a people a denied that the national currency is in crisis even though the lira has dropped forty five percent against the u.s. dollar this year. sorry alone has been remembering the hundreds of people who lost their lives a year ago in a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the capital more than one thousand people died after torrential rains sent mud and rocks hurtling down a mountain in freetown crushing the surrounding villages

a further three thousand people lost their homes the government has been criticized for not doing enough to read house that nature says in the capital freetown so what is happening where you are right now in freetown i bet. these ceremonies. i was told you got so almost thirty minutes ago or so you can see behind. me last week you almost. and then you saw in two thousand and seven in there were you in here right now. where you are right i mean it's a woman must be going to be more. than one hundred only for something months if you're just going to walk the roads simply because of you torrential rains so we're going to have all the while hollowing just two days to go we are in the slightest little ice on the. road but she couldn't make it clearly.

that's going to have to be our time without many tourists because it's having the or some fortunately having a difficult time hearing you with the ceremony behind you but thank you i just live in freetown. turkey and russia say they want to find a solution to stop the fighting in syria similar province the foreign ministers from both countries met in ankara turkey as against the syrian government's offensive to retake it with the opposition's last major stronghold. as there is no reason to target the entire province to root out armed groups. only these areas of deescalation was set up under certain street 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 the nusra in the area which is defined as a terrorist organization by the un so you know harass the latest from they were.

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 these two countries have been trying to do is some 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 it 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 this 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 and 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 a fireball if there are just a few in his words terrorist groups in it so these two countries there's still no agreement on it but both of them saying that more discussions will be held. a leader of a party advocating independence for hong kong is accused china suppressing freedom

of speech that the chinese and hong kong government wanted to stop and a chance for me giving a speech at the foreign correspondents club officials are also deliberating an unprecedented hosel to ban chan's party to national security private ports. protest by probe aging supporters outside hong kong's foreign correspondents tell us how did 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 the single word independence in reality what the national party is choosing now is no different from what many homeowners which will 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 learned was 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 white 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 and say and indeed where they can operate for they doing it it support is the word independence has become a red line that shouldn't be crossed the fearful pro-democracy groups here is that a future though may officially banned even mention of it and so rolling back ever further the freedoms enjoyed by hong kong people macbride al-jazeera. in response to any chance government says press freedom is not under threat no

discussion of the city's independence should be allowed. we mustn't forget that hong kong is a constitutional responsibility to protect so you've got the national sovereignty territorial integrity and national security of the people's republic of china and hong kong it's and it gave you all of the people's republic of china so there's no question about independence that's why we always say we can't pull over any discussion that. can paint a politics of pushing forward the nationalism independence and the cost of both the highest ranking official in the catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail australian philip wilson will surface twelve month sentence as home detention the court was told he has also time or sissy's abuse victim status to ling it the former archbishop of adelaide will be fitted with an electronic monitoring device heavy rains and flash floods in the philippines have

forced more than fifty thousand people from their homes at least three people have died in the country's northern islands ron khan reports. slowly picking through the rubble to recover what's 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 that in just eight i 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 calm account of his trying to rescue these tools. all our belongings were washed away including the supplies in my shop everything is destroyed now all that is left are good for nothing just scrap metal and here we are trying to clean them up. his case is typical of the region's poorest to a living day to day before the floods and the struggle even more officials are also

seeing the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up the flood control infrastructure. bremer was in we are now we will be no redeeming . networks and as the typhoon season continues mariquita city and other low lying parts of the philippines bracing for more flooding in wrong code which is a severe flooding in southern the southern indian state of corolla has killed at least thirty nine people and property damage has already put it more than a billion dollars although the water is receding the state is bracing for more rain for one of the war sponson seasons and a century more than thirty four thousand people have moved from villages and low lying areas and are living in relief camps in pakistan a sort of celebrating seventy one years of independence a presidential parade was held along with the ceremony and special on tuesday morning prime minister elect imran khan's we that that he is filled with great optimism for the country we sworn in this weekend academic

a man dependent following the one nine hundred forty seven partition the british ruled india. colombia's government is blocking treasure hunters from salvaging what they're calling the holy grail of shipwrecks and the spanish. more than three hundred years ago it was said to be laden with gold and precious stones that today they worth billions of dollars. reports it's unclear who will own that treasure once its profits short. stories of ship wrecks and sunken treasure have long captivated the imagination. but perhaps no wreck has fascinated underwater archaeologists and treasure hunters quite like the sun who say. attacked by britain's royal navy in seventeen zero eight during a battle off the coast of gaza hanna colombia all but seven members of her crew went down with the ship. unfortunately the san jose was too heavy to maneuver itself against the attack and was sunk by the british. three years ago former

colombian president juan manuel santos announced his government had found the fabled galley and. with the aid of unmanned submersibles three d. mapping technology state of the art robotics and an international team of experts the son jose was found the catch is a company called sea search armada claimed they had found the ship more than thirty five years ago and have been locked in a fierce legal battle with the colombian government over their share of the treasure a treasure that today is valued up to twenty billion dollars. in money if you think it had everything the cargo manifest lists gold silver precious stones pearls all of the wealth from taxes collected over six years from colombia panama and through this is. literally wrote the book on the son who say he says there were several parties who have a legitimate claim to ownership over the treasure is by the spain because it was

a spanish ships through because most of the cargo was peruvian. because part of the congo was panamanian and colombia because the ship was founded on waters. recently a delegation from bolivia presented colombian officials with a two hundred page document claiming a percentage of the treasure should be given to them as reparations it's believed there are more than one thousand sunken spanish galleons off the coast of colombia alone according to unesco there's an estimated three million shipwrecks all around the world still waiting to be discovered apart from the treasure the cultural value of many of these vessels is a measurable. and newton he fal an expert in maritime law says the case of the son who say could set a precedent for future disputes over sunken treasure. all of the countries involved could set up an example if i started by a law that would serve the world in similar situations. with so much at stake over

the ownership of the treasure recovery efforts have been put on hold indefinitely leaving some here to wonder how much longer they'll have to wait before the treasure of the san jose surface is again. when we. get the henna. our web site is al-jazeera com you can plug in there to get all of the day's news including the latest on that bridge collapse in juneau italy that's killed at least twenty two people we'll have an update on that and keep it here for a recap of your headlines on the other side of the break. richelle carey and these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera rescue teams in italy are scrambling through massive chunks of concrete rubble after a motorway bridge collapsed at least thirty people are confirmed dead many seriously injured after the structure came down an industrial area of the city of genoa during stormy weather around noon local time these are live pictures of the

rescue efforts as it continues you know that at least ten vehicles were on the bridge when it collapsed sending them plunging more than one hundred meters into a riverbed railway and buildings below after eventual governor in yemen has escaped a roadside bomb attack ty's governor i mean mahmud survived the blast in aden province several others were injured attacks and shootings have been escalating in that area and recent days turkey's president is taking new action as a currency slide starts to infect other parts of the world but it's not economic measure it's retaliation for what russia pipework once says is an economic attack is announced a boycott of electronic products from the u.s. which he blames for the slide or two on is again denied that the national currency is even in crisis as it continues to slip further against the dollar lira has dropped forty five percent this year turkey's central bank has already said it is easing bank restrictions to stabilize the currency fighting is continuing in the

afghan city of gosney at least four hundred people are known to have died over the past five days around half of those who think killed are civilians that's according to the un afghanistan's military is send them reinforcements to help defend the city from a taliban attack. sierra leone that is has been remembering more than a thousand people who lost their lives a year ago in a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of the capital they died after torrential rains sent mud and rocks hurtling down a mountain in freetown crushing the surrounding villages a further three thousand people lost their homes and the government has been criticized for not doing enough to find them new homes. turkey and russia say they want to find a solution just stop the fighting in syria zelig province the foreign ministers from both countries met in ankara today turkey as against the syrian government's offensive to retake the opposition last major stronghold of the cover sulu says there's no reason to target the entire province just to root out armed groups those

are the headlines the news continues thank you for your time for joining me on al-jazeera the stream is that next. the largest multi-sport event on the continent and the second largest in the world the asian games host. beating across a mix of traditional and deliberate speed. and updates from the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a.n.u. in the stream today a growing number of muslim americans have hit the campaign trail ahead of midterm elections this november and some are saying that could be history in the making we'll speak with a few of those candidates to hear about the ups and downs of running for public office and their efforts to change the political status quo we are live on you.

leave your comments and questions in the chat but first here's some maya toba a journalist and former streamer who suggested today show. growing up i feel like i do a lot of ronald in the political sphere. there are so many young muslims especially young muslim women getting involved and really encouraging. i'm hoping it will encourage muslim communities to go and i'm hoping it will encourage young muslims rather. run for public office. americans will head to the polls this november to vote in mid-term elections out of for some muslims in the u.s. that presents an opportunity to transform activism in the street into policy the associated press news agency reports that a wave of muslim americans across the country are making beds for public office inspired by the desire to not only challenge negative perceptions about their community but shake up the political landscape. of course running for office isn't

easy but some like michigan congressional candidate where she does leave are on track to make history although she's running unopposed in her home state to leave could become the first muslim woman elected to congress we're happy to welcome her she doesn't leave to the stream but she's not the only muslim american candidate looking to shake up the system in november to hear i'm going to do it is an attorney hoping to represent the first congressional district of massachusetts and arizona abood is campaigning for a seat in the united states senate and with us on sat her the how is the director of policy and advocacy for the washington d.c. based muslim public affairs council or empacher welcome everyone to the stream thank you thank you i want you to look at these three ladies these political candidates look what does this tell you about america when you see them all together these women i am hopeful there is not

a lot i think for us to be celebrating these days but looking at these women looking at their dedication their commitment to wanting to see a change in america in our political landscape and then really taking on that leadership role to be those leaders makes me very very hopeful let me share a headline with you this isn't boston globe and it says with hope and a hit job to hit i'm a to what doug aims to catch and wave in western massachusetts that is such a cheesy headline hope and a hit job anymore ladies that you have had to deal with so far at least to ration which you could please stop already with the muslim american label rashida you go first well i think mitt you know my district is a little bit different and the media coverage is little bit different just because i'm activist in detroit for so long it has been more about me being kind of allowed you know warren carey woman so happens to be muslim. or in some cases people say

muslim but i think that it is been an incredible journey i really haven't you know gotten this kind of so-called like attention in the media in regards to be you know muslim but more about being a. little bit more aggressive or maybe sometimes people call that come at it which is unfair approach to public service and i've been an active as i've been marching against injustice over the city and. and i think that was more of a big push back as being a woman and i think it's harder i mean you know for my muslim is that where the his dad like my sister it's always the first thing that people talk about even though my sister is you know she's a poet she's you know challenging issues around domestic violence and all these other things as her career people first see that and i think that's always been something she struggles with like i'm so much more than that but yeah i it is frustrating because we actually care so deeply about public service and about

elevating the voices of our families that so many of them happen to be non muslim but people want to focus on that and it's ok in some sense because i'm so proud of it plus it's kind of get in your face trump statement being muslim and kind of challenging the rhetoric that's been coming out of the ministration but i'm i'm incredibly proud to be among women who have so much courage because it takes so much courage to run. so on line there are people that say saying that you have an added burden to just being a muslim woman who wears her job running for office if it could get more burdensome than not this is done austin a former stream gas and she says tyra for congress as a black muslim woman faces potential challenges not only because of her race and because of her gender but also prevalent public islam a phobia that informs much of the current public political discourse she goes on to say but you are more than your demographic identity you're also

a capable attorney community advocates with years of experience and solid policy positions that we've often have difficulty analyzing black women can say because of our difficulties with race and gender so she adds on being african-american on top of all of that what's your take on the. i agree that it is sort of a trifecta and i talk about that a lot going back to the boston globe article with the headline with hope that he. when we posted it on social media and engage with some of our constituents particularly women who are not muslim we started saying that he jab jab superpowers and we totally embrace the idea that the jab has superpowers it's interesting because i'm running in a district that of course is predominantly white depending on what was statistically read it's between seventy five to eighty one percent white and so the question about my identity comes up quite a bit but i think is that most people when they get over whatever the shock might

be seeing me they recognize that we have a universal message we have lots of commonality and that overcomes that that initial sort of shock who is this person why is she running. and can she represent me when she looks in dresses and steps that way. just wondering about how you are dealing with your identity your faith. as a politician and the attention that has been focused on you because of your identity. well funny enough locally in the media it was always the muslim candidate no matter what i mean they would say you know a male entrepreneur is running and then they would say and the muslim candidate we've actually had an evolution and there's oh no where the local media doesn't do that anymore they actually call me an attorney which is you know what they call everybody else and nationally that has not been the case nationally every story

seems to be about the muslims running or the muslim women running or you know somehow i'm not muslim out that wouldn't even you know get their attention but out on the campaign trail what we've also seen an evolution because i am the only person in this race really from both parties that is running on my values and being truthful and transparent accessible and accountable on the values and we've never had that in arizona so especially i'm a democrat so it really is changing the conversation in arizona away from whether or not i'm muslim or whether or not i'm dressing although we made addressing part of it you know we have a whole shoot thing we have i wear color most people would like to dress like me so we embrace that but because we were willing to stand up for our values and really get out and talk to the people engage them answer their questions whatever they were be respectful even stand up to white supremacists and to escalate them then we really earned the respect so that we earned the vote. you know of course this is

a conversation that we're centered on in the united states but our audience is global and so this is resonating with people outside us while we got a video comment from someone named a small amount like and she's a candidate for toronto city council and she's also billed as the first hit job wearing woman elected to office in canada it was for the toronto district school board and these are the things she says that she faced have a listen i was the first to jump around muslim women to be elected to the congress in canada and it wasn't easy. i was the time. you can in one of the most diverse places in the world i was attacked for who i am and the work i've done on human rights people came together pushed back against the . wall for sure in a city that works for everyone now i'm around the city council or a toronto city hall i believe you're going to city hall so that she explains what

happened to her based on the research and what you know about candidates running here in the states is this more common than not you know i think it probably is common and i would love to hear the ladies who are actually running and their perspective you know there is a very interesting intersection i believe between gender race and sometimes ethnic origin in the spotlight that's put on these candidates can sometimes be. you know it's intense and it's extreme and i don't feel that other candidates are also put in that same situation but i do believe going back to talking to a statement about the being a superpower you know there's something about american muslims there's something especially about american muslim women who are you know becoming the leaders who are the leaders for today and for the future who are saying you know what all of that noise aside i'm still going to take the saw in and i'm still going to be

dedicated because i am fighting for justice for my community for my district for my country. to ask you that question how would you respond. i know you. had a then you can second yeah so so i love that we talked about the his having superpowers i think that's so amazing to kind of embrace it and twist it to something that's what i personally think could be a possibility because i always say that you know trump being in office just everything that's happening is kind of blip in the signal for women but women of color not just muslim but i see more latinos running i see more women from different kinds of backgrounds just coming up in stepping up and running for office but i can tell you from somebody there's one my democratic nomination and just seeing the kind of intense attention i've been getting. it is been it's been hard

you know my team is actually keeping me away as much as they can from social media of some of the painful kind of attacks on me i think a lot of people you know i'm i'm also palestinian you know my my my mind. sharing some of those because i think this is the reality check of what it means when you. come from a particular community and you're representing people. who may not know about your background. one example. well one example is you know automatically thinking because i'm palestinian that somehow you know anti-semitic which is so unbelievable because it's so those are the kinds of things that like i'm not going to support you're going to promote sharia law but also using derogatory terms like the b word towards me or you know we've all been watching certain kind of comments lead to almost just just pure anger and frustration that i could be a possibility and our country which i think you know overwhelmingly there has been

more whole inspiration than light has come from my election and the other noise that you see people want to concentrate on that people want to focus on that it's really hard to understand that we are actually much much more overwhelmingly. you know population just more positivity that's coming but yeah it is been hard for me to get that much show all at once within just literally i don't know if you know how to like within a few minutes of winning to get that kind of push back again not from my own district not from the people that elected me not hear from the backyard of you know my and the trader mentor detroit area it's been people from around the country and even around the world that have attacked me already late putting labels on me assuming various things that you you know the stereotypical things that you think that somehow i'm an american somehow that i'm so somehow going to be. so busy that

i promise to hear that she would get in but i'm going to go to hear out by your campaign announcement because it gives me to the to supplying it to hear out of the congress let's press play. i've decided that we need representation that reflects that someone is hearing someone is experiencing someone is listening someone is engaging someone is qualified. intrastate willing we lead let's persistent brave fearless and beholden to no one but our community and have that. to you you are up against somebody who is very well established they have a lot of money what made you decide i have to run i decided that we needed to rhyme i needed to run because our district was really lacking in zealous representation especially on the heels of the trump of the trump election and

when i made that decision it was well respected people graced it and we have been on fire ever since i launched in december our primary is september for and we have just so much traction and enthusiasm that i just believe that we're unstoppable and with the help of this community in this district we're going to when i we believe that this is our reality. i like that enthusiasm and that passion there we're seeing it online from others as well we got a tweet from side and she was one of the five democratic candidates for the primaries for congress also in michigan it was wrote this i learned in this process that the community is paying attention they want to be engaged they're ready to vote but they also want to see their voices reflected and feel heard it's not just our job to engage but politicians and to stop writing them off or taking them for

granted and she continues by saying because we need to change the narrative and not allow our community and our issues to be defined by others as it's been for far too long and if we're not at the table we're on the menu so keeping that in mind what is it that you are bringing to the table why do you to run for office in the first place. i announced in april two thousand and seventeen when i was announcing against the established republican and no one had a clue that he was going to choose not to run opening the seat later in the year and then my opponent in the democratic primary decided when he announced that he was going to run that she would run easy pickens but i had already established six months of raising the expectations for this office of denouncing that our u.s. senators were not having town halls weren't answering questions were inaccessible gave zero information to the people and hadn't even visited the fifteen counties of arizona much less the tribe so i stayed in the race because my opponent continued

to do exactly what senator flake was doing so basically we're getting the exact thing thing we weren't going to raise the expectations even though we were going to have a democrat in office and that's what this has to be about and it was about getting around and having these conversations about the real things that matter you know criminal justice health care net neutrality separation of religion and state these are all important issues and people need to talk about it but we also need to talk about who are we as democrats and are we reflecting those values or are we willing to trade them for suppose that when digital and social you take your constituents through what it is like to camp by. twenty eighteen and this is last week and you're knocking on doors what is the reality of campaigning for you. well first of all we made social media a big platform and we made it very transparent everywhere i go everywhere i do

we're pretty much online in some way we've been facebook live all of my speeches we also have the campaign chronicles which are snippets of little conversations but generally you know people meet you where you are so if you meet them with a smile and and inclusion then they'll respond to that and we had a few like that that day when i was door knocking we had a man who his wife was democrat he was republican he was not happy that we were at the door and he said you know democrats are running the country and he was very upset he was closing the door to that but we love you still and he opened up the door and said i wasn't talking about you personally nothing and i didn't think that you were i was just reminding you that in the end we're all a community and because it's that community and that aspect here that people are picking up on this is being a show on twitter who says there are more muslims running for office than any other time after nine eleven and that seems relevant and she's referencing stuff from the

associated press but keeping that in mind we got a video comment from mohammed a girl who talks about what that stat has meant for average everyday americans on the ground who are now invigorated to go campaign for you all and for other candidates this is what he told us about what it was like to be out on the streets getting the vote out. stepping down from the. door saw them big. workin on the porch i mean he saw me in the street knocking on doors working at the polls as well and then we would literally pull people out of the mess to. make sure that they went to vote i mean we had literature. coming everyone. together for a common cause. that we had precincts that actually ran out of about

it we have redefined what it means to be muslim in america so he talked about women in full face veils prayer leaders being pulled out of the mosque to go get out the vote how important are those our friends and it is that difference that striking to you it's incredibly important in fact a few a recent pew study just released announced that nearly two thirds of american muslims are dissatisfied with the direction of the country today and i think that it's so incredibly important and i think it makes a very powerful statement that while we may be dissatisfied with the direction we're doing something about it we're not just sitting back we're not letting things happen we're not you know sitting we're not we're not on the menu we're sitting around the table and we're part of those policymaking discussions and i think it's important to ensure that the faith community is involved in the civic and the political process i think for too long our community has been overlooked and now

we're starting to see this push and again yes while we have while we may have a lot of men who are running for office too i think that the the banner is being led by american muslim women and i think that that is a powerful perception. it's a myth busting. exercise so that people are not. continuing to have that stereotype in their mind that american muslim women or muslim women in general are treated differently in the faith and certainly not as americans and i don't just jump in as an aside because you mention men running for office as well though we there are also two male members of congress already under carson and keith ellison tahira for congress i want to ask you this i'm on your own here to defeat the machine is and i just spoke about the campaign our vision of ability to shape our future it's a beautiful day and this picture is so striking we have to see as we have you

there's a lot of diversity in this picture or maybe there isn't a lot of diversity and how you see it what was that like. it's that picture i met with some seniors in a part of the district the district is very large and that sort of that scene is not an uncommon scene but when we get over those sort of shock value what i look like what i present like the reality is that we connect on a on a commonality that is that is almost all people love our message they love the energy that we bring and the identity that i have as a muslim woman only helps me to connect with folks just in a more universal way so the fact that in this district we've been able to get the momentum that we got in comes because we lead and we serve with a place of from

a place of love and people respond to that and it's been electrifying. i'm just wondering about the political cohabit tell you we should have had it when sister to hear a says a place of love it's so true would happen in a room with even you know predominately white communities just seeing that picture reminds me of some of the parts of my district it really is you know like people like us don't you know you don't hear from members of congress talking about coming from a place of love you don't hear members of congress even talking about that in talking about being really truly real and trying to connect people connect with people on human level when i see draw on the door i begin how powerful that direct human contact is your replaceable you know when they have i contact with you when you're talking to them i mean a tear or probably know that you're just looking at you and they're like wow that might door but even more than that they're connecting with us at a level that is so extraordinary that if you like that when i hear pastor of african-american pastors say this in my district he says we're not divided we're

just disconnected her she will type from a magazine he by getting out there is that we're connecting all right so she went ahead and did a year or connecting as a little clip i want to play and this comes from dancers promotional video have a listen thing that has to happen is we have to come to back together as a society i think people are very tired i think that they want to attack issues and stop attacking each other and i think that that i am ready. the message that we're picking up from my guest today mainly because very different from some of the news that we hear around the united states in terms of that pos and ship that's out there what are you seeing online i'm seeing a lot of love and support for people that are in your districts and maybe not this is matthew who says go drought give them a run for their money inspire young arizona and mohammed says what an honor to have rashida representing her district in congress we're very proud and me and says mr

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a desperate situation in genoa italy right now we're emotional. bridge is collapsed cards have been crushed dozens of people have been killed transport minister calling it an immense tragedy will have the latest from the major league also on the grid turkey's currency has seen a steep for this week and it's starting to drag others down with this emerging economies are finding themselves under pressure to look at the so-called economic contagion and just what can be done to arrest this slide and we're looking also at the world's most livable cities for the past two years seven years in melbourne has been considered number one this year though there is a european content in that it's pushed the stray in city out of top spot. number one the mohammad reza uses in the philippines and looking for their president who they say is missing in action after a devastating flood we have all the online reaction to this story and much more about the show using the hash tag.

the with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live on at al-jazeera dot com something in general what northwestern most weybridge which is collapsed reportedly killing dozens of people local media saying one person has been rescued and flown to a hospital but there were ten cars involved in this collapse near the city of genoa where the deputy prime minister says around thirty people may have died and many of the injured are in a serious condition is in these transport minister as we said calls the incident court an immense tragedy rescue was there at the scene digging through that rubble look at the rescue effort there it's extraordinary trying to find some more survivors let's just put it on the map for you if you don't know where exactly we're talking about as we say northwest initially it's on the pin there which i will now zoom in to have a look at this. bridge which goes over as you'll see the railway lines and what

looks like some industrial areas as well now it's that span of the bridge there one with a pin is which is actually collapsed this side over here with the railway lines remains intact and from what we've seen looking at the pictures it looks mostly like sort of an industrial area below there let's check in with emma haywood our european news center is in london that's where she is what more do you know at this stage emma welcome all you only really have to look at the aerial pictures of this bridge to see the scale of this because where there is bridge there is simply face when you look below and there is a huge amount of de pree all because all that the trucks that simply collapsed when the bridge came down one of the suspension towers also just to the ground there was a reported lightning strike at the time the weather was bad but now the focus really isn't on what caused this but on trying to reach those people who may have

survived we're saying as well the people the rescuers were out there trying to fix crumble up huge lumps of concrete really just trying to see if anybody is still alive inside their vehicles it is a pretty desperate scene in italy this afternoon i mean even just looking at the bridge and i'm talking about the google map that we were looking at before it looks like a sort of modern ish looking bridge do you know anything more about you know how all that is and other such things i know there's a lot of speculation but still. well we understand that the bridge was built back in the one nine hundred sixty s. the operator has said that work was being carried out to try to shore up its foundations at the time of the collapse there was also this lightning strike so we don't really know what caused this bridge to collapse or isn't is a lot of speculation at the moment as to whether there was a problem with it and that may have been a contribution back to to this collapse but really the focus is on trying to reach

any survivors this is a very very important bridge in italy in the port city of genoa where it is on a road which links italy with france it is very very busy at this time of year come on we're just on the eve of a national holiday in italy so it is well used at all times of year very much used at the moment thank you emma haywood following things as i say from a european new center in london we'll see if we can add to what emma's told us with italian journalist ten thirty pm mary who's joining us from milan on skype thank you for making the time for us i know it's a busy afternoon anything more you know at this point. well to make you understand a bit not only the skill of that but also the you must admit you saw on the map a general are ok so general which is a city port on the sea basically is linked to the west of the war the by two arms that would harm's going to the east going to milan going to italy and the

other going to the west to france or because of for the position for the hour it is made jan are geographically you do need a dolls' a highway bridges so we're not talking only about our world they have a highway bridges for how huge it can be it's one of the two lane of the city in fact that many from general many arbiter of general in these moments they are kind not only obvious about the victims but many are saying the city is going to die in this way because in this way it's like a few other but aching the link of general to the test of the war the end actually partially also orbitally because in that way there is all the traffic that is going to france and. you were mentioning that we have only one national holiday maybe maybe do you only live for genoa for this accident could be that. these days let's say from then to twenty four goes the other days in which the main

the city is a in italy are shopping that out because of everybody is going on holiday. you see that under that but that of the away houses a. lot of the segment of parts of the spectrum and what has collapsed many of them fall into the river by a lot of. warehouses and it's not clear whether. many people and if there were people in without this today. obviously we will see in the next days what could be that this bill you just mentioned the coming from that was built in the late sixty's the sixty's that the weather awards going on going in the last year of the law was the law but it is a little facing in the very last minutes i mean the bench of the law must send up a lot of to your side or in the parliament that was that asking for that huge and

wolves on the more than the body saying that the ball of the breach wow that sure being that you decide or needing that you jump to that intervention so maybe maybe the key could be in that ok thank you for all that information and could it turn create primarily is for monitoring events from milan thank you so much and you guys so just getting a few early comments through content you know should come up on screen viewers now michael who's watching on facebook live has asked what caused this was there an earthquake i don't believe there's been any reports of that and as he was just telling us there is a lot of speculation the moment i did see something about bad weather i'm not saying that caused it but it was particularly bad weather the early pictures that you saw from the crash very very heavy mist at the time which would have made it a suspect even worse when the rescue teams arrived there but i mean everything is

just speculation at the moment some is telling you many italians watching on facebook lots of you showing their support as well thank you facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream a.j. anguish at a.j. english on twitter as well the hash tag is a.j. news group of course. let's move on turkey's currency which is of course been sliding this week and president reject typer one has decided to hit back at the united states in whatever way he can he's now saying turkey will boycott electronic products from the u.s. in retaliation for what he's calling an economic attack on his country has repeatedly denied the national currency is in crisis even as it continues to slide against the dollar it's fallen forty five percent this year alone cynical so are you now with more from istanbul. turkish government has taken some measures in order to stop the developer ation of the turkish karen still iraq the central bank increase the liquidity for the banking sector yesterday on the other hand today the

industrial ministry announced that they activated one point two billion dollars for the turkish industrialists production along with some other measures taken by the finance ministry however the business world in turkey warns that immediate actions should be taken without getting late without being late and one of the steps that is the demanded by the markets and international markets is the high it is the increase of the interest rates by the turkish central bank however according to the school of thought that the present hour don and his economic team represents this is impossible for turkey because they see it as a pressure by the international markets by foreign powers and turkey and they wouldn't bowed down however to latest decline in the turkish lira had some impacts on the european countries as well along with some other markets the turkish private sector has a depth of at these two hundred twenty one billion dollars and most of those doubts are law and are actually to the european countries like health of it belongs to the european countries so

a slight in the turkish economy and instead will it into turkish economic could also harm the european countries as well that's why european politicians including until america have shown some support to turkey along with the russian president and iranian president and the prime minister of iraq however turkish presence are danseuse sees it as an economic waged against the turkish. against turkish economy and he says a firm political stance is needed in order to deal with it. now in yesterday's grid i showed you what had happened with the graph we looked at what happened to the leader and not just in the past week or so but we went back you know a month a year five years it is also now worth looking at other emerging currencies because there is a trend let's start with the south african rand against the u.s. dollar and you just need to be looking at the right hand side of all of these graphs these of the past month there is a downward trend there is a downward trend for the mexican peso as well against the u.s. dollar not dissimilar for the russian ruble again this is all over the same one

month period same time periods the rupee is falling there is conjecture as to whether this is directly related to turkey or if it is more to do with india's internal economic issues but of both perhaps contrast with say the japanese yen which is what people are putting money into now because it's being seen as more of a safe bet and that as you see in the same one month and upward trend the thoughts in our valley can satcher who is a financial analyst we spoke to regularly on al-jazeera he says as well this falling there it is one factor definitely hurting emerging markets what we see is the reduction of dollars being supply into the system the end of the quantity of easing when the markets the global markets will see. three dollars everybody got terribly excited particularly across emerging in front of markets and we've seen the. dollars in weaponize whether it's deliberate or by design it's not

clear to me that it's become a very very. financial issue.