as a campaigner and lawyer representing the victims of institutionalized child abuse she joins us via skype from melbourne we appreciate it very much so as we reported just a moment ago one of the reasons that wilson's resignation even happened was because of public pressures from leaders why do those leaders not used to employ it's that they have to actually affect the laws. ok so. in many ways the same to the maximum sentence under the laws of new south wales would have been two years imprisonment that's and we've got to understand and this is not right we've got to understand that when dave laws were made they were not made with the with concealing trial six curran's in mind they

of the chicago commuty trust joining us via skype. thanks so much. >> thank you.>> reenivasan: it was a national day of mourning in italy today. a state funeral was held in genoa for those who died last tuesday when the morandi bridge collapsed during busy lunchtime traffic, killing more than 40 people. that number may rise as search and rescue teams continue to sift through the rubble. a genoa court is now charged with determining the of the collapse of the 51-year-old bridge. in the south indian state of kerala are stranding thousands of people and hindering rescue operations. the flooding being called the worst in a century, with some areas receiving more than double the rainfall of a typical monsoon seon. more than 190 people have died in the past tedays, and 300,000 are now in state-run relief camps. the special counsel investigating russian interference into the 2016 election is asking jail time for a former trump foreign affairs aide who has admitted to lying to the f.b.i. george papadopoulos pled guilty to onlse count of makin

up to atte joining us now via skype from dablin is freelance correspondent amerguson. e amanda we're used to the pope being greeted li rock star, people lining the streets of whatever streets he visit. that was not the case in dublin. why? >> well, it's not necessarily it wasn't the case. there just maybe wasn't the same crowds thpope would have drawn in 1979 when his predecessor visited. certainly there were large numbers of people ls ing the stren dublin, but also there was a large number of protestsers as well, survivors of abuse, who wanted to make their point of abuse scandals. >> sreenivasan: how much hasst the receipt abuse scandal made the news in ireland? and put that in context of what and has been through wi its own abuse scandal decades ago. inly givenll, cert that the pope was visiting cub dublin today, and tomorrow as een intenseocus has b from international media. there are 1200 journalists from ll of theies with a eyes every move that the pope is making, and every sort of issue that's been raised around the catholic church, certainly what happened in nns

conditions with glenn mcgregor who's a professor of climatology at durham university joining us live via skype many thanks for joining us these these conditions i mean if indeed meteorologists do say you can't necessarily link weather conditions to climate change i mean how worried should we be this time. i think we've got an exceptional situation developing the iberian peninsula by portugal with temperatures forecast to reach forty seventh grader write a report that the world. raised possibly forty eight degrees so there's an exceptional situation i. think although i'm not used to that kind of a. chorus from different parts of europe. they are warming and of course these extremes occurring on background. increasing numbers of all or climate change change so. that. the probability in one direction increasing likelihood of extreme events like this in the future skeptics might say you know in this country all the talk over the last few weeks a couple of weeks of heat wave is all about the great some of drought of one hundred seventy six others might point to athens extreme temperatures in one hu

sara thank you well let's now speak to kerry gillem in australia joining us via skype she's the author of white lost the story of a weed killer cancer and the corruption of science she's also the research director of the food industry research group us writes in oh thanks for speaking to us your initial reaction to this case and the ruling in california well i found it you know very surprising thing obviously very storage and i think that it indicates a lot of scientists out there who have did warn me about the chemical and the hazard with that very many many years you know we've had research throughout that decade and we have the international agency for research on cancer that it that there are dangers and answered it with a chemical that type pacifically to cancer and not much can lymphoma so it definitely could indicate independent scientists around the world i know that you follow the the case very very closely and you have written this that over the years with each new scientific research showing harm one sound so work not to warn users or reduce.

. >> he has millions of views on social media and so he's here to join us via skype right this minute. >> and he's a businessman. >> dad, what was it like for you when you realized that your son really enjoyed reading and he was kind of ahead of his time? >> it was kind of mind blowing. when he turned 1 my mom just started buying him books. he picked up on it so fast it became his favorite thing to do. >> how did it come about that he was able to speak to the teachers there at the middle school? >> we started e-mailing and asking can he come speak? there's wa one guy that saw him speak at a church and he actually invited him to come speak at their in-school training. >> caleb, what's your favorite long word. >> vocabulary. >> caleb, do you remember any of your speeches? >> i am here to speak to you about the importance in business sense of reading. reading has also -- vocabulary and language skills. >> i hate to interrupt, but how long did it take for caleb to learn that? >> maybe two weeks. we thought he didn't know it and got there and he said the entire speech like he's been sittin

he joins us via skype from new york alley i mean the turkish president now says ankara will boycott u.s. electronic goods i mean that may appeal to a loyal domestic audience but it's not likely to shore up confidence in the lira is it it's not i mean we are not sure if it's to work or not however it's a clear message to united states president throughout targets doubling turkey mental. tires worsen so this is also against world trade organization policies rules today this afternoon u.s. chamber of commerce just released a statement saying that it's clearing the usal section. imports from turkey causes serious just for us so it's kind of like a trade war i need it to go through our u.s. as well so present throughout has launched this unnecessary action against turkey and turkey is responding in a similar way and i do and has appealed to turkish citizens to change their foreign currency into lira but let me ask you ali why would people do that given that the lira is losing value presumably people want to keep their foreign bank notes. so this is a kind of message from present are doing th

as the defense assistant professor of history at the american university of iraq he joins us via skype from death very much for being with us so the two of us in the new york times and it really underscores as in the long simmering anger by the turks the u.s. for what they see as a lack of appropriate response to the failed coup two years ago. hello laura thanks for having me president out of the new york times op that was a very decent summary as you pointed out of the ongoing disputes and there are many between on her and washington so looking at the particular dispute that is going on today we've got along that demanding for tenneco lands extradition from the u.s. now you've got the u.s. demanding as american pasta front seven being released from detention and sent back but it's size really i'll ask him for the same thing out there that the countries ignore nor an order and processes and systems that exist in their own countries. very much so and it's an interesting what you pointed out is extremely interesting because. the reality goes a little deeper than that both presidents trum

michael christian he's a journalist who wrote about the weapons used in the air strike he's joining us via skype from berlin thanks for speaking to us and when we refer to that airstrike we are talking about the one that targeted the. area and that happened on august the ninth what can you tell us about that particular bombing what u.s. allies and the munition used in that bomb. so what we can say is that the bombing happened on the morning of the ninth and he targeted area very close to a market in the center of the city also along its busiest street at a time when there was a significant amount of traffic alone. as we can see tragically. fifty people lost their lives including more than forty children and whenever social media activists on the ground have been posting pictures of what they say are fragments of the bomb that was used in the attack and one particular of those fragments was athene from allegedly from the start was the site and this feeling allowed us to track where this bomb was from and a clue to something called a cage code which is used by a defense with just sticks agency in

you steven erlanger is the europe chief political correspondent for the new york times he joins us via skype from brussels we appreciate your time very much so. lanny davis the attorney for michael cohen has been telling any and everybody that his client wants to talk that he wants to tell the truth now that he has things to say to robert muller to congressional committees is that actually going to happen do you see that happening. i do see that happening the problem is people who support trump will say quite rightly that michael cohen is just trying to save his butt from many years in jail but at the same time one presumes that robert muller will have corroborating evidence of some kind and is building a case that's that's really what we're seeing i mean the case against michael cohen remember was brought by the manhattan prosecutors but lanny davis who was very close to the clintons of course is trying to talk down. likely jail sentence so offering testimony as a mother investigation i think really quite important and if i were donald trump i'd be very very nervous is that something that h

more common, e-cigarettes are battery operated nicotine inhalers, and attorney greg bentley told us via skype he's representing hundreds of people who have been injured. >> people that are vaping need to understand that they're almost playing russian roulette because there's no rhyme or reason as to when or how these batteries are going to explode. but they are ex >> reporter: the fda regulates e-cigarettes. it advises consumers to use safety features, to keep it away from metal objects like keys and coins and says don't charge the device with a phone charger. a group that promotes vaping as an alternative to smoking says the fda should go further. >> we would like to see device manufacturers be able to make safer devices without having to, you know, go through a very burdensome and prohibitive approvals process. >> reporter: attorney bentley says the fda has delayed stricter regulations until 2020. >> the public needs to know that this is still an unregulated industry that operates like the wild, wild west, and they're rushing -- >> reporter: and here's an interesting note. the store manager

jordan levine, senior economist, talked to us via skype. >> i don't expect a major correction in home prices. the slower price growth will give folks' incomes a chance to catch up so we can repair this eroded affordability we've seen during this cycle. >> reporter: well, now, this trend may have some potential buyers wondering whether they should hold off buying a house. the economist jordan levine is forecasting the lack of housing to meet demand is only going to cause housing prices to continue to rise in the months ahead. live in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >> david, thank you very much. >>> some of the biggest shipping companies on san francisco bay are working with marine experts to protect endangered whales, the threat is ocean-going collisions that can prove deadly. >> this was the image that shocked environmentalists around the bay area last year, a pleasure boat running into a hump back whale. it was one of two incidents in a matter of days, and experts say warmer waters, possibly linked to climate change, could be making the situation even more dangerous. >> we've see

teamer cody she's recently published a family memoir called the boy on the beach also joining us via skype is doctors a hare. co-founder and president of the humanitarian assistance organization made global he's in chicago and has just returned from jordan lebanon where he met with so. syrian refugees angeleno doyle spokesperson for the international organization for migration which is based in geneva switzerland it is good to have you here everybody i want to start with a ted x. talk that team a day two years ago personalizing the refugee crisis have a look have a listen. the picture of currency . is the gift to us to you and me. is the powerful image to teach us. how we can use to their tragedy the seeds of hope now to invited tragedy. but to recognize it is going to happen. and one of the us. can we open our doors an arm and heart. can we find hope. i was so surprised when i was watching the ted talk and you put the picture of your little nephew in that ted talk you just faced it head on that picture somebody that you knew and loved why did you do that to be honest for me. to recognize

today but nobody was available to speak to us so let's bring in our panel for the show joining us via skype from nairobi researcher at the institute for security studies office in kenya in washington d.c. allie verjee visiting researcher at the united states institute of peace and in london i met sally mann a researcher in the africa program at chatham house welcome to you all now ali i want to start with you sunday's deal is just the latest ceasefire it's the latest power sharing agreement what makes it different this time any hope that it will last. i think it's first important to know that this isn't the final deal even though it's been reported that way there will still be subsequent negotiations on security matters the second point to make is that this deal does not repeal the earlier twenty fifteen peace agreement that you mentioned earlier that is still in effect but it's not clear what exactly will be implemented from that and what will be implemented from this agreement and how one selects between those things the third is that it sets a very long time table for actual implementati

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. or take this former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work. with. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert in. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada but daniel ortega and his wife they don't hide it . but ortega is unapologetic she chooses the un of being an accomplice to terrorists to criticizing a law that could soon see nicaragua's prisons overflow you see in human al-jazeera . give up the latest developments and other stories around the world today on our website al-jazeera dot com. now without the top stories. being declared the winner of zimbabwe's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote

well i'm joined now by eddie cross he is joining us via skype from harare he is a member of zimbabwe's opposition m.d.c. and a former member of parliament mr krause it's good to see you again let me get your take on just what we're seeing right now on television there in zimbabwe the fact that it appears that the electoral commission is going from constituency to constituency and really drawing this out how do you read that well i'm going to encourage by that i was encouraged early it's day when i was told that they had called in the chief election agents for old a presidential candidate or twenty three of them very scientific research. results from every single constituency in the country and i'm glad that they're now doing it this way because really they got to put this skepticism about their results to bid and this is the only way to do it bridget glorious that that it's good mr ross i think a lot of people would agree with you on that but what about the time of day or the time of night that this is taking place why why do this at such a late time when many people may not be able to

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats are going. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassination persecution. ortega's former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work. in this county. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada but daniel ortega and his wife they don't hide it . or take unapologetic accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorist criticizing the law. was prisons overflow. you see in human al-jazeera. some news out of afghanistan now at least fifteen people have died and fifty more have been injured in an attack close to a shia mosque of. a suicide bomber targeted worshipers during friday prayers and a province it's unclear who was behind the attack we will bring you more

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats are going. that's the reality we're living kidnapping fascinations persecution. ortega's former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long as. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert in. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada that's daniel ortega and his wife they don't hide it. but ortega is unapologetic accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists to criticizing a law that could soon see nicaragua's prisons overflow. you see in human al-jazeera . in sweden the prosecutor investigating the fatal shooting of a twenty year old disabled man say several police officers opened fire eric toro who had down's syndrome was shot on thursday in stockholm after waving a toy gun police say they ju

joining us now fm kabul via skype is the "new york times" afghanistan bureau chief rod nordland. thanks for being with us. why is it kis so rawtion. >> it has always been a really important straj i believ kind of marks the border between tae tajiq and azar and north and the caand the posthusne landin the east, taking it would cut off the taliban heartland and the rest of country and give them maybe a kind of quawsi state. >> sreenivasan: just the other day the afghan government was saying that they had control of this city but you your reporting showed otherwise. >> they are stiyill g today we have control but our reporter

let's get more on this knowledge on by brian leslie has a military historian and he's joining us via skypefrom colorado springs and the u.s. very good to have you with us on alex is there i so how credible and serious as the threat that vice president pence mentioned when he talked about you know growing security threats. you know there are many valid reasons it could be put forth for an independent space force protection of assets protection of satellites . and i think that what we're seeing here is we might be getting just a little bit ahead. right now as it mentioned there the united states air force base and already does a lot of these things the united states strategic command does a lot of these things and so the question is if you create a new space force what is that going to do that is different than what air force base is doing already well this document that the pentagon and that mike pence have released talks about and elite. personnel and elite squad that will be trained to fight wars and space what do you make of that. i noticed that vice president it's made clear correlation

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently and. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. ortega's a former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long as. we're. in this county. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in nicaragua that is daniel ortega and his wife and they don't hide it you can. put or take an apologetic to accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists but criticizing a law that could soon see nicaragua's prisons overflow you see in human al-jazeera man our fighting in the libyan city of benghazi has forced hundreds of families who already rely on government assistance out of their homes but now there's a financial crisis hit in the country and t

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently and. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. or takers former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long as. we're. in this county. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself. constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada that's daniel ortega and his wife and they don't hide it. or take an apologetic to the un of being an accomplice to terrorists the criticizing a law that. was prisons. you see in human.

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently and. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. or takers former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long as. we're. in this county. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada that daniel ortega and his wife they don't hide it. or take an unapologetic accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists criticizing a law that. was prisons. al-jazeera. the syrian government has been accused of faking the cause of death of thousands of prisoners in a report published by two human rights groups the syrian foundation's platform and the human rights and justice movement presented their findings and according to the syrian

the brookings doha center and an associate at the harvard kennedy school ran project he joins us via skype now from athens germany thanks very much for being with us so it is there any room here for for any sort of a deal to be struck between the u.s. and russia as far as its presence as far as dealing with iran's presence in syria well i mean. we are on. the back on the i think we have been overlapping and. the united states and russia when it comes to country you're on a military presence in syria. either by. mark your diversion is russia and iran. basically the russians are not really in. you know a lot of iranian military well. earlier this month to help. mediate or in convincing the iranians. their whole. area you eliminate the way from the border so there's an overlapping in those hours. or put a lock on the iran. do you think that iran has really miscalculated they stand. iran partly certainly miscalculated the nature of it with russia it was merely a trickle a line. that interested in that keeping the buckle up that regime and there were a lot but one of the survival. so i thought

resistance by paramilitary forces loyal to the government let's get more on that story now joining us via skype from frankfurt is said dolly lemma she is editor in chief of the standard an online news magazine thanks very much for being with us this is this is quite a complicated story isn't it just to set the scene for us. of what happened yesterday and what's behind it. thanks for having me yes indeed this is a very complicated history and story but what happened yesterday. the events that led to yesterday's intervention by the federal government police force and an army force begun actually unfolding on wednesday and thursday when so much i mean every time a state government and police force the paramilitary police force what we call them came to drain to another neighboring city to disrupt meeting by elders who have been denouncing the human rights abuses of the region not government. in what we call the presidents and so they have sent to disrupt this meeting to do a demo and that led to an increase in military activity in that region by the federal police also leading to the bridge to a c

the region run is editor in chief of the news minute dot com she joins us via skype from three saw in the state of good to have you with us just tell us what you've seen right now and how bad the situation is when i'm actually. pretty which is one of the past if they could in here like. there are hundreds of standard across not so. much a part of me as such that there are. in many places maybe lines night even. well we seem to have lost or. not. yes we do seem to have lost richard or you can imagine that with the to wrench will reign of the club and whether their communications also. will try to get in touch with you again later in the day let's. cross over to turkey now where a talk which occurred has rejected an appeal from the u.s. past the center of a dispute with washington's anchor is refusing to release andrew bronson who is being accused of espionage and terror related activities not a spat with the u.s. has been accompanied by a weakening of turkey's currency although the lira has a steadied itself in recent days the u.s. has suggested further sanctions could be placed on its

intelligence officer of the trans national threats of the cia he also worked with john brennan and joins us via skype from boston john brennan says this action by president trump is politically motivated and meant to silence his critics but how normal is it for a president to revoke security clearance like this. it's not normal at all i believe that has never happened before the only reason security car clearances would be revoked is for national security which means that someone has mishandled classified information or is found to be a security threat to the nation the security threat to the nation amply documented actually sitting in the oval office in the white house you don't remove ok it never happens secure you never revoke security clearances for political differences in fact the foundation of the united states and of the democracies on free speech and there are two hundred forty years of history in the united states that seek to protect speech that one hates not speech that one likes that's what her speech is and is protected so this is a purely political and dangerous for democracy step take

upgrade an aging fleet of planes francoise nichol is a former french ambassador to iran he joins us via skype from sonorous a mare and france thank you very much for your time so the new seems to thinking so the e.u. seems to be consistently taking a stand against these free impose sanctions from the u.s. is the e.u. in a position to offset any any of the damage that can be done by these new u.s. sanctions were a little partially score so in that they you want to be able to to bring a. big european banks having to do work with iran or to bring back group usual or ruin or the french. make which hug it's still have an important place in iran bert i believe that europe with time of call. a lot of work to be done because this is a complex situation we'd be able to maintain and probably to develop if you or good current business you know with to see more. go medium sized enterprises which are and do read of the american sanctions administration this is possible indeed it will take time we'll have to wait for. about six months late said to see if this can work but regard to how they you know you me

an edge out who's an iran analyst and this ng fellow at the brookings doha center he's joining us via skype from essen in germany festival who actually is responsible for economic policy in iran. i mean where iran the economy you have it your one. and only them. being the leader of iran but also the revolutionary guards and religious who are basically acting as commercial congress but this is the bulk of the iranian economy . the government funded by but not really a lot of power and. tackle something about that kind of the kind of economic empires but. the although the. policies of course. but the bulk of the iranian economy rests with those i'm. getting rid of mustard couple fianna mean what does that actually do does it free up the rouhani government or does it actually add tresham to him at a time of course when he's dealing with with the reimposition of u.s. sanctions. well that's another well you know the fact i think that we have the wrong line who are in control of your core message. to the government. parliament all of them the. minister of labor last month the president wrong you'

yes jim a now he's the director general of girls as community mental health program he's joining us via skype from khan yunis thank you very much indeed i'm just wondering how representative all of palestinian children but particularly children and girls that is that little girl in the kind of conditions that she is exhibiting. good morning everyone i think this report gives only something example of the difference between trauma in the trauma and other places in the world so basically her children live not in a status of the trauma but sort of ongoing trauma i think this case the prisons most of the policy answers are in gaza strip even though most of them force were not seriously injured at the physical level but i think there are traumas that are say critically. record that unicef said recently that one in four children is in need for some sort of psychological. support and they think that. most of the children are living under some sort or impacted by some sort of problem and without that kind of psychological support that you mention all of these children likely ever to be able to contri

columnist with plus nine seventeen magazine and she attended the protest last night and joins us via skype from tel aviv dalia how surprised are you at the level of turnout on the streets i mean you were there i wasn't entirely surprised because we know that this law has been very very divisive in israeli society in other words the right wing which is about forty five percent of israeli society and over fifty percent of jewish society is quite supportive but almost everybody else from the left to the palestinian minority to about half the people who consider themselves centrist and course the druze have been very against it and so it has been galvanizing i think it's for those people it's crossed a red line we saw about by estimates thirty thousand people last night it was an impressive turnout you know people were very energized and the previous week of course there was also a very large demonstration in the same place for the same reason people feel like it has cemented a history of discrimination between the majority and minority populations in israel with a lot of constitutional status

today but nobody was available to speak to us so let's bring in our panel for the show joining us via skype from nairobi researcher at the institute for security studies office in kenya in washington d.c. allie verjee visiting researcher at the united states institute of peace and in london i met sally mann a researcher in the africa program at chatham house welcome to you all now ali i want to start with you sunday's deal is just the latest cease fire it's the latest power sharing agreement what makes it different this time any hope that it will last i think it's first important to know that this isn't the final deal even though it's been reported that way there will still be subsequent negotiations on security masses the second point to make is that this deal does not repeal the earlier twenty fifteen peace agreement that you mentioned earlier that is still in effect but it's not clear what exactly will be implemented and what will be implemented from this agreement and how one selects between those things the third is that it sets a very long time table for actual implementation and so i

as a campaigner and lawyer representing the victims of institutionalized child abuse she joins us via skype from melbourne we appreciate it very much so as we reported just a moment ago one of the reasons that wilson's resignation even happened was because of public pressures from leaders why do those leaders not used to employ it's that they have to actually affect the laws. ok so. in many ways the same to the maximum sentence under the laws of new south wales would have been two years imprisonment that's and we've got to understand and this is not right we've got to understand that when dave laws were made they were not made with the with concealing trial six curran's in mind they were made with other types of crimes in and in victoria so every state in australia has its own criminal provisions in their crimes acts so in the tory it for example it's almost impossible because between nineteen eighty one and twenty four train a long period of time. we have to prove for example that a person not only consumed and covered up child sex crimes or serious crimes. the information they have has to

the update from bogota thank you let's now speak to paul dobson in venezuela itself is joining us via skype is a journalist venezuela analysis dot com thanks for speaking to us so maduro has announced a series of economic measures that he's going to take he said this i want the country to recover and i have the formula one of which he says he will hike the minimum wage by three thousand percent and he's also introducing a crypto currency how is this all going to help the economic situation in the ordinary venezuelans. well the. the idea behind these measures taken by president or which come alongside a monetary conversion of the paper currency inverness wainer as well and a series of other issues tax reforms and a change in the way that a government when i set subsidy subsidies and the idea behind of these is to start reducing the subsidies in a generalized form on target subsidies to those who actually need them and also to try to address the problems of hyper hyper inflation in the country which is currently estimated at around thirty four thousand percent a year which is eaten away at wa

today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently. that's the reality we're living kidnapping nations persecution. or takers former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in the karada but daniel ortega and his wife they don't hide it . or take unapologetic accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists criticizing a law that. was prisons. al-jazeera. british prime minister of terrorism a french president. to try to soften his resistance to her brakes on the leaders are holding talks summer residence in song made so when our allies in europe after her breaks a blueprint ran into opposition at home with two senior ministers resigning in protest last month. or fr

of rich management a financial and political advisory firm he joins us via skype from i really appreciate your time so much so why specifically is what's happening in turkey specifically affecting a merchant markets in a way in the way that it is. so that you know the proximate cause to this emerging market weakness and cute contagion has been. but you know we've got to take a step back what we're seeing is the reduction of dollars being supplied into the system the end of the quantity of easing when the markets the global markets will slump that cheap them three dollars everybody got terribly excited particularly across emerging in front of markets and we've seen a with lash up with china and the dollar has been weaponized whether it's deliberate or by design it's not clear to me but it's become a very very. financial instrument coerce a financial instrument in the hands of president trauma and essentially the repricing has spilled over into other markets as you said the rabbit fell more than ten percent yesterday that's an extraordinary popping drawl unprecedented in the last decade and

calvi a consulting group specializing in engineering environmental science and economics he joins us via skype now from london thanks so much for being with us now i appreciate it as we are at a very early stage in this but based on what's known right now and what we know about the history of this bridge what kind of things would you be looking for to determine the cause here what might be the telltale signs well as you say it's too early to say it with any kind of degree of confidence and it would be really irresponsible to speculate specifically but a bridge of this nature of this age you would never see looked to see if there's any kind of signs of corrosion which may have been going on and in some of those tendons that you mentioned there's a concrete bridge it's actually a pre-stressed concrete bridge which means it has some high strength turnstile steel members inside there and if those were corroding and not been undetected you know that proved to be undetected that could have been a problem so i would be looking at those. critical tension elements which hold the bridge up to see were t

i want to bring in hawaii state representative who joins us via skype from the island of oahu.int of view, what's happening there? >> hello and good morning. the east side of the state bore the brunt of the storm and it depleted rapidly and spared the west side of the state which is relatively fine. but they did see approximately 40 inches of rain in some localized areas on the east part of the big island. our thoughts are with them now. >> you i understand have sandbags at your front door. has water risen to that extent? here's a photograph of it. what are you experiencing at or around your house? >> good news for oahu and honolulu county is we are fine here. the storm fizzled out, it was expected to weaken and turn west, it did that more rapidly than i think we anticipated. we were preparing for a direct strike with possible hurricane strength winds. got neighbors that boarded up their houses. we put sandbags out to prepare for the worst. >> and in general the challenges are very different when you're talking emergency response on a string of islands such as what you all have

they're saying he's the communications manager for the international red cross in india he's joining us via skype from new delhi thanks for joining us so could this death toll of one hundred sixty four actually be much higher where with people trapped. hello good evening as the situation on the ground is in an appalling state and as rains have predicted it would have weakened as well the death toll can go up and currently we're sticking with the tools that the state disaster management authority has put out and the increase in the number of dead. kind of has been reduced rate over the last two three days particularly as the flood situation keeps getting grim we are on the ground is extending rescue and relief and also really closely working with state authorities in last. week or so the flood water has been persisting and that's creating a lot of kind of panic among people who are struck or are on places where they're hard to reach under a little who are stuck and hard to read as you're saying a lot of people trapped in their villages how are you reaching those flooded areas yourself as well as o

as a lecturer at the institute for rural development and he's joining us via skype from. the day very good to have you with us on al jazeera so are you surprised by this massive reception. hundreds of people lining up the streets in a way saying to hear him speak given he has been away for some ten years serving a sentence for war crimes at the hague. thank you very much i desire to ask me this question and to have a little this debate actually i'm not really surprised to see people and this sure population gunning two of welcome junket members first of all you should know that dumping them is one of the. the most known leaders who was going to camilla. was out of the country for ten years. trying to show his trial in the i.c.c. and then he's coming people from going just people from other parts of the car are we expecting to see this guy coming back after this ten years out of the country and this is the first thing i can say that he listens to so many people and they want to see him this is the first thing the second thing is that he's coming in a very important moment o