we're committed to a whole of government effort to change the iranian regime's behavior. a new approach the u.s. announces a plan to deal with iran after making on the nuclear deal. hello welcome this is also coming out. there in germany leaves tributes to former indian prime minister. has died at the age of ninety three. living in the shadow of the bridge is now too dangerous for hundreds of general and. if you look up you can see just how close the randy quaid gets to the top of some of these apartments it already seems to me it's and you can really understand why it's on an authority as

disliking good fun the way this whole neighborhood. and remembering the queen of soul detroit respects its favorite daughter a recess franklin. but first the u.s. has announced a new task force which would deal specifically with iran its aim it says is to persuade terror on its government to change its ways such a state might pompei or announce a new unit as the u.s. increases economic pressure on iran with the reimposition of sanctions earlier this year the u.s. renamed on the nuclear deal between iran and world powers describing it as decaying and rotten. 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 well thing jill that has more now from the

united nations. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has unveiled what is being called the a rod 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 we'd 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 hoped 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 ministration wasn't ready to unveil those daves on thursday however brian hook did tell reporters that this is a key policy initiative of the trumpet astray should and that they are committed to trying to get iran to change its political and security ways we've been speaking to treat

a policy who's from the national iranian american council. what we're seeing here is the continuation of the escalator tory plan that the trump in the situation put in place on day one when the into the white house which is some form of confrontation with iran the talking point is that this is just about changing behavior there's even an offer to talk on the table but everything the trump administration is doing is very clearly pointing towards a demand for iran carrots elation which will happen which as a result very likely will either lead to some form of direct confrontation with iran or efforts by the united states to destabilize iraq on the trunk ministration is on record admitting that they're trying to foment unrest in la what i would do it is that it would force the mom to turn its research resources are inwards and it would be this evil from projecting power in the region and from the perspective of some of the violence regional rivals that type of instability in the bar is

probably the second best option compared to what their primary purpose seems to be which is the military confrontation the funeral of the former indian prime minister i thought bihari that advised you to be held shortly he's remembered for a number of his controversial decisions during his terms in office including attending india into a new class under thomas has more now from the indian capital new delhi. it was ninety three he had been ill for some times as death itself wasn't unexpected unless of course very big news he was a major figure in indian politics and is the hindustan times politics loses its poetry a reference there to the fact he wasn't just prime minister he was well known as a poet as well the times of india pm poet statesman gentleman internationally that's probably will be known as the prime minister who tested nuclear weapons he was prime minister very briefly not in ninety six but his long state was from ninety eight to two thousand and four and it was at the beginning of that period that he tested nuclear weapons it was international outrage but he calculated

probably rightly most indians were. say that that would die down in the long term it would ensure india's security he did carry out their approach more with pakistan the following year he went to law school and hard to pakistani counterparts economically liberalized the economy privatized many state assets but really continued what already been happening under his predecessor most of all that he'll be remembered simply as the prime minister that did a full term he wasn't from the congress party and that itself is some achievement the stain on his time in office will be the riots they began when a train of hindu pilgrims was burned about fifty eight in two thousand and two you but as a result of that still a major riots in which well over a thousand possibly as many as two thousand people the vast majority of them muslim were killed chief minister in that state the time was one modi and eventually behind the scenes fight with him over that he wanted a second id but was overruled by those in his own party and that incident has

really set in train the ethnic tensions that it could be existed in india to this day. passenger plane has skidded off the runway whilst trying to land at manila's point it was raining when the incident happened the boeing plane operated by men. and flown from china one hundred fifty seven passengers and eight crew were on board and they've escaped using emergency slides no reports of any injuries so far . and you say this across the u.s. cliff the news from the front pages and instead they printed editorials fighting back against the tox on the media she never tons the has more from washington. 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 being displayed their goals for the day

really are to remind the public about the value to our democracy of a free to dip in a 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. attacks on the media have been rhetorical and that has its dangers but he hasn't. the espionage act. 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 a marginalizes those who question and some do wonder whether dole trump is now giving the mainstream media the opportunity to present itself as. without having to conduct any self reflection answers and what you just did is inflammatory to the us media has. to take

a adversarial position against the white house. that 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 but 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 a relationship is it just simply belt based on a tax. personal attacks going back and forth that don't have substance that don't actually improve people's lives they 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 blamed 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 that the climbing trust in the media nationwide. continues his attacks. washington. the italian government is considering taking charge of all of the country's major ways following the collapse of the bridge in general are a lot of the network is currently run by private companies and contractors an investigation into what happened may take some time but hundreds of people full set of their homes by the collapse wondering where they'll go let's ask about the reports from genoa. 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 are still visibly shaken. portugal all over 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 then 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 the manties way here is to the top of some of these apartments it almost seems to me it's and you can really understand why italian authorities decide to pull back you wait this whole neighborhood because of course if any part of that bridge was to collapse anyone underneath would bring 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 life here will never be the same. 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 with the kind of. the dogs the search dogs. if there are positive signs we respond our teams. direct research casualties or. into the boids people in juneau are still coming to terms with what has happened in their city there's grief anger and for those who call this district home there is now a future full of uncertainty natasha al-jazeera genoa italy lots more to come here at al-jazeera including we'll look at the fallout from a vaccine scandal that's raised fears over the safety of drugs in china. weeks

after a devastating fire has destroyed greece's island resorts a new inquiry is being ignited demanding justice and dances for the victims the hour. it's time to tango an international festival celebrating the latin american dance opens in the argentine capital. hello there is still cool and unsettled for many of us in the northern parts of europe at the moment the latest satellite picture showing this massive cloud here gradually working its way eastwards that's bringing us a fair amount of rain and will continue to do so as we head through the next few days so here it is then on friday stretching down across the alps heavy downpours

here during the day then that gradually pushing its way further eastwards as we head into saturday behind it staying cool twenty three there in london twenty five in paris but ahead of it still pretty hot we're looking at thirty in vienna and around thirty two in bucharest here there will still we want to showers around some of which could turn out to be pretty heavy for the other side of the mediterranean fine and dry here pretty hot for some of us thirty seven in cairo but further west we've got a few showers over the atlas mountains which are just transferring a bit further east as we head into saturday so i think most of those will be around parts of china staying ahead of that though so thirty two. a little further towards the south and this is where the majority of the showers are over africa you can see them his stretching from eritrea all the way towards the west and some of the wettest weather the most persistent showers are over parts of cameroon and into nigeria very heavy downpours here we're also seeing some rather heavy showers on friday in the northern parts of mali.

the economic heartbeat of a thriving brazil but boom times means rising rents and the lack of public housing isabella is just one of thousands looking for a place to call home with no choice by one of the city's many vacant buildings facing an uncertain future. viewfinder latin america occupying brazil on al-jazeera. take a look at the top stories here it out there this morning the u.s.

has announced a new task force to deal specifically with iran it's a myth says is to persuade government to change its ways secretary of state might prompt a announcing new eunice's the u.s. increases economic pressure on iran with the reimposition of sanctions. former indian prime minister. has died at the age of ninety three he's been on life support since when. he's known as the he's known on the international save for testing nuclear weapons in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. the collapse of a bridge in genoa has put attention on italy's aging infrastructure around seventy percent of italy's fifteen thousand motorway bridges and tunnels are more than forty years old at least thirty eight people died in the general disaster and investigations underway. the british parliamentary committee has said that smokers should be given greater support to use is cigarettes is

a way of kicking the habit in a report it quoted medical studies that suggested vaporing could actually help people stop smoking conventional cigarettes lawrence lee has more. so no denying the popularity of a ping in a cigarette now days in the u.k. places like this have sprung up all over the country and almost three million people nowadays in the u.k. routinely use the cigarettes as a less harmful thing to do they assume than conventional smoking of course the science is a little sketchy and opinions are mixed the report this week suggest that the cigarettes are actually more harmful than people think they might be on the basis that they can cause lung infections but now an officially sanctioned report by a government committee here suggests that not only already cigarettes are actually much better for you than conventional ones but they could even be used to help people give up smoking completely just like patches and nicotine replacement and that sort of thing and even further the authors of this report suggests that the

health service hasn't made the proper distinction between conventional cigarettes and these cigarettes and that it could even be the case that people could use these cigarettes in places like public transport and offices in a way that is currently banned that is quite controversial but here's what the chairman of the government committee had to say i don't discount the issue of the sort of nuisance value of people very paying a lot of people complain about the smell of the sort of cloud of paper that surrounds some people who do but we mustn't confuse that with. public risk in the way that we know cigarettes cause risk secondary smoking we know has an enormous risk attached to it very thing is wholly different to that and we want to encourage a public debate about. treating vaporing differently to smoking in those public

places certainly to a degree all of this flies in the face of the received wisdom inside the national health service which runs public hospitals like this one in central london there would be. is that the cigarettes less harmful than conventional ones but they might not get you over you only getting addiction and help you give up smoking and so it is still a very confused picture for smokers a great overseas are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to help victims of father has swept through results of athens last month several prosecutors a vote an inquiry into why ninety six people died rather to the victims say police failed in their response. reports from the village of one of the was hit areas. this used to be by your kitchen the only survived the fire that swept through this neighborhood on july twenty third because he and

a friend acted quickly after smelling the smoke you frightened you for we went to the main road and there was a tsunami of flames sixty meters high as soon as we saw this i said save your family take them to the sea we ran back and i grabbed my mother i should be a sickle this is where i ended up along with hundreds of others some scorched by the flames just a little too many pics for me over the bridge there was absolutely no warning perhaps the authorities didn't realize the size of the phenomenon it was so sudden my house is four hundred meters from the sea the fire took three maybe four minutes to cover that distance an inquiry is now looking into why all thirty's failed to better coordinate their response the local mayor says five faces acted heroically but everything happens to first matters but if the keepers i see as the civil protection measures exist here as in every municipality but when you have twelve force winds blowing through pine forest then it becomes extremely inflammable the city is a government is trying to restore

a sense of normality trees are being cut down even though many of them appear only superficially singed the public power corporation is restoring electricity the government will pay each stricken household. an emergency some of the around five thousand dollars replace basic appliances and give pensioners a double payouts this month all in the hope of reducing its political liability. yet. the problem is no right to talk about political responsibility we've assumed the political responsibility already prosecutor is an independent authority they're investigating but they won't find anything in the government we have no criminal liability. cities that has already a reputation for slowness and civil protection at the height of the refugee crisis three years ago it took months to ask brussels for help resulting in greater suffering for refugees and last year it was unable to prevent oil from a sunken tank from soiling kilometers of pristine coastline west of athens but this

time greece seems to have suffered an unprecedented number of deaths from wildfires even in two thousand and seven when two and a half percent of greek territory went up in flames the death toll did not exceed sixty for those who have lost family members say no amount of money will bring them back. al-jazeera. mali's president abraham kayser has won reelection with sixty seven percent of the runoff vote his main rivals. see say got thirty three percent he has rejected the results and is valid to contest them voter turnout for the runoff was was low and some polling stations didn't open because of fears of violence. zimbabwe's opposition says the constitutional court will hear its challenge against president leningrad was election victory next wednesday the opposition leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged million

gallagher's integration has been postponed pending the ruling. in china for senior officials including a provincial deputy governor have been dismissed over a defective vaccine program one hundred eighty eight thousand children in cheyenne dong province have been given the injections which contained substandard medicine a grim drought 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 there's 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. aretha franklin's family have announced that her funeral will take place next week the legendary queen of soul died on thursday at the age of seventy six. in a career spanning six decades aretha created a string of hit records she won eighteen grammy awards and the u.s. presidential medal of freedom john hendren reports from franklin's hometown of detroit. in detroit aretha franklin was the diva next door outside her family's church friends and families hold vigil with flowers bellew's and the occasional busted move. inside where her saunders voice once reached the rafters she inspires spontaneous outbursts of song. so.

i have what's right here but she was like a sister to all of us or in art because. she was she was all of that we relish and glorified in a way that will and cherry. soprano rolling stone magazine calls the greatest singer ever leaves her hometown somber celebrating a presence who shone on stage and here at home. life when she walked into rhodes who just light up there will. see was a queen. the queen of soul it was here at new bethel bob's his church that c.l. franklin aretha franklin's father preached and it was at her father's church that she got her start singing in the choir it was a long before she was the star soloist here and eventually around the world.

the singer who could turn an old otis redding song about respect into an anthem about feminism and civil rights that helped define an era was remembered by the u.s. president but i want to begin today by expressing my condolences to the family of a person i knew well. she worked for hours occasion she was terrific or. that franklin on the passing. she was also mourned by the president she brought to tears barack obama and his wife michelle wrote in her voice we could feel our history all of it and in every shade our power and our pain our darkness and our light our quest for a dempsey and our hard won respect. around the world she is remembered on subways and theater marquees in a world where saw has lost its queen john hendren al jazeera detroit.

now for the next two weeks adult sing spectacular will color the origin tying capital by the side as the tango was born in the city back in the late nineteenth century and now the international trying to festival and world cup fans are competitors from around the world today is a bove reports. it is the dance music of when a scientist. and for two weeks the festival and world cup energizes the argentine capital. traveled from colombia to compete last year they came in third place this time they're hoping to make it to the top but. some must feel let me express what i feel is the most complete dumps and the most beautiful is the anything obama says best of all or something and it's an arch that helps you express what you're feeling if you're angry or sad or happy or in love you can express everything in

a stance. this is the world's most important tango competition almost seven hundred couples competing to win the cup it is here in the neighborhood of our tangle was born it is the place where the first born of one a side is was no k. did when thousands of immigrants arrive here in search of a better life and that's why many say that tango is full of sorrow because it expresses the feelings of those who had to leave everything behind in their home countries and the hardships they faced when they arrived. and they won the new one is the instrument at the heart of the sound of tangle first crafted for religious services in the nineteenth century germany it is now in tune with tango. has been playing it since he was a child and now it helps him make a living. as a coach and now but in the beginning it was persecuted because of the way it was

danced or what the songs meant a powerful opponents like the plus the catholic church on the military but slowly is what its place and now it is all it. says this time of the year is a period that held argentines pay tribute to the dance that has come to represent the moment picked already call us it is a historic moment because it's the time when we see how time goes nutrient so is opening up mixes with other musical cultures but we always look back to our historical references to continue to teach us and to keep us on the right path. a path that has come a long way since dangle was born but that continues to amaze arjan tines and foreigners alike. it is how will i just see that when our society has. time visiting over the top stories here at al-jazeera this morning the u.s.

is amounts a new task force to deal specifically with iran and same it says is to persuade terror government to change its ways secretary of state announce the new unit as the u.s. increases economic pressure on iran with the reimposition of sanctions. 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. former indian prime minister. has died at the age of ninety three he's been on life support since wednesday and died in hospital prize best known on the international stage for testing nuclear weapons in ninety ninety eight. the collapse of a bridge in general has focused attention on israelis aging infrastructure around seventy percent of israelis fifteen thousand major way bridges and tunnels are more than forty years old at least thirty eight people died in the general disaster an

investigation is on the way. a passenger plane has skidded off the runway whilst landing at manila's it was raining when the incident happened the boeing plane off rated by sherman airlines had flown from china one hundred fifty seven passengers and eight crew escaped using emergency slides the vatican has condemned the sexual abuse described in the report in the usa to pennsylvania as morally reprehensible a vatican spokesman said pope francis was with the victims the report detailed allegations of assaults on more than a thousand minors by those described as predator priests inside story is next as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises. someone says i'm staying. for the have to crash into a reality that usually gets. sent here america's take is from

a vice president talks to al-jazeera. mining has always been part of south africa's rich economic history but the sector is now shrinking companies are planning to cut thousands of jobs even as many struggled to find work so what impact will it have this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. south africa has some of the world's biggest reserves of platinum gold iron ore and coal but mining now makes up less than seven percent of its economic output a steep fall from twenty percent in the one nine hundred seventy s. companies are blaming low prices and soaring production costs for the decline mining is also.