. >>> hello, david foster - you're watching al jazeera. also coming up in the next 30 minutes - the heaviest rain in the balkans in a century. thousands awaiting evacuation. >>> tear gas and water canons as grief from the mine disaster turns violent >>> is step forward in police talks between the columbian government and f.a.r.c. rebels - this time on the drugs trade. >>> india's prime minister elect received a hero's welcome in new delhi. narendra modi's supporters are holding a parade after his victory. his hindu nationalist party, b.j.p., drew a majority - the first time in three decades that a single party has down that. let's go to the indian capital to our correspondent. you had a chance to look at the papers. give us an idea of how narendra modi's victory is being received. >> reporter: yes, i think the country is stunned by the victory. over 266 seats, topping to 330 with allies. the papers are awash with modi. indian express says he'll deliver the first single party in 30 years, "i'm your servant, an ordinary man." then the asian

. >>> hello from me, david foster. you are watching al jazeera. >>> also coming up, protests turn violent in turkey after the worst-ever mining disaster. >>> rally against the world cup - protests across brazil at the cost of staging the world's biggest football tournaments. >> i'm at the cannes film festival looking at how real life is coming together this year - courtesy of africa. >>> india's main opposition party is heading for a landslide victory in the general election. the hindu nationalist b.j.p. campaigned on economically viable ruling, unseating the current party. election results trickled in. narendra modi, being congratulated by his mother. his supporters are on the streets in anticipation of victory. more than 500 million votes were cast during the nine phase general elections. the finishing line is in site as we join our correspondent, outside a counting satisfaction. will we know pretty soon that it is absolute, and the size of the victory? >> yes. i mean the election commission leads, or shows that the

. >>> hello, i'm david foster in doha. the other top stories - quitting, a special envoy, but lakhdar brahimi hints at a plan to solve the conflict in syria. >>> a fragile peace - a report from south sudan, where both sides accuse one another of violating a ceasefire. >>> the atm that ensures dlis water supplies are always on top. elis water supplies are always on top. >>> a massive rescue is taking place at a mine in turkey where assist many as 300 workers are trapped underground. 300 others have been brought to safety. at least 200 are known to have died. we are looking at live pictures from the scene at soma - in the west of turkey. hundreds of concerned relatives near the entrance to the mine as a desperate rescue mission continues. almost 800 workers were inside the mine at the time of an explosion. an explosion, we understand, that was caused by an electrical fault, around about 19 hours ago it happened. and all hopes of finding those alive - those underground alive may well be fading. fears of many of them having be

david foster. these are some of the stories we are covering. detail in the next 60 minutes. >> rebels quit their besieged city football but their current whereabouts football unknown. . >> this will be the end of terra in nigeria. >> a promise of victory in the fight against the armed group boko haram. >> i am barbara with the top stories europe klug separatists in ukraine ignoring putin's call to postpone an independence vote . >> i am powering the future. ethiopia continues to build a hydroelectric damn. why is that turning some people red with anger? >>> the final whereabouts of hundreds of syrian opposition fighters who have been trying to leave their last stronghold in the old city of homs is unclear. they have been sloutd to leave under a u.n.-brokered cease fire. in the last few minutes, we have heard reports that they may not have made it to safety, that they could have been detained. we have we have no more details at the moment. in the meantime, their withdrawal is seen as a major victory for president bashar al-assad's forces. >> fro

david foster. these are some of the stories we are covering. detail in the next 60 minutes. >> rebels quit their besieged city football but their current whereabouts football unknown. . >> this will be the end of terra in nigeria. >> a promise of victory in the fight against the armed group boko haram. >> i am barbara

. >>> hello from me david foster in doha. top stories - the trial of three al jazeera journalists are resuming as video leaks of a fourth journalist. >> i have requested separate medical check-ups from independent sources, yet it has not been provided >>> the afghan elections - official results to show that no candidate won out right. a run-off next month >>> the new york museum about the 9/11 attacks that is proving controversial for almost everyone. >>> scenes of despair and heartbreak in turkey boil over into scenes of anger and violence as the country struggles with its biggest disaster. 282 miners are confirmed to have died. many more are believed to be buried inside the coal pit they were working in. >> reporter: what was a rescue operation has become a long-running procession - carrying bodies to the surface. a fleet of ambulances no longer waiting for the injured, but driving away the dead. this, the some ber aftermath of an underground fire, an explosion, poisoned pupils - every miner's worst fear, now for their fami

. [♪ music ] >> a warm welcome to you from me, david foster.ere are some of the stories we're looking at in detail for the next 60 minutes. rebels who kidnapped school girls are now blamed for hundreds dead. >>> the first to the polls at the end of apartheid.

i'm david foster, these are the our tops. rebels ambush government check appointment outside of the town sovensk. >> the boko haram release a video about 206 school girls. >>> and the answer to staying young. the answer may be in your blood. first. soldiers have been killed in sovensk if. >> reporter: ukraine's interior minister said that battles have killed many, and with sovensk quickly switching hands. tanks rolled through the city. not all locals support of the pro-russian movement, but some are vowing to defend the 8,000 or so militiamen. >> i don't have a machine gun. they wouldn't give it to me. we are unarmed. >> they say they are not going to attack us, but they keep the troops. why are they keeping them there. >> reporter: the government of ukraine said that it felt they have decided the policy of blockading the town. that has come to an end. now. >> paul, are you there? what you're seeing at the moment is a roadblock where the ukrainian tanks armored vehicles blokbroke through the roadblock. we'll bring you any dev

. >> did david foster wallace right for you? >> jonathan franzen. a magazine can't get everything. in this anthology, for example, in the poetry section. the new yorker was great about elizabeth fisher. it completely missed the boat on mall stevens -- on wallace stevens. that is what shapes the character of the magazine. the decisions in real time. you wish you had been wise about everything. that is not going to happen. the san francisco poets, the beat poets. later on the new yorker published them. that is something that was in city lights and more avant-garde magazines. >> at what point did you think, i would love to be the editor? >> not once. not one minute, not one day. it didn't make any sense. i loved writing and reporting. i was nowhere near it and editing track -- i was nowhere near an editing track. occasionally tina brown would give me a piece or two. but it was oblique to what i was really doing. >> how long does it take you decide to take the job? about on friday. he offered it to somebody else over the weekend. that's all part. -- that fell apart. he has been a great

[♪ music ] >> a warm welcome to you from me, david foster.ere are some of the stories we're looking at in detail for the next 60 minutes. rebels who kidnapped school girls are now blamed for hundreds dead. >>> the first to the polls at the end of apartheid. >>> several escape after three years of resistence. >> we have the top stories from europe. including nothing but hot air, the call to postpone a referendum of independence. >>> and the dangers of too much tv. the new health warning of increased blood pressure in children. >> boko haram fighters have attacked, gun men's stormed a town on the border of cameroon. the attack was on monday. >> they attacked that city for over 12 hours. they did not leave until 1:00 in the night. the city was hit by the military and according to the locals a day or two to the attack the military and the civilians vigilanty moved when they heard that some of the school girls who were abducted was hidden around that area. so the insurgents took advantage of the situation and they came in to the city. and actually

. >>> hello, i'm david foster in doha. the other top stories - quitting, a special envoy, but lakhdar brahimi hints at a plan to solve the conflict in syria. >>> a fragile peace - a report from south sudan, where both sides accuse

. >>> hello, david foster - you're watching al jazeera.also coming up in the next 30 minutes - the heaviest rain in the balkans in a century. thousands awaiting evacuation. >>> tear gas and water canons as grief from the mine

. >>> hello from me, david foster.g al jazeera. >>> also coming up, protests turn violent in turkey after the worst-ever mining disaster. >>> rally against the world cup - protests across brazil at the cost of staging the world's biggest football

. >>> hello from me david foster in doha.op stories - the trial of three al jazeera journalists are resuming as video leaks of a fourth journalist. >> i have requested separat

david foster will take you through the next half hour.on't go away. >> anger erupting over turkey's deadliest mine disaster, the families saying the government is not doing enough to rescue miners trapped underground. >> oh, my god! >> a state of emergency in san diego where wildfires closed schools and forced thousands from their homes. >> never recanted, never back

. >> did david foster he ever write. >> we published him certainly. ut david fosterwalled -- jonathan franson is a great friend. a magazine can't get everything. and you'll see in this anthology, for example, in the poetry section, the new yorker was great about elizabeth bishop, great poet. it completely missed the vote on wallace stevens. but that's what shapes the character of a magazine, the decisions in real time. you wish looking back historically that you had been wise about everything. that's just not going to happen. so you know, the san francisco poets, the beat poets and later on it was more in later life and avant-garde magazines. >> rose: when did you think before you were offered the job, i would love to be the editor. >> not once. not a minute, not one day. and this is not, because it didn't make any sense. i loved writing, i loved reporting and i was no where near an editing track. the only editing i did was occasionally tina brown would give me a piece or a manuscript to look at and she's say what do you think. and i would go to a meet

>>> a warm welcome from the david foster to the al jazeera news hour coming up in the kous of the next 60 minutes. more kidnapped girls in the hands of rebels. we have the latest on the growing calls to save them. >>> i'm in london where the top story we're covering in europe is growing warnings of war in ukraine. the international community tries against to contain the spiraling crisis. >>> weapons, bombs and cash. saudi arabia says it has uncover upped an international terrorist network. >>> fighting over aid in afghanistan, landslide survivors lose hope and desperation is on the rise. >>> the fate of a growing number of schoolgirls held captive by one of the most dangerous rebel groups in africa is the focus of an international outcry. first, boca harum kidnapped 276 girls from their school in northern nigeria last month. news eight more have been abducted from their own homes. the united states is sending in a tomorrow to help with the search, and the united nations says what has happened is an outrage and could be considered a crime against humanity. the girls' families demand ans

. >> rose: david foster wallace your friend gave a commencement in 2005, and it went viral, and what he said-- he called his, this is water... he was a friend. did you know of that famous speech? and did it influence you to think about it? >> in 204 when i wrote the first chapter i didn't know. and i think in the meantime i'm i dave it. they have kind of beautist or eastern underpinnings. when you judge a question about ciens, why aren't we kind, i think you come back to the idea that we're trapped in these thoughts that we create. and by too vinlulently supporting the boards themselveses you end up self itch. we talked about one of the strangeification we're at are-- i also mentioned that we understand ourselves to be separate from the rest of reality in a way that actually isn't true, and we understand ourselves to be exprmt solnid a way that isn't true. at the end of life, we sort of get the bill for this false thinking, but i would argue along wait you also think i wish i had been more present for this or more kind for this person, you're paying the bill of is this of this false

i'm david foster, these are the our tops. check appointment outside of the town sovensk. >> the boko haram release a

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david stay tuned boom bust is next. i was born in the ukraine i grew up in a family of alcoholics as did many of my foster sons dead kids who had slept rough on the street since they were four years old some since they were two enough i'm not the rigid man where i hear and kid i am now because of where i want to help won't be able. to do as a group of kids standing by the road like you put the children here aren't even asking for food only wanted some water to drink. i so hundreds and hundreds of poverty stricken children dressed in rags. but i couldn't forget the eyes of this one boy i came back a year later to find that little kid who. has been a big man. but that was how i came by one mole foster so. well if you're going to come are going to like these policies just like you know. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. over there i marinate it this is boom bust and this is what's on the agenda for you today. first up we have the best selling author a condom is a pundit and boom bust all star mr jim rickards live and in studio today now jim is sitting down with me to discuss the finer p