to try to enter the rebels again the beatles 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 there are 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 i felt as if the part of me had vanished 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. learned there were destructor problems with the breach the motorway operator needed to carry out more maintenance but also the transport minister should have been checking after 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 you know or italy. u.s. president donald trump has revoked the security clearance of former cia director john brennan he was a top intelligence official john the obama administration has been has been openly critical of trump and his policies in a statement trump questioned brennan's objectivity and credibility but in claims the move is politically motivated and says all americans should be worried about sanctions can really help it has moved from washington d.c. . the white house hinted this was coming now it's made good on

a threat to revoke the security clearance of one of president trump's most vocal critics former cia director john brennan now the white house says this is because of his erratic conduct and behavior as well as a rony s. and contradictory testimony before congress denying that well cia director that the cia infiltrated the computers of senate staff members certainly members of congress particularly democrats are pushing back over the revoking of the clearance of brennan arguing that this smacks of authoritarianism is this a broad misuse of presidential power still the white house says it is considering revoking even more clearances critics including the former f.b.i. director james comey the former director of national intelligence james clapper and even the former f.b.i. employees agent peter struck as well as his lover the f.b.i. lawyer lisa page who were it was revealed during the twenty sixteen presidential

campaign exchanged anti donald trump attacks well for more on this let's speak to glenn kahl he's a former deputy national intelligence officer of the trans national threats of the cia he also worked with john brennan and joins us via skype from boston john brennan says this action by president trump is politically motivated and meant to silence his critics but how normal is it for a president to revoke security clearance like this. it's not normal at all i believe that has never happened before the only reason security car clearances would be revoked is for national security which means that someone has mishandled classified information or is found to be a security threat to the nation the security threat to the nation amply documented actually sitting in the oval office in the white house you don't remove ok it never happens secure you never revoke security clearances for political differences in

fact the foundation of the united states and of the democracies on free speech and there are two hundred forty years of history in the united states that seek to protect speech that one hates not speech that one likes that's what her speech is and is protected so this is a purely political and dangerous for democracy step taken right out of the weapons again just walk us through why would the x. directs of a cia need to keep his security clearance anyway i mean surely when you leave a job you don't keep the clearance. well actually you do clearances don't expire at the end of one's function they they're on a schedule they last from five to ten years normally at the end of which time one is reinvestigated and then the clearance is granted again if there is a need or it simply expires now the reason that john brennan or someone of a senior position like john had as director of cia or director of another

intelligence agency in the us community would want to have or or it would be good to have the security clearance is because they are frequently called back on wise men panels to consult and offer their perspective the objective being to provide different points of view and not only that of the institution as it is currently constituted so it's a useful thing for the government and for the country that former officers seek your answers have their clearances. then you it worked with john brennan at cia how will he be responding to this summit is it likely to make him even more vocal about president trump. well i think your question contains the answer yes john won't be silenced but this will come out by hostile actions from anybody who would be at the president he's the man currently sitting in the oval office or anybody else. it won't silence him and he doesn't need the clearance to have his opinions

and he's not compromising or using any classified information in speaking in public so it's simply not simply it's a slap by the president at someone who has influence and standing who's critical of what we're the president is doing a final thought from you glenn donald trump who also has a number of other high profile former f.b.i. and intelligence officials in his gun sites people like james komi james clapper and michael hayden is he like a tour event that clearances to do we think i think the odds are good he brought this out as a way seemed pretty clear trump did today to divert attention from the endless negative condemned atory actions. and assessments by the media and by officials and by the official processes of the government about everything the trump is doing

and. his his actions so when there is need for more diversion i think we'll have more of this you know one of my aspirations has been to draw the ire of trump and i have i failed but i'm that's because i'm not that's. again called the great still to thank you know the fraud case against us president donald trump's former campaign manager is now headed to the jury pool money for its accused of tax evasion i'm lying to obtain bank loans with the charges on relates to his time with the trump presidential campaign in twenty sixteen jurors will now begin deliberations on thursday his defense rested on tuesday without calling any witnesses particle hayne has a light from outside the courthouse in alexandria virginia. paul manna for 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 manna for 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 man afford even if he's found not guilty here well he's going to go on trial again for similar trial for similar charges next month in washington d.c. at least twenty two school children have died in sudan after the boat sunk crossing

the river nile it happened in a small town around seven hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital khartoum the state news agency said the vessel was carrying more than forty people the engine apparently failed in strong currents the worst flooding in south india as karina states in a century has killed sixty seven people fifty thousand are seeking shelter in relief camps international airport in the city of culture you which serves as a major gateway to the state popular with tourists will be closed until saturday due to flooding heavy rains full cost of care and until the weekend. now india's prime minister has revealed what is being billed as the world's biggest government funded health scheme run for modi says it'll cover around half a billion people many who struggle with high health care costs but as andrew thomas reports from the northeastern city of go a hearty there are concerns that existing facilities won't be able to handle the rising demand for. 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. 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. 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 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 on target 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 the other ethnic groups or india's poorest with health care for rule he's trying to change that image if it's a success it would be a big achievement andrew thomas al-jazeera. opposition supporters in nicaragua have been marching to demand the release of political prisoners more than two thousand people have been arrested during the four months of unrest against president daniel ortega is rule john home and has more now from the capital 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 tension of what they and n.g.o.s define as political prisoners and what the government says a violent provoke a tooth or even terrorists that 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 it will do so by the paramilitary groups that at the moment all roaming around in the crowd were several people saying they even haven't got the chance so 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 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 launchers so it is true that nick

and i were it is come up that in recent months protests like this one of the certainly small of them before but people here are telling us that's not a calm that's born out of containment that's a calm that's been our fear specifically of the paramilitary groups that roam around to the point where many people here now don't go out off the donkey 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 callous like the private sector and the catholic church the national dialogue what was happening seems to have stalled . zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. parties trying to get the opposition. challenge to last month's election result thrown out president and once the court to reject the petition filed by the opposition m.d.c. alliance last week its leader nelson chamisa accuses him of rigging the presidential vote as more from harare. president 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. to challenge the electoral victory of prison in missouri. here's no legal grounds we need to challenge one he has 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 it's just 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 and violence in the eye densely populated suburbs around harare all being 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 down for a hearing the nine judges will determine what happens next. how do i. have. time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back the trucks roll again the major development the only commercial processing into gaza plus. my name.

is from the last disappeared without a trace the search for the truth behind missing syrian activists. and sport the spanish world cup were not making himself at home in a new country stay with. hello the streets of pennsylvania are in a bit dry and now there are also a few showers circulation right in the northeast but basically speaking they should be sunshine this is where you should be seeing showers this time the year this and down to the southwest and that's where they are from just over the canadian border so the midwest the lakes and down towards oklahoma and texas and then the southwest monsoon brings the potential of lovely but sharp showers into arizona new mexico

and maybe southern california that still the case in the next day or so unfortunately the head of the rain that was over the great lakes is going east was again about as entailing showers in new york and certainly that reputation change it looks so those showers be prompted once again and big ones maybe in oklahoma south of this i haven't seen much in the way of rain reported in cuba or haiti or jamaica to be honest there's a massive cloud here developing in venezuela and that's actually caught in the flood so the next day or so i think that will drift across the open waters of the coast in honduras or a bit to the sassen keep going beyond that up towards the yucatan the day following signs of all this throughout the constants of south america should be largely dry this time of the year that is the case thirty's potentially wet around saar powder .

some during these are tougher than others. but this route is even tougher than the car of the truck there it's dangerous there's al-jazeera whom follows the moroccan truck driver in danger of their lives. just to make a living if you drive it might break your mirror or even kill you because of the truth is known for. a good deal done on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey's foreign minister says he's prepared to enter talks with the united states as long as there are no threats to nato allies imposed tit for tat sanctions last week that began when ankara detained american passed under the bronston come to washington to impose sanctions but since then turkey's currency has plummeted. a suicide attack on a medication center in afghanistan's capital kabul has killed more than fifty two people most of them students happen in the main issue and neighborhood no group has yet claimed responsibility. for the party of brazil's imprisoned former president luis and i saluted the silver was registered to him as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections thousands rallied in the

capital brasilia to show their support for his candidacy who has come to serving a prison term up and was convicted for corruption during his time in office. israel has reopened the only commercial crossing into gaza after a months long shutdown because salim crossing was closed because of heightened tensions between the israelis and the palestinians lorries carrying clothes fuel and construction materials can now enter gaza israel is also lifted restrictions on the fishing off gaza shore more now from charles stratford. 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 sagada 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

gaza workers inside gaza or in for example the textile industry that kind of pressure being put on the israeli government because those businesses were concerned that those goods were not coming out we understand that the exports of goods from gaza could well starts tomorrow but of course this kind of movement at the crossings here this crossing being opened is all dependent it's staying open his old dependence on the relative calm between hamas and israel continuing. goods coming in include flight all construction materials petrol gas and vegetables and clothing behind out sort go out all over europe would be 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 miles off the northern half of gaza and from three to nine nautical miles

in the south. it's not enough we need the sea to be completely six and nine nor tacl miles is not enough there is just left in the sea we need israel the increases according to international seaboard. of the me of time they are 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 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 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 armed factions from gaza in a desperate bid to try and forge some last thing truce between hamas and israel.

fighting in the eastern democratic republic of congo is hindering efforts to stop any bone that outbreak the world health organization says aid workers haven't been able to reach some areas where groups are present your income reports. on a recent trip to man gina in eastern democratic republic of congo the director general of the world health organization had a chance to see for themselves how much work still needed to be done to end the above the crisis the latest outbreak began on august first and stands at fifty seven confirmed or suspected cases with forty one deaths back in geneva he didn't mince his words active complete the challenge. and the red zone as we you know accessible and of course you know addition to that the high population density of population movement. the conflict is hindering vaccination efforts the disease could infect everyone

regardless of what side they're on. we call on the warring parties for a cessation of hostilities because the virus is dangerous. it doesn't choose between this group or that group the august first outbreak was declared in mind jean in north kivu province but officials on tuesday said it had since spread to the neighboring it to re province north kivu is densely populated with more than one million displaced people this is its tenth break the w.h.o. is clear without a ceasefire the disease will spread whether a cease fire can be achieved with or without international help is unlikely the democratic republic of congo has been in conflict for much of the past two decades the d.l.c. is rich in minerals or says some twenty four trillion dollars according to financial analysts i. conflict has meant the country has stalled in development and low literacy rates mean that the w.h.s. message on

a budget prevention has had limited success imran khan has ever or such i phone is from the world health organization he says getting access to people who live in dangerous areas is a priority so i think it's important for everybody to understand that we need to have access to or areas where we need to get ition so far where you have contact and cases you have access to this on but we are not getting away from that area where you have groups so support the ability to make sure that we can have actually the population to get good i want to have an early suspected case you can have it is the red zone important for the response welcome to engagement is important for. the population first of prevention because prevention is the first action and also you prepared to make sure that the health for safety of the health workers. they have. what they need to protect the population really important to be productive

look wait for cases to you know spread. walking right it's important to be able to be very shallow prepared with more than one hundred migrants rescued in the mediterranean have arrived in malta where they'll be distributed between e.u. nations it ends a five day standoff after the rescue but was banned from docking in several ports the one hundred forty one migrants on board the taken in by france germany luxembourg portugal and spain doctors without borders says some of them are escaping torture forced labor and sexual violence in libya around two million people in yemen are living with some type of disability and the international red cross says six thousand people have either lost a limb or suffered some other severe injury since the war began in twenty fifteen even though there are laws that protect the rights of the disabled the conflict is making it difficult to enforce them mom the reports from djibouti. fiscally display pulled muhammad would be a yemeni struggling to survive the war in his country. with

a proper job he provides for his wife and two children selling secondhand clothes in this hole in the cup with. conditions before the war were better after the war prices skyrocketed in the past people used to buy from me without any concern now prices are astronomical i sell for a slim margin people hardly buy and if they buy it bargain a lot. for yemenis with disabilities like mohammed the visit options calls for years of conflict between government forces and rebels and i'm all out war since two thousand and fifteen having could is this suffering and put many out of drops in schools and as the war grinds on their numbers to a crusie according to the international red cross an estimated six thousand people have lost a limb or suffered some other sivia injury in the conflict yet few have access to health care and we have built titian. the monsanto for people with special needs is

just one of few such facilities still operational in some. it cares for those with speech disorders and other disabilities before the war the center through to one thousand two hundred people in now serves just seven hundred one hundred. we once had five branches across and we also covered many of the of a provinces regretfully with the war to close down for them for fear of the falling missiles and lack of funds we've considered closing in monsanto many times since the beginning unfortunately the threat of closure is always here with. the man sent to once boasted a division that told that is a boat people skills such as painting tailoring and carpentry. kind of. i completed my study and joined the tailoring section after that i also joined the sports class despite the haas life conditions and the saudi missiles falling on our

heads we're still surviving in the human hard left. in what is already one of the poorest countries. world an acute shortage of basic needs such as food and medicine has led many families not to pay attention to the education that rehabilitation. children it is all trying to fill the void in the. public service sector but many still need home mohammad. djibouti. a turkish court has ordered the release of the chairman of the country's amnesty international broad kill each has been held for more than a year without trial he was charged with supporting u.s. based prison for two of the doolan who turkey accuses of vocus trading a failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen i'm listed as accused turkey of human rights abuses of a killer choose detention and a court in turkey has freed two greek soldiers who had been detained on spying

charges they've been locked up since march accused of entering the country illegally and attempted military espionage greases the soldiers crossed into turkey by mistake while following the trail of refugees migrants the case has fewer tensions between the two neighboring nato allies. hundreds of people have disappeared during syria's ongoing conflict and the rights activists resins there today is one of them she was abducted in twenty thirteen from her office near damascus whereabouts remain a mystery if you know how to reports from beirut my knee is there is no more you are from the us this. is their last this. the area has. the video was released just a few days before any 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 in duma on

december ninth two thousand and thirteen the town was surrounded by government forces but it was under the control of the opposition. the most powerful group at the time denies any involvement or knowledge of the kidnap. was not the only faction in the time there was in the entire region forces from the martyrs of forces of the what are rising the stomach union of the levant and even then the store front where president. i. visited today was a very familiar face at the start of the uprising she was wanted by the syrian government for her role in peaceful protests calling for the downfall of the regime . her center kept track of atrocities but not just those committed by the government. her friends say saw her as a threat she promoted

a civil administration and the secular state which weren't in line with the group's ideology. the violations documentation center in syria are sure the army of islam kidnapped them we have proof that rahsaan was in their jails and under their direct supervision this was until the beginning of two thousand and seventeen as we were able to trace her movements regrettably after the beginning of 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 prison with say. were held there they haven't been found both the government and the rebels have been accused of cracking down on the opposition.

there is little hope. there is a long list of peaceful activists fighting for democracy and human rights whose voices have been silenced by those in power. saudi arabia's interior ministry says a man has been shot and detained after an exchange of fire with security forces the incident happened in the central city of. a spokesman said the man had islamic state ideology he was allegedly found in possession of a machine gun a pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. sports we take a look at why medical center in australia is banking brains stay with us.