welcome back not new york has become the latest city to reassess its relationship with ride sharing services for years traditional taxi drivers have complained they count on a living as the likes of lift a grown in size given his own reports. 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 number 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 a 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 that they did suicide advocates and activists say it's because of increased fire then feel 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. it moved the harder it is it now crying foul because they don't have a monopoly anymore the city hoping however to cap and ride sharing cars will level the playing field a profit sharing for all drivers and maybe even save the iconic taxi industry gabriels andro. new york times more now here's andy. thank you very much will two goals in extra time so athletic are madrid beating city rivals right al in the super cup let's go lifting the trophy in a stunning thanks to a four c. win that lets goes diego costa school twice in normal time is second level the game it suits you if the goals by carrying ben some are and such are ramos for this

a trophy despite four by the previous seasons champions league one is extras on strike some sorrow and croquet and should have let it go it's at the title for the third time in the history. former boss alone a star on dress iniesta is making himself at home in japan and yes to scoring his second goal and his many games for his new club this. twenty ten world cup winner moved to the jail after a sixteen year career with boss. this game with self-righteous her shima finished no 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 won their opening group game against host nation in the knees yet 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 i saw. 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 step first reports. one month after leaving new delhi the birthplace of the asian games to torch has now finally reached its destination and that indonesia where he asian games will be held in the next few weeks fourteen thousand athletes from forty five countries will compete in four to support. four tests trouble to eighteen provinces in indonesia has even gone on the water taken by diverse and 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 and so it's

a major event and many worry that indonesia would not be capable of organizing the event in time stadiums had to be built ran no fainted and also the traffic very notorious traffic here in jakarta was a major concern some measures have been taken by the government but at this minute you're still very bad and you could also see some last minute construction going on just a had a few days before the great opening on saturday night of concern is security and it's just a few months back you 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 bomb makes the asian games will be secured by more than one hundred thousand members of police and. now the australian city of sydney has become home to a brain bank which is signing up sports stars tonight the 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. it's agreed to pay seven hundred sixty five million dollars to more than four thousand families to settle a concussion lawsuits 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 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 your job is getting hit in the head for a living that if they can be a good thing and

a professional boxer that sort of basically. it our brain concussions probably at least half a dozen times. yes but you are saying to recover pretty pretty quickly but. who knows a long term effect 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 risk factors 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 australian 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. out his era sydney.

looking for more lighter. andy thank you very much indeed now beaches in the caribbean and the u.s. state of florida being swamped with masses of seaweed and toxic algae blooms the so-called red tide is the worst seen in every decade and it's killing sea life affecting tourism and hurting people's health as it was and the gallica reports. for weeks foul smelling saw gas in seaweed has been washed ashore across the caribbean in florida's atlantic coast these blooms are naturally occurring but weren't 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 watershed and of course again you cut down the forests that's released

a lot more the this nutrient 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 to the numbers of people reporting respiratory problems has spiked with officials warning the alkie 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 doll it's got to be neutral pollution coming from land generated by here primarily our culture but also from 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 a gallon. they're all dizzy or miami florida. all right that's it for me down jordan for this news hour but don't go away i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news stay with us not so much. in an exclusive series of documentaries i was born into a very ordinary japanese family edges iraq shows five different stories i am just too excited to focus on anything else right now from five different countries and

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in italy after a bridge collapse that killed more than thirty people the government blames the bridge operate. and new york puts the brakes on the ride sharing services like the hope of saving a long established industry. turkey's foreign minister says he's prepared to enter talks with the united states to try and resolve the growing diplomatic route the two nato allies imposed tit for tat sanctions last week it began when anchorage attained american pasta under the bronston prompting washington to impose sanctions but since then turkey's currency has plummeted is what turkey's foreign minister never called a sunni told ambassadors in ankara her share on there despite everything we already talk about everything to solve the existing problems there is equal partners i speak openly but only on one condition no threatening no dictator but those comments came around the same time u.s.

vice president mike pence was tweeting about the issue he said pasta andrew bronson is an innocent man held. turkey and justice demands that he be released turkey would do well not to test president truman's resolve to see americans who are wrongfully imprisoned in foreign lands returned home to the united states the president and i continue to stand firm until past a brunson is released and returned to his family friends and church in the usa mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the white house has described the turkish decision to impose these tariffs as regrettable but the white house press spokesman making very clear that there's two different issues here the one is the issue of tariffs introduced by the trumpet ministration last week the she said we were introduced to unspecified national security reasons the issue of sanctions which were imposed against two turkish government ministers are directly related to the ongoing trial of the american past

within turkey this is something that the trumpet ministration has been attempting to end it has imposed these sanctions with the specific intention of getting an end to this particular trial and the vice president mike pence also weighed in in the course of the day he issued a tweet saying that turkey mess not to press president trump president trump will continue to do whatever is necessary to get the return of that american preacher so certainly this trade war the issue of ongoing sanctions appears far from over the vice president's tweet indicates that these issues remain very much on the table for the trumpet ministration when all qatar says it will invest fifteen billion dollars in turkey's troubled financial sector the announcement came shortly after a meeting between turkey's president richard type thirty one and the emir of qatar shift to mean been hammered out thoroughly in ankara turkey was one of the first countries to offer support to counter after its neighbors imposed

a blockade last year. a suicide attack on an education center in afghanistan's capital has killed more than fifty two people many of the victims were teenagers studying for their university entrance exams it happened in a mainly shiite neighborhood the afghan president has condemned the attack and the group has yet claimed responsibility not only reports. kabul 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 shia passive town where young men and women were studying for university exams the classroom was destroyed blown away all of it a testament to the ferocity of the attack the suicide bomber is assumed to have targeted them because they were shia and so suspicion immediately fell on ice and it's has done this sort of thing before they're not often with such devastating results but it's true that it was serious questions about the emergency response

back i'm a student at the training center i came out and just after four o'clock i had a huge explosion i rushed back to my class assault dozens of dead bodies and wounded people for about thirty minutes there was no police presence at all no ambulance service and people were carrying the wounded students to the hospitals for all that the ambulances did arrive to do what they could there by the time they go 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 their bodies have been burnt 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. the party of brazil's imprisoned former president luis in a saloon of the silver has registered him as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections thousands rallied in the

capital brasilia to show their support for his candidacy. lou was convicted and jailed for corruption during his time in office he says the charges were politically motivated it's expected the courts would bar him from running for office because of that conviction. or force. the supporters they gathered here outside the electoral college to brasilia because they believe that he's in a sense that he's the victim of a political campaign to stop him running in october's presidential elections elections which they believe if you were allowed to stay out of prison. he would win but this is good but it seems they don't want to live as a candidate if block him but we wanted and we will see if we can manage to get the respect that she has been i hope lula's candidacy will be accepted but if it doesn't happen i believe the parties second option will follow lula's ideas and win the elections but it seems likely that little will be allowed out of prison or will be allowed to stop. all the data is here and when we finish we will

celebrate the victory of having a candidate of president of brazil free lula which leaves the field open for the twelve other political parties which are registering for the presidential election . and leading the opinion behind. the rightwing military. and the former environment minister. the previous government. the same opinion. more than half of the brazilian electorate a disillusioned with their politicians and cynical about the political process of the so many of their politicians have been caught up in the corrupt notice because . many of those voters say they don't know who they want to vote whether they'll go to leave to get very young clear leading candidates more likely to be called. it's in its prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the wake of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa

at least thirty. people died a 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 reports from general. on what remains of genoa is marandi bridge vehicle seem to be frozen in time left where they were abandoned moments after the bridge collapsed on tuesday the driver of this truck managed to stop just metres from the edge others were not saved 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 the cranes to move as big pieces and to try to enter the rebels again the buildings police are letting anyone who's not involved in this rescue operation to go down this road to play warfare evacuated 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 you know 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 brits the motorway operator needed to carry out more maintenance but also the transport ministry 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 so. 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 natascha bottler al jazeera you know or italy. u.s. president donald trump has revoked the security clearance a former cia director john brennan a man who's been a critic of his presidency well now the white house has indicated other critics i soon face similar action committee alcatraz ports. first hinted at last month u.s. president donald trump has made good on his threat to revoke the security clearance of one of his biggest critics former cia director john brennan any benefits that senior officials might glean from consultations with mr brennan are now outweighed by the risks posed by his erratic conduct and behavior traditionally former high ranking u.s.

government officials retained their security clearances to enable consultations on pressing issues the white house charges brennan and others are trying to make money off that access profiting from public speaking events through book sales and even as t.v. commentators i think donald trump has badly sullied the reputation of the office of the presidency brennan has also been a vocal critic of trump on twitter the white house says it's pulling but it's clear it's specifically for contradictory and erroneous testimony before congress alleging he falsely denied the cia had infiltrated senate staff members computers mr brennan has a history that calls into question is objectivity and credibility on twitter brennan responded saying that my principles are worth far more than clearances i will not relent democratic members of congress argue revoking brennan's clearance is a misuse of presidential power it is nothing more than

a political move by the president to punish those who disagree with him they also believe it is a dangerous precedent the white house says it is also considering revoking the security clearances of nine other former government officials who have criticized donald trump publicly including the former f.b.i. director james comey the. former director of national intelligence james clapper and even former obama administration national security advisor susan rice one current justice department official bruce or is also on the list trumpet after him on social media this week alleging he's part of a conspiracy within the department to bring his administration down. the latest move comes a day after trump tweeted he was pushing to enforce a gag order silencing former white house staffer omarosa manigault newman making the media rounds promoting a new book alleging trump is unfit to be president can really help get.