along europe's baltic borders tensions are increasing as nato strengthens its defenses and russia gears up for war games over its own of course we don't want worried about unpredictability of russia we have to be prepared and we have to react to it but will the conflict rehearsals ever translate into the real thing as they say if you don't want to work to pay for a war of people in power reports is tonia going on a bear hunt at this time on a. humanitarian situation you just get this traffic. the head of the united nations to immediately end the violence against the rangers. down in jordan the sound is there a live from doha also coming up in the caribbean the flag country flies could make

a huge difference in what's available to communities struggling to rebuild after hurricane and. syrian troops advance on terra's or more talks to end the war about to begin but will there be a breakthrough in astronomy. and a show of strength from south korea as tensions on the peninsula show no sign of easing. the head of the united nations is calling for an immediate end to the violence against range of 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 armed groups in rakhine 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 when 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 a population had 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 that the crisis in myanmar was finally raised afterwards the president of the security council read a carefully worded statement it 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 nischelle on men mark 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. 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 the united nations. long bangladesh's border with me in montana bay we know that some aid has been trickling through to these refugee camps what have you been seeing on the ground. where we're been visiting camps various camps actually every day from morning to labeling we have seen a stepped up activities by the u.n. agencies and of course a lot of local volunteer groups who are the key to salvation of this from all across the country create being people bringing truckloads of dry goods base kids you know dry even clothings but the u.n. did step. there is to air cargo that just landed the day before. these are meant trails for ten they're supposed to reach that camp within saturday

because of logistical problems nevertheless still very grossly in adequate considering the number of people living in this town is close to three hundred seventy thousand that need to be a step up effort to bring in material because they're exposed to whether there's a rainfall every now and then and in france are lying there with their mother at least two hundred in from been hospitalized recently just the sheer volume of children two hundred thousand among the refugees so the relief need to be stepped up here and time via some of these camps are already full to capacity are you seeing yet more people arriving from across the border well just to put it in context just. night before last night at least eighteen growing as we were trying to. well apologies for that we've also got some problems there with our connection to

tanveer let's move on shall we because a fire at a religious school in malaysia's capital has killed at least twenty five people including students the school in kuala lumpur caught fire early on thursday morning the fire department says the bodies have been moved to a nearby hospital it's not clear how the fire started. now in the wake of hurricane people have begun to return to their homes or whatever is left of them but the effects of the devastation are still being felt and millions are still without power eight people have died after a nursing home in florida lost power during the storm and that takes the death toll in florida to twenty one claimed the lives of sixty three people overall twenty six in the u.s. thirty seven in the caribbean u.k. foreign secretary buys johnson visited the british virgin islands to assess storm damage there he promised long term support president emanuel macro has also been in the region to meet victims of his devastation in france's caribbean territories well the caribbean islands took the brunt of the hurricane and was furious leaving a trail of destruction in its wake something territories like the virgin islands of

mother countries to help rebuild but independent islands like bob you know when estimated ninety five percent of the buildings are damaged recovery would be much more difficult john holeman is their. prime minister gaston brown has brought other caribbean leaders to see what's left of the island. it was hit with the maximum force of hurricane brown says help is urgently needed today is what i consider to be a mangled wreck in order to restore it in order to rebuild and to ensure that we can relocate about you didn't hear it will take any norma's amount of resources. electricity phone lines of people's homes damaged or gone the situation is so precarious the entire population has been evacuated turned which emerged unscathed brown who is prime minister of both islands says it will take more than two hundred million dollars to bring it back to life the government's trying to take the

positives out of the fact that more than ninety percent of buildings here damaged they want to implement an ambitious rebuilding program with high construction standards to guard against future hurricanes and one hundred percent green energy for the oil. and the problem with that is cash they say they don't have anywhere near enough while other island nations devastated by the hurricane like martin and the virgin islands belong to receive help from developed countries doesn't have that support those islands are dependent territories they have other countries to assist they have britain they have the netherlands france and a case of ns again a small independent country with very limited resources. civil engineers have started work anyway assessing the damage house by house they're optimistic about the possibilities how long do you think three of the. depends on the efforts

depends india i believe within twelve months. most of it could be that. not just homes but also jobs have been lost fisherman's boats lying ruins. daily earned a living from his taxi that's gone now well right now i'm feeling that very very odd because what happened since that time the hurricane has disses the we. are right now and there's not much i can do right now until. i don't know how soon we're going to get back to barbie without. that's the question all of the putin is living in government shelters with relatives you know are asking the prime minister says hopefully in a few months but even then the rebuilding could take years john home an al-jazeera bob you don't turn is this 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 activists say the law is a setback to democracy the opposition shouted slogans before the session was temporarily suspended and they walked out in protest. groups eisel and hezbollah have swapped prisoners near the province of darrow's or in syria they agreed to release them as part of a cease fire deal two weeks ago meanwhile syrian government troops are advancing further into ice of territory around areas or city the oil rich area seen as to teach it to both the russian backed syrian troops and u.s. backed opposition fighters representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups are due to meet again in the capital of kazakhstan on thursday the sixth round of talks in a stand up brokered by russia turkey and iran is aimed at implementing lasting cease fires and so-called deescalation zones in syria from a stana his chance truck for five rounds of training 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. exactly. which help to which hope to reach. technical agreements. details. which basically lay the ground. a basic framework agreement on a stab reaching 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 zones initiative gives 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 stand seven rounds of u.n. brokered talks in geneva have also failed not once have 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 barged in its unwillingness to discuss a 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 a stunner. singapore has named its first female president but the public didn't even get to vote as a former speaker of parliament from the malayan minority singaporeans were supposed to go to the polls next week but he was the only candidate who qualified. pyongyang six nuclear test early this month prompted the un security council to step up sanctions against north korea south korea has responded with a show of strength releasing footage of its preparations for a possible attack from the north under 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 in fifteen k. fighter jet drops a german made taurus 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 see if the enemy carries out provocations air force will immediately punish them with a south standing pinpoint strike capability. the test and more significantly releasing video 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 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 threat of north korea's conventional weapons for decades and people here at least don't feel but conflict is imminent but there is a bit of new concern less ironically about what kim jong un will do his rhetoric is to be expected than donald trump what exactly does he mean by what ultimately will have to happen. the united nations sanctions will be difficult given china's potential but

a military strike against north korea could provoke catastrophic war in seoul we asked people who though most worried about trump well kim jong un. is the one building a bomb so i'm more worried about him. i'm more worried about kim jong behavior but kim jong il behavior is affected by trump so i'm worried by both andrew thomas al jazeera so time for a short break here now to zero when we come back marking one hundred days since the beginning of the gulf crisis and the formation blockade of cattle. on the stand off in spain as catalans mass in their bid for independence more. welcome back we'll look at the weather across the americas the remnants from still

just showing up in the south for imagery is still a little bit of rain around generally though as we look at the forecast weather conditions looking generally fine across many central and eastern areas there with new york looking at some sunshine has a twenty five on friday but of that stage across the northwest we've got somebody intention rainfall some snow up over the higher ground as well further south it should be fine for los angeles highs of twenty three now moving down into the caribbean well though we've lost erma is still very much there category one hurricane just spiraling around and around going nowhere fast but probably close enough to the bahamas to give some problems with the surf and rip currents so be careful if you're in that area otherwise for a few showers across the islands which you could truly do without at the moment moving out through the isthmus there are a few showers around but generally not looking too bad for many areas of the yucatan peninsula could see some pretty heavy rain at times moving into south america it's looking quite lively shower wise across north western areas falso got

this frontal system which is giving rain across argentina through up into power by some showers for bolivia so head on through into friday that frontal system moves through a bit further towards the north much cooler weather expected innocent. the diagnosis is that used to be a little bit. them are battling what we're trying to do is energize them it's like a rocket that can recognize the cell. thank you finding the cancer that's exactly what you had some pretty amazing results. you can get work you. know at this time on all disease.

welcome back a quick reminder of our top stories here this hour the u.n. security council's urging an immediate end to the violence against range of muslims in myanmar joined second to general antonio the gerrish who called the situation catastrophic many four hundred thousand people have fled to neighboring bangladesh in the past three weeks yes police have opened a criminal investigation after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home during hurricane a facility in florida lost power when the storm hit and the air conditioning failed . botox to end the war in syria are set to begin in kazakhstan on thursday six round of talks in a start up brokered by russia turkey and iran that aimed at implementing lasting cease fires and so-called the escalation. now this week marked one hundred days in saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e.

and bahrain imposed a blockade on cutoff they accuse the gulf nation of spreading instability and supporting terrorism claims that qatar strongly denies well fake news stories also broadcast on a regular basis by networks based out of saudi arabia and the u.s. in particular is richard guess what now the host of al-jazeera is the listening post with more on the informational. the diplomatic standoff in the gulf is a story that's been replete with media angles ever since the start 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 name then hammad of funny 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 muscle a doodle for a lot of the. medical what. i thought it would look at you see well i guess they had to have on august twenty first dubai t.v. put 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 web sites have sprung up critical of the qatari position it turns out that this one the qatar insider is backed by a d.c. based lobby group called sap prac 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 this 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 now zimbabwe's compiling a new voter register ahead of next year's presidential and parliamentary elections biometric technology they use for the first time instead of doing things manually but some why this increase the chance of voter fraud reports from harare. peter first voted in one thousand nine hundred eighty when zimbabwe won independence from britain he's participated in every election since then now the electoral commission is compiling a new voters using registration technology peter has concerns he worries ditching the manual process in favor of technology may not be a good thing for. the using new technology. and. the problems of electricity it's the first time by mid to technology is being used to register voters in zimbabwe officials

conducted a practice run in april to test the system for years opposition parties have been demanding a new list of voters they accuse president robert mugabe's rulings on a party of a new placing the current register you have thousands of people many years ago. and from our own research most of these dead voters. mysteriously resign. because their votes. zanu p.f. officials deny the accusations more than six million voters were on the electoral roll four years ago it is essentially starting the process from scratch everyone who's eligible to vote has to register again. to register at least seventy million people by january but only four hundred out of an estimated three thousand registration kits are available electoral officials say the rest of the equipment is expected to arrive in the country in a few weeks we appear to be stampeding into the registration process. without

necessarily having a full appreciation of what the entire process is about so it's important that we do get a new one and it's important that we start the process but without adequately planning for the process well setting ourselves up for disaster the presidential and parliamentary elections are next year the world's oldest elected leader is running for. reelection when the date for the polls is announced heating up between those no votes is real any way in the world is perfect but he just hope to be compiled but at least be acceptable to me how. the us government has ordered its departments and agencies to remove russian made kaspersky lab products on their information systems the department of homeland security says its concern the cyber security company has ties to state sponsored side espionage activities in russia denied the allegation saying it has no ties to the kremlin and is not involved in cyber espionage u.s.

house speaker paul ryan says he doesn't believe deporting so-called dreamers is in the country's best interests president donald trump plans to end in a bomb era policy which protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants who enter the u.s. illegally as children it's a decision which has sparked outrage across the u.s. i do believe that taking these eight hundred thousand kids out to countries that they've probably not been to since they were toddlers. in countries that speak languages they may not even know it's not in our nation's interest so i do believe that there's got to be a solution to this problem but at the same time i think it's only reasonable it makes perfect common sense that we deal with the problem that was the root cause of this which is we do not have operational control of our borders brazil former president lula da silva is being questioned again by the country's top anti corruption judge who is the frontrunner in next year's brazilian election he's facing multiple charges for allegedly accepting bribes the same judge sentenced him to more than nine years in jail in july receiving bright. i don't

accept anyone saying that i'm trying to block justice because if i would not believe in justice i would not be in politics. i sort of side bomber has blown himself up in the afghan capital killing at least three people it happened outside the kabul international cricket stadium as a tournament was underway two police officers and one civilian died in the attack the country's cricket board says all players a safe. now spain's public prosecutor has ordered a criminal investigation into more than seven hundred mayors are backing an independence referendum in catalonia he's ordered the police to arrest them if they didn't turn up for questioning catalonians government insists the poll will go ahead in october the first despite the spanish supreme court ruling it illegal most mayors are allowing public buildings to be used for the vote but they're being threatened with charges of civil disobedience abuse of office and misuse of public funds. 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 votes and leaves she said economic recovery and unity between the members means europe is now ready to move forward all of this leads me to believe. you know. we have a window of opportunity but it will not stay open so. let us make. the. catch you know six point plan was following the speech from paris and 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 bracks it 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 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 faraj 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 seventh will move forward with new vigor. all the news of course on our website the latest on the range of prices. there is on your screen the address al jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera. recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the un security council urging an immediate end to the violence against range of muslims in myanmar and joins. the cherish who call the situation catastrophic nearly four hundred thousand people

have fled to neighboring bangladesh in the past three weeks i call on the myanmar also to suspend the military action and the violence appalled the rule of law and recognize the right of return of all those went to leave the country in the u.s. a criminal investigation has been opened after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home during hurricane that facility in florida lost power when the storm hit and the air conditioning failed a fire at a religious school in malaysia's capital that's killed at least twenty five people including students the school in kuala lumpur caught fire early on thursday morning the fire department says the bodies have now been moved to a nearby hospital. parliament has passed a controversial reconciliation or granting amnesty to public officials accused of corruption before the arab spring of two thousand and eleven. dozens of protesters gathered outside parliament to say that it was

a setback to democracy the opposition shouted slogans before the session was temporarily suspended and they walked out in protest. groups eisel and hezbollah have swapped prisoners near the province of darrow's or in syria they agreed to release them as part of a ceasefire deal two weeks ago meanwhile syrian government troops are advancing further into i still held territory around arizona's city oil rich area seen a strategic for both russian backed syrian troops and u.s. backed opposition fighters. more talks to end the war in syria set to begin kazakhstan the sixth round of talks in a brokered by russia turkey and iran that aimed at implementing lasting cease fires and so-called deescalation. brazil for president listen to silver's being questioned again by the country's top to corruption judge moon as the front runner and next year's brazilian election he's facing multiple charges for allegedly accepting bribes the same judge sentenced him to more than nine years in jail in

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