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i put big dreams on the big story in. the magazine on the w. . this is t w news live from burlington costello remarks a tragic anniversary the concert on capitol remembers the people killed when a driver rammed into crowds on a year ago today but even grief can't you know that this is here the time of heightened political tensions also on the program. house a fall into these bridges with mounting of the deadly general bridge collapse
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italians tell detail view that worried about the country's other bridges. plus a musical play for harmony. because me agin us all castro marks one hundred six nelson mandela's birth with a tour of europe just one of the vibrant on sawmills taking part in palin's young euro classic first. time feel girl welcome to the program the spanish city of boston known has marked the first anniversary of terror attacks that left sixteen people dead and more than one hundred engines a year ago today a driver plowed into crowds on the city's famous and busy. shortly afterwards another car drive into pedestrians in a seaside town south of basilan today
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a family's survivors and officials took part in a memorial service in the catalog capital. survivors and families of the victims of last year's terror attack on the rambla pass a loner remember those who lost their lives. it's still difficult. and for the families of the victims hot except. it was very hard especially at first to not think if they had just spent another minute at lunch or if he had been standing two feet over from where he was or if their plans had been different or they had all gone to the beach instead of walking on the streets of la. but i also know that. life is like that. and there is never going to be an answer for those
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questions those killed or injured came from thirty four different countries for this french tourists was severely injured but survived the attack the memories a painful left on a fortune to ride off into the first time i'm in this hospital bed i realize that nothing moves in alone may i try moving my legs as my legs don't move and i try moving my arms the not moving eva and icons talk and then the awareness because i will stay like that oh my life things are stopped and nothing will change i thought i felt us alone as my people are united in their grief it is their mission will be a see and from the following day people went out on the streets to say we were not afraid and that the terrorists were not going to infect us with the hatred that we weren't going to distrust our neighbors and was wearing going to criminalize a certain culture and that made us stronger it was bustling as city hall had such
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a head of the memorial that it wanted to avoid political controversy but in catalonia it's hard to avoid politics. king philip or the sixth of spain attending the memorial history to sized cattle looniest but for independence in the past and has lou support in the region. there was also division on the streets as cuts alone separatists protested to keep. it's presence. the focus today however this on creating. involved italy is mourning the victims of the general bridge disaster that killed at least thirty eight people president sergio mataram prime minister just said because a team will attend a state funeral for many of the victims tomorrow a funeral was held today in naples for four friends in their twenty's who died as they drove to vacation in france and spain their families didn't want to take part in saturday's ceremony it's a transport minister has opened an investigation into the bridge collapse but that
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might not be enough to placate an angry public as the w.c. charlottes chelsea until reports from general. rescuers tell us that they won't give up the search until they convinced that all the missing have been found but hope of finding survivors is not lost now one of the things that's really struck me since we've arrived here is how nobody we've spoken to was surprised that something like this could happen one man told us he was so concerned about the bridges safety he would always try and drive across it as quickly as possible i'll just ride a the company that operates this stretch of the motorway insists all of its maintenance checks were up to date but the fact is that like many bridges built here in the fifty's and sixty's it wasn't designed for the pressures of modern traffic as one engineer told us it was simply coming to the end of its lifespan in the search for answers ministers have gone on the attack accusing elton's thought it negligence but people we've spoken to say the government itself has serious questions to answer. but the government just giving very nice speeches still have
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to see what they are able to sold i have a warehouse in the bridge and was affected by the collapse i want to see the facts also because we have to give up to work. i think to find solutions the government it's only been in charge for two months we need more time to see what it does. we'll begin to. i believe in the culprits need to pay those who are felt really pay this time because we are very angry there was no monitoring nothing was done here people die here nobody talks about it the day off to the blue dog in the senate but not her lover sometimes controversy doesn't help solve problems but sometimes it can be used to point out who is responsible. with the nation in mourning a state funeral will take place here for those who lost their lives in this tragedy it's a days president and other high ranking officials are among the many expected hit
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missing from the mourners will be a number of relatives of the dead they say they feel like they've become pawns in a political fuss. we don't want to sharm ceremony my son is not a true to be paraded before the public his funeral is for those who love him we're not blind both this government and its predecessors lack of interest in the citizens is clear. and it's not just the victims' families who are angry this tragedy has raised serious concerns about aging infrastructure nationwide people here tell me that worried it's lee has neither the money not the capacity to make some crucial changes and they're asking will this happen again. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world pakistan's parliament has elected to form a cricket star turned politician imran khan the country's new prime minister will be sworn in tomorrow his p.t.i. party is the biggest in parliament there it failed to win an absolute majority and
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the general election last month. officials in gaza say israeli gunfire has killed at least two palestinians and wounded dozens at the border with israel. the violence erupted when protesters approached the border fence as the militant hamas a group has been leading weekly demonstrations to try to break israel's blockade of gaza. the death toll from catastrophic flooding in the indian state of cannot has more than doubled overnight the state's chief minister announced that three hundred twenty four people have died in what he called the worst floods in one hundred years almost a quarter of a million people have lost their homes and rescuers are scrambling to evacuate to residents to emergency relief camps. help from above. as in many other regions the indian air force has been evacuating residents of tourists who are who fled to the rubes. many others remain trapped by the high
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waters which are submerging almost the entire southwestern state of carolina emergency shelters have taken in around two hundred twenty thousand people. were staying at a schoolhouse the floodwaters came up to the front porch of my house and there's no electricity electricity has been out since yesterday but a lot of providing us with clothes and other things we've been given clothes cots and blankets as well as food there are no problems at the shelter where. whole villages have been destroyed many of those spared are cut off from the rest of the world. and military rescue teams are struggling to reach those in need. engaged in. medical first responders. there are situations arising out of building collapse and also assisting the administration distributing materials. in kerala many are calling it the
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worst flood in one hundred years. usually the southwest monsoon soaks northern carola first and then in his the southern part of the state this year it's raining across the whole state at the same time. rainfall is forty percent over average and the monsoon season won't be over until december. a court in russia has moved to two teenagers accused of extremism from jail to house arrest after hundreds of people protested demanding that release eighteen year old patrick over a nineteen year old of maria dubovik are accused of plotting to overthrow the government despite claims they were egged on by undercover police p.w. caught up with the public over family came home. house arrest rather than prisoner eighteen year old animal keeper on a public call that can leave her pretrial custody but state prosecutors maintain
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their accusation that she wanted to start an extremist group together with other people something she denies. anna is allowed to live at home again but the judge's house arrest order is strict she may not have visitors nor speak to anyone on the telephone including her grandmother. state prosecutors claim that while in a fast food restaurant anna said she wanted to found an extremist association she was apparently prodded by an agent of the secret service the f.s.b. who was also at the meeting his report is serving as evidence for the prosecution and i was seventeen years old at the time of her arrest after her first night at home and his mother julia goes out shopping for her along the way she checks the news about her daughter. one that reads. it's painful to see how they took her away in handcuffs. but i would that israel does want it. experts believe
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the evidence was not sound and that's why and i was released. into. the public pressure deadlock. especially the march of mothers. machete the evening before the judge's decision thousands took to the streets of moscow demanding honest release julia is grateful for all the support but she must now care for her daughter who fell ill in prison. so in prison she got heart problems some are we doing the iceland by her side last night . she started having trouble breathing the shots of you know cook them she suddenly got startled during the night but i just you know she cried. to cook us news up large. this was honest playground just a few years ago then she was healthy and chipper her mother cannot fathom how to just a couple of critical words could turn into an enemy of the state and be subject to
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punishment giulia public over hopes that by caring for her anxious daughter at home the nightmare might soon and the south africa's miyagi youth orchestra is one of the star attractions at this year's a young classic festival in berlin they also will is touring europe to mark the one hundredth out a version of nelson mandela's birth. i know pablo go from trying to get up there for the jews look it. was an eight o'clock am from cape town and the place to me at you folks. well i think. you know the most beautiful thing about i was just it sort of brings together people that you would normally never actually be with and that's that's true with the quality of the orchestra comes in because you know all of a sudden you or you know sitting next to somebody who lives you know two thousand k.'s away from you that you would have never actually met. drawing from jazz
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classical and african traditions miyagi grew out of a social project in cape town under the baton of conductor duncan ward the orchestra is on its fourth european tour. i mean in our present day the there are many social differences that we experience because of the past the fabulous up last date and now you know moving forward and i find that playing in this orchestra if all of that it goes away because in music becomes the most important thing. in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of nelson mandela's birth the orchestra is paying musical tribute to his values and ideals. if you leave me out he didn't mandela's vision into reality it's near chile he's vision come true.
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