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hello i'm down jordan is out is there a live from doha also coming up spain apologizes from god and police crackdown on catalan secessionist but the political deadlock continues. the philippine president's accused of a cover up as he acts against officials investigating corruption charges against his family. and plans for immoral for the victims of sunday's mass shooting in the u.s. city of las vegas. another tropical storm is battering countries across central america night is getting stronger as it approaches the u.s. gulf coast and could become a hurricane before it hits new orleans flooding and landslides have killed at least twenty five people across costa rica nicaragua honduras and el salvador there would most as more. nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere

tropical storm nate has just made it that much poorer three thousand homes destroyed communications cut the force of the storm ripped boats from the sea and left potholes large enough to consume cars. passengers on this bus were so panicked escape was the only thing on their minds and they pummeled central america with heavy rains during the week. the flood has taken away almost everything that all these people had in their home they had breakfast in the morning and not had lunch nor dinner because everything was taken away from them where waiting for any help that would be well received so many children are crying with hunger in neighboring coast city cut the storm left at least seven people dead and some five thousand people were forced to leave their homes the western province with want to cause they was the hardest hit schools across the country were closed for two days deaths were also reported farther north in honduras and el salvador. now

neda's swing in north and picking up strength as it heads towards the u.s. gulf coast in preparation new orleans mayor declared a state of emergency the current forecast indicate three to six inches of rain over the duration of the system which is going to be thirty six to forty eight hours and potential double that. although overall rainfall may not be as high as other tropical events short durations of rain as we can see can produce flooding we are particularly mindful in this regard for this particular storm of coastal flooding because of the potential storm surge for those areas of the city that are outside of the levee system. yet another deadly storm in the americas leaving a path of destruction in its wake david mercer al-jazeera. so let's take a look now at the storms pos that started near the central american coast on thursday and brought widespread flooding to nicaragua honduras and el salvador it's

not just off the coast of cancun mexico and is gathering strength full cost as expect the storm will become a category one hurricane before hitting new orleans on saturday and sunday which also woman is from the center for severe weather in the u.s. he says nature is unlikely to be as devastating as hurricane katrina which hit new orleans in two thousand and five. now it is already picking up strength and it's almost at hurricane strength probably by tomorrow morning in the united states it will be a hurricane and it will be a probably a category one hurricane maybe a category two hurricane as it makes landfall anywhere between louisiana and alabama and about twenty four thirty six hours that's wise in a very vulnerable city a very low lying city like new orleans to take precautions when a tropical storm or soon to be hurricane is coming their way that said name is very

unlikely to be as intense as katrina katrina was a very large storm it was also considerably more intense than it is likely to be but since it's a weather forecast we don't really know exactly there still is a chance maybe it's a ten percent chance that nate could become more intense than forecast and so it's prudent for a low lying city like new orleans to take precautions well ahead of time meanwhile alphabet the company that controls google is sending special balloons to puerto rico to help restore phone service after the od and was devastated by hurricane maria last month the u.s. territory has struggled to rebuild communications services since maria hit in twenty thirteen alphabet announced a test project to use solar powered high altitude balloons to provide internet service to remote regions. catalonians regional president has met community leaders in barcelona to discuss what to do next after sunday's referendum the group includes lawyers academics and members of the barcelona football club catalan

separatist leaders say they're planning to go ahead with the session despite a ban from the spanish central government the prime minister mariano rajoy has rejected any talks on the matter. but madrid has apologised for the violent response by police during the succession vote local health authorities say there are nine hundred people were injured culp and all reports from barcelona as apologies go it was a little lukewarm the spanish government spokesman said he was sorry for the hundreds of cattle and voters injured by national police and civil guard riot units but he said they were just following orders those orders to stop sunday's referendum from happening at all direct from madrid on. i said this very clearly before they were following an order they weren't order to avoid in a legal vote they were ordered to seize ballot boxes if there were incidents and there were people who were injured evidently we are almost sorry other than those

words there was no hint of madrid softening its stance on friday catalonia as police chief only weeks ago hailed a hero became the villain appearing in court in madrid. major just stepped up arrow commander of the regional muscles disquieted a force was lauded for a swift response in august to the attacks in barcelona in madrid prosecutors accused him of sedition or inciting a rebellion for failing to quash support for catalan secession the process ation leaders of two of catalonia civic and grassroots organizations face the same charges prosecutors say the leaders revved up crowds around cattle and government offices on september the twentieth. and the human blockade hampered raids by national and civil guard police under orders from government leaders in madrid. again door lies tackle i invoked the right not to make a statement because i don't recognize this court's competence in relation to the

crime we are accused of sedition because we are convinced we have not committed any kind of crime as the crisis lurches on there's a whiff of disarray among cattle and process session politicians some want to call a potentially historic parliamentary meeting for monday that debate could lead to a full blown declaration of independence others favor rescheduling it until tuesday and yet more sensing they may have overplayed their hand suggest catalonia may not yet be ready for independence at all call pennell al-jazeera barcelona spain hundreds of people have held a rally to demand free and fair elections in serbia as capital opposition leaders accuse the ruling party of tampering with voter lists in the run up to local elections next year the vote is seen as a test of president alexandrovitch which is rule one presidential elections earlier this year opposition parties hoping to dilute his power in belgrade. the philippine

president is being accused of trying to cover up allegations of corruption within his family by supporting the impeachment of the chief judge in the supreme court and then. president rodrigo detector says dissenting voices want to impeach him john allen dogan has more now from manila. president of the good that is accusing opposition members of plotting to this that belies the government detectives says. and supreme court chief justice. are part of a wider coalition that includes the liberal party and the leftist movement both were appointed by former president bill. the leader of the opposition liberal party . for alice's office is investigating allegations that the secret bank accounts containing hundreds of millions of dollars he acquired in his decades old stint as mayor of devil city in the southern philippines denies the allegations and

impeachment complaint filed against supreme court chief justice has been deemed sufficient by congress the majority are allies of the. other is accused of committing irregularities in her statement of assets and liabilities a document that declares a government official's personal wealth lawyers say the allegations are baseless charges are. absolutely without the facts and. do not even constitute. under the constitution it. has recently challenged the two government officials to resign with him. at least part of it i did not start this rock. critic see that it is actions as a ploy to silence them senator let the dba

a long time opponent of the curtis policies. on drug trafficking charges a case mostly based on testimonies of convicted illegal drug traffickers. came from. a decade of being a political leader without realizing it. the nation is different from the city of the file where it's become very defensive which. critics say did. on dangerous ground they say he's attacking institutions that investigate corruption and bad governance or uganda's ations like the supreme courts and the ombudsman that must remain independent and free from any political interference dogon al-jazeera manila las vegas resident selling flowers that a makeshift garden to remember the fifty eight people who was shot dead by a gunman on sunday the local council says it will declare the site a permanent memorial kristen salumi spoke to some people who were reflecting at the

site. the city. now has a place where the victims of the october first shooting will be remembered permanently on monday just one day after the shooting landscapers felt the need for a community space somewhere people could come together to heal. the city for a place where they could put up a temporary guard and what they got was a plot of land for a permanent memorial and in just a few days about four hundred people have come forward to donate time or resources to this memorial and many more have come to. i think that most of us are here tonight because we're not willing to be fearful and we're going to continue to live our lives we are a community and we came together. people. and. in terms of.

evidence of a connection. and. rumors about a fact and speculation have not been any investigation but they are asking the public. information to. hello the dramatic skies have been over northern iran the caspian sea coast over the last week or so have disappeared the white clouds what represents and that's gone through turkmenistan that's where the shows like to be for the next couple of

days leaving behind sunny skies slightly cooler weather arguably to around twenty three sunny degrees baghdad thirty six mind you the same is kuwait city and this is sunny skies but if you go back to the coast menstruating coast in particular. the big thing here but the onshore breeze increasing cloud and light into showers is a change has been happening for more few weeks i would say but as i said the wind direction temperatures slow to change running down through iraq into the gulf we've got a northerly recently i think it looks more like to be a light southerly come saturday which means more dusty where the temperature was a die hard to sit in the middle thirty's or up to forty in mecca and the wind directions and changing hugely in the next day or so but the pulse of the monsoon could give them how do you practice a law for a couple of days that's what's happening with the declining monsoon whereas of course of course incoming rain south africa's been particularly where recently in the east and over the mozambique border no change that looks wet including in

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welcome back to other top stories this hour in the past few minutes tropical storm knight has been upgraded to a category one hurricane now it's getting stronger as it approaches the u.s. gulf coast it's caused the deaths of at least twenty five people across central america. the spanish government has apologized for the value of spawn's by police during the secession referendum in catalonia last sunday police officials in the region have appeared in court in madrid they're being investigated for sedition. and las vegas residents are laying flowers at a makeshift garden term of the fifty eight people who were shot dead by a gunman on sunday the local council says it will declare the site a permanent memorial police say they've done a stablished shooter stephen smith. saudi arabia's ambassador to the united nations has rejected accusations that his country is lax towards child casualties in its war in yemen the u.n. says hundreds of children have been killed or maimed in attacks on schools and

hospitals by both the saudis and coalition and who the rebels mike hanna reports in the u.s. . the report lists four thousand recorded violations against children by government forces in some twenty zones of conflict along with over eleven thousand file a sions by non-state groups but in a carrot and stick approach the format of the report has been altered those states or non-state perpetrators that have been gauged with the un and committed to improving protection for children are placed in a separate blacklist from those parties that have shown no remorse or concern about their actions the saudi led military coalition in yemen is placed in this category what became of vanda and clear he said there were some listed parties even through many years to three years that had genuinely been attempting to put in place may shows that i mean they had acknowledged the problem the creation of the

category may be an attempt to persuade perpetrators that there is political value in engaging with the u.n. but critics contend it could also be a patent attempt to diminish the saudi anger that followed the military coalition's inclusion in last year's blacklist frankly. the facts speak for themselves the numbers except in response the saudi ambassador said the coalition was committed to working with the u.n. but rejected what he called inaccurate figures quoted in the report we exercise the maximum degree of care and precaution to avoid civilian harm that regrettable effects of this conflict are a direct result of the haughty and forces loyal to former president signing. the use of immoral and illegal actions that put this in billion population at risk while acknowledging that the saudi coalition had committed to measures protecting children in yemen but insisted the saudi coalition still has charges to answer

in her report virginia gun ber's said that dangers to children in yemen show little sign of diminishing i urge the coalition to improve these measures she said the dangers to children in yemen remain an acceptable a high in two thousand and sixteen the question is a threat to children in conflict zones like yemen less today than it was during the reporting period last year amidst yet another round of claim and counter-claim the answer would appear to be no mike hanna al-jazeera united nations millions of women in the u.s. may no longer have access to birth control through their health insurance under new rules brought in by president trump and the company that claims to be morally opposed to contraception can now have the benefit removed from the employees covered it's one of a number of new religious freedoms which trump and promised during his election campaign done estabrook reports. it's

a move that could impact millions of american women the trump administration is rolling back on obamacare mandate requiring insurance coverage for contraception the white house said effective immediately a new rule allows employers to refuse contraception coverage based on religious or moral reasons this is a president who supports the first amendment supports the freedom of religion i don't understand why that should be an issue the american civil liberties union was quick to respond it filed a suit in san francisco saying the rule violates the separation of church and state and discriminates against women but while the courts may exempt some employers from providing contraceptive coverage their workers might still get it anyway really they put a duty on the government to step up to the plate to provide a way for you know the people who potentially stand to lose and then to get that

coverage in another gesture to the religious right attorney general jeff sessions issued a number of broad guidelines aimed at protecting religious freedom one says religious organizations should be able to hire workers whose religious beliefs are consistent with theirs critics say that could allow some employers to discriminate against the l g b t community and others but for president trump the guidelines are a reaffirmation of the commitment he made to evangelical voters who swept him into office and who he continues to court free speech does not end at the steps of a cathedral or a synagogue or any other house of worship we are giving our churches their voices back we are giving them back in the highest form. with this executive order we also make clear that the federal government will never ever penalize any person

for their protests religious beliefs but these moves could set the administration up for another long battle in federal court diane estabrook al-jazeera washington the body of a missing u.s. soldier has been found two days after an ambush of a military patrol in there is one of four u.s. troops killed in an attack by suspected eisel linked fighters it happened two hundred kilometers north of the capital of the. united nations is worried that growing violence in the democratic republic of congo is making the region's refugee crisis worse but the r.c. is already host to more than four hundred seventy thousand refugees including hundreds of thousands of fled fighting in burundi in the past two years but even more people have fled the scene to take refuge in neighboring countries about four hundred ninety thousand of left the most recent outbreak of violence has driven more than three thousand people over the border into zambia and i have a task force. doesn't know if his wife is dead or alive

they were separated when they village was attacked in the democratic republic of congo and security forces were fighting militia groups in the area in the chaos he grabbed his children and ran it took them weeks to walk to the zambian border agent he says traumatized his children. but people are dying their hands in his with machetes pregnant women have the unborn babies. they. will die. other refugees also say they were forced to flee ethnic clashes aid workers have caught this the largest influx of congolese refugees into zambia in the past five years. say. this place more than one so you can have a million refugees in foreign harbor. in the hold that you would be safe and secure for them to stay but they have been displaced yet again they're tired

exhausted. and in need of shelter and lifesaving humanitarian and the united nations refugee agency says on average between sixty and one hundred people crossing into zambia each day sixty percent of the new arrivals are children the most recent arrivals day and communal structures until more resources are available on average for families in this one area. a day one in the morning and one in the evening the main by what the women do the cooking aid workers say there are more than three thousand registered refugees in this transit center and more are still coming. at the end of the day another bus arrives from the border with sixteen families people hope some of their friends neighbors and relatives are inside. it would mean their life and i would have to be safe in zambia and unfortunately. his wife isn't on the bus either but he hopes he's still trying to get to zambia she

managed to reach tens in. the united nations is warning if the security situation in neighboring gets worse the humanitarian needs on both sides of the border will become more dire. al-jazeera challenges. they're not a nation says it's braced for a further exodus of range of refugees from me and to bangladesh already have a half a million range of crossed the border since the end of august there are scaping a military crackdown in rakhine state that's been denounced as ethnic cleansing claims it's fighting separatist groups but aid groups say security forces and buddhist vigilantes have torched hundreds of range of villages and driven people from their homes. until you clear weapons organization has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or icann is based in geneva bonamy phillips reports the announcement from norway's capital. the no we know committee has decided to award the nobel

peace prize for twenty seventeen to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons i can i can the geneva based coalition of campaigning groups for more than one hundred countries has promoted a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. this is a time of great global tension. where fear. to unspeakable horror the specter of nuclear conflict looms large once more if there's ever a time for states to declare their opposition to nuclear weapons that moment now. with north korea's repeated nuclear weapons tests and its trading of insults with the united states war seems a more real possibility now than at any time since the cold war 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 donald trump is also threatening to take the united states out of the iran nuclear agreement the negotiations for the nuclear treaty were boycotted by the americans but the other nuclear weapons states britain france china russia israel india and pakistan also say they won't sign the message we are sending is to remind them of the commitments that they have already made that say also are obliged to work for nuclear free world. these weapons of fire and fury have not been used in anger since one thousand nine hundred forty five but the haunting images of hiroshima and nagasaki still testament to their horror barnaby phillips al-jazeera london the small pacific island of new way has created

a massive marine sanctuary in its waters it's an effort to stop overfishing the remote island north of new zealand is only two hundred sixty square kilometers but the new protected reserve is five hundred times that size is roughly the area of greece. south korea's capital has one of the world's more impressive skylines a dozens of skyscrapers that were built amid the rapid economic growth that followed the korean war but there's now a push to preserve some of the older homes that might have been forgotten because you know that went to see something in this bustling metropolis in the shadow of skyscrapers these houses known as hummocks are a slice of days gone by traditionally made from wood with tiled roofs they're designed to be cool in the summer and warm in the winter but as south korea modernized many moved out preferring the convenience of new apartment buildings. there are not many handouts left because most collapse. would take special effort

to preserve them. turned this old hanukah into a guest house with modern amenities and international touches from british designer wallpaper to arabic style tiles it's one of a number of new businesses that are turning rundown neighborhoods into trendy hotspots and changing the face of the place eighty three year old park junge salk has called home for fifteen years you can hear do you really want this too many bars and restaurants have opened up in this area especially this year and the residents have sold their houses and left. professor leek he studies gentrification in seoul he says some of the residents felt forced to leave this area become so expensive. because it used to be. appalled to stay in the area others didn't appreciate being turned into a tourist attraction. but i think. though that

became a huge issue as couple of. couple of years at another nearby village tourists are encouraged to visit quietly one more inconvenience is that these kanakas can be difficult to maintain and require specialized repairs but the city government wants to preserve them and offer special subsidies and loans to owners. says it's all about striking the right balance so more of these houses don't disappear. it is important to preserve coexistence and conservation and come up with ways to interpret the hammock in a modern way to share with people. taking the old and reimagining it for the new generation to enjoy kathy novak al jazeera saul. recap the top stories here this hour tropical storm night has grown into a category one hurricane hitting parts of central america and killing at least

twenty five people it's gathering strength as it heads past cancun in mexico and moves towards the u.s. nicaragua honduras and el salvador hit by the storm on thursday. the mayor of the u.s. city of new orleans has declared a state of emergency as hurricane nate approaches the southern united states i want to reiterate this to the people of the city or as we have been through this many many times there is no need to panic where encouraging the public to do all they can to prepare as we do in every weather event you have to have a plan you have to repair it to protect your personal property it is the cooperation of the citizens that make these events work really well with a great first responders who as you can see a well prepared and well organized meanwhile alphabet the company that controls google is sending special balloons to puerto rico to help restore phone services after the island was devastated by hurricane maria last month u.s. territory has struggled to rebuild communications since maria hit in twenty thirteen alphabet announce a test project to use cell

a power at high altitude balloons to provide internet service in remote regions. catalonians regional president has met community leaders in barcelona to talk about what to do next after sunday's referendum on secession the group includes lawyers academics and members of the boston on the football club catalan separatist leaders say they're planning to go ahead with secession despite a ban from the spanish central government the philippine president is being accused of trying to cover up allegations of corruption within his family by supporting the impeachment of the supreme court's chief judge president regurgitator says dissenting voices want to impeach him las vegas resident selling flowers at a makeshift garden to remember the fifty eight people who were shot dead by a gunman on sunday the local council says it will declare the site a permanent memorial police say they have not yet established stephen smelted on the american civil liberties union suing the trumpet ministration up that rolled back measures on birth control and players will now be exempt from providing health

insurance that covers contraceptives to their employees the lawsuit claims the change would be constitutional. well those are the headlines the news continues on al jazeera up a techno legend that's one of. their forefathers fought the soviets. twenty five years off to independence. they too must become man. defenders of lisieux. preparing for the possibility of war. waiting for invasion but witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera supersized and. scientists around the world make a desperate plea to stop an epidemic of obesity. but now new research has been.