florence thens for us. we have this coming up for you on this program. >> no. no.the grannies of kenya fighting back against rising crime. and the launch a new car in i understand near i can't, but not everybody is dancing about it, we'll tell you why if you stay with us. ♪ ♪ balloo and a fresh outlook. including yours. [[voiceover]] every day, events sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours. >>> you are watching al jazerra. these are the top stories this hour. two bombs have exploded in syria's capital du damascus. syria state tv says its building was hit and pedestrians walking outside were hurt. seven red cross aid workers have been kidnapped in the northwestern province of italy. the court ruling in malaysia banning the use of the words allah by nonmuslims have brought protest to his the street. the court ruled that other

all the students in this class, and then at night, sort of sneak it out, put it in a piazza, have this new, unbelievable cardboard fountain in some piazza in florence, and then watch the rain come and just melt it. to me, i thought it was phenomenal. in a way, that's sort of like the little synopsis, a little sort of note of what i would like to see. i would love to really do something extraordinarily heroic and then put it in a great venue and then watch it as the rain came and the snow came and see it tilt, you know what i mean? dissolve, mold... whatever happens to it. when you turn the corner, automatically it has kind of a strength to it. so it really starts to-- it starts to have strength.

and then nothing happened after that conversation only kids company pursued florence texting and phoningto make sure she was ok over a period of nearly a year a continuity of care that traumatized youngsters desperately need and getting from the government child mental health and children's social services hasn't changed since the victorian times we renew our railways we renew our airports we renew our hospitals but actually we haven't bothered to renew you really this structure that deal with almost one rouble kids and make them fit for purpose repeated requests for a government response to that yielded nothing about his company i probably would have five kids in a council flat right now instead of twenty four florence is a graduate of oxford university articulate intelligent and ready to help the next generation. reckons a million traumatized children from the states like the going without any kind of help from an overstretched social services and still she has to beg for funding so now kids company can keep its doors open to help more vulnerable young people but for how long in eighte

and then i had this epiphany about lawrence of why he was able to do what he did in the middle east. it really is -- it's a central rental of florence's existence. how did a 28-year-old oxford scholar go off to a a then become this battlefield commander of a foreign bible army. part of the answer i realized was while he was able to do it because no one was paying much attention, but reddish focus, french focuses the western front. that's her 99% of the money casualties as the next minute. so if this guy could go off and cause problems for the turkish enemy and arabia and didn't require much, great. and now, go do it. kinder from the realization about lawrence i thought if that was true about the british were by far the biggest imperial players in the region, it's been true about the other umpires also. i started looking around and i found proof two years older or three years older than lawrence, who had been attached to the german embassy in cairo for years and then becomes the head of determining counterintelligence at the spymaster in syria during the war. the jewish agronomists. i love the idea that so much of the history -- i don'

florence's 55. --h of them did not have they had a real bond, a real- time. .- tie >> came from a mining camp at west. her father, very poor, literally strikes gold and becomes fabulously wealthy. then she marries into more , the son of the publisher of a cincinnati paper. they knew the hardings from ohio. was a morphine addict. that was because of an injury, an auto accident that killed her brother. she was a very heavy drinker, even before that. this hope diamond, she purchased the hope diamond in paris, supposedly worn by marie antoinette. they warned her, do not do it. then people started to die around here. -- around her. i came in to washington decades ago and went in to see the smithsonian. there in front of me was the hope diamond. i thought, the night before there had been on abc television, the curse of the hope diamond. i said, the curse of the hope diamond? and i came out and my car was missing. [laughter] collects the harding presidency presidency, weng begin to hear about the scandals that were building, including the so-called teapot dome scandal. herty.torney general daug the veterans bureau scandal, which was many hundreds of thousands of dollars. on the positive si

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florence, italy. the judge rejected more than a dozen requests made by knox's lawyer, including for a plea of new tests on key evidence that they believe would clear knox and thenll for the 2007 murder of meredith kircher. >> it's always a bad day when he grants more defense motions. in a high profile case there's a tremendous pressure on the judge to err on the side of letting evidence in rather than keeping it out. >> reporter: the court did grant the defense's request for additional testing on a kippen knife found in sollecito's apartment. knox has always maintain her innocence in the murder of her 21-year-old british roommate. >> i'm not responsible for what happened. i didn't do it. i wasn't there. i don't know anything more about it. >> reporter: the court also said it would consider testimony of a convict, a former cell mate of sollecito's who claimed his own brother killed kercher. while knox remains in the united states, her lawyers argued on her behalf. >> some observers have said that internal conviction that a judge must have before finding someone guilty is actually a higher standard and that is more protective of defendant. >> reporter: the trial