host thousands of athletes competing across a mix of traditional and a lympics sports follow us football with the news and updates from jakarta the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera. we're committed to a whole of government effort to change the iranian regime's behavior the u.s. announces a new approach to its policy on iran after withdrawing from the nuclear deal. i'm out of some this is all just to live from doha also coming up. numbering the queen of soul fans pay their respects to a wreath of franklin whose died at the age of seventy six. and it occurs seven days

of mourning following the death of former prime minister atal bihari vajpayee. and we'll have the latest fallout from a vaccine scandal in china that's raised fears over the safety of drugs in the country. the u.s. has announced a new foreign policy initiative aimed at changing the behavior of the regime secretary of state my pump aoe says the white house is forming a task force to coordinate and run its policy on iran our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran but we must see major changes in the regime's behavior both inside and outside of its borders roselyn jordan has more from the united nations. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the iran action group trying to make certain that all parts of the u.s.

government are working on a strategy to compel iran to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have longstanding economic ties to terror on it asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what bryant hook the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any

rifts with with other nations but when you look out the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to shia militias to lebanese hezbollah it's billions and billions of dollars and we need to get at drying up those revenue streams so far the beggar's of the iran action group is a very small one the administration wasn't ready to unveil those names on thursday however brian hook did tell reporters that this is a key policy initiative of the trumpet ministration and that they are committed to trying to get iran to change its political and security ways. tributes from around the world have been pouring in to remember the queen of soul aretha franklin died at a home in detroit on thursday the seventy six year old american singer had pancreatic cancer fans have been placing flowers on her star on the hollywood walk of fame

former u.s. president barack obama has fondly remembered her on social media so have music giants like barbara streisand the fall of beatle paul mccartney. looks back at her life and how she influenced the world of music. she was simply known by her first name aretha because of her unmistakable voice she was born a retha louise franklin in one thousand and 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 away. a winner of eighteen grammy awards for distinctive gospel honed vocal style

influence multiple generations she was number one on the rolling stone magazine's list of greatest singers of all time and she was the first female artist ever inducted hall of fame. but it was in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven song respect which garnered her international attention in 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. it still is although we have come a great ways 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 when she sang adele's hit rolling in the deep. it was. the engine is bigger than i am in of soul her fans she always was and always will be. frank with her seventy six years old. the funeral of former indian prime minister atal bihari vajpayee will be held later on friday has died at the age of ninety three by well remembered amongst other things for conducting nuclear tests just weeks after becoming prime minister in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight andrew thomas is joining us live from the indian capital new delhi andrew first of all give us an indication of what kind of

reaction there is in india to his death. well it's not a surprise he was ninety three he'd been ill for some time he had a stroke in two thousand and nine in the hospital since june so the death itself is not a surprise but of course it's big news he was a major player in indian politics for many years these are the newspapers in new delhi this morning that's the times of india pm poet statesman gentleman it says a reference there not only to the fact that he was prime minister but he was a world famous poet in his language in hindu india as well politics loses its poetry there hindustan times now as you say he'll be best remembered internationally for making india a nuclear power he controversially tested nuclear weapons underground in one nine hundred ninety eight and calculated probably rightly in the long term that the international outrage should be short lived and this would establish india as a nuclear power for the long term and just weeks later pakistan tested its own

nuclear weapons making the two countries nuclear powers that's how he'll be remembered internationally but he also tried to balance the tension with pakistan with their approach one with them as well and made a famous journey by pass into pakistan to meet his pakistani counterparts in one thousand nine hundred nine as well on the economic front he continued liberalization that already begun under his predecessors with a big stain on his time in office were the riots in the states of gujarat in two thousand and two and they divided indian society with divides really that haven't really fully healed even to this day. and let's talk about that because he seems to have had the capacity to be able to cross the political divide in india but his car his career did have a succession of controversies as well didn't it. it did i mean one reason he should be remembered and deserves to be remembered is that he was the first known congress not part of the congress party politician to serve

a full term as prime minister between ninety nine and two thousand and four that some achievement really a stablish democracy good in india so that's on the positive side definitely there but these riots and goes right they began when a train carrying hindu muslims was probably deliberately set on fire and more than fifty hindu pilgrims were killed but what followed was what some of called a paul graham but it was just really violence against the muslim community where at least a thousand people in some estimates to this day said that two thousand people died now the b j p was in power not just at the national level but at the state level as well and the chief minister at the time was a name you might know narendra modi now india's prime minister those divisions haven't healed to this day and he is seen in some ways as having started that under so much live for us in new delhi andrew thanks very much indeed. newspapers across the u.s. have cleared their front pages on thursday morning to print editorials fighting back against donald trump's attacks against the media she have reports from

washington d.c. . here at the newseum in washington d.c. the front pages of some of the over three hundred newspapers taking part in what was billed as an attempt to end a quote dirty war on the free press and quote we're being displayed their goals for the day really are to remind the public about the value to our democracy of afraid independent press and maybe tone down the rhetoric that leads some on the fringes to violence by using inflammatory terms like enemies of the people they are the fake fake disgusting news. donald trump's attacks on the media have been rhetorical and that has its dangers but he hasn't threatened journalists with the espionage act or seized their records and demanded sources as president obama did instead trump is playing on suspicions about the media the house long been the charge that the mainstream media does reflect the views of the establishment and the elites and marginalizes those who question that at least and some do wonder

whether donald trump is now giving the mainstream media the opportunity to present itself as anti establishment without having to conduct any self reflection answers and what you just did is inflammatory to the u.s. media has awoken under donald trump and is likely to take a far more adversarial position against the white house. but has the age of trump truly ushered in a new era of fearlessness for a fourth a state finally willing to speak for the people or is the press simply reflecting the unease of the establishment that trump up ended with his victory that many have a long called for an adversarial relationship between the media and a sitting president but the question is what kind of adversarial relationship is it just simply belt based on attacks personal attacks going back and. wars that don't have substance that don't actually improve people's lives that don't highlight issues but in effect inflate the personalities and egos of major celebrity

media figures and people in the trumpet ministration the polls show most americans care far more about free health care or reversing economic inequality than the alleged russian collusion that establishment voices blame for them in the last presidential election yet the last of the dominates the us media and those that do take an adversarial stones to the establishment on social and economic issues remain as marginalized as ever meanwhile the polls reflect a declining trust in the media nationwide and continues his attacks she had zero washington. twelve former top level u.s. intelligence officers have signed a letter condemning president for revoking the security clearance of the next cia director from council john brennan's access to intelligence material on thursday brennan has long been a staunch critic of trump the letter calls transactions an attempt to stifle free speech a political move and an appropriate still ahead on al-jazeera why the casualties of

yemen's war go far beyond bombs and the bullets. small town with a big worry repose at the crossroads of the migration debate in germany. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello there we're still got lots of clouds lingering over the southwestern parts of kazakstan you can see it on our satellite picture here gradually fading as it works its way northwards but this region has been unsettled for weeks now we're going to see the showers just transfer a bit further towards the west as we head through the next few days so yet more showers over the northern parts of turkey and stretching east towards the caspian sea this region seeing yet more rain as we head through saturday in fact on saturday looks like they'll be even more showers around

a bit further towards the south and is generally fine and settled for us in beirut at thirty degrees and hot in baghdad put it around forty four here in doha it's also really quite hope but the air is quite dry and will continue to be so as we head through the next few days the winds are firing down from the northwest so a temperature of around forty five degrees but as i say not so humid temperature for the south but that's where we'll see more cloud across the southern parts of oman and into yemen and of course this will be giving us a few showers as you'd expect at this time of year down towards the southern parts of africa and for many of us it's falling and dry but there is a bit of cloud in the southern parts of our map here that could just give us one or two showers for cape town is not that warm we're looking at a maximum just to fourteen the temperature here should recover as we head into fact today this time we're getting up to sixty. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. some journeys are tougher than i was there. but this route

is even tougher it's going to cost me the truck there it's dangerous there's houses you know boom follows the moroccan truck drivers in danger of their life. just to be committing if you drive they might break your mirror or even kill me because of religious belief or. from a.b.c. just on al-jazeera. and watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. has announced a new foreign policy initiative aimed at changing the behavior of the regime in tehran the white house is creating a task force to coordinate and run its policy on iraq.

the tributes are pouring in for us sing a wreath of franklin she's died of pancreatic cancer the age of seventy six franklin's known as the queen of soul she's won eighteen grammy music awards during her career she's also been a prominent campaigner for civil rights. the funeral for former indian prime minister atal bihari vajpayee will be held later on friday budget pie was ninety three years old when he died on thursday one of his most controversial decisions was to conduct nuclear tests just weeks after he became prime minister in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he also led india during a brief war with pakistan. italian government is thinking about taking over all of the country's motorways. networks the networks country run by private companies and contractors but a bridge collapsed recently in general and while an investigation into what happened may take some time hundreds of people displaced by the collapse are

wondering where they're going to sleep that actual battle reports from general. below what is left of geno's marandi bridge hundreds of properties stand empty more than six hundred people were moved from this neighborhood after the bridge collapsed on tuesday some are returning to collect their possessions many all still visibly shaken you know this report of a lot of i saw the bridge collapsing because my apartment looked over it so i saw it fall or heard a big noise like thunder i thought it was a storm and there was dust everywhere and i saw a building turn to rubble. it's unclear if people will be allowed to live here again as experts say the structure could be unsafe this firefighter showed me what's now known as the red zone a high risk area if you look up you can see just how close minded way there is to the top of some of these apartments it almost seems to me it's and you can really understand why it's on an authority is despite the fact you wait this whole

neighborhood because of course if any part of that bridge was to collapse anyone underneath grave danger carrying their belongings residents leave to stay with family and friends or in city shelters this man's elderly mother was too shocked to come back he says my fear will never be the same so the next visual for can this year used to be a firefighter and looking at all this i believe it will take years to rebuild and recover. at the rescue site hundreds of emergency workers continue to search for survivors as time passes hopes are diminishing. now we are cutting the big slabs we are moving them and then we send the can and units the dogs the search dogs. if there are positive signs we send our teams. direct research casualties into or. of victims into the voids

people in juneau are still coming to terms with what has happened in this city his grief anger and for those who call this district home there is now a future full of uncertainty natasha butler al-jazeera genoa italy in china for senior officials i was saying quoting a provincial deputy governor have been dismissed over the defective vaccines program one hundred eighty eight thousand children and shandong province have been given the injections adrian brown has more from beijing. of the four officials who've been dismissed one is the deputy head of the organization responsible for regulating the drug industry here in china as well as the deputy governor of jilin province these dismissals were confirmed in a report in the people's daily overnight the people's daily is the newspaper of

record here in china it said that the state council which is a body headed by president xi jinping had met to discuss the case and this was the result president xi jinping it seems has been playing an active role in the fallout of the scandal which appears to be widening now this all began back in july when it was revealed that the chunk chunk biotechnology company had been falsifying production records it produced vaccines which were then given to children these are vaccines which are not dangerous they simply ineffective in effect useless so now you have thousands upon thousands of parents in china still not sure still not convinced they can trust the industry which provides vaccines for their children there really is a trust deficit in this area at the moment and a lot of anger in the streets when you speak to people about the scandal they say how can we trust our vaccine industry and of course foreign vaccines simply aren't

available in china so people here in china have no option but to use the locally produced ones now we know also that some five hundred thousand ineffective vaccines were produced that's double the figure the government gave a month ago and that one hundred eighty eight thousand of these vaccines were administered to children we know also that fifteen officials from the company at the center of the scandal are still under investigation including its chairwoman. it is he says a scrambling to prevent two humanitarian crises in the middle of the war in yemen one and a half million children suffering from malnutrition and health workers are worried a cholera outbreak could get worse mohammed reports from djibouti the casualties of human swarm go way beyond the bomb some bullets luckily 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. everyone 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 a hospital the pediatrician there examined her and found a big stone three centimeters in size in her kidney. doctors that hold a hospital in the port city of 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 worse. while food prices rise incomes of plummeted with frequent asterix it's difficult for people to leave their homes. the

destruction of roads and bridges have limited the supply of vital supplies of food and fuel to a population already self. 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 the closure of health centers outside probably due to fear of shelling also because of the financial situation and lack of jobs fathers families cannot meet that basic need. according to the u.n. two point eight million people have been driven away from their homes by the bombing in yemen many of them are living in dream comps in the middle of the country surviving on me go to live hundreds whose deliveries are few and far between the world health organization is in the middle of a large drive to prevent a recurrence of color in north london yemen the destruction to the country's wartime sanitation facilities has already caused an outbreak which affected more

than a million people w.h.o. officials say any major outbreak in the middle of the month crisis could wasson the humanitarian crisis behind the al-jazeera djibouti. mollies president abraham. has won reelection with sixty seven percent of the vote his main rival. got thirty three percent and seizes rejected the results and vowed to contest them voter turnout for the runoff in july was low and some polling stations didn't open because of violence. some bodies opposition says the constitutional court will hear its challenge against president emerson among god was election victory next wednesday opposition leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged and god was inaugurations been postponed until the court makes its decision. campaigning has officially begun for brazil's october presidential elections thirteen candidates

have put their names forward including live with nothing or lula da silva the former president country is serving a jail sentence for corruption as douglas wilder reports from the capital for syria that are no clear favorites in the race. the marquise asked importance committed suicide these are eight of the thirteen candidates battling to become the next president of brazil most of them already members of the political establishment rocked by a huge corruption scandal opinion polls suggest that most voters don't trust any of them. it's hard to choose the present in paper and secure scared the campaigning starts today and we don't know how to find an honest politician someone to trust. the process is crazy this year nothing has been defined it's difficult to be resilient at the moment. of. the outgoing president michel maneuvered to take over two years ago when his predecessor seth was impeached both

he and his party had deeply unpopular or brazil struggles to emerge from the session this is supposed to be the time when one hundred forty million or so brazilian voters decide who is best qualified to occupy this the presidential palace instead they're faced with legal contradictions constitutional uncertainty and political confusion it won't be easy leading candidates according to opinion polls is still the former president luis in the saloon of the silver who is serving twelve years in prison for corruption but he's fighting to stand but both his political and legal status are unclear said the mangy presidential certainly if former president lula is allowed to run and if he wins the elections we will have a severe political problem because we will have an elected president that most probably won't be able to become the president however it would also be a problem for brazil's democracy if cases treated differently to previous cases. i

suppose luda supporters and opponents are looking to the law for guidance which so far is undecided but as you were vision problem of brazil faces an issue created by the way the constitution is interpreted there is no clarity about what the supreme court can define. it's been a tumultuous few years in brazilian politics with voters now hoping candidates in this campaign comparable item with the clarity and stability they crave. brasilia. germany's looking at restoring migration controls on its border with switzerland and france checkpoints have already been reestablished along parts of the austrian border but as dominic came reports that maybe resistance from some businesses. the violent hine is a bustling german town lying next to france and switzerland people from the three countries mingle and it's 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 land 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 front here 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 of that 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 any time 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 dominick cain al-jazeera in southwestern germany. this is all just here at these at the top stories the u.s. has announced a new foreign policy initiative aimed at changing the behavior of the regime in teheran the white house is creating a task force to coordinate and run its policy on iran more now from al-jazeera is also in jordan. a lot of the things that were alluded to during thursday's press briefing are things that already the ministration and the obama administration before it could and have been duly issuing sanctions against persons who are

violating international law sanctions regimes issuing executive orders curtailing on persons and companies behavior in the united states with their counterparts in had ever on so it's not really clear what this whole of government effort to will unify policy on iran is actually completely fine for us saying a wreath of franklin paying their respects to her death from pancreatic cancer. the queen of soul was seventy six years old she won eighteen grammy music awards during her career franklin was also a prominent campaigner for civil rights. the funeral for former indian prime minister atal bihari vajpayee pipe will be held later on friday died on thursday at the age of ninety three one of his most controversial decisions was to conduct nuclear tests just weeks after he became prime minister in one thousand nine

hundred eight he also led india during a brief war with pakistan. the u.s. is threatening more sanctions against turkey if a detained american posture isn't released earlier i'm correct said it was willing to enter talks with the u.s. over the dispute which has seen trade tariffs applied by both sides pasta under bronson's under house arrest over alleged links to businessman fatah the golan turkey blames go on for a failed coup in twenty sixteen. the vatican has condemned the sex abuse described in a grand jury report in the us state of pennsylvania morally reprehensible a vatican spokesman said pope francis was with the victims the report to detail the allegations of assault on more than one thousand children and suggested there could be thousands more victims spawning a seventeen year period those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the string often. as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in b.c.

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