a motorway bridge in northern italy sending vehicles plunging. to the police say dozens of people are. breaking news from the u.k. london police confirm they are treating. terrorist incident after a vehicle crashes into security barriers. parliament during morning rush hour. also ahead this hour washington gets the cold shoulder from posing sanctions on middle east nations with iran saying there will be no negotiations with. turkey

likewise condemning its nato ally. in the latest clashes between the afghan government and the taliban have killed over one hundred. washington. whether it's cooperate saying we're fighting. three pm here in the august fourteenth welcome to our to international in and. dozens of people are feared dead after a major motorway bridge collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa video has been posted online the moment the bridge came.

the two hundred metre section of the a ten collapsed during a violent storm sending vehicles plummeting around one hundred meters to deploy at least two survivors have been followed and it is thought that a rather and a dozen vehicles were on the toll road when it came down out a run mid day at local time our correspondent joins us now for more on this maria this looks have been a devastating incident the pictures do not look good at all that's around what two hours since the tragedy happened what's being confirmed by this stage. well indeed terrible incident terrible video we just heard from italy's transport minister that this is an immense tragedy there fishel has talked about many many casualties we've earlier heard from local rescue services there that dozens of

people have been killed as the bridge collapsed in the northern part of. and we know that rescuers are right now working on the ground looking for survivors the region was is you just said a large construction a huge construction actually around one hundred meter tall and it's two hundred meters section collapsed. at the time when there were many many calls on this. high speed way of course they happened on wednesday morning hours rush hours quite busy time soon there were many vehicles and we can see in the video that the cars and hauling at the time when the bridge collapsed as we can see from the pictures it collapsed on the highway and we also can see that underneath is something looking like a residential area so we can suggest that part of that bridge collapsed on houses

so even more terrible again rescuers are working on the ground looking for survivors and heard at least two people who survived so they're looking for more we know that this bridge was built in the one nine hundred sixty s. so it was quite an old construction. and here it's is of course a developing story we'll bring you the latest as soon as we get yeah that's the thing is them are just looking at some of the picture it looks the been some real we're trucks below it you're hoping that this wasn't on residential areas but we we just don't know a lot of the details are this huge thanks for bring this right off the table what we do know are two years maria for north. ok let's move on now to our other breaking news in the hour police in britain have confirmed they are treating a car crash parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers after injuring cyclist

pedestrians during chews day morning rush hour the driver last attained by armed police who rushed to the scene. was was. our london correspondent. is at the site of the. twenty eight in the morning parliament is in recess but it's still one of being rush hour a lot of people a lot of tourists just starting their day in central london what do we know about

this incident. well you know and indeed a very busy time in this area in particular outside the houses of course the parliament is always incredibly busy this is an area where lots and lots of tourists flock to to parliament square and also lots of people around that time at seven thirty seven am would be heading to work so definitely a big crowd and it's really. a blessing in some sense that less not more casualties have taken place now we are as close as physically possible to the houses of parliament that areas now cordoned off as you can see behind me while police now investigate what it is exactly that happened but we do know is about twenty minutes before eight in the morning what is being described as a silver ford fiesta had hit cyclists and then crashed into security barriers right outside houses of parliament again the parliament right now is in recess so no m.p.'s were present there at the time and we know that armed police had arrested

one man and taken him into custody to a police station in south london where he is being questioned according to scotland yard however this man is not cooperating with authorities quite yet this is what they had to say. the driver of the fiesta who was alone in the vehicle was arrested at the scene by armed officers who were already knew. the man is in his late twenty's and he's been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offenses and has been taken to a police station where he remains in custody and. given that there's appears to be . the method of this being an iconic song it's we are treating it as a terrorist incident and the investigation is being led by officers from the counterterrorism from the. well and during of this attack two people were injured and taken to hospital it's understood that they're not in

condition critical. and are going to be fine following this attack and we've been talking to a witness here a local resident who saw it all because oh my eyes let's take a listen to how he described what happened. i've seen. a car driving erratically towards houses apartment and eventually hit the one of the big one log the bear is did you see the man who was in the car for the rest i kind of soy and he was quite dog and he. is easy to see here and he seemed quite. calm to me he didn't seem he wasn't i didn't seem i didn't hear him screaming or anything will show in and didn't resist arrest is worrying because i'm a father of two young sons you know age almost seven and five and a half and it's worryin i mean but this is. this is like this is one of this is

like the number one city in the world in my prince of london you know you so many tourists come here throughout the year and you know it's beautiful weather and you know another thing i understand all the m.p.'s are on holidays. landis' i don't know what it's all about. well indeed the local community here as well as a lot of people throughout london extremely concerned about this latest incident and again just a richer every story police have made it clear the most important thing for them now is to figure out the motive that this man had that they are now trying to question but they are treating this as a terrorist incident so of course more details will come investigation unravels but even more so concerning to people here in the u.k. given that this is one in a series of terrorist attacks that have played taken place here so recently.

we won't succeed but you won't divide us we will be cowed by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean creased number of. across london. that the attempts to divide has met countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. you need. to continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices. thank.

you. londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be along. those. lines maybe one agency. that is will see an increased number of peaceable police officers. well for more on the latest incident we can welcome to the program charles shewbread charles is a security analyst and former scotland yard detective and intelligence officer good to have you with us charles just looking at some of the lines in this it does seem to be beyond any doubt according to authorities at least. a terrorist attack on parliament what what are the key details that would define whether it was an

accident or deliberate here. well you've hit the nail on the head in a way and certainly across from the house as well in respect of whether this was terrorism or not just because the police are treating it as a terrorist incident and nobody of course can blame them for doing that in these circumstances doesn't mean to say that either it would turn out to have been a terrorist incident or indeed that the police themselves even believe it to be so but of course they want to take no chances and some deploy the maximum resources and legal powers in order to further their investigation because of course much depends in fact everything depends really if we look at the definitions of terrorism used mostly around the world and so in the u.k. not as to the actual act itself but what the motivation for this was and if there's a political religious or perhaps some other motivation then of course it will come into the category of terrorism and the police will need some time to investigate that to come to firm conclusions and of course all of that pretty much hinges

around the individual concerned he's identity his background his associates and what he says or doesn't say either now or perhaps in post and social media and so on it's an interesting situation when one looks at the c.c.t.v. footage actually of the incident itself it seems it seems at least clear that he's deliberately carried out this attack but why you would do so if there's no for example explosives in a car or if you don't have a weapon with you or knife or so on. really asked many questions for example in the past we've seen situations like this carried out by people perhaps with mental disorders perhaps people who are trying to make a statement that isn't necessarily political perhaps a personal statement or even an extremist people a lot of attack these kind of targets hoping or intending to commit suicide because of course police are quite likely to respond with lethal force to this kind of incident yeah well so my used if charged fine guilt the though this would be charles the first such attack this year in the u.k.

there's that demonstrate that lessons have been learned by the authorities when it comes to security and particularly in one of the busiest areas of all of the busiest cities in the world. yes of course we don't know until instance happened in this case an instant even if it was a terrorist incident has clearly been unsuccessful but it would appear that if this incident this attack if it turns out to be a terrorist attack which is to say we really don't know at the moment but should it do so it were have been stopped by the acts of the intelligence service of course because the person didn't get through to its target was stopped by the physical security measures around parliament but of course that would all be largely conjecture but also we need to remember that perhaps a lot of the drivers of terrorism are receding in the news for example situations such as syria libya and so on are now less in the news than they used to be and these have been motivating factors also of course in places like syria let's not

forget we can bring foreign policy into this the issue here about creating safe havens for terrorists actually inspiring actually is a recruiting sergeant for terrorists who then come home or been inspired in this country and other western countries to attack is lessening plus of course those people are carried out those attacks last year in the u.k. are no longer around they're either dead or they're in prison and so it's a complicated situation but one would hope and there are signs of this that the security services are and the police getting better at fourteen these incidents but as they would say you know we've got this of whether your friend or not the security services you have to accept that it's not an easy job and you know there will always be no matter how good the security services are or not in each case people will get through but as i said it's very interesting to look at the c.c.t.v. whether he made a last minute decision as he was going round the roundabout. westminster square whether it was

a planned attack or whether perhaps he was spooked because very interesting to me that just as he makes the decision to go into the should we say attack mode there seems to be a police vehicle or ambulance and emergency services vehicle anyway right behind him with flashing lights on and so there's a lot of obviously many questions still to answer about this yeah a lot of details to be reviewed in this instance charles shewbread security analyst and former scotland yard detective an intelligence officer thank you. ok in terms of other world news we are across at this hour our round supreme leader rejects any form of dialogue with washington it is a busy news day we've got the details about all of this.

in a world of big partisan. and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

hello again iran's supreme leader say's he won't negotiate with washington after president trump the latest alfred to talk about improving ties at the same time president to order one has announced that turkey will boycott u.s. electronic products has killed my pen with more. donald trump not known for his modesty never stops bragging about the fact that he wrote the art of the deal seems that when it comes to his role as commander in chief he sees himself as almost the great negotiator and when it comes to north korea you could argue that his approach kind of worked he is a sick puppy rocket man is on a suicide mission for him so. this make it even worse threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like

the world has never seen since taking office donald trump has played up the so-called threat of another geo political rival of america threat posed by iran whose chief exports are violence bloodshed and chaos all nations of conscience most worked together to isolate for a minute it started to look like things were cooling off and maybe the talks were on the table i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with a room if they wanted to meet and ready to meet anytime they want to but he ron's supreme leader wasn't having it but i mean look there will be no war nor will we negotiate with the us it is impossible even if someday the government of the islamic republic of iran were to negotiate with the us regime it would never negotiate with the current government of the us. and then there is turkey and its detention of pastor and brunson who turkish authorities say was tied to the twenty

sixteen who attempt now trump says he wants him released. the united states will impose large sanctions on turkey for the longtime detainments of pastor andrew brunson this innocent man of faith should be released immediately i have just authorized a doubling of terrorists and still and with respect to turkey as the currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against a very strong dollar our relations with turkey are not good at this time but turkey is going at a budge and just like trump era one knows how to talk tough not talk about we are partners and nato and then you stop your strategic partner in the back and we will do as the law dictates you cannot simply make sure we can bow down by both of us around meanwhile russia is not exactly caving in the face of sanctions yes it was possible which the but if some ban on banks operations or on their use of one or

another currency it would be possible to clearly call it a collaboration of economic war and it would be necessary to react to this war economically politically or if indeed by other means that the in our american friends in the need to understand this let's remember that those sanctions on north korea were not unilateral they were actually imposed by the united nations but when it comes to the rest of the world trump is on his own and it seems that his reputation as a great negotiator is on the rocks table r.t. washington d.c. former u.s. ambassador to croatia peter galbraith say it's unclear whether sanctions will have the effect washington is hoping. the case of iran is completely different from that of north korea first these are unilateral u.s. sanctions and they are so that the entire international community except the united states thinks they are inappropriate that they're wrong and in the case of iran

iran feels that they had a valid agreement and that there's no lawful basis for doing it it's very hard to coerce people to do something which they think is in fact unlawful and goes against their their will so i think you sanction the u.s. sanctions which are unilateral opposed by the rest of the world there are unlikely to be sanctions on turkey like the sanctions on iran i think will cause real economic pain. but again as to whether they will accomplish their purpose that's very unclear although in the case of turkey it's a little more complicated because there was a deal to refer to three reverend brown said and turkey simply got impatient so it's quite possible that something will be worked out on that one. taliban militants have overrun a military base in northern afghanistan killing seventeen switchers that says the

u.n. has confirmed over one hundred civilians were killed in the latest clashes between the taliban and afghan forces in the city of gasoline. and colleagues have reported that heavy fighting in gaza city in the past three days has resulted in more than one hundred civilian casualties communications networks and electricity supply are currently down in the city resulting in water shortages and food is also reportedly running low while fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm to control is considered a strategic area that won a lot of the group to link already captured areas close to the capital kabul leave a tranquil looks at how almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan has failed to make the country it appears any safer. this is what's happening just a little more than a hundred kilometers from the capital kabul there's barely

a camera in gaza any available to film this dreadful battle locals say there are stronger descriptions than simply the tele ben is back in action and if it wasn't for us air strikes the afghan army could have been in far worse trouble so it makes you wonder do american diplomats and their military keep in touch there is nothing that precludes us from an gauging with the taliban we're doing everything we can to ensure that our actions help the taliban and the afghan government does the same table everything they can only a few weeks ago the state department said talking with the taliban was a good idea and regardless of how hostile their actions the extremists say they're forward to this is what we wanted and were waiting for to sit with the us directly and discuss the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan. the rumor is there's

already been some direct contact at least we know for sure alice wells went to qatar last month where the taliban's got a political office i'm confused the armed group has all but regained its might which not so long ago are in them a reputation of outright islamist barbarians in america and pretty much all over the world we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan on the barbaric rule time flies us administrations come and go fair enough but the things the people in charge say about insurgents today could be totally different tomorrow taliban this taliban that the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed. oh so they're good for something at least if it's about knocking out

islamic state yet just a few months earlier general nicholson said the taliban's fight against dyess was a piece of russian propaganda we see here a narrative that's being used that grossly exaggerates the number of isis fighters here this narrative then is used as a justification for the russians to legitimize the actions of the taliban and provide some degree of support complicated hollow of ghana's stan business as usual and the american strategy for afghanistan see above the american strategy a strategy from the beginning of the so-called war on terror which was launched off to the september eleventh attacks as this war has turned out to be an utter failure . you know i was we all know it was in a stronger position than it ever was in two thousand and one. so hence i think it's proof that the u.s. has been pursuing

a wrong strategy in defeating terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has that to the growth of terrorism the taliban is not just pulling out a gun it's firing it it could be time for the pentagon and the state department to hunt for ideas together and be more precise ok more great programs right ahead here in our to international and then i'm back at the top of the hour with breaking news from london and italy. when lawmakers manufacture consent to instant of public wells. when the room in clusters to protect themselves. when the final merry

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not quite enough we've been through this and this isn't the way.