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 news sites 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 tariffs for the turkish products of course this is mainly a psychological 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 boy called for american products and today's tariff the station is encourage for its 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 well the white house has responded to those new sanctions by turkey calling them regrettable tariffs from turkey are certainly regrettable step in the wrong direction the tariffs that the united states placed on turkey were out of national security interests there's or out of retaliation i'm not going to get ahead of anything on what we may or may not do it in an effort to respond but certainly we don't support turkey's decision to to retaliate against us protecting our national security interests. so if more let's speak to mike hanna who is in washington and it would seem as though the relationship between washington and ankara is really going from bad to worse mike. indeed yes yet another trade war it would appear embroiling both countries in the addition to the u.s. fighting trade wars on some other fronts interesting there to hear sarah saunders

the white house press secretary stressing national security issues being the reason for the original trump inspired sanctions and provide against terror of supply against turkey not thinking it directly to the matter of that pastor you referred to and true brunson she said as well in that news conference that the release of brunson by turkey may not to leave to an immediate end to the tariffs obviously trying to separate out the issue of brunson from what ever national security issue she is referring to as the main reason for the sanctions that trump tariffs against turkey is there concern there in washington about how much further this could escalate here says a great deal of concern as i said this is not the only front on which the trumpet ministration is fighting some kind of trade war congress obviously perturbed about

this however they have been largely supportive the republicans in congress at least of president trump in these latest measures particularly with regard to that american pastore andrew branson but we've also had the vice president mike pence weighing in today he said that in a tweet that turkey should not push trump he's implying that even further measures might emerge from the united states so this is not an end by any means to this ongoing a trade war it would appear it could ratchet up even further and i thank you very much for now from washington mike hanna. still ahead for you on this news out from london twenty four palestinians in gaza as israel and michael border crossing. then appear live in brazil as supporters of a former president are demanding he be allowed to run for office again despite being in jail. and in sport the u.s. open champion looks to be hitting him in just in time for the defense on

a tight. italy's prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the wake of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa at least thirty eight people have died at number the government expects to rise the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country the trash about reports from general. on what remains of genoa is marandi bridge vehicle seemed to be frozen in time left where they were abandoned moments off to the bridge collapsed on tuesday the driver of this truck managed to stop just meters from the edge others would not so lucky. in difficult conditions emergency workers continue to search for survivors we have the pieces of the of the breech of collapse of the now we are using b. cranes to move those. to try to enter the rubble so again search for the

betweens police on letting anyone who's not involved in this rescue operation to go down this road with a warfare frak you waited hundreds of people who were living in the area because they're all still concerns over the safety of the bridge and whether some parts of it may still collapse when they'll be still when i realized the bridge had fallen down like everyone and you know i felt as if a part of me had vanished and it's unclear why the fifty year old bridge collapsed but some people in the city had questioned its safety this former independent senator. warned of the risks as recently as two years ago to support all learn there were destructor problems with the brits the motorway operate door needed to carry out more maintenance but also the transport minister should have been checking. off to visiting the city italy's prime minister declared a state of emergency and said the motor operator in charge of the bridge was to

blame. these are tragedies which are unacceptable in modern society they shouldn't happen this government will do its utmost to avoid tragedies like this happening in the future we have plans in place to take action against the companies managing the motorways the italian government says it will now inspect the structure of aging bridges and tunnels across the country it's unclear though whether that will be enough to calm fears in a city where people have been deeply shaken the al-jazeera did noah italy the fifty year old brandy bridge was used by around seventy thousand vehicles a day it was government owned but run by a private italian motorway operator in may a tender was put out for a twenty three million dollar repair job on the bridges and cables but what hadn't started in two thousand and sixteen a local structural engineer found designers miscalculated the effects of aging on concrete used in the bridge which meant it needed regular maintenance restructuring

what was carried out that year and maintenance was being done on its foundations when it collapsed in firth is a structural engineer and says a bridge like the one in january requires much more maintenance than others. 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 nature of the maintenance and the risks and so on and this bridges obviously had a disaster with the nightmare scenarios that just pushed design as the 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. of fraud trial of u.s. president donald transform a campaign manager is coming to a close to a man of force is accused of tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans charges aren't related to his time with the trump presidential campaign in two thousand and sixteen his defense rested on tuesday without calling any witnesses back to call in joins us outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia and so patty just take us through what happened today in court. i will definitely do that i want to let you know that the judge is giving him the final instructions to the jury it's pretty late here it's already five fifteen in the evening not sure if they're going to start negotiating start deliberations tonight most likely they'll come back in the morning and begin this rather large task so today was closing arguments first the prosecution when they basically came out and said paul amana forte is a liar they highlighted the testimony of the all of their witnesses but they focus a little bit on gates now rick gates was paul metaphor it's basically his right

hand man he flipped he pled guilty to crimes in hopes of getting more lenient sentence so what he did is he came out and testified he said that he and paul manna for they knew they knew that they were lying on their taxes that they were lied to get bank loans that they knew that they were supposed to report that they had these thirty would that man afford had these thirty one offshore bank accounts in three different countries with as much as sixty million dollars that he got from ukraine and gates said they knew that they were breaking the law but that to fit the defense actually they're focusing in on gates as well they told the jury hey we didn't put on the defense because we don't think the prosecution made their case beyond a reasonable doubt that metaphor is guilty and they really went after gates because on the stand he did get rattled and he said that he embezzled he stole from metaphor in order to pay for an extramarital affair that he was having to try and cover that up so they really went after his credibility and the defenses also and i'm not sure how effective this is going to be at the jury but they pointed to

signatures even though they didn't have any signature experts they said don't these signatures look a little bit different to maybe it was gates that signed all these offshore accounts so the defense is really putting all of their hopes that gates is not credible the prosecution said to the jury hey you might not like gates but look we corroborate it is evidence with all these other witnesses so it's going to possibly take the jury a little bit of time there are more than three hundred pages of evidence documents e-mails charts so they're going to have to go through it but we'll see wait and see . when they return a verdict. i was going to say closing arguments have been delivered now as you say there is still a great deal of information and material to go through but when might there be a verdict in this trial. you know the it is the evidence has been fairly overwhelming but the structure and say they have to go through this count by count there eighteen counts and they really have to decide each count on the facts and it really depends on the jury sometimes you get

a talker and sometimes you get people who just make up their mind right away so we really don't know but i think it's important to point out this isn't the end of the road for a man of four even if he's found not guilty of all these eighteen counts he still is going back to jail he's in jail right now because there was a judge in washington d.c. that said he broke the terms of his release that you possibly tried to intimidate witnesses so this isn't his only trial he's going back to washington d.c. next month to face similar charges it is important to point out this is the first trial from the special counsel robert muller but the judge told both sides don't you even mentioned russia the close is that he was talking about what e-mail about the campaign and about money coming from ukraine in the in the washington trial we expect more talk will be about that foreign money possibly connected to the trump campaign so he is not out of the woods but it's important to remember if he's found guilty of all the charges here he's sixty nine years old even a lenient sentence it's quite possible he's looking at spending the rest of his life behind bars thank you very much from outside that courthouse in alexandria

virginia patty culhane. meanwhile in a very unusual move u.s. president on trump has revotes the security clearance of former cia director john brennan brennan was a top intelligence official during the obama administration is and has been openly critical of trump and his policies in a statement from question brennan's objectivity and credibility and said his behavior has been erratic brennan claims the move is politically motivated and says all americans should be gravely worried about transactions. now israel has reopened the only commercial crossing to gaza after a month long shut down the i was solemn crossing was closed because of heightened tension between the israelis and the palestinians lorries carrying clothes fuel and construction material can now and israel has also lifted restrictions on the fishing zone off the gaza shore charles stratford reports trucks have started arriving here gaza's only commercial crossing with israel to 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 border today. now we understand that a lot of pressure came on israel as well from israeli businesses that contract out girls and 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 construction materials petrol gas and vegetables and clothing but i learned sort go out all over europe with 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 when i figure we're going to. israel has also increased the area in which fishermen can work at sea from three to six in a school molls 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. of the me if. so as you heard there the gaza fisherman saying these easing of restrictions on the area in which they can operate and nowhere near enough they say they're literally all 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 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 beats to try and force some last troops should come us and israel full ahead for you on this news hour from london we'll tell you how new york city is battling to save it like honey yellow taxis from the grinding apps like. andris on a single hot sea in the northeast of india this country's prime minister has just announced what will be the world's longest publicly funded health service but i'll be looking at whether this country's health infrastructure will be able to cope. and in support the spanish well when i'm making himself and move on i.

well again there are still some pretty big and slow moving thunderstorms over italy of the adriatic in a circulation which is pretty clear from the satellite picture which is drifting towards the croatian coastal the bottom end of this cold front has dropped temperatures to some degree in northern europe the heat wave has gone so we're getting the change in temperature which is goes down then back up again but the real he's been pushed well way over to the far east so you're still in the south it's still there in spain and portugal as well and in fact tension paris are on the way up again so overnight then whilst you've got these showers wondering around heading towards greece is still back on the adriatic coast and southern italy the front itself is edged a bit further eastwards and the next one is coming in twenty degrees in london in the rain by look at it twenty one by friday and twenty three in paris so it is a cool trend the green blob suggest more heavy showers around the outside this time

they still wandering around the adriatic you notice and that's the remains of other old front so the end of summer might be arguably in sight at least for northern europe but that would be pessimistic anyway if you can is out of the mediterranean it's pretty hot the slow circulation means the woman is coming out of the middle of libya and heading northwards only thirty one on the coast in tunisia but still warm enough. southbound zero the economic heartbeat of a thriving brazil but boom times mean rising rents and the lack of public housing isabella is just one of thousands looking for a place to call home 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. one of the really

special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be pushes you know it's very challenging given the particular because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues we are with the people who believe that tell the real story i'll just mend it used to do the work individualism we don't feel inferior work to the audience across the globe. come back a quick reminder of the top stories forty eight 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 sent. government has declared a state of emergency and ordered an urgent review into the state of the country's infrastructure it comes after a bridge collapse in general on chews day killing at least thirty nine people and cattle says it will invest fifteen billion dollars into turkey to help boost the country struggling economy. made the announcement during a meeting with president russia type one and anchor. now the former brazilian president to silva has registered as a candidate in brazil's presidential election this is despite the fact that he's currently in jail for corruption so let's get more on this now from who is in brasilia and it looks like is launching his candidacy from jail. yes he is miriam i mean almost thirteen of the politics is wanting to stand in october the presidential elections have now registered this is the final day

wednesday here in brasilia to do that most of the policies including the right wing counted the votes without all the former environment minister in lula's previous government money in a sale of a are among those candidates most of them registered online the only ones to come here in numbers from all across brazil are members of lula's workers' polity and joining me now here is one of those members the president of the local branch of the workers' party of an area about ice that larry thank you very much for joining us lula is in prison serving twelve years of a corruption of corruption charges how can he be the candidate in october selection well first of all. he just charges against him a really based on a very very for john. prosecution we all know that in fact it's a political process it's not really based on real crimes the fact is there's no crying to be proved we have no proof because of that because there's no crime

that's why they can have proofs and so we believe that if the people. try to go against six we are going to show that there are no proofs because as it's completely pollute our public to go we believe that only through public politics we can change it that's why we stand for it now i mean his political team are still appealing against the against the charge is that even if he's allowed out of prison which seems unlikely the electoral court may not allow him to stand but if that's the case does the workers' party still have a strong candidate could you still will take a selection this without lula the thing is we are going till the end to the father's place we can go with our candidate the candidate we want because they won't be on. the side have to tell us to stop not us we're not going to stop they have to stop us that's why we don't have another candidate what you heard here we don't have the plan our people in his are now plan we stand for lula because if we

say if we change now we are telling them you are right we cannot have him as a candidate that's why we don't don't start doing what i think you very much for joining us so thirteen counted us if we said it was talking politics of now registered campaigning it's late here now in brasilia campaigning starts tomorrow thursday right across brazil ahead of the first round of those elections on the top of the seventh with or without lou left out we're going to have to wait and see larry i'm back to you have promises to be a fascinating contest doesn't it daniel shaima in brazil yeah. opposition supporters nicaragua called a national launch to demand the release of political prisoners or than two thousand people have been arrested during nearly four months of unrest against president daniel ortega is rule john heilemann has more now from managua nicaragua when president daniel ortega now says that the country is back to normal but the thousands of people here on this march would disagree with that they're protesting

particularly in this march against the the tension of what they then geos defined as political prisoners and what the government says a violent provoked into is reason terrorists we've been hearing stories from those that say the people have been grabbed eva from their homes or outside of their homes not just but by police but also by the paramilitary groups that at the moment all roaming around in the crowd were several people saying that they you the haven't got the chance to they've had very little contact with the person with a relative in most cases who's been taken into prison and they're worried about their well being and safety. and she didn't do anything wrong all she did was donate food and water to the demonstrators because she said. catholic now the government is accusing her of being a terrorist and financing weapons like grenade launches. it is true that nick and i were it is that in recent months protests like this one certainly small of them but

for the people here are telling us that's not a calm that's borne out of contentment that's a calm that's borne out of fear specifically of the paramilitary groups that roam around to the point where many people now don't go out after dark and what's worse is that doesn't seem to be an immediate way out of this crisis the government's increasingly isolated they've lost key allies like the private sector and the catholic church the national dialogue what was happening seems to have stalled. india's prime minister has announced a new government run health care service the largest such scheme in the world around her modi says it will cover around half a billion poor people but as andrew thomas reports from goa hati there are concerns the move might stretch the 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 re-election campaign. if there is good good good teammate the poor of the country will not tough a struggle when they fall sick they will not have to borrow from money lenders families will not be destroyed. the 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 part of the duals 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 come. the poor half of india's population the 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 points are guarding the human resources but i think returning to new york for people to nearest our health care bill really you know our personal health sector. some have accused you 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 would be a big achievement and littleness al-jazeera. thousands of syrians to have disappeared during the seven year civil war many allegedly detained or killed by the government or opposition fighters rights activists say two net was abducted in two thousand and thirteen from the office near damascus whereabouts still a mystery and other reports from beirut mining he says he heard this from

us this is. the hostages. the area has from. the video was released just a few days before tony one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared and she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to meet a hundred 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 duma at the time there was in the entire region forces from the martyrs of the forces of the what are rising the stomach union of the levant and even then the store front where president. 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 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 rosen was in their jails and under their direct supervision this was until the beginning of twenty 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 resign 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. two thousand people have disappearing by the sitting government more than eighty four thousand people that 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. libya has condemned forty five officials a former leader daffy to death or accused of carrying out killings at protesting the two thousand and eleven revolution and what became known as the massacre of the abu salim highway mahmud up to wirehead has more from tripoli. the suspects are

accused of murdering libyan rebels in two eleven during the uprising that ousted former libyan leader moammar gadhafi now the general prosecutor says that this verdict is based on clear evidence including footage and eye witnesses just moon is and also confessions from some of the suspects on the other hand the defendant's lawyers say they have been shocked and they are planning to be fair the whole case to the supreme court they're planning to send a memorandum to the supreme court in order to start over the whole defense process now in all cases this a verdict is not terminal and if the supreme court says that this whole case has to be started over then the defense in this case can be renewed once the

supreme court if you will this verdict zimbabwe's ruling party is seeking to have an opposition challenge to its election when thrown out in court the m.d.c. alliance says last month's vote was rigged but president insists they don't have a valid case which has has more from harare. president in a similar got 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 does not sound argument raised. to challenge the electoral victory of prison. years no legal grounds to challenge one is not complied with the rules of the court and secondly the case is nominates 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 to throw. 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 of all 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 court must rule within forty 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 i was application before the matter is set down for hearing the nine judges will determine what happens next for us. new york is battling to save its iconic yellow taxis from the threat posed by popular right sharing apps like byrne left many of the drivers say they can't compete with the low prices of their online competitors as ports. there are so many drivers 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 ride sharing cars like its main competitor lift halting 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 a new york city streets by nearly ten to one last year for the first time in.