changing communities. at this time went out to zero. the street is quiet the signal is given. out yet so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty metres in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in cape town children sometimes a quarter in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking bust to try to take the violence i lost my cooking wayland years ago i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several working buses teachers say it is working class it in it has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. who will have no choice but to turn only destroy north korea the us president

describes kim jong un as a rocket man on a suicide mission as he warns a back down this despite an earlier call for caution. fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings. and i'm barbara sarah this is al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program dozens that after a powerful earthquake hit central mexico on the anniversary of another devastating quake. i reckon maria slams into dominican where the new plan is now lashing the virgin islands and puerto rico and we look at the military drills on europe's store steps that are making some countries nervous.

hello thank you for joining us the u.s. president has stepped up his standoff with north korea threatening to totally destroy the country in a highly combative debut speech to the u.n. general assembly donald trump mocked kim jong un and described killing young as at the praised regime our diplomatic editor james bays joins us live now from the united nations headquarters in new york and what we expected strong words from donald trump especially when it comes to north korea but how surprised were people by just how strong the president was. i think very surprised indeed not many people here want you to go on camera just moments ago federico greeny the high representative of the european union chamber she didn't want to talk to me about president trump speech no one wants to talk on camera off camera people are pretty talkative i've spoken to one western foreign

minister i've worked spoken to one senior member of the security council both telling me the same thing these comments were deeply and helpful with regard to north korea and iran this is a place normally the u.n. where things are about compromise a nuance that's not what you got from president trump you got some very stark language. donald trump is the thirteenth u.s. president to come here to address the u.n. and with the north korea crisis to tear orating he knew the world would be hanging on his every word the message is with these two messages coming together but once he headed to the general assembly chamber he's excellent donald trump he had a very different message delivering a speech that astonished many diplomats by including an unprecedented threat to annihilate another u.n. member state the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced

to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to turn only destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the words with just the sort of language that earlier the u.n. secretary general had warned against fiery talk can lead to fatal misunderstandings the solution must be political and this is a time for statesmanship we must not sleepwalk our way into war president trumps foreign policy challenges a growing his critics say it's only of his own making he doesn't now just face possible confrontation with one nuclear power north korea but with a second one iran too as he continues to suggest he's likely to pull out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided

transactions the united states has ever entered into frankly that deal is an embarrassment to the united states and i don't think you've heard the last of it believe me that receive strong support from israel's prime minister but only tepid applause in the hall. so james i guess the question is where do they go next to on north korea now that such strong words have been exchanged. well i think the problem is now is anyone going to back down on the other on either side president trumps language i think makes it much harder for him to back down after what he said and the place he said it to in front of other world leaders here in the general assembly in the u.s. president's one address to the world as he does every single year and we sort of know from past experience that in north korea kim is not prepared to back down

either so i think this creates a little bit of a headache particularly for those in the region i can tell you we haven't heard from south korea or japan in terms of the formal speeches but they are coming up soon. coming days i can tell you south korea's foreign minister also coming here earlier south korea's president is also having meetings in here and i've seen japan's ambassador here in the last hour arriving for meetings and i'm sure those meetings that they will be discussing north korea situation in north korea. prime minister. just president trump's comments make the situation in north korea more difficult now british prime minister not talking to us as she came past but world leaders still in and out of meetings here. i'm sure you'll keep on trying to speak to leaders hopefully someone will actually speak to you on the record though i guess most of them would prefer off the record for now james rays of the u.n. thank you.

more than sixty people have died in mexico after a seven point one magnitude earthquake hit in the central state of puebla the quake was registered near the town of seventy kilometers southeast of mexico city president. asked him urgency climbed to what made the rescue and recovery efforts across several states this comes on the thirty second anniversary of the nine hundred eighty five earthquake in mexico city in which signs of thousand people died. and video has emerged showing tourists in mexico seeking city seeking refuge from the quake under tables in a restaurant in the main airport in the capital the airport itself has been closed due to possible damage the president who was due to land there on his way back to mexico city was the verse had to land at a military base instead well for earlier we spoke to david mercer who was in

neighboring guatemala i think it's time to live if you're going to access the damage now i was in mexico about a week after all covering a large earthquake and a lot a two magnitude quake that hit the so question part of the country as part of that which left more than likely people dead as a part of that report but we did look at you as well with the preparedness particularly in mexico city toward any future quakes and so buildings that are just it's a big earthquake and they can be five kill you know up to twenty thousand people or even more building codes of really being reinforced and that's what will you know that would be one of the reasons why you haven't seen more damage after the seven point one quake and mexico city building codes are much more rigid and. they're also a series of a lot of that to give people time to go to their house when there is an eminent

quake coming you know anywhere between say fifteen seconds and a couple of minutes depending on where the touch of the quake hit. one person has been killed on the island of whether new after hurricane maria battered it the category five storm also lashed the neighboring dominica ripping the roof off even the prime minister's residence but nearby martinique was spared the worst of the damage well it is now heading for the virgin islands and puerto rico where the governor says it threatens to do catastrophic damage and the gallagher has the latest from. as hurricane maria bore down on the caribbean island of dominique its prime minister said we did not look out maria hit as a category five with sustained winds of two hundred sixty kilometers per hour but slides and widespread damage and now a major concern for prime minister roosevelt skerritt describe the effects of the hurricane as hallucinating and was himself rescued as the storm plowed across the island taking to social media he said his people have lost what money can buy and

replace and now fears that people may have been killed north of dominated the french island of guadalupe was also pounded by the powerful storm it's still recovering from hurricane but officials say the scale of the damage is hard to quantify as a fact that we have limited contact at the moment it's really very patchy contact with our horses the firemen the military police and the police who are giving us some information we have very little information at all states across the region hurricane alerts have now been issued as maria continues its track towards the u.s. virgin islands and puerto rico high winds tidal surges and power outages and now a potentially deadly threat as officials warned residents to take to shelters or stay in their homes. and the gallagher reporting there russia and currently holding large scale joint military exercises the drills are known as pad that west and they take place every four years now these are the first the pad exercises to be held

since russia annexed crimea in two thousand and fourteen and nato's eastern members are concerned but as our correspondent rory chalons explains some in bella ruth uneasy to. it takes some noise to overpower the din of military jets but weeks of political arguing over joints russian better russian exercises have come close nato countries and allies are spooked particularly the baltics two thousand and seventeen stretches right across russia and better reeses western borderlands europe's doorstep russia's been accused by western political and military leaders of preparing for a big war even of using the drills as possible cover for an invasion but foreign observers watching it's a training ground in baton rouge seems comma quite impressive we have seen some defense systems and some like firing we. would miss arms and we've got good

explanations all the time on what's happening and and what they didn't do it so that when they're fourteen international observers here to each from the baltic countries ukraine poland sweden norway but they haven't been invited by russia they've been invited by the roots. minsk seem somewhat uneasy about these drills despite its close partnership with moscow it doesn't want the same stormy relationship with the west as russia has according to this better russian analyst. the leadership of belarus after crimea started to carry a new foreign policy position of neutral party between russia and ukraine and russia and the west these drills destroy the us image in a sense their own pleasant for the balor russian leadership and i'd like them to be wrapped up soon as possible further complicating better russian feedings had two thousand and seventeen scenario envisages russia helping to quell separatism in a fictitious breakaway region of batteries called noria but

a russian which have since come up with a vision or in foreign ministry twitter account passports even the national anthem is a bit of a. box behind the humor this blog a says there are concerns that if russia could turn on ukraine the slavic countries shouldn't take anything for granted. when such large scale drills are held it's normal for people to feel tension disbelief and fear because after crimea you cannot guarantee anything one hundred percent no one could have predicted the crimean scenario so civil society in belarus is quite nervous for vladimir putin though it's just one of the years many military exercises as he watches over the culmination of the two thousand and seventeen joints drills with china are beginning far away on the other side of the world where we challenge al jazeera better was. still to come on al-jazeera suspected of links to russia during the u.s.

election campaign the new revelations about president trump's campaign manager and . i'm scott either neighbored or myanmar were on song suchi delivered her first speech dedicated to the situation for the revenge of the many feel she didn't go far enough. hello again we'll start by looking at the weather in a straight weather conditions not too bad across through into victoria eighteen there in melbourne still quite cool breezy and wet at times in tasmania so i want to show is affecting northern parts of queens and up towards the cape york peninsula otherwise weather conditions not looking too bad had across western australia we have this frontal system pushing in later on thursday so might see some rain developing in perth pretty woman are springs thirty five nineteen for

adelaide to melbourne now across the tasman sea is one low pressure system after another we've still got one fairly close to the north island but really some brighter weather likely to in the course of wednesday and then on thursday we're going to find another low pressure center moving in across of both island so some heavy rain on the western side likely twelve year high in christchurch heading up into northeastern parts of asia here the weather at the moment gerry not looking at least initially but we are low pressure center moving across the sea of japan so later on we will see some rain developing across western parts of honshu in particular the whole system sweeps through overnight may just be an overhang of rain for sapporo first thing on thursday but that should clear away so brighter in tokyo with highs of twenty nine and generally looking fine across the korean peninsula. the centenarians of italy hundred years old and counting when you poll people like

these a new piece of these you think that you want to be seventy five something about this area is helping. life i mean it's not a trend here but you don't have. all. that mass. techno this time on old zero. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on our iraq donald trump has launched a blistering attack on north korea that is the view speech to the u.n. general assembly warning the country could be destroyed if america or its allies

were threatened the military a powerful seven point one earthquake has hit the central state of puebla in mexico local authorities say dozens of people have been killed and one person has died in what a loop after hurricane maria battered the island and it's now moving towards corso rico which is being warned of half a strong fickett damage let's get more on that story now and the gallagher joins us from san juan the puerto rican capital andy what's it looking like. well there at the moment we're not even beginning to feel the first effects i think tropical force winds were are about a couple of hours away the ire of the storm is due to make landfall in puerto rico and wednesday afternoon but make no mistake this is an incredibly powerful storm forecasters say potentially the most powerful hurricane to ever make landfall in puerto rico the last very powerful storm hit puerto rico in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight we're looking at sustained winds of two hundred sixty five kilometers per hour and we've already seen the damage that hurricane maria has done

to the island of dominique a you heard the prime minister there on social media earlier talking about it being almost looking like a whole nation the damage was so bad the picture isn't quite clear there yet at the moment some of the other islands in that region communications have been cut off here in puerto rico you might be able to hear some of the noise off behind me that's people boarding up their businesses and the streets here are still quite busy but make no mistake i think people here are taking the warnings from officials very seriously more than five hundred shelters are already been opened here in puerto rico this is a very powerful storm and if you look at the track no amount of deviation seems to make any difference it looks like almost certainly it will make landfall in puerto rico as at least a category four and you mentioned that people are heeding the advice where and sort of seeking shelter and getting ready for this storm really how many people in that region generally have been used to these kinds of storms but just put this in

context i mean how damaging could this one. well to put it in perfect context we were here i was almost ending on the same spot two weeks ago when hurricane or grazed puerto rico grazed and one a million people lost power when that happened and the winds didn't even get that strong thousands still without power since hurricane emma came past what you have to remember is puerto rico is an island in a huge amount of debt the power grid is very weak the electric company itself owes nine billion dollars most of the generators here are way older than the industry standard and will go down very easily so what we're looking at is a potential situation for vast amounts of damage power loss which could last months and a tidal surge of something like four to six meters which could be horrendous the other thing to remember is puerto rico is a very mountainous island the other fear here is that if this hits is a powerful storm and it looks very likely there will be mudslides in the rural

areas where those mountains are so any way you look at this barbara this is a potentially catastrophic storm but i think it is one the puerto ricans are taking seriously despite the fact that they do get hit by so many hurricanes and the calendar with the latest there from san juan and the thank you. on the side of the u.n. general assembly the u.s. president and the end here of qatar shaken been how matter of timing met to discuss the gulf crisis the emir described katherine's relationship with the u.s. as very strong earlier in his address to the u.n. general assembly the emir renewed his call for unconditional dialogue to end the blockade on his country president travel says he believes the blockade will be resolved quick.

break now and the situation with trying to solve a problem in the middle east and i think. it will be solved pretty quickly. me and mars' leader and son suchi may have decided to skip the un general assembly but she did finally make her first national speech on the violence against the ranger over the past three weeks more than four hundred thousand have escaped on rest sparked by a military crackdown in iraq and state scott high the reports now from the capital of myanmar after intense pressure on song suchi finally address the real hinge a refugee crisis but in here most anticipated speech since becoming myanmar's leader she avoided criticizing the actions of the military something the u.n. calls textbook ethnic cleansing. it is not the intention of the government to apportion blame gauge responsibility we condemn all human rights and

violence we are committed to the restoration of stability and rule of law throughout the states her address lacked the specifics on how to end or even the unfolding revenger refugee crisis on her country's border with bangladesh nor did she offer definitive explanations of what took place in rakhine state over the last four weeks. we want to find out why this exodus is happening we would like to talk to those who have fled as well as to those who have stayed i think it is very little known that the great majority of muslims in the rakhine state have not joined the exodus but over four hundred ten thousand have fled and two hundred ten muslim villages were burned down according to human rights watch but she chose to focus on the villages that were not attacked more than fifty percent of the villages of muslims are intact. as they were

before the attacks took place. and we would like to know why this is what i think we have to work too much not just looking at the problems but also looking at the areas where there are no problems she asked for international assistance on the situation and pledged access to some of the areas impacted from the latest violence but the some of the speech fell well short saying it didn't properly address the immediacy of the crisis and that her speech might lead to further condemnation of how she's handling the situation when you say the international community n.g.o.s and others and just the general. individuals i think there's some level of outright they wanted more they wanted. a direct if not apology some kind of acknowledgement of the enormity the scale of human misery we've seen few weeks but some diplomats who attended the speech said

it was a good start there's a first step i think that there was a good speech a good. message those international community because i'm sure that further steps will follow on song suchi repeated the phrase peace and harmony many times in her speech but if there's no progress of relief for those suffering in refugee camps who fled from her country the situation could get a lot and that idea of peace and harmony might become even farther away scot al-jazeera neighborhood. where un investigators are demanding full access to me and maher to investigate claims of human rights violations by security forces u.n. staff in bangladesh have started collecting testimonies from range of muslims who have fled the violence mass killings excessive use of force torture

and ill treatment sexual and gender based violence and the burning and destruction of entire villages it is important for us to see with our own eyes the sides of these alleged violations and abuses well to make matters worse for the range zero have escaped to bangladesh they are now having to deal with heavy flooding torrential rain over the past few days as flooded fields where some of those fleeing myanmar had set up shelters tanveer chadri has more. hundreds of recent refugees f. taken shelter in this camp you can see the condition of this camp it rained here last night there's a need deep water woman with children stranded here and a lot of this people don't know where to go there is no presence of international n.g.o.s government organization or local n.g.o.s to take them into any other shelter some of them are standing by the roadside asking for help a lot of this kids are actually got a high fever i want to the lady told me how giles got lungs problem which possible

is a name only they don't have any relief whatever many of the god is washed away by this water. i don't have any money i'm staying here with three little children in need we even took shelter on the roadside. the aid agencies are warning the real threat is a starvation spread of disease like cholera dysentery missiles already reports of missiles spreading within this community the local and international n.g.o.s presence on the ground cannot cope with this disaster alone neither can the bangladesh government separatist demonstrators have clashed with police in spain ahead of the catalonian region's planned independence referendum the protesters were attempting to block a police raid on a private company suspected of distributing ballot papers for the vote which the spanish government has declared illegal. more than five hundred people have died in

a color outbreak in the democratic republic of congo that's according to the world health organization the epidemic has hit at least ten urban areas including the capital kinshasa and it comes at a time when more than a million people have been the splays by violence in the central region. police in the u.k. have arrested a third man in connection with friday's explosion on a london underground train thirty people were injured when a homemade explosive explosive device detonated in rush hour the latest suspect the twenty five year old man was taken into custody in the welsh city of newport that's about two hundred kilometers west of london searches are now taking place in newport as well as continuing in sri addresses in london's western suburbs well as donald trump addressed world leaders of the united nations back in washington the investigation into possible collusion between the trim campaign and russia has revealed new developments media outlets in the united states of

reporting investigators wiretapped former trump campaign manager paul man of fort campbell how it has more. we won't move to the understanding dogs will demand was not used for months the f.b.i. has considered home manager for a person of interest now new revelations that the former truck campaign chair has been on the radar of u.s. government investigators since twenty fourteen the surveillance began under secret court orders it was stopped due to a lack of evidence but resumed again last year and into twenty seventeen those recorded communications are now part of the broad investigation being led by special prosecutor robert mueller into whether there was collusion between russia and trump campaign officials. the revelations have emboldened trump supporters who want social media viewed this as vindication for the president and his claim on twitter in march that the previous administration had wiretapped i have no

information that supports those tweets and may contradict claims made by fired f.b.i. director james comey who would have been overseeing that surveillance given matta for it has a home in trump tower and as chair of trump's campaign was likely caught up in that surveillance of matter for the white house has not yet commented nor has a spokesperson for man afford still the development shows that the investigation into trouble so see it is both meticulous and accelerating. on capitol hill trump advisor and friend michael cohn briefly appeared to ask her questions for senators only for his lawyer to tell reporters the meeting had been canceled. for which you're going what a day in july the f.b.i. also launched an early morning raid on matter for its home as part of its investigation seizing documents and computer files man of ford has denied he ever knowingly had contact with russian agents he did however register wretch rationally

as a foreign agent with the u.s. government for consulting work he did for ukraine's former pro russia ruling party is former justice to. hartman official says it appears miller's team is putting pressure on trump associates to target the president this would be leverage if you know to say all right if we have information that you may have violated the foreign agents registration act will kind of ignore that we'll will not prosecute that case but you've got to waive your privileges and disclose everything you know about what happened metaphor it was not reportedly under f.b.i. surveillance when donald trump jr invited him to the june twenty six hundred trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer it's a gap that could prove critical as investigators continue to probe into possible ties between the russian government and the u.s. president kimberly hellcat al-jazeera washington.

now reminder of our top stories donald trump has launched a blistering attack on north korea during his they view speech to the u.n. general assembly the u.s. president says the regime in pyongyang could be destroyed if america or its allies were threatened militarily or his words follow a warning from the u.n. secretary general not to inflame international tensions with strong rhetoric. the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime the united states is ready willing and able but hopefully this will not be necessary that's what the united nations is all about that's what the united nations is

for let's see how they do. on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly the u.s. president and the emea of qatar met to discuss the gulf crisis the emir described kept his relationship with the u.s. as very strong earlier in his address to the u.n. general assembly the emir renewed his call for unconditional dialogue to end the blockade on his country. more than ninety people have died in mexico after a seven point one magnitude earthquake hit in the central state of puebla the quake was registered near the town of at the single set seventy kilometers to the southeast of mexico city rescue workers are trying to find survivors in damaged or collapsed buildings. one person has been killed on what a loop after hurricane maria battered the island it's now moving towards puerto rico which is being warned of catastrophic damage. near mars leader has sought to

rebut criticism of the country over the alleged ethnic cleansing over hinge on muslims and son suchi says those who have violated the rights of for him to muslims will be held held accountable but she rejected accusations that the army has orchestrated the violence. well those are the top stories and that is all for me and the rest of the team here in london we'll see you tomorrow coming up next though it's techno the longevity. germany is electing a new parliament poll suggests angela merkel is poised to win a fourth term as chancellor of europe's largest economy with crises in the u. and president trump in the white house some call merkel the leader of the free world but the voters here agree watch al-jazeera as germany decides. the centenarians of italy one hundred years old in counting. the votes behind their extended lifespan.