just to make a living if you crash that might break your mirror or even kill you because a fruit is known for its roof from ideas to dust on al-jazeera. india says farewell to the late prime minister who oversaw his country's transition into a new class. choosing a new prime minister. is expected to be appointed pakistan's new leader. were committed to efforts to change the iranian regime's behavior. a new approach

the u.s. announces a plan to deal with iran after withdrawing from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal. it's really turns its attention to fear infrastructure following the bridge collapse. thousands of people of the paying tribute to former indian prime minister. by the head of his cremation in new delhi he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalist be j.p. . was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller policies to try to improve relations with pakistan but at the same time asserted india's nuclear power status by ordering tests when correspondent who's in new delhi andrew thomas and andrew said this is a huge figure in india's modern history.

state funeral is underway right now it's. the straits of. where there are hundreds of thousands of people. well went through security to get close to where that procession would pass and right now the reeds are being laid on the coffin we've had an arranger mody the current prime minister larry for his coffin manmohan singh has just laid one down from that cove in the president here so how many karzai afghan afghanistan's long term president is also laying flowers on the coffin there so soon the coffin will be taken to its final cremation spot and this prime minister will be laid to rest but as you say a major figure in indian politics he was the first prime minister to a full term he wasn't from the congress party he really brought the right of center b j p party from the fringe of indian politics right into the mainstream and of course with the renderer modi an all powerful figure now in indian politics very

much his successor. by was really his mentor his guru as an arranger mody called him here on friday and as a say he's about to be formally like tourist and how popular t.v. think he is at judging by the numbers of people have turned out because of course he was the first hindu nationalists b j p leader as you say and they're such mates in fairly contentious decision. he did say did not least the the decision to test nuclear weapons although the momentum had gone in that way under his predecessor so all he did early on was formally approved those tests and make india a nuclear power he was a popular leader while he was prime minister and his status has grown almost in the time since especially as indian politics has got that much more divisive the period

when he was prime minister was one of strong economic growth clearly india he oversaw a large infrastructure development program here particularly the building of brooch was popular on that score and this but the testing of nuclear weapons despite. a war with pakistan in one thousand nine hundred when he was prime minister he did try to build bridges with pakistan and it's symbolic and important i think that pakistan's were about to be prime minister iran plan has sent a very warm message to india early on friday saying that the death of really leaves a huge gap in the political arena of the sub continent i extend my sympathies to the people of india in their hour of grief imran khan said and he sent a delegation to the funeral again early on he's trying to show that he's not quite promised yet in pakistan but he will be very very soon. trying to show that he wants better relations with india but a very very big bigger lay to rest on friday ok andrew thomas live in new delhi thank you very much indeed and we will be talking

a little bit more about what's going on in pakistan a little bit later on in the program but first let's go to the south of india where carol is facing an extremely grave crisis that's according to the chief minister is monsoon rains back to the region at least one hundred sixty four people have been killed in the last two weeks and the damage has been described as the worst in almost a century furnace there has a latest i hundreds of soldiers have been sent to kerala to lead the rescue effort. thousands of people are stranded across the southern indian state at least two hundred twenty thousand people have sought refuge in relief camps. hundreds of homes have been swallowed by floodwater. north and central carola have been worst hit by the floods but the entire state is on red alert as heavy rain is predicted for several days if you have a fresh spell of flags inundating i got

a vast areas. we have deployed our forces over there in seven districts. the government says ten thousand kilometers of perilous roads have been destroyed. the international airport is flooded and have been temporarily closed. monsoon rains are a fact of life in india but these are the heaviest since one hundred twenty four millions of dollars worth of crops have been washed away. indian prime minister narendra modi says he's praying for the safety and well being of the people of councillor bernard smith. members of pakistan's palm intimating in islamabad they're expected to endorse him around calm as the next prime minister his policy became the largest in the national assembly after an election last month that some in the opposition disputed is expected to be officially sworn in on saturday let's go live to islamabad course when there's come all some people are describing this assuming that

a man calm sea official nomination becomes prime minister some people are describing this is the start of a new era to pakistani politics the end of the dentist is. our. tradition have been wiped out many strong. roots for several decades have been defeated gave a new party an oval for decades. and then leading. back in one thousand nine hundred by imran khan has scored the largest number of ward in the election right now word it happening in their desperation a session of parliament and already underway and they will be two within the leader of the opposition. candidate. the younger brother. however there are divisions within the opposition groups. otherwise you'd have been

a close fight because emraan khan's party did not get the necessary kemper the majority however he had been able to get the board of d.m. dependent he is going to be getting the kind of warfare do you need one hundred sixty to take the minimum required which he will be able to get confidently because a major part on people's party led by bennett did. had decided. they were left from the ward and out of god. and in a very clear majority of costs a simple majority a day him by the majority that he will need to become the prime minister that decision. in the next couple of hours once the awarding is completed and the counting and go. live in the capital islamabad thanking.

us as an allison you toss fools to deal specifically with iran that says it's to persuade terence government to change its ways secretary of state might pump ala now thirty new unit as the u.s. increases economic pressure by reimposing sanctions now earlier this year the u.s. withdrew from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal describing it as decaying into russia . 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. person 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 long standing economic ties to terror on when 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 brian hall 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 beggars 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 refuse to have a field thinking through the rubble in genoa to choose days bridge collapse at least fifty eight people were killed hundreds more were injured and the government is now focusing its attention on its aging bridges and tunnels some of which are more than forty years old that's actually about to has more from genoa. well the prosecutor here in genoa says there are all still ten to twenty people missing and that is why emergency workers hundreds of them and fire fighters have been trying

to sift through the rubble at the scene best still having to try and shift these huge concrete slabs which fell to the bridge collapsed on tuesday using heavy machinery then they are going in with their bare hands using sniff adults to try and see if there are any signs of life as the hours and days paulson cools hopes are diminishing but they could still be somebody trapped in an pocket they could have survived this long emergency workers saying that is why they are continuing their work and say they will not give up until that certain that there is nobody left now the country will be united in mourning on saturday they will be a state funeral state ceremony here in genoa attended by families of the victims and also by the prime minister and various officials but several families have actually said that they will be holding private funerals and ceremonies for their loved ones this is of course a moment of great grief and sadness for them and what's been emerging over the past few days are really several engineers structural engineers who've come out and said

the problem is there could be tens of thousands or up to ten thousand i should say bridges and tunnels across italy all risk because in the sixty's and seventy's there was a building boom there was a lot of corruption substandard concrete was being used so there are now questions over the safety of the infrastructure across the country not just bridges and tunnels i should say but also buildings municipal buildings like schools the government says it will be inspecting all those bridges and tunnels it will be a big job and whether or not that would be enough to calm people's fear is here in italy remains to be seen. a passenger plane has skidded off the runway during heavy rain mof landing at manila's airport in the philippines the plane operated by shell men airlines had flown from china one hundred fifty seven passengers eight crew members they all escaped using emergency slides no injuries have been reported so far to come here at al-jazeera including. yes it's time to

tango at a festival celebrating the south american downs and opens in the argentine capital . and we look at the fallout from a vaccine scandal that has raised fears a for the safety of drugs in china. alone welcome back to international weather forecasts or we did have one tropical storm make its way onshore here just close to shanghai you can see the clouds right there rotating that storm is still going to be producing quite a bit of heavy rain over the next few days even though the storm system is going to be really starting to dissipate you can see here on saturday making its way up here towards the northwest towards beijing so temperatures beijing starting at thirty degrees as that rain pushes then we are going to see beijing dropping down to temperatures with heavy rain pushing through with the temperature for you of about

twenty three degrees there making our way down towards the south we are looking at our number weather system that did make landfall here in parts of vietnam you can see all those clouds right there really that system is also going to start to dissipate but hanoi on the edge of that we're going to be seeing some of clouds few but over the next few days that system is going to continue to make its way towards the west yangon heavy rain in your forecast as well with the temperature there of about twenty eight degrees and aunts on sunday towards the end of the weekend that system starts to make its way towards the bay of bengal and then over here towards parts of the south well heavy rain is expected across the south island of the philippines but as make the way down here towards the south java looking quite nice with partly cloudy conditions and a temperature view of about thirty three degrees. they set sail for gold. but discovered a resource worth more than its way even be. driven by commerce

enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charts the birth of the rise of the african slave trade mapping your history at the street if you managed to for all the gold in the world want to just go. these are the top stories. thousands of people have been paying tribute to the former indian prime minister after all. ahead of his cremation in new delhi this is the scene live there he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalist the

j.p. and he transformed india into a nuclear power loss in office. members of pakistan's parliament are meeting in islamabad they're expected to endorse him as the next prime minister his party that became the largest in the national assembly after an election last month that some in the opposition disputed specter to be officially sworn in on saturday. and the u.s. has announced a new task force to deal specifically with iran it says it's to persuade terror owns government to change its ways secretary of state might announce the new unit as the u.s. increases economic pressure with more sanctions. now the u.s. has suggested that most sanctions could be turkey amid the continuing dispute between these nato allies the. centers on angers refusal to release the u.s. pastor whom turkey accuses of espionage and terror related activities is led to an

overall weakening of turkey's currency although the lira has rallied in recent days we can go live. in istanbul and sagna with president trump's recent tweets it seems yet again that the fate of this american pastor is central to turkey's currently crisis well indeed and president trump seems to be employing the similar type of rhetoric that he has done in other disputes for example saying that turkey hasn't been a very good friend and that turkey has taken advantage of the united states as well over the years and in response to this the foreign minister said that the u.s. didn't necessarily know who its friends were during this crisis but that turkey was committed to trying to find some kind of resolution to this interesting enough also the chinese foreign ministry said on friday that it really believed that turkey

could and do the u.s. could resolve this diplomatically as well and that it said that believe that turkey could weather this storm and that it would be just a temporary blip were they to go ahead and resolve this diplomatically as well but it all comes really after this very tumultuous time as well the finance minister also on thursday did try to reassure investors that this was something that turkey could ride out as well and that's thanks in part also to the. investment the direct investment made by cattle pledged earlier this week as well martin indeed confidence is everything isn't it when it comes to currencies a markets all things economic it's really a stormy week as you said how does the turkish lira look today. well after rallying recently off to the front of the pledge by cats are as well it has taken an eighty seven percent.