because they made clear that they see this is a truly serious problem and they recognize that it's the actions of the industry that is made the problem worse with the unfortunate is that there are experiences shown that given the opportunity the tobacco industry and the cigarette industry won't reform itself they can't police themselves the only solution is for our government to ban flavored products that appeal to kids ban the kind of advertising that we have seen over the last couple of years in eliminate the kind of online sales that make it easy for kids to get the products unless the government acts it won't be solved and i have faith that this food and drug administration does not want to be known as the food and drug administration that allowed another generation of americans to become hope. stocks of the tech giant apple have dropped slightly after its latest launch featured its largest i phone but little in the way of groundbreaking innovation however the company's strategy of getting consumers to

upgrade and christen the expensive devices continues to pay off high the show cost has more. what is the secret to apple's success wednesday's product launch was short on new products big on prozac now let's talk about i phone and even bigger on price i phone to this max has the largest display ever been annoyed with the new i phone tennis max a larger and faster version of the previous i phones starts at one thousand nine hundred nine dollars while the so-called starter version i phone this year costs seven hundred fifty and under its estimate of mantua these especially for folks reading. it way for a year or two or three for. apple's higher prices are a way to boost sales in an already saturated market although the number of i phones sold remain steady apple has increased i phone revenue by twenty percent by

squeezing out more money from each unit but to what point can consumers continue to stretch their wallets apple doesn't appear to be too worried announcing more than five hundred million people visit its apple stores a year these are great products that american consumers want apple takes that passion innovate and making those products better apple was the first american company to reach trillion dollar valuation with stocks that continue to steadily climb you think about american companies i think steve jobs apple is truly kind of a standout in the minds of american consumers and i think it's a well deserved apple though has strong competition in the chinese company while way which outsold i phones last quarter while way is cheaper and more accessible overseas for now though the apple i phone remains an american status symbol i do joe castro al-jazeera washington. we have a sports news still ahead on the news hour find out what happens when

a sprinting champion this but in a virtual zero gravity environment. all

. thank you very much germany's reigning olympic cycling champion christina vogel has spoken in public for the first time about the training crush that left her paralyzed saying she accepts she will never walk again vogel who want track sprint gold in the past to a lympics only revealed the extent of her injuries last week in berlin on wednesday

she said the other cyclists involved in the crash in june have not contacted her the twenty seven year old had her spinal cord severed in the accident. when my shoes walked away without me noticing that someone took them off i knew i would never walk again it sounds scary but i realized quickly that i wouldn't walk again waking up from a coma and hearing the diagnosis was for me like ok it's maybe better to think that it could never really get better because it never will finish as i said i am free and i want to remain so i don't blame anyone for it others are investigating the incident for me and i'm happy that there is an investigation going on the dutch cyclists association didn't contact me yet neither did the cyclist time will bring a solution for. us open champion iommi osaka says she wasn't too sure of what was going on when serina williams had a war of words with the umpire during their final williams was ultimately given

three warnings a clue to a point game deduction but speaking on the ellen degeneres show asika says the heat of the moment brought its own challenges says. that shows part of and i should know that feeling so i was really happy when you knew the crowd wasn't doing it you're right they were just doing the whole situation that it was just right did you did you think they were booing you at the time i did kind of think they were burned or no. because i couldn't tell was going on because it's just so loud and then right it was a little bit stressful. well mixed race fans in japan are celebrating a circus achievement many of them feel they finally have a hero to look up to a sucker's mother is japanese while her father is haitian still to go. i really hated being different from other people when i was in elementary school i kept wondering why i was a different color from other people and hoping i could become the same as everyone

else. i would bullied at school and became a little cynical but moving usaca doesn't seem to be like that at all i think she's great as a woman and as a person on. the pittsburgh pirates have put a slight dent in the senate louis cardinals hopes of picking up a wild card place for the major league baseball playoffs on wednesday the cardinals actually took a one nothing lead before the pirates stole the show four runs without reply from pittsburgh with jacob stallings driving in three got them a four to three winston lewis are still in the lead for the second national league wild card but are only two games ahead of the los angeles dodgers now. or being the country's president puts a lot of power in the hands of one person but not many pick themselves to caps in their national football team that is unless you're liberia's leader george why a former world player of the year the fifty one year old in the whites here not quite as a used to be but still not bad as he warmed up before captaining liberia in

a friendly against nigeria this much was organized specially to retire his famous number fourteen shirt he was sworn in as president in january and security a bit more beefed up the news will win the team's walked out this was him running down the wing early in the game it intends up scoring but he did lost most of the match clapped off as a substitute in the seventy ninth minute sway was a striker for ac milan paris and chelsea and is still the only african ever to win features world player of the year back in one thousand nine hundred five liberia lost the match to one. well as wyatt retires his shirts his son tim is right at the start of his career the eighteen year old who plays for his dad's old club p.s.g. and was born in new york represented the usa against mexico on tuesday in nashville well he didn't make much of an impact when it came down to the game the key moment was mexico's the of are being shown a straight red card for a nasty looking tackle on u.s.

captain will trap he was lucky to avoid serious injury the u.s. went on to win with a goal here from tyler adams his first international strike securing us his first win over mexico three years. now it's one of the biggest rivalries in sports on the cricket or hockey field but india and pakistan as footballers have shown they aren't shy a bit of a bit of confrontation either friendly feeling between the teams that wasn't helped by india going three nil up in this south asian suzuki cup semifinal india are the defending champions at the tournament in bangladesh a tussle between india's. and pakistan's most seen ali and should both sides would end up with ten men pakistan did manage to pull one back final score three want to india so they face them all deaves in the final on saturday france's world cup winning captain it you go lawrie says pleaded guilty to a drink driving charge the thirty one year old goalkeeper has been banned from driving for twenty months and fined sixty three thousand dollars the tottenham

player failed a breathalyzer in the early hours of august the twenty fourth in london. the first day of the men's volleyball world championship once they saw cameroon outplay reigning african champions tunisia the west africans have never done better than a thirteenth place finish up the worlds but they had a convincing win over their rivals from the north three nil in the italian city of bari. this tournament being jointly hosted by italy and bulgaria defending champions poland a winning start as our number one ranked team brazil the world's second ranked team in the u.s. mounted a successful comeback after going to sets to warm down against serbia. eight time olympic sprint gold medalist hussain bolt defied much sporting logic during his record breaking career but not even the jamaican can defy gravity on wednesday bolt was rendered white less in a microgravity plane above france during the two hour flight the thirty two year

old attempted a short bash but as you can see he struggled to really get going no doubt his rivals would have much preferred this version of bolt during his running days. stories for for now we'll have more later on thank you very much paula now finally this bulletin a retrospective of one of the world's greatest architects opens in london on saturday renzo piano design the shard in london the new whitney museum in new york and japan's airport jessica baldwin went to the royal academy spoke to the man himself you've probably seen or even visited a building designed by renzo piano museums concert halls skyscrapers by the italian architects scouter the world. the buildings are beautiful critically acclaimed how does piano do it it all starts with a quick sketch in green marker he says then it's the context the neighborhood the

strength and the spirit of the community you try to understand the change the shift of sight the shape of the war and you believe that say. it all began with the pompidou center in paris shocking when it was designed in the seventy's with richard rodgers it reflects the turmoil of nine hundred sixty eight the establishment turned inside out by student riots piano is most proud of his public buildings used to understand that this is of society. just don't afford. seeing the mayor they fear that by doing what you do it constrained the rule the shard london's tallest building was a technological challenge a relatively small piece of land up against railway lines and a thirteenth century church the buildings eleven thousand glass panels reflect the city's icy skies making iron cement and industrial glass appear delicate the

building of classic renzo piano radical design the latest technology and it reflects a time in history with london and edgy confident city attracting attention from around the world. the recent bridge collapse in pianos native genoa has left him bereft he's offered to design a new bridge to reconnect the port city bridge following is that just because they're going for once before twice before and the symbol of the four of these could actually be a bridge is the all poses of the more. bridges should never fall and walls should never go. that's the truth and uganda piano is building and funding a children's hospital builders are using an ancient clay technique it's sustainable cheap and local reflecting piano's

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a new peace agreement two years after the previous deal fell apart and why the stock markets necessarily impressed with apple's latest loan. so millions of people in the eastern united states are making last minute preparations for what is predicted to be the worst storm in thirty years hurricane florence now about six hundred kilometers off the u.s. east coast already carrying winds of almost two hundred kilometers an hour the national hurricane center thinks it could make landfall soon it's friday the states of particularly north and south carolina and virginia in its path that would mean more than ten million people have been warned they are in direct danger and nearly two million have been ordered to evacuate with the national weather service saying florence will likely be the storm of a lifetime for portions of the carolina coast. thema and first responders

are out there they're going to stand through the danger of this storm get out of its way don't play games with it it's a big one we want you safe get out of the storm's way listen to your local representatives south carolina north carolina virginia are testing your way it's probably not going to change path it's going to be hitting pretty soon be ready and god be with you we have been betsy robertson communications manager with the american red cross who says teams are standing by to respond we are here to receive people in our emergency shelters and evacuation centers also want people to heed these warnings and prepare themselves and their families whether that's going to be staying in place or if they are have to evacuate to make sure that they are

bringing things with them to make their stay at one of our shelters as comfortable as possible we're doing our best to project it's path we see a path but we don't know exactly where the biggest impact is going to be so it's very important that we staged people and supplies in his many places as possible and we just spread ourselves so that we'll be able to respond and get the supplies where they're needed as soon as the need really really arrives. looking at other news hungary says it will challenge a european parliament decision which could see it stripped of its voting rights the parliament members voted by a large majority to take action against hungary for not following values on democracy and civil rights this is the first time such measures have actually been approved reports now from strasbourg. there was applause as members of the european parliament voted to punish hungry for breaching e.u. values for the first time they agreed to north article seven a procedure that could lead to budapest losing its voting rights it was nice dodge

lawmakers report on hungary to the decision we've seen the democrats in hungary deteriorate since two thousand and ten. press freedom. is not guaranteed the judiciary has lost in the pan academic freedom is she is falling down the vote is unlikely to surprise hungary's far right anti immigration prime minister he and the e.u. have clashed repeatedly over the years. victor brand has accused the european parliament of trying to blackmail him to change his ways and in budapest his foreign minister has dismissed the vote saying hungary is being unfairly targeted we like you. today's european parliament decision was nothing else but petty revenge of pro immigration politicians against hungary outside put a pests parliament anti government campaigners protested. all of them in their.

open talks about everything on tuesday but not the reality here in hungary everything is always about migration it's to full heard gary ns and they swallow it by going through their own fears is true it's not a distortion the government have been changing the law step by step i think because they want to hold on to power. the e.u. will issue hungry with a formal warning before deciding whether to strip it of its voting rights such a move would damage hungary's international reputation but this supporter says it could actually bolster leadership in the long term mr obama come also be a winner of this journey because he can establish a new platform video in the european peoples but the can make new alliances in europe and through that he can increase his influence on the european domestic politics for now pro european politicians are celebrating but their victory may be

short lived the vote has highlighted the growing divisions in the e.u. that threaten the bloke's very existence and its future natasha butler al-jazeera stroudsburg france u.s. president donald trump signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against individuals or countries found to have meddled in american elections trump has faced months of criticism of course for not doing enough to prevent potential foreign interference in future votes remember the midterm elections just weeks away now white house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more. with just weeks until u.s. voters go to the polls who are a vote determining control of congress president donald trump signed an executive order to punish nations that interfere with that election the president has specifically directed us the director of national intelligence made wednesday's announcement along with national security adviser john bolton it follows their briefing last month with other top intelligence and law enforcement chiefs our

democracy itself is in the crosshairs free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has become clear that they are the target of our adversaries the white house says those adversaries include not just russia accused of meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential vote but also china iran and north korea. and his summit in finland with russian president vladimir putin trump was reluctant to point fingers at the kremlin he just said it's not russian it's a statement he later backtracked to send should have been i don't see any reason why i wouldn't or why it wouldn't be russia russia denies any interference in two thousand and sixteen at a geneva meeting in august bolton's russian counterpart refused to sign a joint statement that included the election meddling allegations still u.s. intelligence expects there will be more attempts to interfere trump's new executive

order hopes to address that setting up a mechanism through the department of justice and the state department to impose sanctions on any individual or nation ninety days after election meddling is confirmed the white house says those sanctions would be calibrated based on severity and could include the blocking of assets of anyone accused of attempting to manipulate america's vote kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house. u.s. secretary of state my pompei was told congress that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are actively working to avoid harming civilians in yemen the u.s. has been under increasing pressure to withdraw support for the war over the scale of human deaths civilian deaths are last month the sunday that coalition admitted mistakes have been made when it bombed a school bus killing more than forty children is legally required to justify u.s. backing for the war in congress before funding can be released to allow military support to continue more from rosalind jordan in washington d.c.

. the saudi like coalition has been criticized for indiscriminately targeting civilians while trying to go after the rebels who are trying to take control of the country of yemen. coalition has denied these allegations and it's also been facing criticism on behalf of its main military supporter the united states the u.s. has now certified that so far as best as it can determine the saudi like coalition including the government of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are taking reasonable precautions to ensure that civilians are not targeted injured or killed in the conflict with the fighters in that country now this certification has been made by the secretary of state pompei o at the insistence by the requirements of congress through the terms of the new defense budget after mr prompt a.o.

said that the examination of the facts shows that the precautions are being taken but so far a public version of that certification has not been made the pentagon is supporting the certification because it does feel that it is important to bring the these to heel and to try to restore order and to restore the hardy government in sanaa but again the details of the certification have yet to be made public but this is something that is going to perhaps bring more concentration of criticism on to the united states because it provides both the saudis and the emirates ease with their military weapons with their aircraft with military training and support and so there is a real concern that this military support if it is in fact being used against civilians indiscriminately could be a violation of the leahy act which says that the u.s. must cut off military aid to countries that don't use their military equipment for

the proper and legal purposes this is of course something that the u.s. is going to have to justify in the weeks and months ahead. the un's envoy for yemen martin griffiths's arrived in the omani capital muscat hoping to restart the talks between the warring parties meanwhile fighting between her the rebels and saudi iraqi forces has resumed in the port city of data center simmons with more from neighboring djibouti there are no details on casualty figures and whether or not civilians are involved but multiple reports suggest that the fighting has escalated again around the city of who data it's rebel held by the hooters and they are reliant on a supply routes between the port city and samar their capital now the report suggests that that supply route has been cut to the point of choke point called kilos sixteen also reports the kilo ten further towards the city has also been

breached cuts by government for forces they are aided by the saudi usa easy led coalition amounting strong asterix all around the area now we're hearing that the hutu rebels have responded with a counter attack using artillery and other weaponry and that fighting has been very harsh indeed now beyond this beyond this whole issue of this route that delivers aid and arms and supplies to the rebels is the problem of how martin gryphus the u.n. special envoy can possibly get traction again for any form of peace talks or talks about talks involving diplomats and the fighters he is sure jeweled to be in amman and moving on from there hopefully he thinks to sana'a and from there to riyadh but as he knows.