to inspire people to take action google indians the environment series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. this is deja vu news live from berlin rescuers in italy at this hour still working to find survivors of that collapse motorway bridge in the northern city of genoa at least thirty eight people confirmed dead the government's blaming the private company charged with managing that bridge for the disaster also coming out. priests will brave brave being little boys and girls and the men of god who were

responsible for them not only did nothing they hid it all for decades more than three hundred free stand accused of sexually abusing more than one thousand children in the u.s. state of pennsylvania that over seven decades in the ninety's and india's prime minister outlining his government's achievements and ambitious goals for the future including a manned space program and his independence day address. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us grief is turning to anger and italy as people seek answers as to how a motorway bridge in genoa could collapse at least thirty eight people are now known to have died in this disaster rescuers still searching for survivors italy's deputy prime minister and the far right politician the taro salvini has called on

the company that runs the bridge to be held accountable is also implied the european union is to blame. rescue efforts in general this morning. firefighters and doctors worked throughout the night pulling survivors out of the rubble they're hopeful they'll find more but they're also facing the grim reality recovering the dead. emergency workers say the most difficult part of the rescue effort is still to come. and put together from this evening we will start moving some of the biggest segments of concrete from the collapsed bridge in order to create new spaces for our teams to enter and check for other survivors as well this is going to be gotten the question. of their persona. when there were any motorway bridge collapsed dozens of vehicles plummeted to the ground killing and injuring many and leaving behind

a huge gap in the city's bridge. after seeing the collapse but for himself italian prime minister two separate content was somber. from what i have personally ascertained so far the number of dead will increase at this moment it's an incredible tragedy above all because there's not been an explosion or an accident but we're working on the hypothesis of a structural failure. of this and. this is the moment the tragedy struck. the bridge which had been undergoing repair work collapsing during a tarantula downpour. for now the focus is on the rescue. but many italians of course now asking how this could have happened and as the tragedy sinks in who if anyone is responsible. let's get more on this story from

sema gupta joining us from the italian capital rome a scene that rescue efforts are ongoing at this hour can you tell us what's happening right now on the ground well essentially you've got the firefighters the ambulance emergency services well as the police all involved five slices i actually using drones in order to get aerial footage in order to assess the damage in the also to have a bird's eye view i guess of exactly what's happening even as they are on the ground treating this how they would cheat weights here in italy the same unit time gold in order to work through the rubble and to try to find any survivors as well as bodies of those they be buried and there are still a number of people reported missing and therefore these rescue efforts will continue although the authorities are also thinking of immediately after that's because these massive concrete slabs have fallen onto railway lines as well as on

to a river running below it and so this could potentially create a sort of like an artificial dam if they are further down pause as expected with rains to come and this could create further problems for the city and so a potentially dangerous issue that has to be dealt with for the moment though the city of jenin very hot the snake has declared two days of mourning as a result of this tragedy and many people aren't even sure if their loved ones are among the dead right now similar question of why this bridge collapse has yet to be answered the government is though speaking out about that what is romans. well what we understand first off we have the infrastructure and transport minister and he very much fearing to point the finger out that that he thought that's the company that actually manages this motorway as well as others in italy now he believes that those in the top management of the company need to resign both deputy prime

minister luigi my and much from this coalition government that we have here in italy both of them are saying that the license in order to bandage these leads should be revoked from this company and even suggesting a fine of a hundred and fifty a million euro now salvini for his part also made some statements suggesting that austerity measures that have been put in place and imposed on its leash by grass the rules could have affected the amount of spending that they can put in place in order to deal with the maintenance of massive infrastructure projects like this bridge so really lots of finger pointing but the fact still remains lots of questions about the maintenance of this bridge the fact that it's undergone several fixes if you like since the seventy's practically since when it was inaugurated and why would they so many alarm sounded but nothing actually done ok so not only

a rougher cautions there for the nowhere company but in national and international politics as well from rome simak up there for us in the italian capital thanks very much. now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour a taliban attack on a military base has killed at least forty afghan soldiers and police in the northern province of bhaag long local officials say militants stormed that base and several checkpoints overnight before setting fire to facilities the attack comes after a massive taliban assault on the eastern city of dawson the that was last week. japan's emperor akihito has expressed deep remorse for his country's role in world war two and an annual memorial event in tokyo during his three decades on the throne akihito spoken out for peace and reconciliation the eighty four year old was appearing at the event for the last time he's due to abdicate next april.

and australian sen has sparked outrage after he referred to the final solution during a speech about banning muslim integration phrase around him from the conservative katter's australian party claimed he didn't know the history of the phrase used by the nazis during the holocaust. a grand jury in the u.s. state of pennsylvania has published a report on the sexual abuse of children by roman catholic priests says at least one thousand children were molested and raped by priests over a period of seven decades the report accuses senior church officials including the man who is currently the archbishop of the capital of the us washington d.c. of systematically covering up reports of paedophilia among the clergy. in approving this report more illegal three hundred claire g. men have been accused of sexually abusing children in pennsylvania unchecked for decades officials say their investigation found systematic cover ups not just by

church leaders in the u.s. state but also in the vatican rely on the euphemisms the church priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they hid it all for decades. and some of liveth timms no adults were at the press conference others described their helplessness in a video released by investigators. who bullied me. in night. forty eight or forty seven we're going to do you should you. do they never heard of such a thing because if they covered it up the grand jury find that more than one thousand children were abused over seventy years they see the real number though might be much higher. a staggering grand jury the stuff we're joined now by did abuse i think is correspondent martin jack is following the story for us good

morning to you martin this is horrific no way to really qualify this one thing one way i could think of describing it we're talking about at least one thousand children perhaps thousands abused over seventy years how could the catholic church in pennsylvania cover this up for so long well very likely many thousands i mean very very likely in this is a global phenomenon as we have seen over the last couple of years i think that by a large what we have is a system that is not only guilty of hosting sexual abusers but more importantly it has managed to produce descale of abuse by essentially becoming a cover up organization and it was said by you by the grand jury when no uncertain terms that essentially the church i don't parade along the lines of a criminal organization so it is notable that most of these priests were moved just wouldn't been sylvania it's much more often that we see that priests actually are very are sent to very remote places from their region and they also says which

means that they're essentially very difficult to prosecute and sometimes i mean they're put in places where it's much easier for them to continue perpetrating these kind of these kinds of prices of priests were protected rotated around into different parishes of different dioceses within ten sylvania there's only been two charges brought against the more than three hundred abusers in this case what why is that well partly because crime spree scribe so that means to. that there are a bunch of this cases that quite simply cannot be prosecuted i mean we heard in the video somebody that was abused i mean we don't know the exact. nature of the of their views but in nine hundred forty eight or forty seven so that crime can no longer be prosecuted nonetheless the fact is that the number it's very very large one third of them seem to be from it's burgen we have to give in mind the pennsylvania has about three million catholics so it's a high points and creation of the catholic community and that means that presumably more things are actually going to unfold over the next few days and months ok now

this report tied to the grand jury accuses senior church officials including the archbishop of washington d.c. of having been complicit in the cover up what consequences can can happen what are you imagining i mean i think you can hear there is some very specific end game and that end game was seen a couple of days ago as a matter of fact in chief. prosecutor investigating sexual abuses us the vatican to release documents the vatican has not only done itself but indicated to all its churches that they're not allowed to share this kind of information by and large with national authorities if there were enough pressure to actually force of attack and to force its churches to turn these documents to local authorities the story of sexual abuse would radically change because now we would begin to see you know it must persecution but on the other hand we would actually get a very good and i fear a very very ugly glimpse of what is the true scale of the ok so we can expect some

pressure on rome to release those documents concerning this case martin thanks very much for now. well the rescue ship aquarius has now been given permission by malta to enter port after five e.u. countries agreed to accept the migrants on board that vessel the deal ends the latest standoff between 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 but yet it will. now

five european union countries spain france germany portugal and luxembourg have agreed to accept the asylum seekers 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 a need and urgent as there is in human nature and tragedy which is still ongoing. we need to first of all risk to people at sea and then he's embarked in safety in a court of safety according to the preacher yeah from our time you know. on the aquarius high spirits passenger augustine on your celebrates his birthday and his arrival. always want to be on the was as he put a posse heintz a goal was one of the you know i'm going to go down i'm going to be what it's not just what is it about of against the rate of asylum seekers arriving in europe via the mediterranean is much lower than at its peak in two thousand and fifteen but

the political tug of war over who should accept them looks set to continue. its to india now where prime minister narendra modi has addressed the nation on the anniversary of its independence from britain seventy one years ago modi 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 two thousand and twenty two this is likely to be modi's last key address before a general election in the first half of next year. ok let's get more on this now from abuse our she's mahato following the story for us from delhi good morning ah sheesh with millions of people in india struggling right now just to feed and house their families is there strong support for a manned space mission in india well i don't really think

that there is i mean i don't think the type of people you're talking about really care or even comprehend what it what a mission like that really means. and this certainly has been. conversations around this before about you know whether india should be investing so much into space exploration with these kinds of societal issues and development issues that exist at the same time the indian space agency has always kind of prided itself on on providing the cost alternatives to some of the other superpowers that exist so when india first launched the satellite to orbit around mars in two thousand and fourteen it was actually the cheapest interplanetary mission of its kind that the world ever seen but i think what's what's more important is. i'm not really sure how much it really matters if there is if there's public support for this at the end of the day what what today was was really a campaign speech in a way for most of the this is his last independence day speech as prime minister

for this term at least and having general elections coming up next year so this was about this thing achievements making promises and tapping into a sense of patriotism and and what better way to do that than to talk about someone going to mars with a flag. she should modi also reached out to the weaker members of the economy he announced an ambitious government health care plan that will benefit five hundred million of the nation's poorest citizens this is the funding there for a program like this. well you have five hundred million people is the aim of this of this plan but certainly there are concerns about whether the government has got the numbers right not just in terms of money but in terms of whether the infrastructure is there even if if this kind of insurance can be given up to five hundred million people are there other enough beds are there enough doctors are all the states ready to roll this out so there's serious concerns and and doubts being

raised about that ok now the international monetary fund talking about money forecasts that india would drive the global economy for the next thirty years does this economic success guarantee modi a new term. but i'm not sure about that i mean there's certainly people who would who would question how much of that that assessment actually has to do with the just the pure numbers of india's demographics the people who will be driving the global economy in that sense. i think when it comes to being re-elected and given a second term it's going to come down to how he is judged on various policies and that's why you see today you saw him him listing certain achievements like that of that plan and a lot of his other policies so what it's going to come down to in the end is what people think about about how those policies of benefit are not benefited india. she's joining us from delhi thanks for that.

some sports now in the cincinnati open is a key warmup event to one of tennis world's biggest tournaments the u.s. open and it's here that even the very best players all sometimes need reminding that preparation is indeed everything but that it. was a slightly sheepish nick curios there the australian who needed a volunteer to fetch his match shoes they're different apparently from his walking onto the court shoes kerio slice them up and down some nifty backhanders from serves to win in dramatic fashion over american dentist good luck six seven seven five seven six the school. well zero basks in a heat wave one good way to cool down and simply to take a dip in the sea and a swimmer from england has taken that idea to

a challenging new level ross edgeley has broken the world record for the longest stage see swim managing an incredible seventy four days out in the atlantic swimming and he's not done yet on the summer outing he's hoping to swim all the way around britain thirty two hundred kilometers. actually set off on his epic journey on the first of june he swim six hours and then rest six hours on his support boat swimming at night is the toughest no it was horrible but you can shouldn't take that period where i call on the weights you have to pull all the way down and then they sort of just do the work that east st louis ever done. actually has faced many obstacles he's been battered by the wind in a way. but jellyfish pose the biggest danger that he is the best case song in this case and. she has as the top seeds basically go around you pull the they saw

it's her nervous system if you go to the mouth of a ways to actually sort of stalls and close up which mates are even a little bit different groups of animals was well just kind of 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 in so he's three thousand two hundred kilometers swim around britain. ok doesn't like a quick dip in the sea well the depth at the turkish lira saw has ended a staging a rally right now obvious here to talk about its president the president of turkey the prime minister hitting back at us sanctions that's right and he's doing it in the way trump actually does for the most part bryant turkey is taking its diplomatic and trade just people the united states to the next level slamming tariffs on a variety of u.s. products american rice will see a fifty percent tax called beverages will pay one hundred forty percent and other consumer goods like tobacco and cosmetics will see tariffs of up to sixty percent

the move is part of a response by the turkish government that also included a call by turkish president of egypt type added on to boycott u.s. products including the i phone the president who actually once was a fan of apple products is now switching to another brand the question is will those people do the same. stumbles electronics stores are still stocking apple's i phones they're popular in turkey 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 or 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 give us i support that way costs if. i have my 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 aren't exactly in a position to buy a new phone many turks appear willing to take part in the boy called president and on this calling for really tools their merican phones with the south korean model in this one but the problem is if you're on the 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 dealer's using the opportunity to promote turkish made phones chairs and turkish phone make a vestal electronic and surged after everyone'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. i'm not going to say if. the u.s. president doesn't appear to know who he's dealing with he's facing a feel it's man the whole world knows his name. so you. will. but despite that patriotic sentiment it might be a while before the ready to part with arrived phones. as we mentioned after plunging the turkish lira is making moderate gains helped by news that turkey's bank regulator is limiting the amount of lira local banks can swap for foreign

currency banks will only be allowed to exchange up to twenty five percent of their own equity foreign exchange slaps allow banks to secure rates the regulators measure comes after the turkish central bank's announcement that it would provide banks with cash flow analysts say turkey still needs to do a lot more to stabilize its currency and economy. and on that same note of course even if the lira has recovered some of its losses it is having an effect on the euro that is at a one year low or has been today one of the spots is now joining us from germany's financial capital frankfurt really it's good to see you again how much of a problem is the turkish crisis for the eurozone right now. well at the moment the major danger emanates from a possible banking crisis that could spill over into a lot of banks here and then perhaps lead to a new financial crisis that's the fear of lots of people say that's not going to

happen the amount of engagement loans for example outstanding that large european banks have in turkey is just not big enough that amount but there's that lingering doubt and that's putting pressure on bank shares here other aspects of the turkish crisis not seen as being so serious and the euro actually coming down through people going into the dollar into the dollar as a safe haven is not that bad for the euro zone for exports for example it makes exports more attractive the only thing is of course of the euro goes down too much then you have a confidence issue there as well but there's a long way to go until that area is reached only the will bank of scotland is in the news today has to pay a stiff penalty in the us after an alleged misconduct in the period leading up to the financial crisis that's almost ten years ago roughly what that the r.b.s. do. well it basically gypped investors that's what the u.s. justice department alleges it uses different wording but the r.b.s.

so like many other banks so bungled some prime mortgages risky paper into securities that investors couldn't recognize as being risky they were sold as being very very dependent very value added and of course investors lost money in the r.b.s. made hundreds of millions in profit and that's what the u.s. justice department is taking issue with said r.b.s. contributed to the financial crisis and now five billion is the stiff tab for that behavior ten years after only in frankfurt thank you very much. washington news live from berlin more coming at the top of the hour do stay with us .

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