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this is deja vu news live from berlin rescuers in italy works through the night to find survivors of the collapsed highway bridge in the northern city of genoa at least thirty five people are now confirmed dead and the government says it is determined to find out what caused the disaster. also coming up indian prime minister narendra modi outlines his novel and such events and some ambitious goals for the future and this annual independence day speech that we need a man who lost most of his family in a mudslide in sierra leone one year only look at the fallout from the tragedy in
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here one former president and the government are still blaming each other for what happened. plus turkey escalates its trade dispute with the u.s. the day after calling on people to boycott u.s. electronic goods including the i phone the government doubles tariffs on a whole raft of american imports we ask people in this town what this means for them. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us at least thirty five people are now known to have been killed after a highway bridge collapse in the italian city of genoa many more are injured some seriously rescuers have been working around the clock to find survivors and bodies in the rubble the country's president sergio mata has called the collapse a catastrophe for the country. it was a race against the clock in the tally in city of genoa as rescue efforts continued into the night reinforcements were sent to the site in the hopes of finding
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survivors trapped in knishes under the rubble. up above emergency workers week patiently in case someone is pulled out alive but after seeing the collapsed morandi bridge for himself italian prime minister just half a continent want italians to prepare for the west removal. from office i have personally ascertained so far the number of dead will increase at this moment it's an incredible tragedy because there wasn't an explosion or an accident but we are working on the hypothesis that this was a structural failure. and. this is the moment tragedy struck the witness only managing oh my god as a bridge collapsed. the full extent of the damage would soon be revealed about a one hundred meters stretch caved in. rescuers have been working round the clock
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since searching every nook and cranny for any signs of life. built in the one nine hundred sixty s. the morandi bridge has been subject to many repairs critics say possible structural weaknesses as well as a sudden violent storm that struck the area at the time might be to blame. but for the families of those still missing the top priority now is to get their loved ones out from under the rubble hopefully while they're still alive. and that's all right a journal simak of the she's in the italian capital of rome covering the story for us hi sima bring us up to date on the search for survivors. oh well it's continuing some thousand personnel whether it's firefighters ambulance workers as well as the police are working to try and deal with this situation the five by just looking for
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survivors be dealing with that issue very much like how they would deal with earthquakes here in italy something that they have experienced in the past and so it's the same type of units that are in place searching through the rubble of course there is concern about further collapses because these are a massive giant concrete slabs that have crumbled and crushed to the ground so they are working as kathy as they can hoping that perhaps there are some people still stuck on the those big drops and still all of this bridge in the meantime bill concern about the structure as a whole and as this as a result some eleven buildings in the area have been evacuated as this search and rescue mission continues similar thirty three any closer to identifying who or what is to blame for this tragedy. well really the issue is it's a question of the structure of the foundation of this bridge now there along with
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sound many times in the pasta back in two thousand and nine that was a coal big full the entire structure to be demolished in twenty sixteen and experts said that this was a fields project and it needs to be substituted and the structure has undergone repairs ever since the seventy's and it was inaugurated back in one nine hundred sixty seven so even yesterday on tuesday there were work to be done so the question as to its maintenance really on the top of many of the politicians where the more was necessary to be done and it now was done over the years and to me tell us how the italian government has been reacting to this is the author. well we've just heard that the transport and infrastructure minister is calling for the top management of the out those throughout the city that's the company that manages this mall to we end others around it's really calling to the top management to step
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aside to resign as a result of this tragedy the deputy prime minister luigi denial saying that they should step down and perhaps their license to operate these motorways should be revoked from this company really various aspects of within the political establishment need to be saying that those responsible must be big to pay there's also the questions being asked with enough money has been put forward to it order to deal with these massive infrastructure projects built in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's and really the maintenance really needed to be done in order to avoid such tragedies for now though are all really on the search and rescue hoping to find people still alive all the bodies of those that have been reported missing. journal seem a group of eight bringing us the very latest thank you seem. that some other stories making headlines around the world a taliban attack on
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a military base has killed at least forty afghan soldiers and police in the northern province of baghlan local officials said militants stormed the base and several checkpoints overnight before setting fire to facilities the attack comes after a massive taliban assault on the eastern city of rosny last week. in the u.s. a grand jury investigation has found that hundreds of roman catholic priests sexually abused more than one thousand children in the state of pennsylvania since the one nine hundred forty s. the report comes after a two year investigation that showed sexual abuse was systematically covered up by senior church officials. japan's emperor akihito has expressed deep remorse for his country's role and world war two and then you will memorial event in tokyo during his three decades on the throne akihito was spoken out for peace and reconciliation the eighty four year old was appearing at the event for the last time he is due to advocate next april. the rescue ship aquarius has now been given permission by
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malta to enter port after five european union countries agreed to accept the migrants on board the deal ends the latest standoff between e.u. members that kept the ngo ship and one hundred forty one people stranded at sea for days without safe harbor. after days at sea the exhausted travelers will be docking in malta. rescued off the coast of libya the one hundred forty one migrants on board the aquarius were in turn rejected by several coastal countries including italy. italy cannot continue to be the refugee camp of europe so obviously italy's determination and courage to say no has opened europe's most of those without a will but. now five european union countries spain france germany portugal and luxembourg have agreed to accept the asylum seekers' spain hailed the deal as a success. a force that needs a european response a coordinated response with some
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a direct safe and responsible and also coherent for the spanish government didn't think that it will be and yet the last few days have left the search and rescue charities exhausted and frustrated by their prolonged deliberations we really believe that there is in needs and urgent that there is a human root and we're going to turn to a tragedy which is still only going to see you we need and can use and to first of all the risk to people at sea and then he's embarked in safely in a court of safety according to the preacher yobbo from our time you know. on the aquarius high spirits passenger augustine on your celebrates his birthday and his arrival. was always want to be on the was he could have possibly hindsight you always want to say you know i'm going to go down i'm going to be what he's not just what is it about up against the rate of asylum seekers arriving in europe via the
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mediterranean is much lower than at its peak in two thousand and fifteen but the political tug of war over who should accept him looks set to continue. was. indian prime minister. he has addressed the nation on the anniversary of his country's independence from britain seventy one years ago they announced the world's largest state funded health care program to begin in september he also said india would launch its first manned space mission by twenty twenty two this was likely the most these last key address for a general election in the first half of next year. and let's bring in. our he's following the story from delhi high ashish what stood out for you in the run for modi speech this year well so we were really stood out was that this was in many ways kind of like a campaign speech listing achievements making promises and and that's not to be unexpected given as you said you know we've got
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a general election coming up within the next year this is the last speech of this kind that modi will be making during this term at least and so it was very much like a campaign speech focusing on domestic issues much more than than foreign policy and in terms of those promises that he made one of the ones that stood out was this health care policy that is set to roll out next month. it is aiming to reach one hundred million of india's poorest families and five hundred million people that's the aim now obviously you have to see how that rolls out and there has been a lot of sort of criticism and doubts raised about whether many of many of the states in india are actually equipped to to see this through and whether there are enough doctors enough beds to actually see through this kind of health care provision i should mention promises in modi's someone who swept into office on big ideas big promises how much has he been able to deliver. well i think
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as with all things political it depends on who you ask but as far as modi is concerned today he was listing what he what he believes to be some of his key achievements tax reform or goods and services tax that was introduced last year he talked about bringing electricity to many villages across the country and and building toilets as part of his initiative to sort of clean up the country but you know all of those policies have criticisms and depending on who you talk to people will say that you know even if you look at some of the numbers there that perhaps the actual long lasting deep impact aren't necessarily there so it really depends on who you talk to and and what was interesting also was maybe some of the things that he didn't mention he didn't mention one of his big reforms which was to demonetize asian policy almost two years ago now we're going to be. eradicated
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twenty six percent of india's currency it caused a lot of chaos it was a it was an attempt by him to fight back against corruption and black money but perhaps the fact that he didn't mention it was in a was an admission in some ways that perhaps it wasn't a great success that that's what some of his critics have been saying for the. whole to reporting for us from delhi ashish thank you. and a verse from. now one year ago a mountainside collapsed under the weight of rain. and rock crashed into houses on the slopes around the capital freetown an estimated one thousand people were killed and another three thousand been left homeless the city in this west african nation had been soaked by three days of heavy rainfall that along with rampant deforestation and construction led to one of africa's worst flooding related disasters in recent times a year later. traveled to freetown to meet a man who lost half his family in the trash bin. it's
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a painful journey for maliki camera who has returned to where he used to live in regent a suburb of the capital freetown. camera lived here with his family for ten years he remembers the day vividly exactly one year ago when he went to work early in the morning in the pouring rain. shortly after a powerful mudslide destroyed hundreds of homes including his own. last year at this time i was still sitting here with my family we talked to the children not going out and i'll never be able to see them again court's going over for no one is helping me i'm suffering and i was hurt so much. i just over it so i was. almost his entire family was killed by the mudslide his daughter fatima just seven months old. his wife.
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the only survivor was his twelve year old son daniel who was rescued with severe injuries. cameras says he was given the land by local authorities but there was no official building permit so who's to blame. the government governments the government is to blame we weren't living in the so-called green belt where construction is prohibited so we built our houses outside the area in a section marked to see if it was to. the environmental protection agency has a different view it says the houses were built in the green belt illegally but the new head of the agency does admit that in the past there were hardly any checked there we're not supposed to be and that's why i say it was due to weak governance because nobody was supposed to be housed. according to environmental activist highest to say residents were also to blame for last year's catastrophe she says
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she tried to warn people just. two weeks before the disaster. it will be a clinton downed trees and the forest to beat up with dick then people who are born in chad called the people we at mines told us in that particular area they also do a wildfire within the forest so what's happening it's all we can is this way and because these smells will leak and that's one of the reasons several factors contributed to the disaster last year inefficient offer to us citizens that we can or the risks deforestation a massive population growth on the heels of freetown additionally climate change has been causing much less frequent but stronger rainfalls that is why ops services warn of further disasters in the future. leaky camera and of the survivors now live in emergency accommodations provided by the government they may be safe but they are an hour outside the city center. there's no running water and
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no schools in the area but residents still have to pay rent. a year after the devastating mudslides camera still doesn't know what the future holds for him and his son. to the highly anticipated european super cup now the winner of last season's champions league tournament takes on the winner of the year up only and its new era for real madrid christiana rinaldo is no longer a part of the team europa league winners athletico madrid meanwhile managed to hold on to their star on twenty. the clerical madrid is expected to field a familiar lineup like ill be one of coach diego simeone aces the mystery hot to beat formations that let it all have a one hundred percent wins record in this competition winning it twice and beyond is expecting the return of these man without fire power to attack but the world cup
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winner missed most of their pre-season training to head to head record between athletico and reality is heavily in reality favor at the super cup is on neutral ground in estonia. the most important thing in any final isn't about being in better shape physically or how we did in pre-season the most important thing is the emotion of. this game could be decided on an emotional level. but now the post or not to iraq begins in earnest this is the first chance to assess this revamped reality a new coach. has underlined the importance of getting his tenure off to a good start. every game is different and every final is different as well and i think they've improved a lot and we have to suit the last finals and i think this is again everyone the
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warriors won't. isn't going to look at him to get it right. no matter the outcome hence already get up hoping this site picks up the first trophy of the season. as well facebook has entered a landmark deal with spain's top flight leader to broadcast every game of the next three seasons for free that's right for free but there is a catch viewers of mark zuckerberg facebook must live in india afghanistan bug with deja vu turn naipaul the maldives sri lanka or pakistan to see all of lolita's they've named in action now confirmed in a statement that they want to offer content to the widest audience possible so partnering with free platforms like facebook is helping them to reach their goal. now is your of basques in a heat wave the best way to cool down might just be a dip in the sea and a swimmer from england has taken that idea to the next level ross edgeley has broken the world record for the longest stage see swim managing an incredible
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seventy four days in the water and he's not done yet on the summer outing he is hoping to swim all the way around britain thirty two hundred kilometers. actually set off on his epic journey on the first of june swim six hours and then rest six hours on his support boat swimming at night is the toughest. but you can shouldn't take that. on the way so you. sort of just do the work that east through me. and i. actually has faced many obstacles he's been battered by the wind and the waves but jellyfish pose the biggest danger he's the best case. as the top says basically around you. this is not if you go to the mouth of a ways perhaps this will start in place which makes for even
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a little bit difficult and also as well just quite a muscle is going to sponsor he's already set the new world record but he still has a long way to go actually is only just over halfway into his three thousand two hundred kilometers swim around britain. ok have a business now and have your turkey's currency crisis has stabilized to some extent the president's really hitting back at the u.s. and he's doing it in the exact same style as donald trump did in the beginning sumi das trick is to stabilize as you said turkey has now raised tariffs for all kinds of u.s. imports including consumer goods like tobacco cars and alcoholic beverages it's a tit for tat retaliation for u.s. impose tariffs on turkish steel and aluminum the announcement comes just after the turkish president's ranch of type of one called it citizens to boycott u.s. products like i thought it's now in the hands of turkish consumers to decide if they really want to pay higher prices or give up their last breaths. he stumbles
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electronics stores are still stocking apple's i phones they're popular the second most sold smartphones in the country. but president. is calling on his people to boycott american brands and switch to others instead. all over the world. on the streets many seem to think that a boycott of u.s. brands is easier said than done it with the government would have to stop apple products from entering the country and banned their sale how's that supposed to work you can't just make the i phone disappear from turkey. and is it inevitable even android phone at home which will use i support that way casa because. the half might not choose the product that fits my needs but i'm not having anyone tell me what to do. and with an economic crisis gripping the country many turks are exactly
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in a position to buy a new phone many turks appear willing to take part in the board called president and on this calling for really tools their merican phones with the south korean model and this one but the problem is if you own a minimum wage it would take you four months to pay it off that might be a price too high for even the president's most loyal supporters. this deal was using the opportunity to promote turkish made phones chairs and turkish phone maker vest electronic surged after add on's call to boycott u.s. brands as someone who can stand behind our country that's why we're recommending this phone. over the past few days anti-american protests have taken place across turkey some demonstrators followed the president's call and changed their dollars into lira.
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i did not use them so you. may have to make sure the us president doesn't appear to know who is dealing with he's facing a felix man the whole world knows his name is reza. so you. will. but despite that patriotic sentiment it might be a while before turks are ready to part with arrive phones. now even if the lira has recovered some of its losses it is still having an effect on the euro it is at a one year low let's discuss that with our correspondent in frankfurt it was good to see you know how much of a problem is this turkish crisis is creating for the euro zone right now. well people don't believe that the trade volume involved between turkey and the year euro zone is a problem a problem could be a banking crisis many analysts economists don't think that's looming though at
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least not when they speak officially the euro is actually a good thing for the euro zone when it comes down a little it would be a problem if the euro advance towards parity downwards towards the dollar then you have inflation coming in and doubts about the euro zone but at the moment it's a boon for exports and only another story we're following at this hour the royal bank of scotland r.b.s. has to pay a stiff penalty to settle civil claims in the u.s. after an alleged misconduct in the period leading up to the financial crisis almost five billion dollars but that's almost roughly ten years ago what did the r.b.s. do. the justice department in the us said that it misrepresented securities that were backed by risky mortgages and they concealed the high risk that was involved their default that is securities basically being worth nothing and of course we know that's what really sparked the financial crisis ten years ago
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and the justice department also alleges that r.b.s. earned hundreds of millions with this business basically cheating investors while the investors lost money but of course the r.b.s. disputes this but it's a settlement and it's a very expensive settlement certainly as we keep speaking of banks the deutsche bank the biggest lender in germany is in the news again why now will. because it has. been overtaken on the stock market by a company basically nobody has heard of before why are card it is europe's leading by its own words payment processing specialists and it's had huge success it's successful in the market in its market it's getting new customers and the stock has risen so much that the market value of the company is now higher than the deutsche bank just by a small margin but the wire car does worth about twenty one billion twenty one point three billion euros in the deutsche bank twenty one billion and that's of
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course not a feather in the cap of the deutsche bank but one in wire a card and wire card because of its value could soon replace the come out spank the second biggest bank in germany and the doubts only it's telling us about the new players there frank thanks very much it's. a reminder of the top stories we're following for you before we go at least thirty five people are now known to have been killed after a motorway bridge collapsed in the italian city of genoa rescuers have been working around the clock to find survivors and bodies in the rubble of the country's president senator has called the collapse a catastrophe for the country. and watching you go to the news from berlin more to come at the top of the hour stay with us.
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