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 forty's. 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 an 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. to see if 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 italy's prime minister's declared a state of emergency in the wake of the disaster. jeanne believe me or any of the lives of the five million euros have been allocated as an emergency fund in response to this tragedy which has struck us what we're doing now is trying to identify the missing people we visited the site and i had the opportunity of speaking to the officials to all the injured and those who are in a serious state in hospital we send our best wishes. well the fifty year old miranda bridge was used by iran seventy thousand vehicles every day it was

government owned but run by a private italian motorway operator in may a tender was put out for us when three million dollars repair job on the bridges cables but work on that hadn't started yet in twenty sixteen a local structural engineer fine design is miscalculated the effects of aging on concrete used in the bridge which meant it needed regular maintenance restructuring work was carried out that year and maintenance was being done on its foundations when the bridge collapse well in for there is a structural engineer and says a bridge like the one general requires much more maintenance than others it's a very unusual design and frankly you need to give confidence if you like to your to your view is that this is a very very rare thankfully very very rare and 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 on and maintain and advise bridge owners about the nature of the maintenance and the risks and so on. and this bridges obviously had

a disaster with the sort of nightmare scenarios that must push 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 our correspondent has more now from general. well what's making this rescue operation particularly difficult now are concerns over safety for you merchants the workers who are working there in the rubble underneath the collapsed bridge because they're all worries that the structure of the bridge is no longer safe that other parts of it could collapse now police of ready if i curated hundreds of residents who are living underneath that bridge in a short while ago the operation was actually suspended while some emergency workers went to look at the foundations of the bridge to try and assess what the situation

was now they've said for the time being they will continue to try and search through the rubble for survivors they are using heavy machinery sniffer dogs are using their bare hands they don't want to give up but all around us we've been speaking to residents who are deeply shocked to watch as happened they are looking at these eerie scenes as these calls seem to be frozen in time on the bridge abandoned by their drivers section middle section of this bridge simply on the ground and everyone is wondering and asking the same question how on earth could this happen while at the moment we have the italian government blaming the motorway and bridge operator we have politicians engineers in the city who said look we raise the alarm years ago one senator told us that just two years ago he had warned of the risks he had said there was too much traffic on this bridge behind the right maintenance wasn't being done so very much a city in grief but that grief really is turning to anger or to discuss this further i'm joined by lorenzo couldn't know who's

a former chief economist and director general at the italian treasury department around so very one welcome to the program good to have your company so far is the government handling the situation. well the prime minister conte responded in a barely i would say guarded way in and basically trying to to send reassuring messages on all the other breaches in italy for effectively but at the same time also saying that whoever. you know has the responsibility for that will be punished but the other leaders were not as kosher as i would say and the two deputy prime minister and the leaders of the two parties supporting the government were quite quick. to shift the blame. on the one in the to the company around the concession and on the other to europe saying that you know was not you know allowing you to spend enough on infrastructure investment when you see the

scene and you understand it tell you in politics what's going on in the background right now i mean this is a relatively new government how do they handle this and bring the public along with them well you know first of all these politics so it's clearly put pretty you know they have to find the way to shift the blame to someone else but secondly i think there is a big battle going on because in september italy will have to decide on the budget and clearly sending messages to brussels saying well listen you you haven't allow us to kind of spend enough on infrastructure investment and this is the result so i think that the way also to put pressure on europe to find some leeway for the next budget but what about the argument that says well if you take the e.u. i'm to you know why is the italian government not taking responsibility for the fact it's it's an italian bridge and it felt that. yeah i mean again the

maintenance and you know it was run by a private company because it's a toll bridge and toll a motorway actually around by the private private company prosecutors are open to an investigation so it's far too early to say anything about it you know it's a listed company by the way so i think even the leaders were not not cautious enough to kind of you know point that actually to the company it's a lady's but effectively you know we have to a knowledge that there is probably a lack of investment in infrastructure in italy but the government has to find a way to reduce kind of the spending to to increase capital spending which is a common problem across europe is it's not just italy it's a situation it's a they're not italy it's a it's a common problem in europe would say even in the u.s. but in italy is probably worse than in other places because of the poor economic performance of the past ten years and even more and the deep economic

crisis that i saw how does seeing these pictures affect politics more broadly affect the faith that people have in politics to to run the country pop i think i mean we shouldn't read too much into such a huge disaster but but again the debate is still on on how to endall the budget in september september will be a crucial moment for financial markets and for how italy is perceived outside of the telly and the start the overall strategy of new government it's a pretty new government is still uncharted territory and we don't know yet what will be the strategy renzo thanks very much for joining me thank you. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour qatar is to invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey's financial sector badly hit by the recent fall in the red cross. on hundreds on a single hot seat in the northeast of india this country's prime minister has just

melts what will be the world's largest publicly funded health service at all because you know whether this country's health infrastructure will be able to talk and in sports arena williams suffer as an early tournament defeat and these here accounts to. qatar says it will invest fifteen billion dollars into turkey's ailing financial markets and banks it was an on shortly after meeting between turkey's president rage of tayyip erdogan and the emir of qatar tell me that hala gorani in and correct the leaders also discuss ways to improve their strategic cooperation well after dropping more than forty five percent against the dollar the turkish lira has risen on wave and state it follows the central bank's announcement of liquidity on chewstick turkey's also been ramping up its retaliates a rematch against the united states increasing tariffs on imports such as our coal

cars and tobacco well that's in response to u.s. sanctions which were introduced to pressure turkey to release the american pastor andrew brown said he's had his course of people would act in a way than state he was seeking to be freed from house arrest and have his travel ban lifted brunson standing trial on terror charges over alleged links to the failed coup two years ago so has the latest 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 and the support for the government through television against the u.s. united states increasing. for the turkish products of course this is mainly a psychological impact where the economists say that's hopeful finance the psychology and since the government began taking some measures again through the

central bank and through the finance ministry 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 boy called for american products and today's tariff the station is and encourage ford's turkish people in a psychological way they think that they have something in their head to response against the u.s. threats but of course on the other hand some economists say that would not the mean that would not mean much because the amount of the tariffs would not be any means to hurt the american economy. a turkish court has ordered the release of an amnesty international chairman who's been held for more than a year without trial time to kill it was charged with supporting us business based businessman for two the girl who turkey accuses of orchestrating a failed coup attempt twenty sixteen amnesty international has accused turkey if human rights abuses over kill just detention. protesters been killed in the city of

basra as rocky security forces broke up a sit in organized by activists near a foreign oil and oil field two other protesters were also injured is the latest in a series of demonstrations against overseas oil companies operating in the wrong. more than one hundred migrants rescued in the mediterranean sea are due to arrive in malta where they'll be distributed between e.u. nations their rival ends a five day standoff after the rescue bill was docking instead fulfill its one hundred forty one migrants on board will be taken in by france germany luxembourg portugal and spain doctors without borders says some of the migrants are escaping torture forced labor and sexual violence in libya israel has reopened the only commercial crossing to gaza after a month long shutdown the carrom abu salem crossing was closed because of heightened tensions between the israelis and the palestinians lorries carrying clothes few and construction material cannot enter israel has also lifted

restrictions on the fishing zone off the gaza shore john strafford as mine. trucks have 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 in cigars and we understand around eight hundred shops are expected to pass the border today now we understand that a lot of pressure came on israel as well from israeli businesses that contract out goals of the workers inside gaza are 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 export 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 including construction materials petrol gas proven vegetables and clothing but i learnt serco are probably are people where the stores were closed transport was 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 but i figure we're kind of. 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 the increases according to international seaboard. listen to 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 any more bear in mind around fifty thousand families. here in gaza rely on the fishing industry in some way these ready 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 armed factions from gaza in a desperate beats to try and forge some last thing truce between hamas and israel so tonight on the program we're live in brazil where some places have a popular former president i'm demanding he be allowed to run for office again despite being in jail find out what's killing sea life and her team tourism along the coastlines of florida and the risky. since for the spanish world cup winner making himself at home in a new. 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 to what we are expected 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 now 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 or two with a temperature of twenty. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the world's record for just the side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy it unless you try america's guns arming mexico's cartels on al-jazeera congressman are you interested in stopping crime. or

travels to the fund this reaches of thailand to follow young local doctors who are providing life 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. our minds are raw top stories here on al-jazeera at least fifty two people have

been killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul many of the victims were students at a study center italy's government has declared a state of emergency and ordered an archon review into the state of the country's infrastructure comes after a bridge collapse in genoa on choose to killing at least thirty eight people caught so says it will invest fifteen billion dollars into turkey to help boost the country's struggling economy the emir of qatar made the announcement during a meeting with president reagan tayyip erdogan in. the family of a u.s. journalist kidnapped in syria six years ago is calling for his safe release austin tice is believed to be one of at least thirty journalists covering the conflict are being held in the country against their will by khanna reports from washington and so you see this this aliment of hope in his early photos right and then. 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 men at a road block near damascus six years ago and it was austin's deepest desire that they could have reform without any of these photos are being taken and so i just want you to join him behind the camera and i want you to to get a feeling for his heart of why computer why did austin go there he wanted to tell the story that was so young when he arrived. 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

negotiations for release what is known is that the kidnapped journalists come from a number of countries among them france spain lebannon mauritania jordan and the united states. one the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world and so that events like these that reason we miss on the situation in that country in the journalistic western lives 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 a windows two there are many other fathers and mothers in syria and beyond still hoping for the safe return of their loved ones mike hanna al-jazeera washington india's prime ministers and iran's to new government run health care service the largest scheme in the world the range of what he says it will cover and half a billion poor people but as andrew thomas reports from goal watty there are concerns that the move might stretch existing facilities. 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 family has been largely 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 a 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 for people in europe our health. you know our personal health sector. some have accused of caring more for his hindu base than for 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 and littleness al jazeera. former brazilian president luis in arceo lula da silva is expected to be registered as a candidate brazil's presidential election later on wednesday now if despite the

fact he's covered in jail for corruption then you'll see why my joins us live now from outside the electoral court in brazilia hi there daniel so little is workers party support says are gathering and what is it that they hope to change. or to leave there outside of the electoral commission here in brasilia they're basically hoping that it will be freed from prison he's five hundred kilometers south of here in the city of karachi but be allowed to stand in the elections first round on the seventh of october the second round they get stuff on the twenty eighth of october they're absolutely convinced that he's innocent of the charges against him those of money laundering and corruption to which he's serving twelve years in prison they believe it was a political set up by his enemies that if he were allowed to stand he would almost certainly win the elections the opinion polls latest opinion polls seem to bear them out he is certainly leading in those polls although he is serving time in prison went to prison in april is trying to coordinated thing it seems from his

prison cell talking to members of his workers' party that they're here trying to exert pressure now on the electoral court to let him stand to let him out of prison and so if it seems likely that he won't be able to run how does then this leave the party political landscape in brazil. where the workers' party will say the workers' party is much more than just lula he was president between two thousand and three and two thousand and ten massively popular he left office with a huge approval rating still a very well known figure not just in brazil but right across latin america so they will say that the party is more than just him but many others i think of left their support of the party they are disillusioned with the corruption. and charges have been leveled against not just lula but other members of the party huge corruption scandal here sweeping across brazil so the party is certainly weakened without lula

they do have a vice presidential candidate by the name of fernando i doubt he also has a vice president. so they would step in if a little is not allowed to stand they would be the workers' party candidates but they do not have the same recognition as lula they're not nearly as popular but they will say they will try to keep lula in the running for as long as they possibly can to keep the focus on the workers' party to keep the focus on lula and so daniel in terms of the presidential election itself what happens not. what the campaigning starts from tomorrow today wednesday is the deadline for the parties to register there are thirteen of them so the campaigning will begin tomorrow with or without their other candidates coming to the fore most notably the right wing. military man who. expressed his support for the president from hard on crime is braise rising in popularity certain in the opinion polls and the former environment

minister in the lula government. silva up there but again nowhere near as high in the opinion polls so there's several weeks now to go until the election actually happens but i think it's likely to be a bitterly fought campaign with no clear contender especially if lula is not in the race. there live from brasilia daniel thank you. closing arguments are under way in the fraud trial involving u.s. president on charms former campaign manager paul when a ford is accused of tax evasion and lying to bank holds charges on relates of them to his time with the trump presidential campaign and twenty sixty his defense rested on choose day without calling any witnesses well patrick has the latest from outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia. closing arguments are under way here in this courtroom in alexandria virginia for paul man a fourth donald trump's former campaign manager now facing the potential of

spending the rest of his life in prison he's being charged with tax evasion and bank fraud prosecutors just had what seems to be a pretty strong case they detailed for jurors a very lavish lifestyle with million dollar homes in new york virginia and florida extravagant purchases tens of thousands of dollars for one watch a jacket made of ostrich feathers for fifteen thousand dollars then they put on the stand his former business partner rick gates he's flipped on paul man afore he told the jury that they knew it was wrong to hide money in offshore bank accounts that they knew they were lying to the investigators when it came to their taxes and basically the defense didn't put on any kind of defense they're hoping that they were able to rip gates's credibility apart on the stand because on the stand he testified that he did steal money from an afford to pay for extramarital affairs so now the jury is going to get the case after the prosecution and the defense make their closing arguments but this isn't the only trial for paul metaphor even if he's found not guilty here well he's going to go on trial again for similar trial

or similar charges next month in washington d.c. . zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. party is trying to get the opposition to challenge to last month's election results thrown out president emerson my god well once the code to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c. alliance last week is the denouncing jimmie's accuses manigat of rigging the presidential vote has more now from harare. president in a similar was legal team say they have a strong case they believe the evidence filed by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa doesn't prove last month's election was rigged there is no sound argument raised by. to challenge the electoral victory of prison in. years nor legal grounds we need to challenge one is not complied with the rules of the court and secondly the case has no merits the president is telling zimbabweans and the international community the elections were free and he won fifty point eight

percent of the vote he's calling for unity only when the. people this isn't. the right not. throwing stones at john some in the international community are concerned about human rights violations and post-election violence the american ambassador paid a courtesy call to the president on wednesday the deaths of six people in the streets here the intimidation of opposition polling agents. violence in the densely populated suburbs around harare have all been issues of concern the country is in limbo a new cabinet can't be formed parliament can't convene that means decisions that affect the economy can't be implemented the core to muster all within fourteen days of an election challenge being lodged the constitutional court decision is final there is no room for an appeal if judges order

a fresh election that has to happen within sixty days. the opposition m.d.c. alliance has three days to respond to when a guy goes application before the matter a sit down for a hearing the nine judges will determine what happens next for the bodies how do with al-jazeera had any. of these twenty two children have died when their boat sank crossing the river nile in sudan the state news agency says the boat was carrying more than forty people including kids on their way to school in a small town north of the capital caught to the edge and reportedly failed in strong currents heavy rains have killed another sixty seven people in the worst flooding in india's kerala state for nearly a century the latest deaths bring the total number of people killed by flooding since may to more than two hundred tens of thousands more have also been displaced india's meets raja call department has forecast heavy rain in kerala until saturday york has become the latest cities to reassess its relationship with the right

sharing up now it's placing a cap on the number of ride sharing cars on its streets for years traditional taxi drivers have complained that they can't earn a living as the likes of hoover and left school in size gave ellis on the reports. there are so many liberties reivers on the streets of new york the city is now putting on the brakes the city's mayor bill de blasio signed into law a first of its kind cap on right sharing cars like its main competitor lift helping the issuing of new licenses for ride sharing cars for at least a year it's welcome news for yellow taxi drivers right share cars now outnumber them on new york city streets by nearly ten to one last year for the first time ever overtook yellow cabs in daily ridership new york's yellow taxi drivers have been pushing the city hard to the limit saying the increase in numbers have left them hurting financially. five the city did not pay any attention

and to give a free hand toolbars to make money. just in the past eight months six new york city taxi drivers fifty hated suicide advocates and activists say it's because of increased financial pressure on long time yellow cab drivers like this pressure that's being accumulated because of increased competition from services such as hoover and lift sometimes feeling a taxi is easy. and sometimes it's not a fight against this measure arguing it would adversely affect blacks and latinos living in poor neighborhoods who have long complained of often being refused service by yellow cab drivers. the ride sharing firms had the support of the city's civil rights groups and an industry that had discriminated against community the

color same state inception now. almost the harder it is it now crying foul because they don't have a monopoly game in the city hoping however the cap on ride sharing cars will level the playing field a profit sharing for all drivers and maybe even save the iconic yellow taxi industry gave rosendo. york. masses of seaweed and toxic algae blooms a choking the coastlines of florida and the caribbean the algo in seaweed are hurting too isn't killing sea life and affecting people's health as on the gallagher reports from miami the so-called red tide is the worst seen in more than a decade. but weeks from now smelling saw gas and seaweed has been washed ashore across the caribbean in florida's atlantic coast these blooms on naturally occurring when seen in this region before two thousand and eleven since then the problems grow worse while scientists are unsure what's behind it many belief human

activity is effective to lawrence rivers feeding into the control that.