his former vice president talks to al-jazeera. this is al jazeera and live from studio fourteen here at their headquarters in doha . welcome to the news grid newspapers across the united states. more than three hundred of them the published editorials against president donald trump attacks on the press and a mass movement started by the boston globe it is a visible fight back from the people trump has labeled the enemy of the american people and are monitoring all of the online reaction to the boston globe campaign on press freedom and ahead of its next to the cell using the hash tag aging is bad it's on the grid the desperate search for survivors in the rubble of the italian bridge but hopes are fading for the up to twenty people still missing meanwhile the

italian government promising action on safety including maybe taking back control of infrastructure from a private company and the woman known as the queen of soul aretha franklin has died at the age of seventy six we will look back at the life of an american musical icon known for her distinctive voice and those powerful live performances. with the news grades live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in an al-jazeera dot com we're starting with two words. on the this time the us media is fighting back against the phrase which more freely from a description of a social media phenomenon into an angry political so directly from president donald trump this thursday morning americans have woken up to editorials defending freedom of the press and around three hundred fifty different newspapers across the country it was started by the boston globe a mass rebuke of trump's accusations that the maybe that the media is the enemy all

. of the people i'm in right on cue we had a tweet from donald trump this morning in response the fake news media is the opposition party he shouted i guess in all caps it is very bad for our great country but we are winning so he's gone from things that saying that they are the enemy the people to saying that they are what he considers to be the true opposition in the united states let's start with she has a live in washington d.c. for us what do you tell us first of all about where you are and why you're there we're at the newseum in washington d.c. that's a museum dedicated to reporting and journalism and news gathering each morning they display the front pages of the nation's newspapers out here on pennsylvania avenue it is striking that some of the papers that have taken part in this mass editorialization against what the boston globe calls a dirty war against the president was donald trump but let's take a look at the philadelphia inquirer choir that kind of sums up the message stop the

war on the free press a war on the press is a war on democracy it was not enough to label american journalists as enemies of the people now he has called the entire profession donald trump quite dangerous and sick concluding if the press is not free from reprisal punishment or suspicion for unpopular views or information neither is the country neither are its people. so what do you think about the conduct of the effectiveness of all of this she had because it is unprecedented i would think the vis many newspapers to go against the president like this but it's words against words isn't it. right there actually there are several areas of debates it's notable that you the washington post isn't taking part in this mass editorialization i did ask the the editorial page director why he gave me this statement but diversity of the u.s. press is one of its strengths and i believe the post serves its readers best often speaking in its own voice and on its own timetable so i said well wait are you

suggesting this might be counterproductive and this was the quote i got are not speaking for judging anyone else but there is that fear among some that this mass show of enmity against donald trump is exactly what he wants as you said don't trump is already tweeting don't trump thrives on the idea that he's shaking up the establishment and he's not just doing it he's not getting these ideas grabbing them from the app he's playing on what is a suspicion about the mass media which is seen to be representing elite interests now donald trump could say look at them they're all they've always really surprised that they have an adversarial relationship with my white house why we didn't have a relation with other white houses and actually that's a question that many others progressives even though it's often about the mainstream press and what is going on there is this playing into his hands and he's already tweeting several tweets now this morning and secondly the question is is he actually cracking down on the press or is this rhetorical retort of these rhetorical flourishes to keep his base going or just stream of consciousness from

donald trump and it has to be said when you compare him to his previous as particularly barack obama who really cracked down on the press used the law to crack down on the press he isn't actually voice comparatively liberal when it comes to freedom of expression does it change the way you can speak personally about how the way do you think people do their jobs in the united states how journalists do their jobs especially there in washington where i mean it must just be hitting you from all sides all the time. well no actually i think i mean clearly this. ship with the white house is something that a lot of old school media relishing because it's there were other words about the internet and other things and now they're able to present themselves as the champion of the people but their own questions about who whose interests they represent all the daily dissections if the often theorising about the mood or investigation to russia they're actually representing the interests of the

american people or are they representing the interests of the american elite who are still miffed that they lost the election of the old job in the first place meanwhile those issues that the american people really care about health care inequality and so on foreign policy continue to be ignored and anyone who does challenge the establishment opinion on those issues like for example saying let's have a free healthcare system still treated with suspicion there are questions about the media the question is no one wants the president to go off the media it's just the media isn't isn't important i don't want them just to perhaps incite violence on the campaign trail or however blurring some of those examples we've seen it is also a matter of debate. but there's a fear that this is allowing the establishment media to question themselves a draw and say look we don't want your child because we're actually a little trump is doing is in some ways. dealing in a in a suspicion that was already there about whose interest of all of these newspapers represent interesting stuff good context i'm shihab rattansi live at the newseum in washington d.c. . where do you want to stop with this because there's so much out there there's so

much but you did read out tweets a little earlier and i want to point out one thing which sends out which is how much he uses the term fake news now according to the trump since january last year he's used the time fake news two hundred and eighty two times he's brought up the issue at his rallies as well which some janice say raises concern about their safety now as newsrooms across the u.s. push back against the president we're seeing similar sentiments online the boston globe is sharing this campaign video onto its head to raise awareness take a look. the news is fake you are fake sir they have no sources they just make donald trump says the free press is the enemy of the people the people scum remember that stuff that dangerous rhetoric is leading the president and his supporters into undemocratic territory and it is a roading one of the central pillars of our social compact. by the way the world's

most designers people are back there little the cameras go. well it's also created an interactive map on its website with a map of the country where you can find a range of opinion pieces published so far and that list is still growing nearly three hundred fifty news outlets across the u.s. have pledged to participate and the main message to the president the press is not the enemy of the people the most headlines addressed the issue of what's being called fake news and democracy but there are some papers that endorsed trump's presidential campaign they're now writing editorials against him and his attacks against the press about a now is a self described center right paper it writes about trump in twenty sixteen saying there's only one candidate with the will and ability to shake up washington and that's little trump and he may be a crude blowhard at times but he's also writes about

a lot of things well the paper has changed its writing in support of the boston globe initiative with this we would encourage some to curb such behavior if we thought he'd listen instead we appeal to every other american and then there's the augusta chronicle one of the oldest papers in the u.s. and it published this mr trump whom this paper endorse for president had better be careful what he wishes fall when he seeks to subvert the role and credibility of a free press. but some newspapers including the wall street journal say that they won't participate in this column by james freeman he argues that the globe is countering the independence that editorial boards claim to have adding that trump has a right to free speech as much as his media at the series do. and many online are using the hash tag enemy of none and free press which is trending worldwide at the moment and there's also a couple of cartoons being said as well this one depicts the media as wanted with

trump the accuser being part of a conspiracy. and others with lady liberty holding the press in high regard and if they answer a couple of tweets as well mark says if a free responsible press is annoying people like trump by exposing what they don't want exposed then that means it's doing what it's there for all but stephen argues that the big media players still don't understand the reason they're being targeted no one is questioning a free press the questioning partisan opinions muddying the truth and fact they're supposed to report well send us your thoughts on the story is the hash tag news great or you can to simply message me directly and that for him and. there is of course the flip side to all of this the us media that is friendly to donald trump and the head of the pack of course is fox news listening post took a good look at that how in their words fox news creates an alternative reality especially in downplaying the indictments against former trump advisors if you search for trump t.v.

hit the programs filter and you'll find that edition of the listening post with richard keys but and a reminder just before you leave the segment that our own reporters here at al-jazeera have often become targets for performing their jobs it is more than six hundred days not a journalist mahmoud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge hussein is accused of broadcasting false news of that sounds familiar and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he and al-jazeera strongly deny the allegations the network continues to demand his immediate release i'm sure you've got an opinion on the fake news on donald trump on these editorials today so to send them in to us the hash tag is a.j. news good twitter facebook and whatsapp we'll show you those details a little later on of calls we want to look though at the collapse of the motorway bridge in genoa which has prompted the italian government to consider taking charge of the entire motorway network away from the private companies and the contractors who currently run them because these pictures from

a drone up above the bridge it's extraordinary. thirty nine people so far confirmed dead and while the search is still on for those missing there's a blame game as well amongst politicians italy's deputy prime minister suggested the european union's fiscal rules are to blame just a few hours ago the european commission defended its road and stricter policy and while an investigation did whatever may take a while hundreds of people displaced by the bridge collapse of course wondering where they are going to sleep for the night here is natasha butler who is reporting has been reporting since the bridge collapse and you got to talk to some of those displaced people to very natasha what are they tell you yes that's right i'm actually standing in the neighborhood which is. pretty much under one of the parts of the bridge in fact we were just taken around this neighborhood which has been cordoned off by emergency service workers who were taken around by a firefighter we had to wear protective gear

a helmet and we walked right under the miranda bridge it was quite extraordinary you've got apartment blocks underneath almost wedged underneath it it looks as if that way and then the bridge and then that just that sheer drop i mean it's extraordinary that when that bridge collapsed it didn't fall on those apartment blocks but that is still a concern it's still a worry experts the saying is because the bridge is still unsafe that is why they are not letting people come back to this area so the residents we've been talking to a queuing they're being taken in in small groups they're allowed to go and get some of their possessions because they fled their apartments after the collapse and they're staying with family friends they're staying in city shelters and we spoke to one man whose apartment really faced the bridge and he said he saw it for he said there was a huge morey's dust went into the air and you just can't believe it i mean still very visibly shaken as are many of the people who are here because they don't know what's going to happen next they don't know where they're going to live in the

future for now they really are just living out of suitcases. can you update us on those. yes the rescue continues on the ground underneath the bridge as hundreds of emergency service workers firefighters still digging through the rubble using machinery we spoke to a command from the fire brigade here in juneau and he told us that they are they are using sniffer dogs they are continuing to try and find people they think may be there could be twenty thirty people still missing they're not exactly sure it's hard to tell how many people exactly on the bridge when it collapsed but they said they'll continue till the very end till they know to less sure that they've really looked as hard as they can but of course the hopes of finding anyone alive at this stage while they're diminishing hour by hour day by day but it's still possible there still could be an air pocket or something underneath that rubble is very much like an earthquake zone but the five five brigade commander that we spoke to i mean

he looked extremely tired and so are all the rescue workers even if they are determined to continue. natasha but with thank you in genoa. who is a professor of engineering and transport structures that nursing in university thank you for your time. and so many things we could talk about just looking at the way that bridge fail is just astonishing it brings up so many questions but i want to ask about the reaction now italians are talking about trying to check pretty much every bridge in the country what sort of scale are we talking about the how long would that take and what does checking a bridge mean. i think that this is the last we have to do now in the events so firstly we feel very sad for the loss of life. in recent days we're thinking about the you know such a. situation so for example so you know your reporter there on the site and

you know rescue team they are trying to save a life but we lever sink about it so when we save a life we actually destroyed such kind of sites for us to find real course. kind of collapse so come to your question so we talk about the how long is it going to take so i think this is really down to the determination of the government so how much investment of the aiming to do how many trained staff the half and you for the really you won't do it with the save for one year i'm the can have you know for starters teats to the whole bridge of staters in you probably not even my casts. what do you think about. i want to say that the italians are able to do this but should there be an international effort should there be collaboration as part of this to bring in expertise from elsewhere i think this is

a you've acted in my points so international collaboration and setting up an international organization to leaders such can you know work is extremely important for example economy in cali is a developed country. they are only they are not the only country with a such a situation for example in the united states they have a something like a no if i remember such kind of six hundred to five sigma six. six hundred fifty thousand the bridges on the nine point six percent of bridges colossi five deficiency extraordinary stuff thank you for your time you know now go ahead finish your thought go on you know i think for this a condo for wrestle fifteen of this you know line point to six percent of american

bridges take up all the ton to yours to do it by you you can imagine all the bridges are dictating at the same time so it takes a long time monitoring is even streaming important on the luckily i'm walking with the european space agency right allow leave leading to bigger projects which ended up all for twenty more years afterwards in the nortel university is a very we need to support and we have a very unique expertise here in the university charlemagne thank you so much for your time and your expertise on this topic really appreciate it just checking in a lot of what we've got a lot of pictures obviously of the bridge in general but we've also got this on the hollywood walk of fame aretha franklin's star there and already the floral tributes of stars at the queen of soul after a numerous died at the age of seventy six we'll have a report later on in the newsgroup looking back on her extraordinary musical career right now though we are off to london and here is your problem with more

international news for us thanks very much can all we begin in turkey where the government says it's ready for dialogue with the u.s. to enter are between the two nato allies that seen the lira plunge in value now wednesday qatar said it would come to turkey sade's and invest fifteen billion dollars to the inquest flagging financial markets that's off to turkey announced retaliatory tariffs on u.s. goods that's in response to the u.s. imposing tariffs on turkish imports him cuz he has more from istanbul. the timing of qatar america's visit to turkey is very important because it wasn't a random working visit especially after he pledged just fifteen billion dollars of f.d.r. a foreign direct investment package the markets were relieved especially it had the psychological relief among turkish citizens who were panicked that they are national currency has been losing ground against the u.s.

dollar and other currencies for the last twelve thirteen days also this visit and this investment news gave a macit to the international business and warrant that a huge country like qatar still has trust and turkish economy it cuts are has at least twenty billion dollars of investments and turkey in different sectors from media entertainment to construction and other industries of course qatar qatar national banks acquirements of turkish finance bank a couple two years ago. was an important stuff as well and as far as we know qatar national bank financed bank is also planning to expand in turkey they are already the third biggest loan lender among the turkish banks only other hand qatar has the potential to mediate between the west and turkey in terms of political tensions because qatar and turkey are partners in the original security issues and turkey

was sided with qatar during last year's tension with saudi arabia and right now knowing that the united states has a military base of eleven thousand troops in qatar we know that qatar is an important player in the region and is an important partner for united states as well so there is a hope there is a potential that qatar in times of crisis qatar has the potential to mediate but of course until now there is no statement by any officials from turkish or it cuts every side that there is a mediation ongoing. six years since police in south africa killed dozens of striking miners an act of police brutality often described as one of the worst since the end of the apartheid era in two thousand and twelve the miners had gathered at the lonmin platinum mine in the town of americana to demand better pay in living conditions during clashes that followed thirty four miners were shot dead

by police families of the victims say they're still waiting for compensation and justice from the authorities. the german government is considering reintroducing border controls with switzerland and france it's all part of the interior minister's plan to tighten migration into germany police controls have already been reestablished or along parts of the austrian border but as dominic a new reports there may be resistance from businesses on both sides of the rhine. the violent hine is a bustling german town lying next to france and switzerland people from the three countries mingle and its markets and from a distance it can be hard to tell them apart but all supporters of e.u. integration welcome such thoughts some people in berlin are concerned a senior official of the interior ministry has spoken publicly about whether it's time to reintroduce border controls all part of his bosses migration master plan. of most lands meant we remain a liberal minded country we remain

a humane country and we remain a country which grants protection to those who need it at the same time we want to eliminate the abuse which also exists but how significant is that abuse in the first five months of this year more than eighteen thousand people were detained trying to enter germany illegally of that twenty seven percent were held on the austrian border a further eleven percent on the swiss border with nine percent on the front here with france some in violent itself this is the last remaining sign of any physical border here the river rhine the natural frontier between germany france and switzerland the question must be how practical might it be to reintroduce border controls in areas where the people have grown used to the absence of them for twenty years at the midday market traders like mohammed syrian are clear about the benefits of border free travel because they have it you can it's more

convenient for customers coming from switzerland or france to come to our markets they can then do their shopping and do not have to worry about long waiting times it customs so it means they can drive back and forth much more easily. a glance at the amount of trade between the germans french and swiss highlights the importance of the schengen so the combination of imports and exports between germany and france is worth one hundred sixty nine billion dollars each year combined annual imports and exports between the germans and swiss amount to almost one hundred billion dollars little wonder then that in the swiss city of bars and people don't want borders back anytime soon we have every day more than seventy thousand people coming working in this part of switzerland from france and germany and as economy route not were without these people but the mere fact officials are discussing it shows how much impact the migration crisis has had

a dominant cane al-jazeera in southwestern germany. and that's it from us in london for now back to. you thank you for that we're looking at afghanistan now two attackers have been killed after a six hour gun battle in kabul they targeted an intelligence training center it has kept a particularly violent week in afghanistan where hundreds of military police and civilians have been killed as more. ten am in kabul's whiston neighborhood known as p.d. five. gunman launch an assault on a training seem to for the national directorate of security afghanistan's primary intelligence agency. special forces well versed in urban firefights repel the attack they form a cordon and move people out of range of the bullets. a short drive west from here and not twenty four hours prior a different result oh

a suicide attack on an education seem to killed at least thirty four people most of the victims were students teenagers studying for university entrance exams here. the force of the bomb blew the roof off the classroom. killing students is against all human dignity people should never be this brutal in any part of the world those behind this action are worse than animals was i so claimed responsibility it kept off of the to kill a violent week within a particularly violent month for afghanistan. the taliban launched an attack on gaza one week ago the city was under siege for six days more than four hundred people died in the fighting a quarter of them nice residents there are also multiple taliban attacks on police and military outposts across the country dozens of afghan soldiers and policemen

were killed but. we want peace in our country we cannot continue this bloodshed any more we demand from the government and government forces to stop the war and work towards peace and brotherhood. the afghan government appears to be listening president musharraf gani says he will not negotiate with i saw but there are talks of a ceasefire with the taliban during the holiday of next week it would replicate and i'm president. in june this is negotiations continue between the u.s. and taliban for a long term peace plan but analysts say it may be the prospect of peace that is causing those hard line taliban who are hardliners who believe in by being routed them be politic graham conflict they are making america basically in my view to disrupt the war properly and creatively to region where the government is going to difficult situation to announce prior. to the stakes are growing with or that's

a ceasefire with the taliban all the red acacia if isolate. those who remain say be desperate for change shallot ballasts al jazeera. the front seem like to give us a reality check every now and then this is one from last year actually after sixteen years of war in afghanistan at that stage it was a trillion dollars spent and thirty thousand lives lost just as donald trump promised more troops and money have a look at it for yourself how big a mess is the war in afghanistan that is from up front with me in the show section at al-jazeera dot com. thank you for getting in touch with us lots of you written piece to aretha franklin remembering how great she was as a person not just with a wonderful music. i didn't want to go on surely thank you for messaging on facebook life facebook dot com such as they are this is on the newspaper editorial

story she said we will only know the true value of a free press when we lose it and i say here here to that as well it is it's odd as a journalist when you see these attacks from donald trump you almost want to take it personally and i can only imagine what it's like for people working in the white house press corps and what they go through each time they go into a press meeting there do you keep your questions and comments and they open the way we're on instagram now as well just today we hope that up a.j. news grid on instagram i posted a video just before the show follow us on instagram as well this is the news great if you want us on facebook live with a little bonus story for you right now about the week it's a muslim money minority in western china at the u.n. says held in secret internment camps and also ahead. tonight beginning. with the singing adele they're actually going to speed it queen of soul aretha franklin has passed away we're taking a look at the life and legacy of an amazing amazing singer.

and of the temperature is still hovering around the fifty mark in the southwest of iran this no reason why it shouldn't be to be honest and he relieving shows a wind direction miles away is nothing really to be seen from space from the forecast point of view it's clearly not quite as hot was too hot on the rocky plain and cools down further west the hot wind blowing southwards the potential for showers in the caspian more or less gone that still got some i think in northern pakistan and maybe the eastern side of afghanistan and also that through tashkent these two major cities otherwise we still see little change q.h. forty one you might think is a huge contrast you go to northern kuwait and then cross the border is still hitting the forty nine fifty mark. now for the last day or so it's been a breezy and dusty time the sun's out of saudi out he waits for bahrain and even

qatar the other option is for it to turn humid and that's likely to happen i think if not on saturday and probably sunday and also a hint of that is the increasing potential for clad in the southwest and saudi arabia and yemen which might might give you a shout up in the mountains and the chance of rain further south well yes the eastern cape is just about possible but i think unlikely. then there is that they set sail for gold. but this cover their resources worth more than its weight human being. driven by commerce enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charts the birth and rise of the african slave trade mapping the history at the

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the headlines from out zero dot com and what's trending as well the latest on the turkey u.s. disputes. taking a fancy to day number one of course more about what's happening with israelis bridge the state of deterioration or yes as a result of this terrible terrible tragedy that we've seen among their own turkey is just noticing what her face if you will the latest on the turkey breast is best place to go about zero dot com that is what is trending this posting. now

aid agencies are scrambling to prevent to humanitarian crises in the middle of the war in yemen one and a half million children are suffering from malnutrition and health workers fear it could worsen a cholera outbreak commodore reports now from neighboring djibouti. kushal to solve human swar go way beyond the bomb some bullets it's luck or food is the greatest threat run out khalid is weak and severely malnourished she's nine years old but weighs on in nine kilograms the ideal weight for a one year old baby. anyone who i know has been sick for almost four years i took her to several hospitals when they failed to treat her i took her to hospital the pediatrician there examined her and found a big stone three centimeters in size in her kidney. doctors up yemen's health hold a hospital in the port city of her they doing all the qantas everyone else live.

from said she was suffering from severe pain in her left side after diagnosis we discovered that she has a fully blocked kidney we managed to do the operation for free but she didn't get any better due to malnutrition in. yemen has always been desperately pool but the war has made things much was. wild food prices rise incomes of plummeted with frequent asterix it's difficult for people to leave they'll see. the destruction of roads and bridges have limited the supply of vital supplies of food and fuel to a population already is self going to love having my nutrition department receives more than twenty cases a week from her data in neighboring areas this is because of the current situation in the country and because of the closure of health centers outside the problem due to fear of shelling also because of the financial situation in iraq jobs fathers families cannot meet that basic needs. according to the un two point eight million

people have been driven away from their homes by the bombing in yemen many of them are living in green comps in the middle of the country surviving one may go to live humboldt's whose deliveries are few and far between the why. health organization is in the middle of a large drive to prevent a recurrence of in more fun than the destruction to the country's rule times senate titian for citizens already cost them which affected more than a million people. will say any major break in the middle of the month crisis could wasson the humanitarian crisis that the well jessica djibouti so imagine that a situation where if the war doesn't kill you then starvation just might in fact the headline from this article of al-jazeera dot com says it all is and what we have just hoping to survive stories of people who are just struggling to put food on the table there and if you go down to this map just increase the size

a little bit you're looking at those red areas being the emergency areas as far as food insecurity goes so lots of those populated areas. and then even out into the color into the east you've got what's called a stress to situation and also crisis situations the thing i didn't tell you though is that that articles from twenty fifteen so imagine how much worse it is right now let's in fact. about it yemen country director for oxfam international joining us via skype from sun i thank you for your time this to. i want to understand something first and get this explain this to of us the food which does come in the aid which does come in where does it come from who allows it in can you explain the whole process for us. well. in the country and ninety percent of food to be imported and of the ninety percent and thirty percent

food comes from. along with other medicines fuel and even other supplies and being pulled has been affected by blocking it imposed by the college and one. of the last one hundred there have been advanced men of the internationally recognized government support the coalition. point i want. to interrupt she said is the point i wanted to get to the ports are being controlled by the saudis in the emraan seas they are controlling what comes in and out is it not a situation where food where the things which will keep people alive are being used effectively as a weapon of war. obviously when a country is dependent on imported food and the food comes from one particular poor

and that cannot function to many. are any. less the blockade then definitely that. impact. the years. that this. time it is including the cholera outbreak and then the restriction functionality of the whole definitely has an impact on the starvation the high malnutrition obviously the whole the system. collapsed. what about you at oxfam tell us about how you do your job how difficult perhaps it is to do your job. it not only are. very different from an operating environment. that while we do have the.

deficit commission however from time. to time. and. maybe people are who are out there in. our crowd and if the board cannot function properly. then definitely. listen well since they came from oxfam yeven country director very interesting talking to you i thank you for your time and you at least seventy seven people have been killed in the indian state of carolina by some of the worst floods in a century tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in the state's main airport has had to be shut down the latest from poultry. heavy rain

floods and landslides have destroyed or damaged thousands of homes in carola disaster officers say some two hundred people have died since may because of an unusually severe monsoon season. when want to came in we ran away with whatever we could grab the water came very fast we had to save our lives. the state is home to thirty three million people and one hundred fifty thousand of them have been sheltering in relief camps tens of thousands more remain stranded because ten thousand kilometers of roads have been destroyed or remain under water. in our village everyone's houses were destroyed it will be a long time before we can go back i have no idea how long it's going to take and where i will take my family it will take a long time to rebuild. water levels in the state's thirty four dams have reached dangerous highs state officials are releasing water sending a heavy flow into rivers the rain is also crippled water and sewage pumps leaving millions without drinking water. but. our water treatment plants in different

places have been submerged under water that i do motors have been damaged our first priority is to get the drinking water out to the people the monsoons of also wiped out crops in a state known for its spices and coffee kara was famous for its palm lined beaches and picture us tea plantations. it's a popular destination for both domestic and international tourists meanwhile carola residents are bracing for more rain in the days ahead paul chatterjee on al-jazeera and we've got more now from our resident weather expert it down to zero explaining what is behind all this extreme rain and kara. the floating carriage is reportedly a spouse it has been since one thousand nine hundred twenty four and you see on the satellite picture sitting on a cloud there but actually the watch is kind of the moment is further north however in the last twenty four hours it's been at least two hundred millimeters and anywhere you want to measure it and that's not just up in the mountains it's north

and one count of pull is down all the cards so the rain's been falling pretty steadily pretty heavily that's right carol if you take the monsoon as a whole it's been one hundred thirty seven percent of the expectations so far over to meet his so it's no surprise that there's some flooding here it's not just the radicals they've had to release water from the dams that i'm sure you already know now over the next twenty four hours they will be further rain all the way down the western ghats including carolyn but i suspect the concentration might be taken away from kara there's no particular reason why any monsoon should be wetter in one place than another this is another case in point i can't tell you our characters especially wet but over the next day or so the watches weather is going to move up temporarily follow this circulation which is going just hit the northeast and move slowly west would say it won't be drying carola but i think the rain will ease a little bit and if we get the home of weather down to zero dot com all the weather and climate related news lives there there are blogs and opinion pieces there and

your location services will of course bring you the weather where you are forty three degrees today and hit the more menu at the top and out of there dot com at the bottom of the menu it's weather. to a storm now of a different kind the trade between china and the united states china says it's sending a special envoy out of the u.s. in a renewed effort to end a worsening tower of dispute between the two countries and robotics is at the heart of its disagreement with washington beijing invests heavily in the sector and the trumpet ministration believes this is uncompetitive behavior more for major brown and beijing. well this is one of those events that provides a window into an artificially intelligent future a robotic chinese world now robotics are very important to china's government right now which is why it is pouring billions of dollars into the sector it wants china to become a high tech superpower so it's pouring money not just into robotics but also

artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence is now being harnessed by the country's vast surveillance network now a lot of the technologies you see all around you here are very much at the center of the current trade friction between washington and beijing the united states says that china is using predatory behavior because of all the stake money that it's pouring into the sector and it says that makes it very difficult for us companies to compete now of course china has another reason for wanting to push robotics right now this may be the world's most populous nation but the population nevertheless is starting to decline and china's leaders worry that one day in the future there won't be enough workers so it needs more robots in fact within two years it hopes to be producing some one hundred thousand industrial robots but

that means that many workers in china are worried that one day soon their jobs could be replaced by robots because robots are attractive for another reason they don't go on strike and they don't ask for paying creases now some sad news in the past couple of hours the woman known as the queen of soul aretha franklin has died in a detroit hospital age seventy six that announcement made by her publicist not long ago debra li's on the has this report looking back at her influence on the world of music. she was simply known by her first name aretha because of her unmistakable voice she was born a wreath eloise franklin in one nine hundred forty two in memphis tennessee from her first recordings as a young gospel singer she went on to become part of the sound of detroit her

singing career would span six decades the way was. was. was. a winner of eighteen grammy awards for distinctive gospel honed vocal style influenced multiple generations she was number one on the rolling stone magazine's list of the greatest singers of all time and she was the first mill artist ever inducted hall of fame. but it was in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven song respect which garnered her international attention and payment. fifty years ago she sang at dr martin luther king jr's funeral and many years later at the dedication of dr king's memorial in washington she was active in the civil rights movement for decades something she spoke about in two thousand and fourteen

well it certainly was a struggle and still is although we have a great way is a long way there still is a significant way to go the recipient of the united states highest civilian honor the presidential medal of freedom her voice delighted presidents as her health declined she curtailed her performances but she always sang like in this two thousand and fourteen performance and she sang adele's hit rolling in the deep. and she always was and will be. seventy six years old. so good so good i've been having a little look online some of their i mean lots of reaction from you on our hash tag

and on our facebook but here are some tweets of just found paul mccartney from the beatles let's all take a moment to give thanks for the beautiful life of aretha franklin the queen of our souls who inspired us all for many many years barbra streisand showing a photo taken in twenty twelve it's difficult to conceive a world without a wreath and not only was she a uniquely brilliant singer but a commitment to civil rights made an indelible impact on the world donald trump has chimed in the queen of soul is dead she was a great woman with a wonderful gift from god her voice and even nasa isn't this interesting with saddened by the loss of aretha franklin asteroid two four nine five one six aretha was named after the singer to commemorate her it will keep orbiting beyond us so she's still out there aretha franklin the queen of soul has died at the age of seventy six. the story of a special kind of spa because it involves elephants that's for the poll is here

with your sports spanish. on our road trip to the united states more on that shortly first a quick look at some international weather. the

whole race is here to talk sport football on facebook yes indeed and like a good idea it's good alliteration anyone who of the world's most popular football leagues could be about to fight it out for global supremacy that suff the league in spain firstly agreed a deal for matches to be streamed on facebook in asia and now says it will play a regular season game in the united states now this is football we're talking about so it's pretty much all about money despite having stars like little messy league is playing catch up with the english premier league in terms of revenue the english clubs including liverpool hair had more than six billion dollars in revenue for the season the end of the last year only three point two five billion dollars for spain's elite division the bulk of all of this is from broadcasting rights that's where facebook comes in the social media giant has paid an undisclosed fee to

stream all of the season's spanish matches to about three hundred forty eight million uses in asia potentially huge long term audience i'm not could stretch to north america as well with a spanish much there being part of a fifteen year partnership to promote the game stateside no plan yet for that to include the classic oh now this hasn't gone down well with the players' union in spain they say a football is not a currency that can be used in business that only benefits third parties well for more on this we're talking to fernando carlos who is a sports broadcaster currently in. in spain now fernando why is this happening now why the facebook deal and now this deal for the matches in the u.s. . because he'd be able to have as the president of the league his first his first challenge was to make the council right because when they when he got to the league

of the clubs they got huge depp's with the players include the so now that the players they are getting paid in the clubs there are in green million in all their bank accounts so they are expanding the first first was the games on the prime time on the asia market in now this facebook deal in this regular season game like the n.f.l. they do it every year they actually the n.f.l. have three games in london they are huge success every year go to like two or three of them and it's really really a great x. success when you have a regular season game outside your country so they're copying the n.f.l. success going to the united states and this facebook deal it's just the years that we live on that for example yesterday i watched the the final of the super cup in the car of my my my wife was driving i was watching the game on the my cell phone so this is i guess i bet there is a lot of people watching those right now on their cell phone souls this is the word

that we're leaving now and i think it's a it's a really good bet from the league and the players they can do what they can say whatever they want to what they want what they really want is their share on this new deal so it's good for everybody when you get a deal like this and it's just going up with the spanish league they are challenging the premier league for sure now do they have the premier league and their sights on can be as popular as english premier league. well i think i think they can be asked popular as the premier league because they have they have the two of the greatest clubs in the word you know when you have a messy and you have barcelona you have real madrid you can do whatever you want to so now they're trying to be professional there's something that the legal wasn't before have yet to help us win through this in got through to the president of the

leader so now they're there they're racing there they're losing but they're getting close to the premier league so premier league they try it so have actually a regular season game in the us they failed so now the league is trying to do something that the premier league couldn't do it and they have this deal with the only author of miami dolphins so they're going to play it's not a few but they're there are going to be there is going to. be so we have to move on fernando callous they're in luck hernia thank you very much well with european football back in action so too is the global piracy of much is all games from the opening round of the english premier league and more than half of france's top legal fixtures were illegally broadcast live by pirates channel b. out q qatar based broadcast to be in sports who hold the middle eastern rights to these games say it now has independent proof that the out queue is being distributed by the saudi arabian based arab sat tests for being were conducted by

three leading technology companies cisco nagra and over on but the saudis maintain the signal isn't from that country football's world and european governing bodies have won't be out to they'll take legal action they've been joined by formula one and the world tennis parties who've all demanded the immediate closure of the out. well andy will be back with more at eighteen hundred g.m.t. for now it's back to thank you both football on facebook next thing they'll tell you they'll be news on facebook oh wait there already is facebook dot com slash founders there is where you can watch the newsgroup every day at fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. and interact with us and on social media produces send in your comments and questions then you can keep up to us with us on twitter what's that and instagram now as well a.j. news and we'll see you back here in studio fourteen fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow.

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