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stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. in life from super fourteen headquarters and. welcome to the newsgroup unrelenting rain corps and more misery on parts of southern india that are in the grip of the worst floods in one hundred years at least one hundred sixty people are dead more than two hundred thousand are sheltering in relief camps survivors are making panic stricken calls for help on social media saying they can't get through to rescue services also on the grid a turkish court rejects another appeal to free a us whose detention appears to be at the center of
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a major diplomatic crisis the standoff has sent turkey's currency into a tailspin and neither it nor washington looks like they'll blink any time soon we're live in istanbul too vague or not to vague that is the question being debated yet again as british politicians push for cigarettes to be promoted as a way to quit smoking their reports found a thing is much safer than lighting up but other research has raised big questions about the long term health effects well ask a professor and supposes americans are musician times politician have a social media campaign to free. he was arrested by the government i'm sort of. not story i'm ok you can say it's us on live comments on facebook throughout the. year that is good we're live on air we're streaming online for you to facebook.
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thanks for joining us we begin with the latest wave of flooding in southern india which has killed at least one hundred sixty four people and that's pushed the monsoon death toll in carolus states almost three hundred and thirty there the worst flood seen there for one hundred years more than two hundred twenty thousand people are celts ring and fifteen hundred relief camps are in it smith begins our coverage. hundreds of soldiers have been sent to caroline 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 don't know vast areas we have deployed our
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forces over there in seven districts. the government says ten thousand kilometers a 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 canada but it's made al-jazeera let's get an update with parvin they're saying he's the communications manager for the international red cross in india he's joining us via skype from new delhi thanks for joining us so could this death toll of one hundred sixty four actually be much higher where with people trapped. hello good evening as the situation on the ground is in an appalling state and as rains have
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predicted it would have weakened as well the death toll can go up and currently we're sticking with the tools that the state disaster management authority has put out and the increase in the number of dead. kind of has been reduced rate over the last two three days particularly as the flood situation keeps getting grim we are on the ground is extending rescue and relief and also really closely working with state authorities in last. week or so the flood water has been persisting and that's creating a lot of kind of panic among people who are struck or are on places where they're hard to reach under a little who are stuck and hard to read as you're saying a lot of people trapped in their villages how are you reaching those flooded areas yourself as well as other organizations on the ground. right so one of the things that i want to bring to your notice is that the relief efforts and rescue efforts
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have really gained momentum over the last forty eight hours in particular with army navy air force and the are appear to be national disaster. relief workers basically stepping in and trying to warn and the figure of people being airlifted their images into should media and state updates have been streaming but the nature of these floods as was highlighted in the report that you ran just before. being in this one of the worst in the last hundred years it's just it's truly overwhelming that fourteen districts of carolus state are in a state of alert not i mean the magnitude of this calamity is fairly large and that is really stretching all the relief efforts and let's give her that are going in more and really her cast over the next few days this might mean that the situation will get much worse yes it is likely to get worse and so is the response being scaled up and the prime minister is expected to take an aerial
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survey. to assess the situation this comes on the back of an earlier visit as well the entire nation is practically getting up to extend relief and part of the challenge is to not only focus on rescue and relief human day to produce needed but also to be able to reach out in those camps that are there to assess the situation on the ground of what is needed long term because people have been in the camp for a week or more and from there will be better in the camps right now what are their most important needs what are their priorities right now what is being afforded to them. the infrastructure has been badly affected so there is a destruction of drinking water supply the various in the camps need for dry clothes basic amenities sanitary napkins medical kits and we. need to be items including food which is being expended as well and in the camps also order period
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of time there will be i'm sure there's housman done in terms of what's needed for alerting any kind of situation which opens when you stand down for long or right apartment are saying we thank you for giving us the update from new delhi if you had to al-jazeera dot com we certainly are covering this story extensively as you can see right there the link india carola floods death toll reaches one hundred sixty four and you'll find other weather news on al-jazeera dot com just click on the more tab. if you have any comments or questions about so what you've seen or any of the stories you will see on the news where you can send your comments to any one of our online platforms we're on twitter use the hostile gaijin news grid our handle is a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash al-jazeera you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram a plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine let's check in on gaza that's where we're hearing at least two palestinian protesters have been
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wounded during another round of protests on friday the gaza health ministry says hospitals are preparing to take in more injured people they've been demonstrating since march they're calling for their right to return to lands their families were forced to leave like picture is as you can see from gaza coming into us right now and that is where our charles stratford is joining us from what are you seeing charles. well this is one of five locations along the border where protests are ongoing today large crowds here. we have just actually a few minutes ago come from one of the medical treatment tents that we weren't able to bring you live pictures from but certainly distressing scenes in their wounded being brought in all the time one man we saw a bullet so the doctor said alive bullet it passed through both his legs also people they're being treated for gas inhalation we understand from the gazan
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ministry of health that at least forty people have been injured so far the softer noon and of course these protests have been going on now for twenty one weeks but this particular one this week comes off a few days of relative calm we saw earlier in the week that there were restrictions lifted on the only commercial crossing with israel here in gaza that was opened by the israelis and they were also restrictions lifted for an area that. spy indeed area for which the fishermen can operate but certainly today the numbers here of these protests are very big in the big concern is is that of course anything deemed as a provocation by both sides could destroy what i say can only be described as relative calm in recent days and those reports emerge off a potential agreement charles between israel and hamas what are we learning about what exactly is in that agreement and how is it going to be implemented.
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well certainly there are reports in the israeli and some of the arab media of some sort of agreement having been fleshed out of days indeed weeks of negotiations negotiations that are being but basically. looked after by the egyptians and at the u.n. now we understand in holding to these media reports that an agreement has been made that could well look at a long term cease fire there's also discussion certainly these reports of infrastructure being rebuilt in gaza using foreign funding and a lot of focus also on potential prisoner exchanges but as i say so far there has been no independent or no confirmation from hamas or any of the armed factions that we understand are in cairo at the moment there's certainly been no word from the israeli side but of course if this agreement is being put together as i say it's
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days like this of heightened tension in gaza where we see these protests every week protests that hamas say these people have every right to continue making then of course there is there is a risk of all the provocation of something happening that say either side deem serious enough to potentially start another escalation so it is tense here these protests are ongoing but as i say they come after a few days of relative calm ok safir thank you for that update that is the scene from gaza we're hearing at least two palestinian testers so far been wounded and if you had to al jazeera dot com under the trending tab you'll find a gaza tab if you click on it will bring you to this page with all the latest news on and from gaza itself. imran khan has been indoors to become pakistan's new prime minister members of parliament voted one hundred seventy six to ninety six in favor of khan who is it
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a headache and soft party now has the most seats his swearing in is planned for a saturday morning con is seeking to draw a line under elections that were overshadowed by allegations of military manipulation and media crackdowns. the first thing we will do is crack down on corruption i promise you in front of god that whoever stole from this country and burdened. i won't get a single one of them. are covering the story joining us from islamabad and imran khan was speaking just a short time ago what more did he have to say was the reaction to what he said. dead particular session of the assembly ward marred by strong fraud by the pakistan muslim league now was led by shahbaz sharif. had decided that day were have a united candidate against them ron khan by dad the last minute. difference
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and that of course led to down people's party. from the war doing giving emraan kron a clear john three. run cons party had already made in line with independent candidates and like minded parties had their number of course saying that he will be big on the accountability king that day young people of pakistan have been paul were dim and id really deliver of course. but there are huge challenges ahead the country's economy is in bad shape and iran has to also contend with challenges on the foreign policy eleven relations read of one is don nor diamond all relations with india. so of course it will be important to see what kind of politics this particular government is able to come out great however the
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challenges are great and emraan of course has promised to deliver he's come out with one hundred day plan third will be important to see where they hear the able to live up to its promises now that he has been chosen the prime minister of pakistan while i have you with us let me just ask you to look ahead to saturday morning and not swearing in ceremony for con what should we look out for what do we expect to see. well the very many the old taking certainly going to be more a ceremonial affair added ward the biggest challenge he faces today with the opposition making all that noise that is expected to go smoothly he were left god then go what they read of control in a country where political instability runs high security challenges and of course the security john and james have to be met head on if it is going to be progress on the economic front the country needs to borrow more money from international
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lenders and of course also on because of the loan from the i.m.f. which are not being ruled out so. many challenges rating for the people of pakistan of course are expecting dad or did for change and they of course really also be keeping a close eye on this new board to reject their mosher for decades because before that it was their traditional health rail what the pakistani political system there is a new party in iran has admitted their deeds does not have the experience. to quiet however you had the support of the young people i need to have a good cabinet someone who can deliver interesting times for budgets done and of course i mentioned earlier huge challenges ok thank you meanwhile a court in pakistan has issued an arrest warrant for the former president zardari
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it's part of an ongoing probe involving a multi-billion dollar money laundering scam zardari has been ordered to be arrested he must appear in a karate court by september the fourth aka stands federal investigation agency is looking into thirty two people in relation to money laundering from fictitious accounts between the years twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen the money is said to be gathered from kickbacks commissions and rights. a turkish court has refused to release an american pastor who seem to be at the center of an escalating diplomatic and trade spat between the two countries andrew brunson is under house arrest on terrorism charges and is banned from traveling as the standoff over his fate goes on the trump administration is threatening to impose more sanctions provoking similar threats from turkey well trump has just spoken here's what he had to say. he's been a problem for a long time they have not acted as
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a friend we'll see what happens they have a wonderful christian has. a wonderful then that's the bronx and they made up this phony yard by adding now to. going through a drought right down to golden brown they should've given his background a long time ago and turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly so we haven't seen the land that we are not going to take it down they can't take our people so you will see what happens all right let's speak to sonny gave us he's joining us from istanbul covering the story and first tell us what more is being said from the turkish side about this decision by the court to reject a brunson's appeal for release. well what is being done is that it's really. high court and is mere aware pastor
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andrew bronson is the city where he's being held in house arrest he is the high court has upheld the decision from the lower court in is and has also struck down any request for there to be a lifting of the travel ban which was put upon him as well his lawyer in turn has said that they will try the appeal again the same court and has even hinted that they might even try to appeal to the country's constitutional court with the with this case but really it just is more and more of a of affirming of intrenchments of both sides really as this war of words continues it's been dissipating like this for months and has spawned a an economic crisis as well here in this country with a devaluing of the lira which is only stabilized this week but really it's put the relationship between these two allies in
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a very precarious situation of course not forgetting that while mr trump is coming out with these very tough words as well it is benefiting him in the sense that it is actively calling out to his evangelical base in the sense one of his major support sectors that so it really does. play into that and in the meantime as well turkey is giving out the impression that it's not going to give into this and that there needs to be some kind of diplomatic resolution to this something which has been echoed by other countries as well who have called for the u.s. to not be so harsh or not to use such tough language and to resolve things diplomatically ok sonia thank you for that update from istanbul and sara turks are hitting social media to send their own methods to the trumpet ministration what are they doing. i have been doing in a very unusual way with hammers in fact while they've been doing is posting videos
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like this one of them destroying mostly their own i phones it's their way they say of showing solidarity with the turkish government which is announce a boycott of all a minute american electronics some smashing their i phone to smithereens is not enough in fact taking their boycott just that one step. like this man here who decided to chop up several one dollar bills into pieces as his way of sending a message to the us. and this young lads hey he's getting in on the action as well this kid said a video of himself pouring an entire bottle of coca-cola down the toilet. now some people are suggesting the poor should actually go global one of those is the ads he says it's time for pakistan to get its own boards but on the other hand you have the neo who believes the campaign is hypocritical he's calling out the posting their boycott videos on social media through using their i phone i phone rather android and windows as well and someone here this is. lena she points out
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that the turkish president has long been news thing apple products himself in fact he made international headlines when he addressed the entire country he done that through face time during the twenty sixteen failed coup and there's a couple of pictures there of him on his i phone and not one that him using an apple mac now regard this the biggest when a hit is actually the turkish phone make a vessel it shares have spiked off to present rest a gun suggested vestal fines instead of i phones. they can see where it's just picked up just that on the end so kids g g think this boycott is purely about economics maybe you've also posted your invidious to get in such as the hash tag is aging. sara thank you and you heard sonia was talking about the currency just a moment ago in our online team has put together a breakdown of the causes and effects of turkey's currency crisis turkey or crisis six things you need to notes on the front page of al-jazeera dot com. hundreds of
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google employees have written a letter to protest against the company's plan to build a sensor friendly search engine to get back into china so that secret plan was revealed earlier this month called project dragon fly the search engine will apparently filter content banned in china to meet strict censorship rules the letter you can see right there on your screen signed by fourteen hundred google employees demands more transparency from management so they can understand the moral implications off their work let's get some perspective speak to him meyer as he is the c.e.o. of newspapers that's an information platform that offer us company and industry and alice says he's joining us from new york thanks for speaking to us so will this protest this letter that's been written by google employees make a difference at all i think a lot of people are comparing the letter to what happened a few months ago when it came out that google was working on defense contracts
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around using their ai software for militarization bourbons and then honestly i think this is going to have a very different effect from that so if you look at back to the walk back those contracts they said ok we'll listen to our employees or we're not going to do this now i think what's being protested here in this letter is really the transparency through which google kept this it secret from their own employees who were working on it and didn't really realize they were working on something as controversial as this but i think ultimately google's going to proceed with it because it's a problem opportunity and long as they're transparent about it it seems the employees aren't as opposed to it as they were the defense contractor but here's the thing google has not commented publicly on this project the secret project i mean they haven't denied it but they haven't really said anything about it so are we sure that they are actually going ahead with this. we're not sure and even if they were to do this it would take many years i think this is something that you can't do overnight and they'd only recently i mean relative or at least in the cold
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out of china because of concern they were censoring search and affecting the legitimacy of their product there so i think if they do this it's going to take some time and eventually especially after this letter we should hear more from google management types soon publicly does this set some sort of presidents and for other companies that will say well if google is now back in china then we can get back into china as well i think google's pretty special here if they if they have actually come to an arrangement with the chinese government i mean if anything i wanted to set a precedent for employee vocalization i mean we had commenters on the story today saying one of them had sold this company to google and it worked there for ten years saying this is what really makes you special is that these employees can speak up and management listens to their concerns i would imagine all of the major tech companies have plans to get into china but without this kind of transparency within the organization we're not going to hear about so that is that's going to set a precedent for employee vocalisation and transparency going forward for other companies
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absolutely i hope so this is got an amazing coverage from all over the internet not all of the major publications and i think it's a really great example of how boys should feel when they're working especially at bickley in software development on projects like this all right and myers thank you for speaking to us from new york. thanks let's now take a look at what else is making news around the world and the u.s. has imposed sanctions on two of me and mars infantry dishes divisions excuse me for human rights abuses the u.s. treasury department says the sanctions are part if a broader strategy so hold accountable those responsible for a wide scale assault on hinge on minorities since the military crackdown in rakhine state last year more than seven hundred thousand rippin just have fled to bangladesh the un has likened the situation to ethnic cleansing well the u.s. is putting together a task force that will deal specifically with iran secretary of state says it's
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part of efforts to get iran's government to quote change its ways after america withdrew from the nuclear deal and re imposed sanctions our hope is that one day soon we can reach a new agreement with iran but we must see major changes in the regimes behavior both inside and outside of its borders the vatican has condemned these sex abuse described in a report in the u.s. state of pennsylvania as quote morally reprehensible a spokesman says pope francis is on the victims' side their reports laid out graphic accounts of assaults on more than a thousand minors by priests described as predators it also suggested there could be thousands more spanning a seventy year period women in the paul are marching on the streets against a proposed law they say would make them second class citizens if passed the bill would make it much harder for single mothers and rape victims to pass on the poll citizenship to their children sabina shrestha is at that protest in katmandu.
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i mean that's abuse of the not done for all good and i think that the party state recognizes them as equal citizens where there is a bill having a debate in the parliament right now which to my own starts women have to know the identity of the father as a mere college citizen in order for their children to be in the house that had held the only other thing is to say that the woman doesn't know who the identity of the father was i could travel sites like this. i'm not going to say that when i don't know what i was close well when i do not prove that the mother of the children is the cause of the law they should women should not give that up either and because the preamble have told us that. they are going to be better
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because of those who sponsor a child. there are no through their child so that's why we will cannot be much greater second class citizens of this country. out of their lives than if you're watching us on facebook live in a moment you're about to see this shocking impact that synthetic drugs are having on one u.s. city and later in the program hoping for a miracle rescuers refused to give up on finding survivors three days after the italy bridge collapse back in a moment thank you. hello and welcome back to international weather forecasts we're going to start this hour here across parts a lot of our we are looking at fairly dry conditions across much of the area but the term chairs are very very warm across the region look at this baghdad at forty
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four degrees on saturday down towards quaint city we expect to see a high temperature a few of forty eight degrees and that really doesn't change too much as we go into sunday and i think as we go towards the beginning of the week we may even see some a dust starting to build up so lower visibilities are going to be in your forecast as we begin into monday and into tuesday as well down here across much of the arabian peninsula clouds down here towards the south across parts of yemen as well as into southern parts of all man as well we do expect to see so well at a temperature of twenty six degrees and up towards the scot a little bit better at about thirty to temperatures moderating there but doha we expect to see a temperature on sunday of about forty two degrees for you there and then very quickly down towards the southern portions of africa we are going to see a funnel system make its way towards cape town you can see those clouds right there on the satellite that will continue up here towards the north east and we do expect to see rain coming into the forecast over the next couple days for durban you can see those clouds right there where the temperature there of seventy degrees in cape
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the most read articles on al-jazeera dot com right now are on your screen you can head there to read more of the day's top stories and all the other headlines on al-jazeera dot com. well thousands of mourners scored the coffin of the three time prime minister atal bihari pay through the indian capital showering his body in rose petals before his cremation he was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with several smaller parties huge political figure in india what's the scuttle like on line well as you can imagine it's been trending certainly yesterday and today as well tributes have been pouring in like this one which about to save a guy it says he connected rivers he connected roads he connected political leaders and today he connected all people now and then she is also someone from
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a comment about who tweeted a formidable force who laid the foundations of twenty first century india he inspired an entire population and there's also been a lot of indians have been pointing out how much pride he was winding respected not just by his photos but also by his opponents in fact politicians from opposition parties like rahul gandhi he wrote today india lost a great son he was loved and respected by millions we will miss him now other then a small delegation from pakistan leaders from asian countries attending the funeral include the tans king the afghan president foreign ministers from their policy lanka and bangladesh as well and also as a mark of respect the union jack has been flat flying hoff mosques and that the british high commission in new delhi and also the u.s. embassy was doing exactly the same but other people have been showing other ways of playing their tribute and their love for vajpayee one step further they took it like this person hey who's a sand artist and he he posted pictures of the sand formation that he created
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just then and now while for many days death is a huge loss there off course those who want to remind others of his handling of the rise in two thousand and two tweets and for example hey that. is being can. nies in india some sort of moderate but he says he insights of the neti mask a spoke of leveling the ground and the other way on and he adds that neurons him and he inherited the country left behind another person who so wanted to highlight that was our irene she says indians get swayed by personalities they use their use of words and style they overlook crude shapes she says of the person they hold in or much pride in nothing to stop good riots again that was coming up and he justified and blamed muslims here find quotes in a most his hardline politics that gives you no idea of the thoughts coming sesame out of india but want to know what you think you can get in touch with us on
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several social media platforms including facebook twits attack graham and now instagram just search for the hash tag a.j. news gets well for more on his life and legacy you can also have to al-jazeera dot com more than a long sought it would be closer to a miracle but italian firefighters lifting away tons of rubble from the genoa bridge collapse haven't given up hope of finding someone alive three days after the disaster that's killed at least thirty eight people attention is also turning to aging bridges tunnels and other infrastructure elsewhere in italy david chaytor joining us from genoa why that rescue operation still ongoing what can you tell us about the latest on the. the latest reports of are there anything between ten or twenty people who are still reported missing and while those reports continue that rescue work behind me will continue
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but of course as every hour that passes the hopes begin to fade that they'll find anyone alive buried and then tuned in such a way to have concrete above them nevertheless they have removed a large span of concrete that fell into that river bed behind me and that allows the rescue teams with their sniffer dogs to pick through the rubble looking for a safe space that might have been created by the tangle of wreckage where somebody still might be alive but no more reports of anybody being found dead or alive at the moment as i say they're not giving up hope there is a possibility of a miracle we've seen before in earthquakes in many other tragedies the days after most people would have given up people have been rescued alive from such trouble so that's why they continue to work it's dangerous it's difficult it's exhausting in this heat in the sun and they're working through the night but they're not giving
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up hope yet and nobody else in this city was to give up that hope either and we understand that some of the families have indeed gone ahead and. the dead but others are boycotting official ceremony. that's right something like seventeen of the thirty eight families involved in the funerals on the the day of mourning officially declared on saturday are boycotting all the ceremonies they are outraged and so angry by what they see as government negligence in this case and that they will not take part in any official ceremonies laid on by the government as a result of that negligence so still a bitter feeling among many of the families here the private funerals have been taking place today outside of the gaze of the media but on saturday there will be a state mourning and a day of mourning and then there will be unique g.'s expressions of of comfort and
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sympathy for those who have lost their family members in this horrific accident but we were speaking to the mayor of genoa today marco butchie and he said something remarkable he said that what these tragedies show is that somehow they can be an opportunity as well and he smiled and said the government was sending more money to genoa now that does seem to implicate does extraordinary distance between the officials in this city and the government and the suffering of the people here on the ground so perhaps you can understand why so many of those families don't want anything to do with that state of mourning that's going to occur in genoa on saturday david chaytor thank you well very pink is so much better for people than smoking that is cigarettes should be freely advertised as
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a way to help people quit that's according to a u.k. parliamentary report which also recommends that doctors be able to prescribe medically licensed cigarettes lawrence lee has the details. so no denying the popularity of a ping in the cigarettes nowadays 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 spoking 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
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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 rape that surrounds some people who do but we mustn't confuse that with. public risk in the way that we know cigarettes cause risks secondary smoke ng 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
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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. their advice is that these cigarettes less home full 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 all right so let's not speak to moon chong tang he's a professor of professor of environmental medicine at n.y.u. school of medicine so he's joining us from new york we'll talk about the american research professor in just a moment but first do you support this research that's come out of the u.k. that the parliamentary report saying they ping is so much better for people than smoking. i disagree why is that i don't suppose that well they saw no experiment with
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both tobacco smoke and she very small two they're exposed to both smoking two to mice and we've found that they produce a similar effect namely induce a d.n.a. damage that is similar type of d.n.a. damage also the d.n.a. repair mechanism so our congress says that both work harmful so then you certainly wouldn't support the recommendation from that u.k. parliamentary report that says that encourages a ping on buses and trains and in public spaces no i don't suppose that ok is a very dangerous such as ok well let me ask you about research that comes out of the u.s. for example because federal health officials have said that there is ample concern a cause for concern about young people newly lured to nicotine and chemicals found
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in vaporing yes you have a public health england which says there is no evidence that east cigarettes are a gateway into smoking for young people why are there such conflicting statements. i don't know exactly but from what i know is that. look around that in there the university kember ceasar and in their great it's a very popular is a one of the best so i tim showed that really concern me because what this told me to. the students smoke a lot and. this crazy is that. this science is not where well down because in the u.k. study i think is has shot up its dowdy you seen it detect it the entire media but nicotine. into. it. into
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a medium it operates well and that is not really a final lesson on one of the points that you raised just for the sake of time because there is the more interview that there isn't much research done or not enough research done to understand the full effect of cigarettes and they pings do you agree well they they result of coming out now i think. the u.k.e. of the show should to look at their data base on a particular the publication just the recent property in the pin as and to paper side by side about the tobacco smoke and each seacrest small and their effect so i think of the u.k. . should read. people very very carefully all right we thank you moon song tang for a speaking to us from new york. four ugandan opposition leaders about thirty of
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their supporters are being tried in a military court most of them the cues of treason so they were arrested on choose there while campaigning sparking a fierce reaction on twitter what are people saying sorry well as people in uganda are always tweeting a lot but they're particularly angry at the musician turned politician robot sentamu here is one of the opposition figures who's been arrested if that thing doesn't ring a bell then his bets and then by his stage name be wind. but so that would mean this is. both a one cause as afrobeat music and edutainment educational and statement one of his first ever hits was a song about personal hygiene then he turned his attention to corruption thirty six year old was elected to parliament last year and wants to even run for president
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now he's an outspoken critic of yo way to survive any whose rules you can't see since one thousand nine hundred eighty six now the wine is accused of weapon offenses but his supporters say arrest is based on trumped up charges now jeffrey who is jeffrey smith is an african analyst and he posted that the government is what he calls the place the winds genuine popularity now he senses a video idea expounding on the thoughts. like much of africa uganda is facing we're really amounts to a generational power shift particularly for the youth in the country president who seventy has been in power for thirty two years longer than most ugandans have actually been alive so when dictatorships feel threatened they lash out at their critics they lash out at opposition leaders and activists and that the independent media we're seeing that play out in uganda today and i think it really amounts to
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a tinderbox situation tensions continue to rise in the regime becomes increasingly more autocratic and brazen in their brutality now uganda's army says it's making sure the wine is given the attention and care he needs but many don't believe that an online campaign has been known to the hashtag three bobby wine it's been used more than fifty thousand times just in the last twenty four hours and as you can see the story has also spread outside of uganda. now me going i'm going to is a prominent opposition leader from kenya and he's used the hash tag as well encouraging people to revolt against all tyrants and this is one of the most shanked tweets it says saying all of africa once will be wind free to as a loss of so the dark see that now watch groups have long criticized uganda's right right right it's human rights record honesty specifically watching this case saying will be one and the others arrested should be tried civilian courts not a military court what do you think about that's what's
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a campaign and rights groups can do you think they can get him released that's a snail thought so hostile. sarah thank you will joe will be here in just a moment to tell us what's trending in sports she'll explain how a top footballer has pushed through a change to tennis and oldest competition the davis cup players pasta and present aren't too happy about it that stories coming up right after a check off the world weather stay with us.
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well there's a big argument taking place in tennis right now and joe is here to tell us about it yes daryn that is right it's all to do with the sports oldest international men's tournament the davis cup it's been around for one hundred nineteen years but on thursday the people who run the sport the international tennis federation voted for a radical revamp and that's upset play is past and present on the plus side the prize money will be a grand slam level which should entice the top players and it's perhaps more t.v. friendly a bit like a world cup of tennis they would say but five federations voted against the overhaul those who great britain the usa australia france and germany have all been
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multiple winners of the tournament say it changes the competition completely so right now one hundred thirty two countries competes in the davis cup over the course of the year with sixteen playing in the top tier world group in a straight knockout from next year just twenty four countries will play in qualifying with eighteen going through to the end of year competition then they will play a round robin format a knockout round over the course of a week and here's the kicker the changes have been brought in by a footballer bos'n a defender gerard piqué is the founder of the investment group who tied up the three billion dollars deal. and very proud of my team. of course not in the end they're saying everything thank you very much to all the nations that have voted in favor and the ones that have voted against who have tried to prove.
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that we can deliver three to the readers competition ever in tennis in the next twenty five years ok so apart from people asking why a footballer is messing with the format of a tennis competition there's also plenty of talk of player burn out because it's all happening at the end of a long season not joke of it and rough around the dow had previously backed the new format but the head of germany's tennis federation the six time grand slam champion boris becker posted this on twitter loss of words about the decision today hash tag davis cup australia is davis cup captain lleyton hewitt says sometimes it's more than a game more than money most of my biggest highs and toughest losses came in five set epic davis cup matches he calls the change a disgrace and french tennis star new cap who helped his country to win the davis
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cup last year had previously said he boycott the tournament if the revamp went ahead and of course it did and he says it's a shame for tennis but former american player marty fish says the davis cup wasn't working and needed a retooling let's just see how it works a world cup of tennis seems pretty cool to me now he's got some interesting replies if you want to go and check them out or meanwhile athletes of the asian games are bracing change the tournament begins on saturday with ten new sports plus we've also seen basket diplomacy in action between north and south korea a unified women's team played this second much earlier on friday this time raising to taiwan and over to. time but it follows in the footsteps of the women's ice hockey team at the winter olympics earlier in the year combined teams are also compete in canoeing and rowing the asian games of the world's second largest sports
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event after the olympics with fourteen thousand athletes taking part from forty five asian countries those athletes will compete in four hundred sixty two metal events across forty seven sports ten of which are new to the asian games including jet skiing bridge and e-sports into the just capital has also undergone change to a cleanup of sorts but air pollution is still a big problem a step for us and reports. indonesia a country better known for its diverse culture and for its sports. asian games are the largest event ever organized what and fourteen thousand athletes are arriving in the congested capital jakarta and in the city of palembang the center of yearly forest fires stadiums have been built and renovated and city centers have undergone a transformation this is what visitors will see when they look up the air quality index just three days before the opening of the games show unhealthy levels they do
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sign up when beijing was hosting the olympics manisha lower air pollution by decreasing the number of cars and closing down factories and its main china relatively better air quality intercut environmental issues are not a priority especially a quality the government puts the economy first air pollution has been called a silent killer in the indonesian capital with figures in two thousand and ten showing that fifty seven percent of its people suffer from respiratory diseases but indonesian at least seem unfazed having to compete against countries like china or japan which have won the most medals at previous games they say they have other worries like eighteen year old runner lalo mohammed story who last month surprised many by becoming the world champion at the under twenty hundred meter sprint in finland young against a lot of shopping mentality i need to mentally prepare myself because at the asian games i will be up against athletes that are all older than me and very experience
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. in the media is aiming for sixteen gold medals especially in new sports events like bridge jet skiing roller skating and martial arts while indonesia is gearing up to what is promised to be a spectacular opening of the asian games on saturday the country wants to show the world it's capable of organizing such a big event having less time to prepare after vietnam withdrew as a. host not everything is quite ready at. the athletes' villages near an area where a polluted river spread to fold smell instead of cleaning it ahead of the games it is covered by in that and it's mouth unsuccessfully treated with chemicals are those are complaining about logistical problems making it hard to reach the venues on time if you gave her the bomb to ensure games are very important for our mission important for asia the energy of issues being portrayed here that's why we have a speeded up the building of venue so the people of asia who are coming will be
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happy and proud. indonesia hosted the asian games for the first time in one thousand nine hundred sixty two then this still young nation built this welcome statue one of the city's landmarks fifty six years later it will once again welcome athletes even if it's sometimes hard to see because of the polluted air step fasten al-jazeera check after it of course share your photos using the hash tag a.j. news great or tweet me at joe cash with payton the eight hundred g.m.t. news out there for now i'll hand you about to deranged joe thank you before we go take a look at these live pictures coming in to us from naples that's an italy this is a service right there for four young victims of the bridge collapse in general on tuesday as we told you earlier firefighters are lifting away tons of rubble but they haven't given up hope of finding someone alive attention also turning to the aging bridges and tunnels elsewhere in the country thanks for watching the news
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