i call on the myanmar also to suspend its military action facing a catastrophe the un chief has me in part to end the violence against that i can state.

about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. in ruins the caribbean s.s. is the full extent of damage from hurricane. as syrian troops advance and did so and more talks to end the war are about to begin but will there be a breakthrough in a stand up. and a show of strength from south korea as tensions on the peninsula show no sign of easing. the head of the u.n. is calling for an immediate end to the violence against or hinge on muslims in me and over the last few weeks almost four hundred thousand people have fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape a government crackdown on groups in iraq and state we begin our coverage with james

bays at the u.n. . these were the toughest words yet from the secretary general on the ongoing violence in myanmar i call on the myanmar or thought it is to suspend the military action and the violence appalled the rule of law and recognize the right of return of all those where to leave the country the un knows the situation is deteriorating fast with mr good terrorist last spoke to reporters a week ago there were one hundred twenty five thousand refugees that number has now tripled given the situation has got so much worse in the last week do you believe this is ethnic cleansing well i would answer your question with another question when one third of the rowing or population to flee the country can you find a better word to describe it. as the secretary general has already taken the extremely rare step of writing to the security council urging them to take action

as he spoke the council was meeting first with an open session on somalia it was only after that ended and they went into closed session and when they discussed any other business but the crisis in myanmar was finally raised afterwards the president of the security council read a carefully worded statement was nowhere near as strong as the words of the secretary general the members of sixty council expressed deep concern about the situation in state acknowledging the initial attack on men march security forces or into n.t. fifth august should be on mass stop all its military operations in the state now that's what the secretary general says does the security council share that view now that. the statement that a readout is what we have agreed there are some who see that as

a very weak statement. some may say so why is the security council not being tough there's always a log jam when there's a lack of unity and when one of the permanent five members is opposed to action in this case diplomats point to china a long standing ally of military. al-jazeera of the united nations while condemnation from the international community has been swift many in me and maher have rallied behind the government and the military so i'm slowly reports from young on the sign reads collecting donations for the displaced in rakhine state this charity drive is being run by a ministry in yangon six hundred kilometers from the fighting in northern rakhine state but it's mainly for the rakhine the ethnic majority in the state who are mostly buddhists some thirty thousand of whom have been displaced. if there was fighting here a monk who runs into a mosque would be killed but

a monastery will save all who shelter their our religion forbids us from killing but i'm not afraid to walk past a monastery and church or a hindu or sikh temple but i'm scared of walking past a mosque there are a few in myanmar who will speak out publicly in support of the ranger the muslim minority with main stateless and are largely regarded as illegal migrants from bangladesh. the military crackdown which has been condemned around the world hasn't drawn the same sort of criticism from people here but. yes they should carry out a security operation to eradicate terrorism if not they'll be no peace so that's why we support the military but the operation should only target terrorists not the whole muslim community. i support the military operation because terrorism is not good it's good to fight terrorism everyone should if within the law. the military and the government say the operation is a legitimate exercise targeting what it considers

a terrorist organization the crisis in rakhine and the exodus of ranger refugees into bangladesh are being widely covered by the international media and yet here they don't get much attention in the local press and when they do that's usually a government that. for example promotes a press release that people in northern because i have started to go back home because peace and stability have started to return to the area. but there's no mention of the hundreds of thousands who fled to bangladesh in under three weeks in uncertain future and a daily struggle for survival. as a member of him is a senior fellow at the center for global policy he's also the author of the book that all hinges inside hidden genocide he says the army is engaged in ethnic cleansing and a stronger response is needed from the international community. the world's response has been extremely weak it is hugely unfortunate that we can know me on my

own to the list of countries like rwanda and bosnia general ses in which the world was fully aware the united nations was fully aware were going on in real time where they chose to do nothing and over the last few weeks we have seen over four hundred thousand new hinge of being ethnically cleansed from myanmar pouring over the border into bangladesh that is approximately thirty percent of the entire population this is ethnic cleansing on an industrial scale and it's completely unprecedented i'm very sympathetic to the people who key doesn't have much control of the military the military still who would considerable power in the country but despite that we have to remember the unc sang suu kyi as though the leader of the largest political party in the country she is the more conscience of the country she is the most famous citizen of the country and for hard to say nothing at all what's going on and in fact say that ethnic cleansing is there's no ethnic cleansing going on is far too strong a word i believe a lot of our supporters people are believed in are people like myself who will be hugely disappointed. people have begun to return to their homes or whatever is left

of them in florida but the effects still being felt and millions are still being left without power eight people have died after a nursing home in florida lost power during the storm taking the death toll in florida to twenty claimed the lives of sixty three people overall twenty six in the u.s. and thirty seven in the caribbean u.k. foreign minister about his johnson visit to the virgin islands made the most damage he promised long term support for the british territory french president emanuel was also in the region visiting victims of devastation. across the caribbean and still taking stock of the devastation is left behind on the government estimates ninety five percent of the buildings have damaged or destroyed residents have been moved to the neighboring island of antigua on home and reports from.

this caribbean island. devastated by hurricane needle he's heading to his house to find out if he. is god. like. with a population of one thousand six hundred everyone seems to know each other here it makes the scars of destruction we see. you know. this is my friends. this. make me feel like. homes sheered open like those houses inside the remnants of lives interrupted a stopped water logged watch clothes and toys tossed around dishes still waiting to be put away there's no knowing when those lives will be resumed everyone's been

evacuated to nearby antigua until further notice there's worries about these eases from the stagnant floodwater. raj is only allowed to visit a tool because he works on the ferry between the two islands right now the only permanent residents are the animals left behind it's not just people's homes that are gone it's also their livelihoods so many bob unions of fishermen and their badly damaged boat strewn across the coast. even when people come back the government says it will take months of work and more than two hundred million dollars for repair buildings and restore electricity and phone lines it's counting on international aid. meanwhile viewed as waiting shelters a relative's home. the mood is cheerful stoic but impatient to return some of these people from i would have been one of the. i'm going to fall would put my

part in it. after seeing his devastated hometown we arrive at raja's house and find it's one of the few still intact it's a small piece of good news on this small struggling island john home and. john is here as parliament has passed a controversial reconciliation law granting amnesty to public officials accused of corruption before the arab spring and twenty eleven protest has gathered outside parliament activists say the law is a setback to democracy the opposition shouted slogans before the session was temporarily suspended and walked out in protest. armed groups and hezbollah have swapped prisoners near the province of dare i saw in syria they agreed to release prisoners as part of a ceasefire deal two weeks ago meanwhile syrian government troops are advancing further into i still held territory around dead in solar city the oil rich area is seen as a strategic for both russian backed syrian troops and u.s.

backed opposition fighters well as syrian troops advance and davis or representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups due to meet in the capital of kazakhstan on thursday it's the sixth round of talks in a stana brokered by russia turkey and iran and at implementing lasting cease fires in so-called the escalation zones in syria from a stand a chance stratford reports five rounds of so far in a stana have had little success brokered by russia turkey and iran the focus of discussions is ending the fighting in syria and complementing un brokered talks in geneva on the political future of the country. is exactly. which helped. to reach. technical agreements. which basically laid the ground.

a basic framework agreement on a stabber xing so-called deescalation zones in syria was signed by russia turkey and iran in may there's less fighting in some of the areas but syrians who have moved there expecting them to be safer say they continue to face an strikes and heavy gunfire. the opposition says the deescalation zone's initiative gives the syrian government forces an opportunity to make further military gains and they have refused any suggestion that russia or iranian soldiers could be part of any full monitoring the zones the northern syrian province of italy is potentially included in the plan but there are opposition groups immediately that the international community and the syrian government say all terrorists and viable targets as well as the talks here in cannes like stan seven rounds of un brokered talks in geneva have also failed not one of opposition groups and syrian government

representatives held face to face discussions the main syrian opposition insists president bashar al assad has no role in a future transitional government the u.n. envoy in syria says the syrian government has not budged in its unwillingness to discuss the political transition the implementation of the plan for so-called deescalation zones will be at the heart of talks here again the complexity of the situation on the ground in syria and the lack of agreement over which countries could potentially offer troops to monitor the zones shows just how difficult reaching consensus could be stopped at al-jazeera the start showing six nuclear test earlier this month prompted the u.n. security council to step up sanctions against north korea south korea has also put on a show of strength releasing footage of his preparation for a possible attack from its neighbor and to thomas reports from seoul. this time it

is south korea releasing video of a missile test film the south korean military says on choose day and if fifteen k. fighter jet drops a german major tourist missile which applies independently towards a practice target of south korea's west coast it drops on a rocky island so the south koreans exactly where intended to go we're going to get if the enemy carries out provocations those air force will immediately punish them with a soft standing pinpoint strike capability. the test and more significantly releasing video all of it is designed to send a message that seoul is prepared to strike first in the event of a crisis it is a visual demonstration of the ratcheting up of tension and rhetoric on the korean peninsula on wednesday north korea condemned to the latest u.n. sanctions a statement from its foreign ministry called u.n. resolution two three seven five illegal and evil

a he knows provocation that will strengthen pyongyang's efforts to follow this road to nuclear missiles at a faster pace without the slightest diversion in response to that south korea urged the north once again to break away from what it called a vicious cycle of provocation followed by sanctions followed by sanctions that a hint perhaps that more sanctions could follow the u.n. resolution with only a partial cap on chinese oil exports to north korea not a ban did not go as far as the south koreans wanted nor donald trump it was nice to get a fifteen to nothing vote but those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen in seoul meanwhile it's life as usual people in south korea have lived with the threats of north korea's conventional weapons for decades and people here at least don't feel that conflict is imminent but there is a bit of new concern less ironically about what kim jong un will do his rest. it's

to be expected than donald trump what exactly does he mean by what ultimately will have to happen to offer united nations sanctions will be difficult given china's potential but a military strike against north korea could provoke a catastrophic war in seoul we asked people who though most worried about trump well kim jong un. from. kim jong un is the one building a bomb so i'm more worried about him. worried about kim jong behavior but be havior is affected by trump so i'm worried by both andrew thomas al jazeera so. still ahead and al jazeera marking one hundred days since the beginning of the gulf crisis and the formation blockade of qatar. now is just time to build a more united the stronger the more democratic you will be told and when. he was president lays out his vision for the blog urging countries to take

advantage of rags on the economic upswing. skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions across eastern parts of china taiwan and the philippines we have not one but two major storm systems to look at for the first one is a tropical storm doc story is giving flooding rain across the philippines and that's going to be heading just south of high nine into northern parts of vietnam says and flooding will occur that in the coming days now as for typhoon time that is going to go just across the northern tip or maybe just north of the north of taiwan before it turns right along the coast of china and then heads up towards japan so that's what we've got on thursday not causing too many problems then for the most part part from a find far north of taiwan to taipei could be extremely wet and then as we head on

through into friday that rain runs up the coast of the strongest winds will probably stay offshore that will be very rough on the seas and there is a system moving across towards northern parts of vietnam. should be fine for hong kong to latter rise now into southeastern parts of asia well there again is dr e. moving away some showers showing up across on the borneo fine weather across java and bali that's continuing in the forecast moving up through the right plan should be got shasta singapore in kuala lumpur and some heavy rain push into parts of thailand with highs of thirty three expected in bangkok. the weather sponsored by cat time race. a deadly attack destroyed her family and left her badly. timed to california and little girls. was very timid when she came as a time progress she became our family. that would touch the hearts of the people around.

this time. to watch al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the u.n. security council has expressed deep concern over the violence in myanmar struck in state in the four hundred thousand people have fled me and for neighboring bangladesh that all hinges say they're facing persecution or the me and claims it's taking action against groups. eight of the people who died during hurricane one in a florida nursing home which lost power during the storm it's believed they suffered

heat stroke when the building lost its air conditioning. as syria troops advance on i saw held there so or more talks to end the war in syria set to begin on thursday the sixth round of talks in the capital of kazakhstan brokered by russia turkey and iran they're aimed at implementing lasting cease fires in so-called deescalation zones. the president of the european commission has delivered an upbeat state of the union address saying the e.u. is back on track after britain's vote to leave. the economic recovery and unity between the members means europe is now ready to move forward. all of this leads me to believe the wind is back in your sights we have now a window of opportunity but it will not stay open so i have let us make the most of the moment catch the wind you know save us paul brown has been

following the speech from paris and he has more. this was a relatively upbeat address juncker the president of the european commission he said that europe had had a rather bruising past couple of years but he looked forward with optimism despite the fact that is on the horizon for example he was visiting a european future with streamline bureaucracy he even spoke about potentially doing away with his own job he thought about the merging of the presidents of the european commission and the european council currently donald tusk job he said potentially europe could just do with one president doing both roles other areas where he spoke about the potential for closer integration included the idea of a european economy and finance minister it would necessarily be a new job it could be a role that was filled by an existing vice president of the european commission and other areas where he spoke about the cooperation that there is has been within

europe and appears to be wanting to move forward is on areas such as migration and security in migration for example and refugees he said that seven hundred twenty thousand people had been granted asylum within the e.u. so far as a result of the most recent refugee crises and that would continue however he said strengthening the policy towards returning those who are not entitled to asylum would also be a priority for the european union on bret's it he had to say that he regretted the decision that the britons had made but he pointed out when he was heckled by the british euro skeptic breakfast supporter nigel farage he said listen you will probably come to regret it soon too he said that there would be a summit in romania pretty much on the day that britain departs from the european union and the twenty seven will move forward with new vigor. ukase multibillion dollar arm sales to saudi arabia have been the focus of protests at an arms fair

currently taking place in london arms manufacturers and buyers from across the world are attending the four day event that in baba reports. export. is meant to look like a car advert run. in which. dropped. but this video by save the children is aimed at getting the u.k. to stop arms exports to saudi arabia over its bombing campaign in yemen joe bloggs on the strain doesn't know what's going on and not shameful and so i think what we're really hoping today is that this isn't just a one off that it's video. you know more activism going forward and more people being on this and more people have their voices heard the videos being released on social media to coincide with a huge arms fate taking place in london. in the run up to the show peace activists

staged a series of protests nearby and made sure it was all along. some closed down access roads. bridges and. others former members of the armed forces try to get delivery trucks checked for illegal equipment such as landmines which have been sold at previous events it is a great crime chicken to try to reach every convention if you're thinking straight and then obstructed like in total more than one hundred people were arrested getting the story into the mainstream media there's been a whole week of activities and direct actions here and many involved were no they won't. actually happening just down the road they have managed to slow down equipment getting into the site and perhaps just as importantly they've raised awareness not far away a different kind of protest and makeshift art gallery highlighting the arms trade

with a new work by british artist banksy as topical as ever organizers say only ten percent of londoners know about the arms fair and that needs to change. go out time and time again. different approach so using perhaps top target a different audience bring new people. questioning things. ending the events the. boy whose political video mash ups have been seen by millions on you tube while these people may already be on their side they're aiming to reach a new audience on social media. al-jazeera london brazil's former president lula da silva is being questioned again by the country's top anti corruption judge as the frontrunner in next year's brazilian election is facing multiple charges for allegedly accepting bribes the same judge sentenced him to more the nine years in

jail in july for receiving bribes. the u.s. government has ordered its departments and agencies to remove russian made. products from their information systems the department of homeland security says it's concerned the cyber security company has ties to state sponsored cyber espionage activities in russia especially as deny the allegations saying it's got no ties to the kremlin and it's not involved in cyber espionage it's not one hundred days in saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e. and bahrain imposed a blockade on. the gulf nation of spreading instability and supporting terrorism claims qatar strongly denies faking news stories and also broadcast on a regular basis by networks based out of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in particular is richard gere's book the host of al-jazeera is listening post with more on the information war the diplomatic standoff in the gulf is a story that's been replete with media angles ever since the start of the blockade

of qatar was triggered by a piece of fake news posted on the website of the qatar news agency two weeks before the coalition announced it was isolating the country. the article falsely quoted the qatari amir to mean bin hammad putting some incendiary words in his mouth about regional politics intelligence agencies investigating that hack both american and qatari say they have evidence pointing to the united arab emirates sudden decision to break all diplomatic ties once the blockade went into force the story received significant coverage in the international news media it's still on their radar from time to time however news outlets in and around the gulf have been prominent players in the ensuing propaganda war i guess i thought the most subtle feedlot of the. medical what seemed to be a teen and i thought it a little bit e.c.s. well i guess he had held on august twenty first dubai t.v. what this report on the air note the absence of any video to back up what the news

anchor is saying about alleged on rest on the streets of the qatari capital doha the story she was talking about never happened there was this report on the saudi owned channel exploring a hypothetical scenario how to deal with the airways passenger plane should it enter saudi airspace one option according to the graphic shoot it down. some other examples of the coverage of this story have bordered on the absurd the comical a saudi newspaper okaz reported that harrods the qatari owned luxury store in london was spying on shoppers from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and bahrain as for the social media component in this story it's been a case of follow the money multiple new twitter accounts and websites have sprung up critical of the qatari position it turns out that this one that the tar insider is backed by a d.c. based lobby group called. it is saudi funded and the financial times report

published in early august quote an anonymous saudi journalist saying that they had been added to messaging groups which issued clear instructions for the coverage of the story both the tone and the content of the f.t. has no dog in this fight it's owned by nikkei a japanese company meanwhile the network you're watching now al-jazeera is still being accused by saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt of trying to destabilize the region and guitar is still insisting that the future of the al-jazeera network is non-negotiable that the channels will remain on the air regardless of what the blockading countries demand regardless of what their media outlets quote report unquote. is that we agree half of the top stories here in al-jazeera the u.n. security council has expressed deep concern over the violence in manaus rock and state in the four hundred thousand people have fled me and ma for neighboring

bangladesh their hinges say they're facing persecution while the man ma army claims it's taking action against groups. to suspend the military action and the violence uphold the rule of law and recognize the right of return. to leave the country the death toll from hurricane earl has risen eighty elderly people died after a nursing home in florida lost power during the storm it's believed they suffered heat stroke when the building lost its air conditioning on groups isilon hezbollah have swapped prisoners near the province of data stored in syria they agreed to release prisoners as part of a ceasefire deal two weeks ago meanwhile syrian government troops that are advancing further into are still held areas around datasource city aim to capture and encircled the city the oil rich city is seen as to t.j. grabbed by both russian backed syrian troops and u.s.

backed fighters. syrian troops advance and i still held dead as or more talks to end the war in syria are set to begin on thursday the sixth round of talks in the capital of kazakhstan brokered by russia turkey and iran is aimed at implementing a lasting cease fires in the so-called deescalation zones cinesias parliament has passed a controversial reconciliation law granting amnesty to public officials accused of corruption before the arab spring in twenty eleven dozens of protesters gathered outside parliament they're upset at the ruling which also originally excluded corrupt businessmen from prosecution activists say the law is a setback to democracy opposition shouted slogans before the session was temporarily suspended and they walked out in protest brazil's former president. is being questioned again by the country's top anti corruption judge who's the front runner in next year's brazilian election is facing multiple charges for

alleging allegedly accepting bribes and those are the headlines now it's inside story why for now. the u.n. has imposed another round of sanctions against north korea pyongyang conducted its largest new kid test and in this month which is sanctions life his work in north korea elsewhere in the world and is of the people who suffer the most this is inside story.