of the american past to be resolved the sanctions she says are a direct response to the ongoing trial of the past are they could be reconsidered if the trial is ended against that particular individual so separating out the actions of the trump administration with regard to turkey in recent days and it's not just a trade war is it mike we see that this is a very much a political and diplomatic crisis that is brewing between washington and ankara are there concerns about how it will affect. security given that turkey has been a strategic partner of the united states in terms of their strategy in that region well versus of great concern to many observers within the u.s. and without turkey of course a valuable and very important member of nato an alliance to which the u.s. still belongs despite president trumps criticism at times offered so turkey certainly a key figure in terms of the supposed to kill or alliance any diplomatic dispute

like we are seeing at present great cause for uncertainty we've also seen the dribble down effect of the economic crisis in turkey going into other markets as far afield as south america and indeed in africa itself south africa rand failing very strongly because of the impact on the devaluation of the turkish lira so there are international ramifications to all of this but now we've got as well the vice president mike pence entering the fray he's tweeted in the course of the day with regard to the american past that turkey would do well not to test president trump as he put it so very clearly there are still moves afoot to ratchet up pressure on turkey what form this would take for the trade tariffs or indeed further imposition of sanctions that's something we'll see in the days ahead but it does seem likely that that is being contemplated marion my canner in washington thank you very much . you know with out is there life from london much more still ahead on the program

to take me to brazil lesson horses of a molehill a former president want him to run for office again despite being in jail to find out what's killing seen life and hurting terrorism along the coastline of florida and alabama. hello yet again the cloud is streaming across the bite and it looks impressive does it not but it's not carrying very much with it because snow certainly is falling on the ground the big story out since and behind it told you go to drop in temperature the sun's out not many showers the fourteen degrees effectively in brothels sunny skies it's warmer in sydney at twenty one woman still of course in brisbane and about seventeen mark in study with a patent in purpose so the bites breeding them but it's not storing that rain far

enough in one i'm afraid is catching the edge of new south wales in tasmania that across the tasman sea towards new zealand. clearly pollak in the us it looks fine for the time being and that's certainly reflected for thursday's forecasts but the rain coming into the western coast of south sound fine in the north but the day after such as leading up to the weekend it's going to rain virtue wherever you are certainly a try to picture there by no means soaking wet which has been the story in japan focus wise the rain has just gone north of honshu that's not left you completely dried to be honest this is she meeting and pretty warm with the potential of heavy raised in hawkeye there things improve greatly from the point of view of rain on friday and it cools down a bit. it looks ugly it sounds ugly in scale street from america's high streets to mexico's

on the wilds we control these these right and who controls the other people in power of 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 leads you to america's guns arming mexico's cartel on al jazeera congressman are you interested in stopping crime. to quick look at the top stories now 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 center it's in these government has declared a state of emergency and ordered an urgent review into the state of the country's infrastructure it comes off to a bridge collapsed in general on choose day killing at least thirty nine people and castro says it will invest fifteen billion dollars into turkey to help boost the country struggling economy the emyr of capital made the announcement during a meeting with president. in ankara. well now the fraud trial of u.s. president donald trump's former campaign manager is coming to a close well man a fourth is accused of tax evasion and lying to obtain bank loans the charges are not related to his time with the trump presidential campaign in two thousand and sixteen is defense rested on tuesday without calling any witnesses actually called high and has the latest from outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia. paul metaphor the one time campaign manager for donald trump a longtime political operative now. as fate rests with the jury he is facing charges that he had about sixty million dollars of money from ukraine in offshore

accounts that he didn't tell the government about of that he lied on his taxes when the money dried up they lied to get bank loans a lot of the closing arguments were focused on rick gates rick a three point zero and a ford associate he flipped on man of forty eight hundred guilty to crimes in hope of getting a lighter sentence and at this courthouse he testified that they knew what they were doing was illegal but they did it anyway well defensed it really put up any arguments any witnesses they said they didn't need to because the government didn't meet the burden of proof and they really tried to go after gates credibility because on the stand he admitted that he stole money from metaphor in part to pay to cover up an extramarital affair he was having and the defense tried to raise questions about whether or not it was a actually gates that opened up all these offshore accounts so now metaphor waits to see what the jury here says but even if they clear him he still goes back to jail because he's awaiting another trial and similar charges that have more to do

with for campaign finance possible violations that's going to happen in washington d.c. next month so now he's waiting to see if he gets cleared here but that doesn't mean it's over. in a highly unusual move us president on all trump has revoked the security clearance of form a cia director john brennan brennan was a top intelligence official during the obama administration 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 trump's actions. well now to brazil where the former president needed to silva has been formally registered as a candidate in the presidential election despite the fact that he is currently in jail for corruption the new trying to has more from outside the court in percentage . all thirteen of the parties wanting to stand in october presidential elections have now registered this was 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 but in a silver are among those candidates most of them registered online the only ones to come here in numbers from all across brazil are members of the workers' party they're absolutely to convince is innocent of the charges against him those of money laundering and corruption 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 and he is certainly leading in those polls campaigning starts tomorrow thursday right across brazil ahead of the first round of those elections on the top of the seventh with or without lula that we're going to have to wait and see. while meanwhile position supporters in nicaragua have called a national launch to demand the release of political prisoners more than two

thousand people have been arrested during nearly four months of unrest against president daniel ortega is who he writes groups of accuse the government of a crackdown with reports of over four hundred fifty people killed john heilemann brings us 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 define this political prisoners and what the government says a violent provoked into three vint 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 p. . saying hey you the haven't got the chance to they've had very little contact with the person with the relative in most cases who's been taken into prison and they're

worried about their well being and safety. and now she didn't do anything wrong all she did was donate food and water to the demonstrators because she's a good catholic now the government is accusing her of being a terrorist and financing weapons like grenade launches. it is true that nicaragua it is comma that in recent months protests like this one of the certainly small of them before the people here are telling us that's not a calm that's borne out of containment 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 kalus like the private sector and the catholic church the national dialogue what was happening seems to have stalled. israel has reopened the only commercial crossing to gaza after

a month long shut down economy i was solemn crossing was closed because of heightened tension between israelis and palestinians lorries carrying close fuel and construction material can now enter israel has also lifted restrictions on the fishing zone off the cars a show. now heavy rains have killed another sixty seven people in the worst flooding in india's carolus 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 been displaced india's meteorological department has forecast heavy rain in karratha until saturday. now to zimbabwe where the ruling party is seeking to have an opposition challenge to its election when thrown out in court the m.d.c. alliance has last month the vote was rigged but president insists they don't have a valid case. as more 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's no sound argument raised. to challenge the electoral victory of prison it was a murderer. 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. meant for i've not been through. some 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 for 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 i was application before the matter is set down for hearing the nine judges will determine what happens next for the. new yorkers battling to save its iconic yellow taxis from the threat posed by popular ride sharing apps like lift and of the driver say they can't compete with the low prices of their online competitors causing the city to introduce much

needed. ports. there are so many years 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 in 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 for 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 tool bars to make money. just in the past eight months six new

york city taxi driver said 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 over 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 have discriminated against community the color famed inception now. foremost 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 of profit sharing for all drivers and maybe even save the conic taxi industry gabriel's onto. your. now masses of seaweed and toxic algae blooms the choking the coastlines of florida and the caribbean the albion sea weed hurting tourism killing the sea life and also affecting people's health as andy gallacher reports now from miami so-called red tide is the worst seen in more than a decade. for weeks foul smelling saw gasoline 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 largest rivers feeding into the control of the land of the amazon and

the congo and of course there's been huge about deforestation in those two waters. because again you cut down the forests that's released a lot more than 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 where we'd like to speak in part by the r.v. which poisons fish and removes oxygen from the water florida businesses are suffering two numbers of people reporting respiratory problems has spiked 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 neutral pollution coming from land generated by humans primarily i would culture but also some sewage the challenges of dealing with masses of seaweed in 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 happen serious consequences scientists say if authorities don't deal with it now it will only get worse in years to come and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida or you can find much more on everything we're covering right here including analysis that takes you behind the headlines and you can watch us live on the web site as well as the address al jazeera dot com . as a quick reminder of the top stories now afghanistan's president has condemned a suicide attack on an education center in kabul which has killed forty eight people any of the victims were young boys and girls studying for the university entrance exams this happened in a mainly shia neighborhood leading some to suspect that i still might have carried

out an attack though no claims have been made so far i am. a student of the training center that came out just after four o'clock i heard a huge explosion or bush parts marc klaas or sold dozens of dead bodies or wounded three for about thirty minutes there was no police presence you know. the people were carrying the wounded students to the hospitals. in our other top stories italy's prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency after a bridge collapsed in the city of genoa on choose day at least thirty nine people died in the number is expected to rise rescuers searching for survivors are being hampered by heavy rubble and the unstable bridge above them government is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country. cats are as invested fifteen billion dollars into turkey's financial markets and banks it was announced shortly after a meeting between takis president russia type on the emir of qatar shape to me bin hamad a funny in ankara the leaders discussed ways to improve their strategic cooperation

will travel to germany for a state visit in september for meetings aimed at improving the lateral ties of fraud trial of u.s. president donald trump's former campaign manager is coming to a close who manifolds is accused of tax evasion and of lying to time bank loans charges are not related to his time with the trump presidential campaign in two thousand and sixteen his defense rested on tuesday without calling any witnesses. and israel has reopened the only commercial crossing to gaza after a month long shutdown it karma was solemn crossing was closed because of heightened tension between israelis and palestinians trucks carrying clothes fuel and construction material can now and israel has also lifted restrictions on the fishing zone off the gaza shoal as had lines at it from myself in the team in london but people in power starts now.

the philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. now private corporations are capitalizing on the chaos. when east investigates on al-jazeera. the u.s.a.'s constitutionally control and love affair with firearms has given it the highest levels of private gun ownership in the world and a truly staggering rate of gun related homicides but it isn't just the u.s. that's felt the effects south of the border in mexico american sourced weapons supplied to the road that country's drug use giuliana rivers has been to invest.

in. this is a shooting range in the southern united states. here in texas shooting is a popular and competitive sport ok you're ready it's my first time shooting a gun magazine goes in a church shoulder correctly. it's an assault rifle designed for wolf in. their churches shot night at five o'clock so it would have taken this person out you know she would be dead. today an estimated two hundred seventy million guns

are privately owned in the united states shooting ranges and gun shops everywhere and the arms industry is a multi-billion dollar business but only a few miles south across the border in mexico u.s. sourced firearms are having a deadly effect. we have come to investigate how mexican drug cartels exploit weak u.s. gun laws to arm themselves with american weapons. our journey begins in a hotel in the northern mexican state of tamaulipas. we have a range to meet a group of people whose family members have gone missing it's not known whether they're living or dead the presence of drug cartels on the streets makes it too dangerous to meet them in an outside location along with me is that in the that are . committed is that that is

a thirty day you're not. minimal in the illinois and. in. see monitors arms does that. mean yes it is. but the odds of finding a family member a life alone. since two thousand and four well over one hundred fifty thousand people have been killed in mexico's so-called war on drugs. here in town my only purpose the gulf cartel and the last letters cartel and a violent battle over the control of lucrative drug routes. civilians are often forced to take sides or end up in the crossfire most. of them with locals. is the most effective than this busy doing ever seen he carries tunnels through his windows but of the muscles of the roof. many bodies haven't yet been

found because it's too dangerous for investigators to search the bodies they do get found and up here is that. the state attorney general's office in the forensic autopsy center. so when did this body of arrive at the work we were more. at in the morning if. the bullet traveled at such high speed it continued to move once inside the body it was fired from an assault rifle like the a k forty seven or a or fifteen the cartels favorite weapons. faced with such deadly firepower the mexican police have taken on a paramilitary appearance kept in edgar valley who has agreed to show me what his officers have to deal with when battling heavily armed drug cartels.

we've arrived here at a peak in the violence since april twenty seventh teen close to one hundred people have been killed in. including several police so they are on high alert is this how you normally travel in a convoy we never know what is going to be on the racial. this streets look deceptively quiet but it's in transit we're most attacks. you can see the normal people walking and you never know who is walking yeah so everybody could be a cartel in exactly the impact of the cartels gun battles is clearly visible in residential areas. because of the bullets over the walls were there was a glass before the car those were inside the. start of. the time there were like nine people killed. the violence has to civilians from their homes.

to housing to places of work that they have decided to leave because of the violent because of a. rather go to another state. or the united states nor to keep better life. next that god takes us to the cities jail he wants to show us that the cartels weapons are everywhere barely two months before our visit to jail was home to a massive riot. it's alleged that the weapons were smuggled in with the help of corrupt prison guards. they had more than i would say like six thousand bullets inside what weapons did the christmas help long guns just so similar to the end of the war and certainly we could get some guns but for dinner we know that there are many guns inside that we don't know where the hay here and you know during the raid seven people were killed two were inmates but

also three police officers from team and we got closer. as i got a. problem. you're saying they still have guns inside. they won't be able to seal the right. side. and who controls the other side we also right now we also have the other side i'm very glad to see the charge over controlling our. mexico is very prescriptive gun laws and weapons such as these are only legal in the hands of security forces yet the cartels seem to phrase no shortage of firepower. that's what i think is there. do you sometimes feel that the cartels the other side is budget clips and you all see. them of

a sudden was. just going to go. you know that would be a. very good little got to go to see if you remember and i mean so when i got to what we're going to do yes that. these weapons have been collected by mexican security forces from crime scenes the cartels obtain firearms from a number of sources including neighboring countries in china but out of the serial numbers submitted to american authorities for tracing seventy percent track to purchases from u.s. gun shops. to take them out of circulation the time i would replace government organizes regular destructions. the illegal flow of weapons across the border is a sensitive issue mexico and the u.s. are heavily invested in trade but it will be a victim i will say in the governor's chief of staff is in regular talks with his

us clearly you know that i'm the last one of the person but the call. young fellow . knew the simple you could have been some of them the less i must hold it all in and i remember you that they specifically in what ways do you think the americans could tell you in their gun legislation to stop the flood of weapons coming across the border or you meant that. this area was going also in the thick of. most but i'm for both the wall or fence or in. bed one. because because i'm we will be fools and when. we leave to follow the gun smuggling route back north the authorities insist that we travel with an escort as the closer you get to the us the more dangerous it becomes we've just reached the border. and we've been told categorically that we can still hear

the cartels are fighting each other and they're all with the security forces. and then we reach the call of the border queues. on the other side it's another world here in the city of maccallum it's much more peaceful but suddenly guns are a common sight their number nearly five thousand the highest for any american state this is the real deal already here this is all the automatic educate yourself you look so to me it sounds oddly. in scares people of course this is the guy that most of the bad people in mexico like. males are dear oh is a federally licensed firearms. we have to find out how traffickers manage to purchase weapons intakes in gun store if somebody comes in once to buy

a weapon from you what are you required to do by law when you're never filled you know you can. only sell to people in your state they have to show some kind of proof of id they want to ok this is called the forty or seventy three and they're going to ask you if you are you the actual buy that gone they are going to ask you are you under indictment have you ever been convicted all these kind of questions can they lie yes they can they can lie in the form. because suppliers must show identification mexican cartels and commission locals to buy weapons on their behalf it's cool to strew purchase since twenty eleven gun dealers must notify the authorities of multiple sales of the gun it's a regulation introduced by the obama administration to make it easier to spot straw purchases if you buy rifles there or magazine fit and twenty two in caliber

you have to do a multiple sale for those two. but since president trumps election gun owners think tighter regulation is a thing of the post it's been very very slow i love donald trump. i love donald trump but now that trump was on everybody's happy that guns are not going to go away and i don't want to buying anything so. we want to hear the traffic is sullied and the law enforcement officer has put us in touch with the mexican police informant this man used to work for the gulf cartel can you describe to me how the cartels operating the weapons trafficking from the u.s. into mexico it was almost. you know sort of sort of mom you know.