m.d.c. alliance has three days to respond to when a guy goes at the cation before the match a sit down for a hearing the nine judges will determine what happens next it was about how do we. have. new yorkers battling to save its iconic yellow taxis from the threat posed by a popular right sharing apps like uber and left many of the drivers say they can't compete with the low prices of the online competitors as reports. there are so many goober 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 goober and 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 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. since you did not pay any attention and give a free hand. to make money. just in the past eight months six new york city taxi drivers fifth committed 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 to 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 famed inception now almost a hundred is it now crying foul because they don't have a monopoly game in the city hoping however that cap on ride sharing cars will level the playing field a profit sharing for all drivers and maybe even save the iconic taxi industry gabriels on doe. your. business

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the third time in their history. form of barcelona star under us in the us that is making himself at home in japan and yes to scoring his second goal in as many games for his new club he saw karroubi the twenty ten world cup winner moved to the general mood after a sixteen year career with bossa this game with suffragette here shima finished one one draw. korean sporting unity is being stepped up at the asian games with north and south korea fielding joint teams in three events a unified women's basketball team opening group game against host nation in the knees year similar examples of cross border cooperation will be seen in canoeing and rowing in february korea organized the first of a unified olympic team in women's ice hockey now the event itself doesn't officially begin until the opening ceremony on saturday after a month long journey across indonesia though the torch for the asian games has now

arrived in jakarta a step for us and reports. one month after leaving new delhi the birthplace of the asian games that the march has now finally reached its destination end in the uneasy hour where the asian games will be how the next few weeks forward. thousand athletes from forty five countries will come forward to support. the short test rubber to eighteen provinces in indonesia that has even gone under water taken by diverse pop-y. in the east of the country it has also been taken by parachutes. the first time the asian games will be held in two separate cities in the capital but also in the city . it's a major event and many were worried that indonesia would not be capable of organizing the event in time stadiums had to be built ran no feted and also the traffic very notorious traffic here was

a major concern some measures have been taken by the government but at this minute traffic you're still very bad and you could also see some last minute construction going on just i had a few days before the great opening on saturday night of concern is security and it's just a few months back you know dozens of people in the streets. in the past few weeks leading up to the asian games authorities have been arrested hundreds of people they suspect of being part of the group that were responsible for these bombings the asian games will be secured by more than hundred thousand members of police. now the australian city of sydney has become home to a brain bank which is signing up sports stars tonight their brains after death it's part of an international effort to study the impact of head trauma in sports in two thousand and thirteen the n.f.l. in the united states agreed to pay seven hundred sixty five million dollars to more than four thousand families to settle

a concussion lawsuit there are nearly three hundred thousand sports related brain injuries in europe every year with winter sports accounting for close to twenty thousand of them in australia twenty thirteen research found that in the state of victoria hospitalizations for sports related concussions have increased by more than sixty percent in less than a decade. has more from sydney. he was known in boxing circles as the dingo dexter dunn worth was once a one of the oldest professional boxers in the world but retired a decade ago the sixty two year old says he's received that many knocks to the head that he feels compelled to donate his brain to big search if your job is getting hit in the head for a living that trip breakout be a good thing and i'm surprised the pressure box for that sort of basically. it our brain can cost probably at least half a dozen times. yes but you are saying to recover pretty pretty quickly but.

who knows long term the fix dexter hopes his pledge will hope research is better understand the impact of head knocks like this the impact of such hits to the head have been linked to diseases like chronic traumatic encephalopathy or c.t.e. a degenerative brain condition internationally the disease has been found in boxes american football players and was recently diagnosed for the first time in a strain rugby union player. but a straight in research just say it needs to examine the brains of former athletes who played other high impact sports like the straight in football league and the national rugby league to get a more comprehensive picture of the risks involved to play is once we have one or two cases from those codes. that conversation we're trying. to do differently is here and then we need to work harder to try and identify the

incidents and the respect and what we can do. preventers the disease has been found in ninety nine percent of the brains of n.f.l. players examined in the u.s. at the system brain bank of this one in sydney that sparked a billion dollar class action lawsuit and already similar legal cases are being launched here straight in sporting bodies say their inaction tougher guidelines for treating concussions including employing head impact spotters during matches and funding research so far forty is trained in sportsmen have pledged their brain to the sports brain bank it's calling for more donations in the hope its research can help better protect present and future athletes yarbrough him out a zero sydney. u.s. open tennis champion sloane stephens looks to be hitting form just in song for the defense of her title after reaching the final of last week's rogers cup stephens

beating touch ana maria six three six three to go in surround three of the cincinnati. ok let's just for let's get back to marian in london a lovely thank you handy when out masses of seaweed and toxic alkie choking the coastlines of florida and the caribbean the allegheny and seaweed hurting tourism killing sea life and affecting people's health and annie gallagher reports from miami a so-called red tide is the west 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 are naturally occurring but 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 a factor to lourdes rivers feeding into the control of the land in the amazon in the congo and of course there's been huge bout of deforestation in those two waters

. because again you cut down the forests that's really is a lot more the this new g.m. pollution in florida toxic algae is adding to the state's environmental woes this year's red tide is the worst in more than a decade the real life has been hit hard by the r.v. which poisons fish and removes oxygen from the water florida businesses are suffering two numbers of people reporting respiratory problems in spite with officials warning the albi may be around for months yesterday we were giving people little dabs of the vapor rub to put in their nostrils so that the smell wasn't so bad florida is no stranger to these kind of ecological events but scientists believe stricter environmental regulations would help them double it's got to be due to pollution coming from land generated by here primarily on. culture but also from sewage the challenges of dealing with masses of seaweed and toxic algae or extracting a price in this region is now more than just an inconvenience and more of

a long term environmental problem that could have serious consequences scientists say if authorities don't deal with it now it'll only get worse in years to come and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida but if the knees album i will be back with more news in just a couple minutes. as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in b.c. someone says i'm staying in power no matter what the have to crash into is all of reality that usually gets the english blood. said here america's ortega's from

a vice president al jazeera. the largest multi-sport event on the continent and the second largest in the world the asian games will host thousands of athletes competing across a mix of traditional and a lympics sports follow us for all the news and updates from jakarta the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera. to see our travels to the fun 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 danites of their inspiring efforts to successfully deliver the people's health. on al-jazeera. and monday put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west

africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. forty eight people many of them young students have been killed in a suicide attack in afghanistan's capital. now i'm maryanne demasi in london with al jazeera also coming up italy's prime minister declares a state of emergency in the wake of tuesday's bridge collapse which killed thirty

nine people cats are investing fifteen billion dollars into turkey's ailing financial markets as the leaders meet corporation in ankara we'll tell you how new york city is battling to save its iconic yellow taxis from the growing threat posed by apps like. into the program our top story afghanistan's president has condemned a suicide attack on an education center in kabul which is killed forty eight people many of the victims were young boys and girls studying for their university entrance exams happened in a mainly shia neighborhood leading some to suspect that i still might have carried out the attack though no claims have been made so far lawrence leigh reports. has been relatively peaceful in recent weeks but this was bad as anything the city has witnessed in months the target was a private building in the town where young men and women were studying for

university exams the classroom was destroyed along the way all of it a testament to the ferocity of the attack the suicide bomber targeted them because they were shia and so suspicion immediately fell on. its has done this sort of thing before they're not often with such devastating results. to serious questions about the emergency response. of the student at the training center i came out just after four o'clock i heard a huge explosion or brush parts of my class or so dozens of bodies or wounded people for about thirty minutes there was no police presence i don't know. and people were carrying the wounded students to the hospitals throughout the ambulances did a right to do what they could 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 and 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. more recently. i mean i have bibi is a former senior advisor to the international forces in afghanistan he told me earlier that the attack can't be attributed to any one group the bottom line is that they are all linked to some in somewhere. together i mean the institutions the countries that are backing them and supporting the violence in afghanistan. support violence in afghanistan through different channels and insurgency through taliban are targeting the government and of wider political spectrum but these sectarian violence is going through narrow in my view very sick

tearin extremist groups that are. supported in some cases by the government institutions in the region i'm afraid the government is failing failing to provide security for the for the afghan people failing to. me it was on the news that you know the government the interior minister was saying that we knew for months that the taliban were preparing to attack me but the question is why if you if you knew as a government why didn't you prevent that why didn't you go and tackle that. so as you mentioned the afghan government is also battling right now a growing taliban threat in the city of guys need just outside of kabul at least four hundred people including around one hundred civilians have been killed since the assault began on friday charlotte dallas has more on that. 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 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 ceased police vehicles. after four consecutive days of the government prematurely declaring victory over the taliban and seen reinforcements on monday the extra troops swung the battle the afghan military requesting. just to us is strikes on tuesday compared to thirty two in the days prior to actually listen. to 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 thanks for all the five thousand e is important it lies just one hundred fifty kilometers from kabul on the main motorway self take gosney and you save

a kabul from the southern provinces of the military pushed up the taliban this time the fight has remained in the surrounding villages and in the middle the people of gosney ballasts al-jazeera. prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the wake of choose days bridge collapse in january in which thirty nine people died the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country and fashion but reports now from genoa. on what remains of genoa as 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 breach of collapse of the now we are using b. cranes to move those. to try to enter the rubble so again search for the beatings police are letting anyone who is not involved in this rescue operation to go down this road to play 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 the part of me had vanished but 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 support all kerry learned there were destructor problems with the brits the motorway operator needed to carry out more montanans 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. actually 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 now cattle says it will invest fifteen billion dollars into turkey's ailing financial markets and banks as was announced shortly after a meeting between takis president russia type and the emir of cattle shaped i mean ben had a funny in ankara leaders also discuss.