thanks. breaking news it's simply a motorway bridge has collapsed in the northern city of genoa sending vehicles plunging one hundred meters these are live pictures now from the italian city twenty two people are confirmed dead also ahead in the local. police in london confirmed they are treating a car crash in westminster as a terrorist incident vehicle smushed into security barriers i'd side parliament during the morning rush hour. and washington gets the cold shoulder for

imposing sanctions on middle east nations around the say there will be no negotiations with the u.s. so wild turkey also ruled. in the evening here in moscow wherever you're watching from hello and welcome i'm in an o'neill our top story a major motorway bridge house collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa sending vehicles plunging one hundred meters to the grind the deputy transport minister ses at least twenty two people have been killed including a child we're just looking at live pictures right now at from the scene so much work going on with emergency crews our correspondent has been keeping track of this

for the past number of hours. joins us now with more of the details just as we're looking. at the footage there it really is extraordinary of the aftermath of the deadly instance such a huge bridge so high up into the what's known about what occurred at this stage. yes absolutely dramatic pictures from the scene. transport minister has called the incident immense tragedy a talon journalists describing it as a take the bridge a massive construction was around one hundred metre high it's two hundred meters section collapsed due you were in a violent storm some witnesses say that a lightning strike keep the bridge just before it collapsed due posted on several social media a flesh could be seen as the concrete structure crumbled it was

a major highway connecting different cities and towns in the northern part of a tilly and the tragedy happened a little bit before noon the z. morning hours and tuesday of course it is a very popular mall to weigh at firefighter who's among those many around two hundred emergency staff working on the ground. says that they were at least twenty cars on the bridge when it collapsed helicopters and ambulances are seen on the ground police and rescue workers are also there they are trying to find more survivors the bridge was built in one thousand nine hundred sixty s. and we hear that it was undergoing maintenance at the time when the incident occurred we also hear that people in eataly massively contact emergency services all frayne help particularly to didn't blog so truly tragic moment for the whole

country and we see this feeling of solidarity and of course sadness. yeah thank you very much for the op that are to use maria. police in britain have confirmed they are treating a car crash outside parliament as a terror attack the vehicle crashed into security barriers after injuring cyclists and pedestrians during choose the morning rush hour the driver was detained by armed police who rushed to the sea. was. was. was.

was but what we know is not just after seven thirty in the morning a silver a hot spot drove at speed through the westminster area before crashing into bar years down here side the highs is off parliament now normally this would be a bustling government area but for a parliament summer recess with iconic marks nearby big band westminster abbey no politicians actually sitting there at the time police had cordoned off the area shut down and the underground station crossed the road those measures have been lifted they say intelligence indicates there is no further danger to the public three people have been injured two are in hospital with. life threatening injuries the third was treated for minor injuries at the scene the

driver was arrested on suspicion of terror offenses is said to be out this moment not cooperating however it is believed he's from the city of birmingham in the midlands following the incident extra officers are patrolling the streets of england scotland and wales currently a government emergency committee known as cobra is holding a meeting on the matter reporting from my side the palace of westminster. 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 happens 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 mound 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. given that there's appears to be. the method of this being an iconic sites we are treating it as a terrorist incident and the investigation is 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 so we've been talking to a witness here a local resident who saw it all with his own my eyes let's take a listen to how he described what happened i was. driving directive lead to the parliament and we should be. the one of the big logs the bear is did you see the man who was in the car for the rest. your eight year old being gay and he seemed quiet. to me 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 a raise is worrying because i'm a father of two young sons you know age almost seven and five and a hoffman worry and i mean but this. 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 on holidays where to 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'll be cowed by terrorists. you will see over the next few days i mean creased number off and on and offices across london.

the attempts to make countless acts of kindness that brought people closer together . and. they continue to be visible patrols around manchester which include the deployment of offices. that is will see an increased process peace. today and over the course of the next few days no reason to be alone ok. keep the money. on that as we'll see an increased number of peaceable police officers.

ok let's go through some of the details now at roger gray rodgers a former metropolitan police officer in the british capital roger good to have you back on the show we know that parliament's on its summer recess right now what kind of security would there be a run westminster out this time. we're not going to relax this there's security to any extent and told them i relax their awareness a little being the situation is as you described but you can really guarantee that the visions will still be there and it's reflected in the reaction time when this incident took place emergency services we saw moved in swiftly thankfully no one we believe was seriously hurt should such a sensitive location be further secured i remember in the aftermath of last year the attack on westminster bridge there were a lot of talk about it perhaps becoming pedestrian eyes we haven't heard

a lot of that in the recent past is that something you think will will now be back on the table. well there are three going to be. what i exist taken out of this is there's a danger of overreaction as well london is congested enough as it is at times and if we start adding more sort of no go zones that we're. going to become worse and also we don't want to give any terrorists or the press or any sense of success in carrying us into doing one thing or the other the result of their actions so it's something that should be considered but why very carefully the government's emergency response committee named cobra convened to run an hour ago what do you expect to come from the roger. well everything and nothing because we have to wind see the moment we are hearing that this is being treated as a terrorist and quite rightly as a terrorist incident but it's not confirmed that it was such the suspect himself is

not cooperating and it's hard to see even if it was malicious what kind of logic was being a ploy here you know to attack one of those barriers with a car as small as that what did he really hope to achieve apart from you know self aggrandizement by drawing attention to himself but this is to say the least a strange one you know foresee the template for this kind of attack exists and almost you know anybody that's got a more to do so has got car keys consent to do something like that forty on this occasion we've very very limited success you're speaking to us what you're but five minute walk away from from college green near where the incident happened the surrounding roads there westminster bridge westminster cheap there were closed for hours is it just a sign of the times that it's necessary because i suppose so much rush hour disruption in a very busy part of london after the driver was quickly apprehended is this just

something to it to be expected. yes it is. it's easy to be wise after an event where you have to take into account there is what's termed the golden hour just after the incident where the maximum amount of information forensic or otherwise is to be gathered from the scene or witnesses that are in the area so it's very important to preserve the area to get as much as possible in the bag evidentially because the you know we could be where we would be looking at a prosecution of whatever coined going forward into the future and the police want to be passed on as they came to deal with it so the thinking behind the is to get as much from the scene as i can the danger has to be a consideration but the evidence in the media then recedes and then it becomes an evidential matter and that's very important and there's been no attacks in britain this year but just reading some of the lines police the police have stopped seventeen at terror plots in eighteen months in the u.k.

so it's very much the threat is very much real are people's perception or what is people's perception of security right there at the moment do people feel secure. well as far as they can do there is only so much you can do and if you look at the amount of sorry the amount of tourist or on the street generally visibly until this particular reason took place things were it was business as normal but the thing that i would ask everybody to bear in mind is that by the very nature the gathering of intelligence for terrorists or prevention or terrorist purposes has to be covertly so so much goes on can all be seen and the police force can in many cases trump what successes they have had because i mean so doing they may give away their next move will give a white evidence so you know it has to be a degree of trust and you've got to save yourself if this number of incidents has been prevented then the greater extent the police are succeeding yeah it's

a good point thanks for coming on the program there and thankfully as you say no one seriously injured it looks like at this stage roger great former metropolitan police officer thank you. the taliban's making troubling gains in afghanistan we've got that and more of the rest of the global news headlines when we're back.

here you now this new attempt. to counter global currency. that will be controlled by any government run as the chance to do what they all to do. the trick of the subtle bankers and. build an economy. you're back with or to international iran's supreme leader or sais he won't negotiate with washington after president trumps latest offer to talk about

improving ties at the same time president erdogan has a nonstarter turkey will boycott u.s. electronic products picking up the story no 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 violent 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 talks were on the table i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with the rent if they wanted to meet and ready to meet anytime they want to but he runs the 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 the 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 stop your strategic partner in the battle we will do as the law dictates you cannot simply make sure you can bow down or by bus in us around meanwhile russia is not exactly caving in the face of sanctions yes it was possible to put 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 i cannot make it work and it would be necessary to react to this war economically politically or by other means in our american friends and i 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 table r.t. washington d.c. where former u.s. ambassador to croatia peter galbraith told us it's unclear whether sanctions will have the effect 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 lawful 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 that deal to refer to three reverend brown said and turkey simply got a patient so it's quite possible something will be worked out on that one. cell of militants have overrun a military base in northern afghanistan killing seventeen soldiers now it sounds the united nations confirmed over one hundred civilians were killed in the latest clashes between the taliban and afghan forces in the city of gasoline let's take a look now because it's long been considered a strategic area situated on the road connecting the capital kabul while fighting

there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm gaston and take control taliban fighters have been blocking roads in and out of the city to prevent the afghan military getting reinforcements residents have described seeing dead bodies on the streets and buildings on fire looking out almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan has failed to make the country it appears any safer here's how you go. 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 band 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 engaging 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 u.s. 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 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 common go fair enough but the things the people in charge see 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's 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 hol 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 auto 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. ok a reminder of our breaking news from it's silly at least deputy transport minister no ses that twenty two people have died after an elevated motorway bridge collapse in the northern city of genoa one child is known to have died eight survivors are being treated by our critically ill these are live pictures right now of the scene as rescuers at work to find some of the survivors the two that two hundred meters section came down. during an intense storm on a run midday local time sending fake plunging one hundred meters below we are now hearing that number has increased to thirty people dead from twenty two so that number rising it seems bybee our hundreds have

a merchant he workers are at the scene digging through tons of concrete and steel we are across developments and we'll keep you updated as we hear more on this story . monsanto punish the white supremacy is out numbered on the director of a documentary focusing on one of america's most distressing stories watching the hawks as all about and moments. greetings and salutations we begin today hard watchers with incredible new news out of san francisco's monsanto yes. has been left scrambling after a jury ruled the company was liable for the terminal cancer affecting former groundskeeper dwayne johnson to the tune of over two hundred million dollars in a stunning decision on friday the jury awarded johnson the ailing forty six year

old two hundred eighty nine million in damages declaring them sondos roundup weed killer had caused his non hodgkins lymphoma and that the agro chemical giant had indeed failed to warn him of the health hazards from exposure and have acted with malice or oppression naturally monsanto is already on the defensive declaring that they will indeed be appealing the ruling scott partridge the vice president of the continued to toe the company line despite the jury's ruling informing the media that the verdict doesn't change the four plus decades of safety safe use and science behind the product. well. sure your peers and apparently your internal company e-mails beg to differ there scotty sorry according to ben wiseman or johnson's lead attorney on the case these e-mails more than likely played a huge role in the jury's decision he said quote we were finally able to show the jury the secret internal monsanto documents proving that monsanto is known for

decades that roundup could cause cancer wiser went on to note that this verdict sends a message to monsanto that it's years of deception regarding roundup is over and that they should put consumer safety first over profits but will the bear own the corporate behemoths listen will they truly listen only time will tell but this jury's decision does prove how important it is to always be watching the hawks. just. like you that i got.