and the problem is that a lot of stuff the you know if it was rebuilt after the ruin of world war two in particular an economic boom of the sixty's and. a lot of that stuff is that's not not fifty years old and more a lot of it's energy and summer hasn't aged very well and needs to be checked all over the place but experts point out that to check it out will be very difficult because there isn't even that anybody knows about there isn't even a proper inventor. paddy agnew is joining us from rome today i think the signals are actually frozen unfortunately but good to talk to him when we could right. elizabeth on facebook just said this awful lot of what could have been avoided if the warnings are followed where else could this happen it seems to be a feeling people are just like this isn't right this is very concerning going forward especially in twenty eight hundred that's really the sentiment come all of a hash tag genoa bridge and point to more on the are trending online and most people are shocked posting condolences to the families of the victims by lara says

that she felt helpless adding a bridge contact like that and it should never happen my heart breaks for genoa and for my mistreated country that is falling to pieces with each passing day now others are taking are talking about the safety of its hellion bridges and roads as well as the political fallout daniel says that for years many have been discussing the construction of a new stretch of highway around genoa an alternative to the one that has collapsed so disastrously today the populist five stop party which is currently in government has always been against the project well now it's only as populist government says that the bridge collapse shows the country needs to spend more on the lappets of bridges and roads but oh salvini blame the incident on e.u. budget constraints and he tweeted this saying if there are european constraints that prevent us from spending money to secure the schools where our children study all the highways our workers are traveling to we will put the safety of italians in front of everyone and this is our asks what has the e.u.

got to do with what the italian government chooses to spend on road maintenance then you have alberto that adds it's tragic that even in tragedy italian politicians across parties immediately sought of blaming somebody else well what do you think send us your thoughts on all of these saves events coming out of genoa is a hash tag and is great thank you religious here at the level we've still got live pictures coming in as we have for the last twenty four hours of the bridge. but also just here the market for it is being lined up at one new one next to it. being lined up for a news conference we believe are waiting to hear from the prime minister of italy to speak about what's happened in genoa will bring you that of course when it happens right now we're off to london though here's julie mcdonald with a look at some other international headlines. hi there come out thank you as suicide bombers targeted an educational center in kabul killing at least forty eight people and wounding dozens more that's according to the health ministry now

there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast which happened in the mainly shia neighborhood of dashti barkha now a group of young men and women all high school graduates was studying for university entrance exams at the site when the explosion happened previous attacks on other shia targets in the capital have been claimed by eisel. well that comes as the afghan military has made significant gains against the taliban in the city in guy's name which is about one hundred fifty kilometers south of the capital at least four hundred people including around one hundred civilians have been killed since the assault began on friday charlotte bellis explains. after six days of a taliban siege on the afghan city of gosney residents emerge from their homes they bring brooms and shovels and anger says part of the richer the government has not paid attention to the people here and as you can see most of the markets have burned down and the city. population of two hundred seventy thousand

people found themselves in the middle of the war with the taliban on friday they survived by sheltering in their homes rationing food and water without power or communications in the aftermath we're learning more about the human cost hundreds of people were killed taliban fighters soldiers police and civilians residents say some died in government air strikes too dangerous to move bodies most of the streets for days the red cross moved some to a hospital inside space and resources a rush and between hundreds of soldiers and civilians the red cross very few body bags and medicine to its doctors despite a direct threat from the taliban. the armed groups attack was the most aggressive against an afghan city since it briefly took control of condos two years ago the city's police chief estimated more than one thousand fighters swarmed into gaza

knee after midnight on friday equipped with guns and rocket launchers their arsenal group as they overran checkpoints and seized police vehicles. after four consecutive days of the government prematurely declaring victory over the taliban and seen reinforcements on monday the extra troops swung. beshrew the afghan military requesting just to us is strikes on tuesday compared to thirty two in the days prior to the. afghan security forces strongly resisted and fought the taliban with high morale in different parts of the city and defended their people and country due to heavy clashes the enemy suffered a lot of casualties. more fills me is important of lies just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul on the main motorway south take and you save a couple from the southern provinces. the military pushed up the taliban this time the fight is remain in the surrounding villages and in the middle the people have

gone psni bellus which is zero turkey's president rage attire bordeaux and has met the emir of qatar in as he continues to. made an escalating rise with the united states president ever to an end shake timing been hammered out bonnie explored ways to strengthen their strategic cooperation there is fields during that three hour meeting or do and will also travel to germany for a state visit in september for meetings aimed at improving bilateral ties and it comes after turkey severely increased tariffs on some u.s. imports social calling for a boycott of american electronic goods the government says it's in retaliation to what it calls a deliberate economic attack the u.s. fallen more than forty five percent against the dollar this year along in the hearts of the diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey is the case of the matter can pass to andrew bronson he's had his court appeal rejected wanted to be freed from house arrest and also have his travel ban lifted on the standing trial on terror charges over alleged links to the failed two

years ago a higher court still has to make a final ruling on that appeal but in kosovo has more now from istanbul. the government's decision to increase tariffs on the u.s. products is welcomed by the turkish media and welcomed by the turkish citizens when you look at the new science and and social media because there is a positive response and the support for the government through television against the u.s. and united states increasing tariffs for the turkish products of course this is mainly affect college girl impact where the economists say that healthful finance the psychology and this is the governments began taking some measures again through this central bank and through the finance ministry and the turkish lira began gaining value against the american dollar and other other currencies as wall and besides present are don't call for a boycott for american products and today's tariff the station is encourage for the

turkish people in a psychological way they think that they have something in their hand to response against the u.s. threats but of course on the other hand some economists say that would not the mean and that would not mean much because the amount of the tariffs would not be any means to hurt the american economy. sinan consumer reports in there now though back to come all in doha judy thank you for that we're looking at some much needed relief on its way for the people there israel is reopening the only commercial crossing into the strip after a month. because of them crossing was closed on july nine during hyson tension between israelis and palestinians israel's defense minister says clothes fuel and construction material can now let's have a look at the map will show you carol lin which is right at the bottom corner if you like of the gaza strip that is the terminal on the israeli side and if i come out a little bit you'll see the one on the gaza side and then the road which links that

are just beyond the way though look a little bit north very near to the terminal on the gaza side as this long sort of concrete grade strip that was once another commercial entrance into. was a yasser arafat international airport actually on the operated for three years between nine hundred ninety eight and two thousand and one when it was bombed by israeli forces after the second intifada so that's just a little bit of information of a was an international airport now but our focus today is here on the border crossing and chance transit is there trucks are started arriving here at gaza's only commercial crossing with israel they stop for example will fill up with goods across the border before returning into gaza we understand around eight hundred trucks are expected to pass the bullet are today. now we understand that a lot of pressure came on israel as well from israeli businesses that contract out gaza workers inside gaza or in for example the textile industry that kind of

pressure being put on the israeli government because those businesses were concerned that those goods were not coming out we understand that the exports of goods from gaza could well starts tomorrow but of course this kind of movement at the crossings here this crossing being opened is all dependent it's staying open his old dependence on the relative calm between hamas and israel continuing. goods coming in include collateral construction materials petrol gas and vegetables and clothing but i learned sort go out all over europe with where the stores were closed transport has stopped people have been really suffering thank god things have calmed down now in gaza a bit on the trucks can start moving across the border again when i figure we're going to. israel has also increased the area in which fishermen can work could see from three to six in a school miles off the northern half of gaza and from three to nine nautical miles

in the south. it's not enough we need to see to be completely six and nine or tickle miles is not enough there is just left in the sea we need israel to increases according to international. let me if. so as you heard there the gaza fishermen saying these easing of restrictions on the area in which they can operate and nowhere near enough they say they literally are the stocks of fish in this area anymore bear in mind around fifty thousand families here in gaza rely on the fishing industry in some way the israeli navy have killed thirteen fishermen since the blockade started almost twelve years ago meanwhile those negotiations in cairo continue the hamas delegation over there along with delegations from the other factions from gaza. in a desperate bid to try and forge some last truce between hamas and israel we of course cover the plight of the palestinians in gaza are lost on al-jazeera it is

still very important though to remind you of what life is actually like there imagine living like this first of all gaza's almost two million people aren't allowed to leave because of the israeli blockade they are essentially trapped ninety five percent of gaza's water is not safe to drink they rely on water being trucked in because the tap water is contaminated with sewage that is because seventy percent of homes aren't connected to the sewage system much of it is just pumped straight out into the se or even into the streets there are other tricity shortages as well gazans only have around four hours of electricity every day and there are barely any jobs the unemployment rate is at forty five percent so the opportunities simply don't exist for people to improve their own situations. some with us now political analysts contributor for middle east monitor joining us from nablus in the occupied west bank. can you see today's news of the reopening of khaddam abu salim can you see it as a as a win as

a positive or the fact that israel could close it whenever it wants to does that just still loom over everything. well the situation is still and right. israel can close the. border close at any time. that there may not might be closed at the will of the israelis. the kind of was salim was open a few days ago but it was a close because of the tension that rose from between hamas and israel so it is not safe and we cannot and it depend upon the situation of today and if the day israel open kind of i will salim tomorrow it might be closed so we are not sure what next sure is a truce that signed the from both sides and there should be others who would

guarantee the implementation of such our troops because we have an experience actually in gaza after the war of one nine hundred fourteen over over twenty fourteen. israel a place to open the door. construct an airport and also a seaport and to expand the limits of the fishing in the mediterranean for the geysers but israel failed to implement. this understanding with egypt and it to nothing so what we need is to have gotten tease that israel would implement and stick to the understanding seized with the palestinian or with the egyptian side until now they do not do that so now both sides have an interest in a truce that is evil is one thing to achieve certain stability for their population

in the city limits some rounding the gaza strip. that is interested in lifting the embargo. the blockade the situation in gaza and be honorable and as you said in your report that the situation is visible they don't have good water they don't have electricity they cannot make the fishing day one of the day they want they should have and so on so it's unbearable gaz the leadership the palestinian leadership in gaza has an interest in living lifting the blockade and israel wants also to end the tension between it and gaza mentally they want to stop the demonstrations concerning the right of return because that has been doing some said some.

kind of. media. coverage that helps israel and they thought that the palestinians forgot about the right of a tear and these demonstrations actually instigating a new. palestinian awareness of their own rights to return to their homes and brought in palestine by it in one thousand nine hundred eight or came a satellite as a house and i'm going to have to read rupture i think that there were and we've got a very long satellite we lay unfortunately that's the well i'm sorry we're just going to have to leave it there but thank you so much for joining us. it technology working against us there unfortunately for an interactive experience though what life in gaza is like to have a look at this twenty four hours in gaza was put together in twenty fourteen after israel's most recent full scale war on the strip firsthand accounts audiotape itches there it is the story of one family and how tried to carry on living in the

aftermath of a war zone simple things like the smell of freshly baked bread imagine that twenty thousand gaza to search for that al-jazeera dot com in the interactive section and to get in touch with us contact details coming up on screen right now i just want to quickly talk about italy has sent us a facebook live message and said her cousin in rome tells her that there's all this anger amongst italians now saying that and i wondered if something lies was inevitable saying that taxes are going to helping migrants and little is left for infrastructure it's an easy sort of thing isn't it when something goes wrong it is that sort of anti migrant feeling in many parts of europe and the suggestion here that some people are angry and feel that money is going towards them rather than italian infrastructure and thank you to all the people who said that they liked seeing those other bridges as well we do like to use the google maps because they tell the story so well that they facebook dot com slash al-jazeera hash tag a jane this is the news going to if you want to know is on facebook i welcome a little bonus story for you right now about a man creating art to make

a sea homeless people is what they are people and then later guilty or not closing arguments i heard in the trial of donald trump all my campaign manager for a man of forty eleven report from outside the federal courthouse in the. hello good good to have you back we're here cross but of the levant we are looking at some dry conditions across the region but we are picking up some northwesterly winds that means drier air coming through of course hazy conditions for most areas baghdad over the next few days you are going to stay into the mid forty's with forty five degrees here on thursday down towards quaid forty one as we go towards friday and we are going to be seeing tehran seeing attempted there about thirty seven degrees here across the middle east doha what we are expecting to see temperatures few reaching up to about forty four degrees across the gulf towards maybe about thirty eight degrees there and over towards riyadh we do expect to see

forty two degrees not looking at really much in terms of clouds a lot of haze in the area where to be seeing some clouds is down toward southern saudi arabia as well as crossing over here towards yemen some cloudy skies there over towards a lot about thirty to twenty six degrees in your forecast there and then very quickly down towards the southern part of africa we are going to be seeing a frontal system making its way to the north towards durban that is going to bring some clouds as well cape town will be seeing some clouds in your forecast and we do expect to see a temperature in cape town of fourteen degrees a little further to the north johannesburg at twenty three and as we go towards friday those temperatures stay moderate with more clouds in the forecast for durban maybe a shower too with a temperature of twenty. the philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. now private corporations are capitalizing on the chaos. one east investigates on al-jazeera.

when people need to be heard. but he's been there a few jomo still in his life it's not a known show and the story needs to be told we do stories that have been passed from suspect i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys behind back al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new documentaries and live news on air and online. china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business part of a long term plan of china to secure its resources for the future sub-saharan region as a whole dallas expect to grow we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera.

the headlines that they were dot com what's trending as well i just pointed to the one that number two one of them betrayed the story on the six things to know about the circular crisis that was our lead story for a couple of days here still very important and that's a really good article i had a look at earlier today just breaks it right down for you it's a very simple to explain what is going on with that currency crisis and the fear of it spreading and of course the number one the latest on the genoa bridge collapse

thirty nine dead and the search goes on that's what's trending at al-jazeera dot com this wednesday. we want to look at syria now specifically the thousands of people have gone missing there during the civil war among them is a u.s. journalist austin tice kidnapped six years ago in syria he is believed to be one of at least thirty journalists covering the war who are missing or being held mike hanna has his story as told by his family and so you see this this aliment of hope in his early photos right and then i he begins to come across things like this a mother talks about the work of her son these pictures were taken by freelance journalist austin tice shortly before he was abducted by armed men at a roadblock near damascus six years ago and it was austin's deepest desire.

that they could have reform without any of these photos ever being taken and so i just want you to join him behind the camera and waited to get a feeling for his heart of why caprice why did austin go there he wanted to tell the story that was so young when he arrives the f.b.i. has posted a one billion dollar reward for information leading to the safe location recovery and return of austin tice renewing hopes that he's still alive it's believed that more than thirty abducted journalists are being held in syria but the exact figure is impossible to ascertain in many cases the abduction is not publicized pending the go see a sions for release what is known is that the kidnapped journalist come from a number of countries among them france spain lebannon mauritania jordan and the united states. when the most dangerous countries for journalists in the

world and so at the fence like these that raise awareness on the situation in that country and the journalistic western rights to cover that conflict for the american public for the international community is well that's really of vital importance and in this room be awareness to there are many other fathers and mothers in syria and beyond still hoping for the safe return of their loved ones. are washington the syrian government's also been accused of disappearing thousands of people including peaceful protesters and outspoken humanitarians rights activists. as one of those people abducted in december twenty third team from her office near damascus where she is now is still a mystery you know her with her story from beirut my me. you heard this from damascus. as the hostages.

the area has from. the video was released just a few days before any one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to meet one hundred and now somehow maddy were taken at gunpoint from their office in duma 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 forces of the what are rising the stomach union of the levant and even then the store front where president. i. visited say 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 the 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 rahsaan 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 twenty seven team information was cut off and we have no knowledge about resigned. the group was forced to surrender duma 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 and 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 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 now it is being billed as the world's biggest government funded health scheme at least that's what india's prime minister is saying tapping into all the fervor of india's independence day spoken of half a billion poor people being covered by the scheme but there is criticism with some just calling it a gimmick and is under thomas reports on the northeastern city of the there's also concerns india's health facilities won't even be able to cope with the rising demand. india's prime minister narendra modi doesn't call

it modi care but everybody else does his ambitious national health protection scheme will be the centerpiece of his reelection campaign. the poor of the country will not have to struggle when they fall sick they will not have to borrow from money lenders families will not be destroyed. this scheme is due to start in late september and will become the largest publicly funded health service in the world in effect the government will pay the premiums for health insurance for one hundred million indian families each will get a policy that covers their medical costs up to the equivalent of about seven thousand dollars a year. at the moment only the well off have access to insurance to pay for treatment in a private hospital like this. i'm lucky i don't have insurance but i can afford it my husband has a good job we own our own house. the new program will cover the poor half of

india's population for private hospitals the scheme should see a big boost in business but there is concern they'll be overwhelmed by demand india spends just one point five percent of its g.d.p. on health care compared to the global average of six percent facilities and staffing levels in the health sector of poor but that doctors is changing a lot of guarding the human resources but i think we continue our fork opinion as our health you know our personal health sector. some have accused of caring more for his hindu base than the other ethnic groups or india's poorest with health care for rule he's trying to change that image if it's a success it will be a big achievement andrew thomas al-jazeera. and ramadi took office in twenty fourteen he promised a lot under the slogan good days coming now this info graphic i've got for you from al jazeera dot com takes into account what he managed in his first you have

a look he was talking about things like any did manage. making it easier for people to open bank accounts opening. a biometric id system which is no mean feat in a country of over a billion people and then he promised a lot of other things tax reform road building drawing in the hundred million tourists constructing toilets even all the way up to down to maybe i should say bullet trains should he still be in office in the year twenty twenty two let's discuss all of those promises and what we see now as well with three who's a professor and dean at the jindal school of international affairs and the author of the book the mody doctrine nice to have you with us first of all what do you make of the health care policy because that's a big one i mean once you start promising your people better health care you've really got to deliver on that one. oh sure it's a massive challenge and i think it is fitting our prime minister's personality

style as a politician because he tries to conceive and implement policies policies that touch of massive swathes of people you're right half a billion people is what we're talking about and it's a big ambition macro picture marked of course it will rely on. the grassroots as you report just mentioned but one thing is for sure he sees himself as a transformative leader who has some kind of a sense of manifest destiny and i think this movie kiran it's going to cost seventy one point seven billion us approximately but and many may say that you know it's fiscally reckless and so on but i think he's been able to balance it because he's also got the markets happy as can be international investors and rating agencies going go out and work him at the same time he's doing this vote for politics so you know there it is the election year that's coming up in the next six months as you mentioned so i think he's trying to cover all the bases and to fortify himself as unchallengable or not mr lobel leader of the national level he does beat picture of

over changing the country for the better but i wonder if that's just the problem you use the phrase they're covering all the bases and i wonder if there is a risk of. over promising and under delivering i mean politicians can always run that risk but with the sheer amount of things that he's promised. yeah i mean you know as there are some skeptics who say that you know it's hard to read what i think if you look at the grassroots sentiment that the certainly the beneficiaries of these vote fear politics urge to appreciate to the handouts as well as some of this is to me going to structural changes that he's trying to enact are and i think there's still a sense of hope and optimism and what are the changes i mean the space program for many for example it's going to approximately cost one point two billion dollars and some might say that you know what we need to hear to head off a space program but then more the has also done the other thing which is to increase the usage of targets and installation of foreigners in rural areas and to improve sanitation so that's the magic of movie in the sense because he's able to

you know. hears and run with the home so to say because he has escaped acidy to catch all and different segments of the society and definitely a lot of these moves and the measures are aimed at the working class people as you mentioned are going beyond the core base of the handle right and now he's at the center in many ways and he's trying to say that you know what our time has come and we can shine in the words to poke about how the space mission will take india who the fourth place in the world after china united states and russia and he gives mentioning this we do need that you know this is our time to really gallop ahead in terms of economic development but also in terms of our projection the world i think is beijing is basically to make india a major global power and he's trying to convince the society that we are on the right track and there he needs demanded one more time next year to continue this who work joining us today from something in india thank you for that. really lots

of people i noticed celebrating just the fact that it was independence day on line there how do they feel about narendra modi sloss strong feelings lot of opinions thousands of tweets but this was prime minister modi's fifth and last independence day speech before the twenty nine thousand general elections and he spent eighteen minutes addressing a number of initiatives and that's been quite a mixed reaction online some like swati thought that it resembled more of a campaign speech now one issue that's getting a lot of attention is health care and modi tweeted that the plan will have a positive impact and it's essential to free the poor of india from the clutches of poverty because they can't afford health care now the health ministry is sharing this video on twitter promoting various policies which it says will make sure every citizen has financial independence the plan office annual cover to five hundred million poor and vulnerable families it would make it actually the world's biggest

health care protection plan. now the minister for road transport also tweeted saying that india is growing progressing and getting clean new india is taking shape health care is getting cheaper and people are rising above the poverty line but not everybody is convinced with these promises or condé concho is a former judge of india's supreme court and he says that i believe real independence is freedom from poverty unemployment malnourishment lack of health care and good education and since india is reeling under these great evils i regret i cannot be a hypocrite and so cannot wish you happy independence day when we heard from georgia who lives in india's commercial capital of mumbai she is more concerned about how the government will be executing these plans. they're not a. mark.

on. what i think about right now is the man to. implement. the law. really hard to get here. early in a sales force especially if you are in india use the hash tag. thanks for him a could soon find out the fate of paul matter for you know the former campaign manager of u.s. president donald trump whose fraud trial is due to wrap up with both prosecution and defense scheduled to give closing arguments on wednesday manifold is accused of

tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans this case remember brought by special counsel robert muller who is investigating a possible collusion between russia and the trump presidential campaign and update now from the courthouse in alexandria virginia is pretty coherent patty. take them all well the prosecution just finished almost two hours of testimony that i can only describe as something that only a tax attorney perhaps like it was very dry it was very long it was eighteen charges going through one by one bringing up the evidence reminding the jury of all the testimony they heard now the defense is going to be up next after a very short break i don't know exactly when the jury's going to get this but basically the prosecution just laid out its very extensive case paul metaphor they said didn't pay taxes on fifteen million dollars he had thirty. an overseas bank accounts between two thousand and ten two thousand and fourteen more than sixty million dollars that he never told the u.s.

government. they had e-mails when he called it my account so what exactly is the defense going to do remember they didn't put on a defense they are focusing on the prosecution's key witness that is rick gates he was metaphor its partner he flipped on metaphor he testified here basically said they knew what they were doing was illegal but they did it anyway at the same time he admitted to embezzle informatic court man afford to pay for an extramarital affair they was having in london so the prosecution tried to address that in their closing statement saying you might not like you don't need to like gates but all of his testimony lined up exactly with the other witnesses so it's going to interesting to see exactly what the defense does we think they're likely going to point out some of the witnesses that were not called but again this prosecution put forward a very thorough case with hundreds of pages of documents and e-mails how do you just quickly i don't want to sort of cross contaminate the cases here but this time

about the mother investigation but it's not necessarily linked to it. well exactly and the judge here said i do not want to hear any of the attorneys even mention the word russia because this is about his business dealings in ukraine he was getting money from oligarchs put into his cyprus bank account but this isn't about the collusion this is about bank potential collusion this is about bank fraud this is about not paying your taxes but it is the first test of the very critical or investigation a win for him here means that he can say look there's reason for this to go going to have to leave their own fortunately because we have got that live news conference coming in from rome now be time in prime minister addressing the bridge collapse in genoa just competed as well. we were eager to have this meeting. as

a symbol of our concern i think that only two or three ministers were lacking. almost everybody in the form. of a liberal if not president by telephone. here. and so everybody was represented all. the way and we. debated. a number of issues. and we had declared a state of emergency as a result of the catastrophe which happened yesterday morning. in genoa because of the collapse of the bridge. known as the marandi bridge. in the which would give you. five

million euros have been allocated as an emergency fund. this is. the first. week. this is our response to this tragedy which has struck us. what we are doing now. is trying to identify the missing people. we have also visited the site. this morning i was there. on the side. i had the opportunity of

speaking to. major officials me. to all the injured and those who are in. serious state of health in hospitals we send our best which is. unfortunately the casualty toll is increasing. use and all we can do is to express our compassion and. sympathy empathy with all those people. and that of course includes all the staff concerned the medics the rescuers and so on. these are tragedies which are unacceptable in a modern society like italy. and we will do our utmost to

avoid these kind of things in the future we have already anticipated that. by withdrawing the concessions on the motorway from the motorway company who was responsible for this tract. obviously we will leave it up to the. authorities responsible to. do their work but we cannot. wait anymore these days. so we are acting on our account. because there is no doubt. that. that the companies which are managing these motorways have the obligation and the

duty to ensure. full safety this morning. i also met. tony general courtsey. of genoa. and we made a statement and he gave me ample guarantees that. the investigation will be. advanced as quickly as possible and the will be cleared as soon as possible to provide safety in the region. obviously there is the problem of the debris in the. riverbed. and we have to make sure that we can move that because we don't want to create any

further difficulties. a complaint to authorities will be dealing with that but the government will be. taking part in it. and also we will be dealing of course with the parts of the bridge which are still left standing. we have already. tragedies like this are unacceptable in a modern society like a survey says the prime minister decepticons there who is in general where he's been visiting the site of the bridge collapse he says they're trying to identify the missing people the death toll is increasing and important they said better a state of emergency has been declared it sounds quite dramatic usually what it means though is that funds can then be released to help and he did add. five million euros have been allocated as an emergency fund as a result of that state of emergency also said there's no doubt but the companies in

manage these my two eyes have obligations and a duty to ensure safety more on genoa more indeed from genoa and our next bulletin in a few moments time from london with judy mcdonnell on kemal santa maria thanks for joining us. some during these are tougher than others. but this route is even tougher than the content of the truck there it's dangerous there's allergies you know world follows from iraq and truck drivers in danger in their lives. just to be committing

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the some of the. clusters of and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beating. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. the search for survivors of italy's bridge collapse continues the search for what caused the disaster is just beginning. the prime minister has just declared a twelve month state of emergency. there i'm julie went all this is sound you see we're live from london also coming

in dozens of afghan students killed and injured by a suicide bomber at a study center in the capital kabul. qatar is to invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey's financial sector badly hit by the recent fall in the lever. under saddam a single hottie in the northeast of india this country's prime minister has just announced what will be the world's largest publicly funded health service but i'll be looking at whether this country's health infrastructure will be able to talk. a very warm welcome to the program italy's prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the wake of choose days bridge collapse in genoa at least thirty eight people have died as a number of the government expects to the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are. infrastructure throughout the country or in smith reports. buried under thousands of tons of reinforced concrete it's possible

there might still be survivors from the genoa bridge collapse. we've inspected all the zones that we were able to reach without using bulldozers since last night we started removing bigger concrete parts of the collapsed bridge sorts teams could go in and find more people. that were at least thirty cars on the bridge when it collapsed in driving rain on tuesday according to local forties. i heard an amazing noise i saw the road collapsing and i went down with it i was lucky enough to land i don't even know how because if you saw my car. what caused them around the bridge to fall is unknown early speculation is focused on structural weakness and italian specialist engineering website published an article that highlighted how the fifty year old bridge had always presented what it called structural downs he called the collapse a tragedy waiting to happen. maintenance to the bridge has not been undertaken as

it should have it is extraordinary that this could have led to the blockage of such an important port as general. transport minister was referring to motorway for autostrada the holds the concession for the bridge he's demanded the resignation of the company's top managers italian government says it will now inspect the structure of aging bridges and tunnels across the country. bernard smith al-jazeera . well the fifty year old marandi bridge was used by our i'm seventeen thousand vehicles every day it was government owned but run by a private italian motorway operator it may attend it was put out for a twenty three million dollars repair job on the bridges anchor cables but work hadn't started on that yet in twenty sixteen a local structural engineer fine design is miscalculated the effects of aging on concrete used in the branch which meant it needed regular maintenance or

restructuring work was carried carried out that year and maintenance was being done on its foundations when the bridge collapsed well in for it is a structural engineer and says a bridge like the one in general requires much more maintenance than others it's a very unusual design and frankly you know it to give confidence if you like to your to your view is that this this is a very very rare thing for the very very rare but extreme event and bridges by and large all are safe they are looked after by engineers people like me who whose job it is to inspect so on and maintain and advise bridge owners about they don't know the nature of the maintenance and the risks and so on and this bridges obviously had a disaster nightmare scenario is that just because design is. hardly there 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.

at least fifty two people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing at a study center in the afghan capital kabul there's been no in egypt claim of responsibility for the blast but i saw is carried out previous attacks on shia targets wisely has the story. kabul has been relatively peaceful in recent weeks but this was bad as anything the city has witnessed in months that's all it was a private building in the shia passive town where young men and women were studying for university exams. the suicide bomber is assumed to have targeted them because they were shia and so suspicion immediately fell on the ice and it's has done this sort of thing before they're not often with such devastating results but it's true that there are serious questions about the emergency response. i was

nearby lots of people were martyred where we waited for more than half an hour for ambulances there were no ambulances the people carried the victims to hospital for all that the ambulances did arrive to do what they could they by the time they got to hospital the lines of body bags told their own story there are six dead bodies in the morgue and all of them are female their bodies have been burned and torn into pieces assuming this was the work of i still it only serves to demonstrate the level of threat civilians continue to face in afghanistan with ghastly having come under attack in the taliban in recent days as well the country remains paralysed. well abdullah came john is the editor in chief at one t.v. in afghanistan and joins us now from kabul a very warm welcome to the program and just bring us up today are all the other details you have about what happened. you have mentioned in your report that the sense of them happened at the west of call bowl which is mainly

shia dominated area and this was actually quite a time this was after fuel weeks but. less than the past very very brutal. brutal attacks in the past and syria was on the back of the taliban a nice. centrally and about this place this is called money over the course which is the perforation corps for the high school graduates that wanted to come for perforation examination prior to going to the university and this course was one of the most crowded one and one of the most famous one on iraq for the for the high school graduates on the area and would have quit normally have taken responsibility for an attack like this and where are the fingers of blame coming they being pointed. actually in the part of the trend was that isis

caylee was claiming all of these kind of facts but there was once more now the narrative as i wanted to learn right into that there is also a suspicion that maybe a ton of on might be using the name of isis kerry and all of the creates the public pressure it's want to come to these kind of various very brutal attacks on the civilians that their children their young children. although we haven't heard yet but. foreign money and you know these groups claim for the responsibility but it's very highly likely that the taleban out there is because this invents event happened three days ago and. as you know idyllic and johnny there editor in chief at one t.v. in afghanistan thanks very much i'm jealous. well we get some more now on our main

story and joins us live from genoa where as you know that bridge has collapsed and what else did the prime minister have to say to the nation when he spoke earlier natasha. well what we heard from the park minister just here in juneau was that he is declaring a state of emergency now it seems that regional authorities had requested the government to do thoughts and that request was obviously granted and mort that means is that this region will be able to have more money in order to help rebuild if you like will get itself back on its feet of course you have not just people that have been deeply traumatized people who've been displaced hundreds of residents below that bridge have been moved but also this bridge itself spanned a river it was a very important austrian the city for most weights going to have to be replaced rebuilt somewhere along the river and that's what this stage for emergency will

help this city apparently is going to be in place we understand for twelve months and that will mean as i said more money more investments in the city natasha what's the atmosphere been like today is still such a so real you know picture behind you how are people coping and i guess probably the big questions people have are you know the main one how could this have happened here. yes and i think you know when you say surreal that really is the key word because you have residents who have come to look at this bridge from all over the city it's a very big city here this port city in italy and they're standing them there looking out something that most of them would have seen on a daily perhaps weekly basis very familiar bridge but suddenly the middle section simply in rubble on the ground and left on one side of the bridge you have a fear cools as if they've been frozen in time that is still there they've been

abandoned by drivers and passengers of people who just can't believe that a bridge a fifty year old bridge could simply collapse in this fashion taking so many people with this and there is a lot of grief and of course that grieving. turning to anger as people question how could this have happened who's to blame now we know that the italian government is saying the italian prime minister is saying that the motorway operator that was in charge of this bridge that they all to blame because they should have perhaps done more maintenance been more careful but we've also spoken to people i'm thinking of one former senator in this city who is saying look two years ago we were also warning there were risks we warned the government that they should be doing more to transport ministry should be checking what this most will operate to resign actually doing so a lot of people are blaming each other but in the end of course behind me the rescue operation continues and the focus at least for those emergency workers isn't who's to blame but simply all there are any more survivors who live their lives

from general that touch on cue qatar says they will invest fifteen billion dollars into turkey's ailing financial markets turkish president rage of tire ago and has been hosting the emir of qatar in the capital said media says the shake time in been hammad all fanny is trying to strengthen the existing strategic cooperation between the two countries. well the turkish leaders fallen more than forty five percent against the dollar this year but goes on in the states some of those gains due to central bank measures in retaliation to u.s. sanctions on wed and states turkey double taxes on a range of american imports including alcohol cars and tobacco sort of because it has more now from istanbul the government's decision to increase tariffs on the u.s. products is welcomed by the turkish media and welcomed by the turkish citizens when you look at the new science and the and the social media because there is a positive response on the support for the government through television against the use.