abducted in december twenty third teen from office near damascus her whereabouts are still a mystery zain harlow reports from beirut my knee. you heard this from the hostages i've been in as the hospice. the area has from. the video was released just a few days before. one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared horse and she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to me and now somehow maddy were taken at gunpoint from their office on december ninth two thousand and thirteen the town was surrounded by government forces but it was under the control of the opposition. the most powerful group at the time denies any involvement or knowledge of the kidnap. was not the only faction in the time there was in the entire region forces from the martyrs of the forces of the water rising through the

stomach union of the vans and even down the street from where president bush. i. visited today was a very familiar face at the start of the uprising she was wanted by the syrian government for her role in peaceful protests calling for the downfall of the regime . her center kept track of atrocities but not just those committed by the government. her friends say saw her as a threat she promoted a civil administration and a secular state which weren't in line with the group's ideology. the violations documentation center in syria are sure the army of islam kidnapped them we have proof that rosen was in their jails and under their direct supervision this was until the beginning of two thousand and seventeen as we were able to trace her movements regrettably after the beginning of two thousand and seventeen information

was cut off and we have no knowledge about resigned. the group was forced to surrender do much to the government earlier this year before leaving it released detainees from the toby prison witnesses say resident and her colleagues were held there they haven't been found both the government and on a lesser scale the rebels have been accused of cracking down on the opposition more than eighty two thousand people have went disappearing in syria by the syrian government more than eighty two thousand people and their families are still waiting the same goes for to hundreds of people who were abducted and went missing but on the group there is little hope that prison and her colleagues will still be alive there is a long list of peaceful activists fighting for democracy and human rights whose voices have been silenced by those in power. beirut five e.u. countries have agreed to take in one hundred forty one migrants from a rescue ship says it will now allow the m.v. aquarius to dock it ends

a four day standoff during which spain tunisia and malta all refuse permission for it to enter they want to the ship to head to libya tunisia or the nearby italian island of lampedusa the migrants will be taken to france germany luxembourg portugal and spain are caught in turkey has freed two greek soldiers who'd been detained on spying charges have been looked up since march accused of entering the country illegally and attempted military espionage greasers the soldiers crossed into turkey by mistake while following the trail of refugees and migrants cases feel tensions between the two neighboring nato allies. all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back in sports tennis player who is losing his grip on the situation at the cincinnati mosque.

as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in b.c. someone says i'm staying the problem no matter what are the have to crash and put all of reality that usually gets the english blood. said here america's ortega's from a vice president talks to al jazeera. zero . zero. zero travels to the fund this reaches of thailand to follow young local doctors who are providing value saving care to the real community that solving problems for others is very fulfilling you don't get this in any other profession. we charge the dramas and delights of their inspiring efforts to successfully deliver the people's health. on al-jazeera.

all right time now for the sport is touch on it thanks very much has and we start with tennis where twenty three time grand slam champion serena williams comeback has been hampered yet again this time with a second round loss in cincinnati the formal wild number one he reached this year's french open final fell to former wimbledon champion patrick a bit of a in just the second round still it's around further than she got in from jose two weeks ago six three two six six three the final score williams was making her first appearance at the tournament since winning the title in twenty fifteen. carlina plesk of a moved into the second round by snapping

a seven much losing streak going to agnes got a run with a six three six three lead. twenty time a grand slam champion roger federer looks for fresh from a month off after losing him with his wimbledon quarterfinal match and has successfully pick on his quest for an eighth cincinnati title the swiss beat peter goelz cheik in his first cincinnati appearance in three a is a comfortable victory six for six for the last time he played at this event was when he won his twenty minute record seven the championship here in twenty fifteen federer and not expensive winning streak in cincinnati to eleven matches. not make kerry also manage to forget to take a fairly important piece of kit to his match at the cincinnati martha's having our arrived on court wearing basketball shoes he realized his tennis do but well as elsewhere the australian eventually got a grip on the situation beating denis could learn three. belgian david go found the

greases stefano fits the pass in straight sets to advance to the second round and finish that he got one seven five six three to set up a clash with frenchman ben wopat the sets of al yankovic comes off to defeating four top ten players to reach the final of the rogers cop in toronto and reaching a career high number fifteen a world ranking on monday. the rugby championship begins at the weekend with australia hosting world champions new zealand in sydney it comes as a brain bank in the city which is finding up place to donate their brains off to death as part of an international drive to study head trauma in sports former rugby league international in robbins was diagnosed with brain damage in february you are a b. melon reports from sydney. he was known in boxing circles as the dingo dexter dunn worth was once one of the oldest professional boxers in the world but retired a decade ago the sixty two year old says he's received that many knocks to the head

that he feels compelled to donate his brain to big search for jobs getting hit in the head for a living that if they can't be a good thing and are surprised by a professional boxer that's sort of basically. it our brain can cost population half a dozen times. yes but you are saying to recover pretty pretty quickly but. who knows a long term effect dexter hopes his pledge will hope research is better understand the impact of head knocks like this the impact of such hits to the head have been linked to diseases like chronic traumatic encephalopathy or c.t.e. a degenerative brain condition internationally the disease has been found in boxes american football players and was recently diagnosed for the first time in a strain rugby union player. but a straight in research just say it needs to examine the brains of former athletes

who played other high impact sports like the straight in football league and the national rugby league to get a more comprehensive picture of the risks involved to play is once we have one or two cases from those codes. that conversation we're trying. to do differently is here and then we need to work harder to try and identify the incidents and the risk factors and what we can do. preventers the disease has been found in ninety nine percent of the brains of n.f.l. players examined in the u.s. at the system brain bank of this one here in sydney that sparked a billion dollar class action lawsuit and already similar legal cases are being launched here straight in sporting bodies say their inaction tougher guidelines for treating concussions including employing head impact spotters during matches and funding research. so far forty australian sportsmen have pledged their brain to the

sports brain bank it's calling for more donations in the hope its research can help better protect present and future athletes. out a zero sydney. in the football nothing of year ago i have not sold their medicare out of the copper so the american are a big crowd watching the second round second leg match in month after a scoreless first leg in paraguay heart breaking away for the visitors to be knocked out of this competition the parents being charged down by my theory sunni know and ricocheting back into the car one nil the final four. two time caucus with the medal count so that many kind of champions barca juniors are in spain to take on a boss alone or the one outside his club will be up against the greatest player of this argentina generation in bath of lino messy messy international future is in doubt following a disappointing wild cup campaign his former national team mate. i

think we should all leave him to make up his own mind and make the decision that will make him happy it was the best decision for both him and his family surely if he feels happy and decides to rejoin the national team it's because he has the support of his family and he wants to do it if this isn't the case then it would be useless for him to stay and do something that he has no motivation for. roma dread counterinsurgency ramos says the club can still win trophies even without five times while the player of the year christiana ronaldo were naldo was sold to italian team event is during the close season the champions league win is the getting ready to take on europa league title holders of lesser crime madrid in the supercard wednesday's game in a stony rebellion look at taking the first competitive game in charge of rail. of course to lose the play that was so important it was always going to be

a negative thing but this doesn't mean they're real madrid is going to start winning titles it's all around the reds history has there been a lot of players some of the best in the world by reading madrid at the club is above all of them. former boss alone and royal strike a samuel eto has arrived at the thirteenth the club of his career the three time african player of the year has joined catalyst sports club at the age of thirty seven at a retired from international duty with cameroon three years ago in a sense scored fifty goals in the turkish league. in major league baseball the boston red sox beat the philadelphia phillies on tuesday with the red sox increasing that total to one hundred sixty eight harlem run five far this season red sox thought a great post fellow struck how an impressive attend that bashes i have a seven innings during the game will still go on to win two one to phillies of last five of seven ball into second place in the n.l. east behind the atlanta braves the red sox meanwhile have won twenty of the last

twenty three games. meanwhile ryan braun have a pair of to run high runs and julie shushing pitch seven shot how innings to help the milwaukee brewers beat the chicago cubs seven six. south africa's cricketers fell to the lowest ever t twenty total during a defeat against sri lanka south africa were bowled out for just ninety eight during this game in colombo sri lanka made heavy work of the run chase a one point losing three wickets for six runs the home team eventually going on to win by three wickets with four is to spare. now the well two time world champion fernando alonso is to retire from formula one at the end of this season the thirty seven year old mclaren driver the world title with renner in turn two thousand and five in two thousand and six the spaniard will continue to compete in other series and has already taken part in indy car racing

in north america and earlier this year he won the lamest twenty four hour sports car event. oh full of bull and i want a thousand thanks very much that's jada and that is it for this news and for me has them seek out more news so in two minutes they were. full of struggles but you don't bite on the i would not comment about me. all the time walking up on the full of pleasure. and i'm getting it i'm not. going to have an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was the annual warning.

that i had watched daniel i get a buzz about my cuba on al-jazeera. the sams in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called most talk of a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture. southbound the economic heartbeat of a thriving brazil. but boom times mean rising rents and the lack of public housing

is a dallas just one of thousands looking for a place to call. with no choice but to occupy one of the city's many vacant buildings facing an uncertain future. do you find a latin america occupying brazil on al-jazeera. italy orders an urgent nationwide check of bridges and tunnels as rescuers search through the rubble of the general a bridge collapse. politicians visit the scene as questions are raised about who's responsible for the general tragedy.

you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up the afghan government says has made big gains as it continues to battle against the taliban. affordable health care for up to half a billion people the indian prime minister has announced a scheme to improve medical treatment for the most needy. queuing up to exchange their dollars turk's cash in foreign currency as president announces new tariffs against the u.s. . italy's transport minister has ordered a check up of major infrastructure across the country after the collapse of a motorway bridge in genoa rescue teams pulled thirty seven bodies from the rubble around thirty five cars and trucks were thought to have been on the bridge when the middle section gave way firefighters and specialists from across italy have been called in to dig through the rubble. major challenges are there to the fact that we

have by the rubbles that is right special in its kind that is we have b p c's of the of the breed collapsing and now we're using big brains to move those big pieces in to try to enter the rubbles again search for the victims ok let's take you to the scene live in genoa this hour where rescuers are continuing the search gathering at the scene desperate family members their news the back story to infrastructure such as this bridge in italy the reality of it is that twelve bridges on fire docks similar constructions twelve bridges have collapsed since the year two thousand and four reports from ground zero if you will saying it looks more like an earthquake scene than the collapse of such a big important significant structure the road would have been busy that's one of the key things to the story as well the road would have been busy because today in

italy is a public holiday or it's heading up to a public holiday weekend so people were involved in that getaway process let's just have a listen to what people have been saying who are still hopeful that they will find people their relatives their friends alive under that rubble. he said the demotic that i started to call him forty times fifty times then i started to call his friend who was together with his wife all three of them chileans and then i came to the hospital and they said that he was no more than it was in the prison bus and his name is not among the missing not among the hospitals patients who still don't know anything i hope he's in this ambulance arriving now because i've just been told they found someone the last night he as a response he turned his phone on some hope this is a good sign natasha with the latest. well the rescue operation is continuing here in juneau in fact emergency workers have been working straight through the night and they say they will continue in order to try and search for survivors they

say they'll go for as long as it takes but it's a very delicate task it's a very challenging job because what they are facing very difficult conditions there are having to lift march slabs of concrete using machines they are using pickaxes their bare hands sniffer dogs anything to try and see if there are any more signs of life beneath the rubble now earlier we spoke to a man or jessie he's from juneau was a fire brigade and he told us a little bit more about the conditions facing emergency workers italy's infrastructure minister. says the government asked for maintenance documentation. maintenance to the bridge has not been taken as it should have it is extraordinary that this could have led to the blockage of newport. genoa we are studying a support proposal at the moment which will allow us to get people out of

genoa and also a reconstruction project for the bridge well the bridge does carry the name of the designer ricardo morandi who specialized in reinforced concrete structures this isn't the first time one of his bridges has partially collapsed a similarly style bridge in venezuela partially collapsed in one thousand nine hundred sixty four when it was hit by a tanker another bridge in genoa was one point two kilometers long it was finished in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven around twenty five million vehicles use it every year local residents say they've been worried for some time major repairs were carried out in the one nine hundred ninety s. and a reported twenty eleventh's at the bridge had been suffering degradation restructuring work was carried out in twenty sixteen and maintenance was being done on its foundations of the time of tuesday's collapse in first as a consultant structural engineer with covais a consulting group specializing in engineering environmental sciences and economics

he says the style of bridge requires much more maintenance compared to other structures. it's a very unusual design and frankly you know to give confidence if you like to your to your viewers that this is a very very rare thankfully very very rare and extreme event and bridges by and large are are safe they are looked after by engineers people like me who whose job it is to inspect and maintain and advise bridge owners about the need the nature of the maintenance and the risks and so on and this bridges obviously had a disaster with the nightmare scenario that has pushed designers you know hardly to think would ever happen but this is such a rare event people should not worry that all bridges of that age are suddenly going to be suspect. israel has reopened the only commercial crossing into gaza after

a month long shutdown the qur'an up to salam entrance into the strip was closed on july the ninth very heightened tensions between israelis and palestinians the israeli defense minister says close fuel and construction materials will not be allowed through israel has also expanded the fishing zone off the gazan coast charles stratford is there. a very busy morning here at gaza's only commercial crossing with israel we understand that up to eight hundred trucks could pass into gaza today carrying all manner of goods construction materials clothing food gas and oil we also understand that the israelis have agreed to expand the area in which a fisherman can operate in speaking to fishermen they say that israel has agreed to expand the area in the north of the gaza strip close to the israeli border from sri to six nautical miles and in the south from sri nautical miles certainly according

to the israeli media it seems that the israeli government came out of quite a lot of pressure from businesses in israel that are reliant on garza's labor force . the manufacture of clothing businesses say israeli businesses here in gaza of course those materials those clothes for example were not getting out to israel so going to stand it there was quite a lot of pressure from those companies of course this is all very much dependent the keeping this crossing open is very much dependent on calm and maintaining this so-called truce between hamas and israel there is a hamas delegation in cairo as we speak along with other armed factions from gaza the egyptian is very much at the forefront of trying to negotiate or act as a go between between hamas and israel and it's also important to recognize that until now israel has not formally recognized that truce india's prime minister has

revealed what's being billed as the world's largest government funded health scheme narendra modi says it will cover around half a billion poor people he made the announcement during independence day celebrations in new delhi critics say there are huge shortages in the health system and the country doesn't have the services to look after its population. the poor of the country will not have to struggle when they fall sick they will not have to borrow from money lenders or families will not be destroyed and it always has more now from. at the moment health care in india is pretty terrible for all but the very richest the country overall spends about one point five percent of its annual g.d.p. on health that is way down on the global average of about six percent more that means in practice is that only the very richest have access to hospital but it's like the only people like these can afford the private insurance they need to get it all what the national health protection scheme all modi care as it's being

called by everybody here will do is it'll roll out a public insurance scheme which in theory gives about five hundred million people that's almost half this country's population access to a health insurance policy that gives them up to seven thousand u.s. dollars equivalent to spend on health care each year if they get seriously ill now it sounds ambitious it sounds progressive it is but it comes with caveats this country does not have the infrastructure to support the extra demand that all those people wanting health care will want it simply doesn't have the beds and then there's the cost at least one point five billion dollars a year will be needed from public coffers to pay for this on their own for modi is facing reelection early next year he made modi care its absolute signature policy in his speech will independence day on wednesday he wants this message this health care message to reach right around the country and be the centerpiece of his

re-election campaign. prasenjit bose is an independent economist from kolkata he says moody's government can't afford this new health care scheme. and what the prime minister that is it all out. in his speech the big let you know little that was first announced that i get it now well you will listen. because you know first of all one doesn't know what the real calculations are but what you've always done what it may believe it like an insurance market rate indiana right now. even the cheapest like a cheap best health insurance whatever that really know well it well you need around fifty thousand rupees that is about seven billion dollars that leap up program or. nothing else i did up india well the end ministry is less government and they help minister budget. so i don't.

like a board like a unit that i'm at. and not just on the look the elections even if it is ordered september by that and the elections are held this benefit does not lead to the belief you see a small that you believe yes there is any well made yet it's at least we're just not you think you may think you have the prime minister yesterday but the actions you that i don't think. i think is just not usable. the afghan military has made significant gains against the taliban in ghastly city the us all began on friday and at least four hundred people have been killed a quarter of them civilians still fighting on the outskirts of the city which lies one hundred fifty kilometers south of the capital kabul michel about us. after six days of the taliban see each on the afghan city of gosney residents of their homes they bring brooms and shovels and anger to try to reach the government.