i. freaking news from its only a motorway bridge in the northern city of genoa sending vehicles plunging one hundred meters eleven people are confirmed dead also breaking this hour. police in london confirm they are treating a car crash in westminster as a terrorist incident vehicle smashed into security barriers parliament during the morning rush hour. in washington gets the cold shoulder for imposing

sanctions on middle east nations around there will be no negotiations with the us turkey. wherever you're churning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international i'm in the middle. a major motorway bridge collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa the interior ministry say eleven people are now confirmed to being killed including a child video is being posted online of the moment the bridge came down. the two hundred meter section of the eighteen motorway collapsed during

a violence toward sending vehicles plummeting a run to one but the concrete bridge which was built in the one nine hundred sixty s. was undergoing strengthening work that two survivors have been found it's thought around twenty vehicles were on the toll road when it collapsed on a run to may day local time some two hundred emergency staff are currently at the scene. are spot on refinished and joins us now with a program with more of the details and maria yeah few hours and i was just there were three since the bridge fell some horrifying pictures there especially of the growing looking up at the height of the bridge quite incredible what information do

we have. yes indeed absolutely dramatic pictures we hear right now from his interior ministry this is their preliminary evaluation that at least eleven people have been killed and five more seriously injured after the bridge collapsed in the northern part of the country the major bridge connecting cities and towns in that area. the bridge collapsed in. the northern part of the country and local rescue services have earlier been reporting that they are expecting dozens of casualties there right now working at the scene there ambulances we've seen how the coulters aft at the scene of course it's a huge tragedy for the whole country. there are many many workers right now at the scene there looking for survivors we hear from. one of the talon news agencies that

five more people have also been taken to a hospital with severe injuries again these are. numbers but at this moment everything changes every minute of course it is too early right now to say what caused the collapse we know that this bridge was built in one thousand sixty's and we hear that at the time of the collapse the highway was to go in maintenance. we also know that it was heavily raining in that area at the time of the collapse and talon news agency quotes a weakness saying that a lightning strike hit the bridge just before the collapse. well what else do we know we heard from transport minister that he has called it a man's tragedy we hear from rescue workers. on the ground that people

call in to contact ambulances and rest cure is. offering to donate blood so we can see this moment of solidarity in the country the country is mourning right now again the latest number is eleven people have been confirmed dad but. the workers are on the ground and unfortunately they say continue rising. to keep us up to date with those figures throw out there is if you will artie's maria finish the thank you. police in britain have confirmed they are treating a car crash parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers and after injuring cyclists and pedestrians during choose the morning rush hour the driver was the tane by armed police who rushed to the scene. i

am. on. this area in particular outside the harlem and 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 having to work so definitely a big crowd and it's really a blessing in some sense that not more casualties have taken place now we are as close as physically possible to the houses of parliament that area is now cordoned off as you can see behind me while police now investigate what it is exactly that happened what 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 to 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 was alive in the vehicle was arrested at the scene by armed officers who 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 south london police station where he remains in custody. even though this appears to be acknowledgement that the method of this being an iconic song it's we are

treating it as a terrorist incident i mean best. being led by officers from the counterterrorism from the two people were injured and taken to hospital it's understood that they're not in critical condition 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 erratic lead to walls i was apartment and eventually. the one of the big boy logs the barrier is did you see the man who was in the car for the rest i kind of soy i think he was quite dark and the a. great to see you know being and he seemed quiet. to me he didn't seem he wasn't i didn't see him i didn't hear him screaming or anything or 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 we're in 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 wherever and you know another thing i understand all the m.p.'s are on holidays. land is i don't know what it's all about well if confirmed by the police that this is a terrorist attack it's going to turn out to be the first one this year but unfortunately one of several have taken place recently. you won't succeed and you want to fight us we will be cowed by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean creased number. across.

the attempts to. make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of. londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be a long. road. to be a day. long

that is we'll see an increased number of peaceable police. ok moving on to other world news we're closely following this hour iran's supreme leader say's he won't negotiate with washington after president trump's latest offer to talk about improving ties at the same time president to earth no one has announced that turkey will boycott u.s. electronic products. and the story. 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 not 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 the room if they wanted to meet and ready to meet anytime they want to buddy ron's supreme leader wasn't having it but i mean look there will be no war nor will we negotiate with the u.s. 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 turkish authorities say was tied to the twenty sixteen coup attempt now trump says he wants him released. the united states will impose large sanctions on turkey for the long time detainment 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 in nato and then you stab your strategic partner in the back and we will do as the law dictates you cannot simply make sure we can bow down and buy 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 even by other means in our american friends in that 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 it seems that his reputation as a great negotiator is on the rocks. r.t. washington d.c. both former u.s. ambassador to croatia peter galbraith told us it is all clear whether sanctions will have the effect that washington is seeking. 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. just coming

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a strategic area situated on the road connecting the capital kabul fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm it and take control. of taliban fighters have been blocking the roads in the city to prevent the afghan military getting it reinforced minson resident described seeing dead bodies on the streets and buildings on fire and he looks at how almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan has failed to make the country it appears a safer. this is what's happening just a little more than one 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 bed is back in action and if it wasn't

for u.s. airstrikes 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 earned 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 diana was a piece of russian propaganda we see oh

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 hol of ghana's stan business as usual and the american strategy for afghanistan see above the americans stretched 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 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 to be more precise. more than twenty five thousand refugees have returned to syria in the past four months authorities say that people have been coming back since victory over terrorist groups there was annoyance igor's down off met some of the returning. and the border between syria and lebanon which is literally some two kilometers away from here is expected to become a major flood gate for those whose home sickness has turned into something big going to the actual return home right now we are at one out of five ports of entry established by the syrian government as they welcome its citizens home there were many things to run from terror. pointless and unspeakable brutality

but now there's one homeland i know we suffered from terrorism for three years and eight months all kinds of weapons were used against us but we stood firm and did not give up and kept fighting until we were transferred here the terrorists who are against life itself against peaceful citizens women and children it was very difficult for us to live but the terrorists were living in good conditions come to the terrorists left my city so i decided to return because it is safe there now i learned my town in syria is safe and that is why i decided to return with my family the government has promised to restore infrastructure in amman scale from hospitals to schools judging by the walls in this school there's a new subject on the curriculum and it's called survival from different types of landmines to improvised explosive devices and to simply objects that kids should be aware of this is what children in this school will be taught about when it opens this september but not everyone will be welcomed back to revive

a peaceful existence here like the white house hailed as a rescue organization by the west damascus isn't looking forward to their return syria's living abroad who have committed nothing against their i mean you know citizens should feel nothing at all the government will ensure their safety and those who chose to flee the country should have committed the crimes. which made them very afraid of staying in the country so the white helmets are criminals and they should be treated this way there are many displaced syrians who are being moved against getting ready to come home just yet we think that it's premature to promote return it's serious feel very insecure there's still a lot of work going on in syria even though out of the seven million people that

escape the conflict almost equals the rule of them to come back to syria but there will be no hope rebuilding the country from the west far to the will there be a particular western countries should support the return of syrian citizens and lift economic sanctions against syria because people who want to return need schools hospitals food and shelter for their families the e.u. and the us have been when we say the e.u. we must remember that britain is the driving force of the policy towards towards syria but britain and us led you following along in its wake have since twenty eleven made it their policy to destroy syria to destroy the syrian government by any means necessary to facilitate a train and equip a sectarian brutal sectarian insurgency that laid waste to the country their policy has been to make syria uninhabitable and their policy remains to ensure that it

stays uninhabitable so syrian refugees in europe absolutely caught between well a rock and a hard place is putting it very very mildly on the one hand they have the e.u. then the us still continuing to enact this policy of making their own country uninhabitable and then the same time you have this growing fascist street movement in. in the e.u. that's actually has even influence over for example the british government whose policy is to basically make european inhabit. double for them hatred towards the unites a lot of syrians who chose to flee their country well now at least judging by the promises the syrian government seems to be extending an olive branch to those who seek to do no more damage is done of reporting from syria. washington has annoyance that it will suspend funding for the open skellies treaty now after claiming that russia violated the terms of the agreement let's get more

in this no go live to donald or for don remind us what the treaty and heals and what this development non-fact means. well donald trump on monday signed something called the national defense authorization act and that essentially cut off funding for the open skies treaty now the open skies treaty was signed back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two to start being effective in two thousand and two and basically it allowed military aircraft to enter each other's air spaces and collect information on military locations but the u.s. now says that russia has violated the agreement. the president has imposed treaty violation responses and legal country measures in the russian federation for his file lesions of the open skies treaty. but russia still says that it remains in compliance with the treaties terms and expressed regret about the u.s.

his decision. instead of addressing this issue within the framework of the open skies consultative commission we learn from the new bill that the funding for the implementation of the treaty will be suspended this is the path towards further intoxication of international relations by unilateral methods we can only regret it . now according to the m.d.a. president trump is required to submit certification that russia is indeed in compliance with these terms within the. next ninety days so we're just going to have to see how that all pans out artie's double quarter thank you for the update. oh. well that's indeed now get an update on our main breaking news from italy this hour the country's deputy transport minister now say that twenty two people have died after an elevated motorway bridge collapsed in the northern city of genoa one child is known to have died eight survivors are being treated five are critically

ill we believe the two hundred meter section came done during an intense storm on the run mid day local time sending vehicles plunging one hundred meters below hundreds of emergency workers are at the scene digging through as you can see there are tons of concrete and steel we are of course keeping of course the developments and any and all updates we will bring to you. it join me at the top of the hour for more on the story now right ahead more great programs are to international. business boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c.

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