to al-jazeera. at least three hundred people killed in the worst floods to hit the southern indian state of carolina in nearly a century. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also a heads two palestinians are killed by israeli army fire as hundreds protest against the israeli siege at the gaza border a court in turkey decides not to release an american pastor whose arrest has strained relations between the two nato allies. and it's time to tango an international festival celebrating the south american dance opens in argentina's capital.

hello thanks for joining us the indian state of carola faces an extremely grave crisis that's according to its chief minister as monsoon rains batter the region more than one hundred sixty people have been killed in the last ten days doubling the death toll to three hundred twenty four people that since the end of may the damage has been described as the worst in almost a century bernard smith has the latest. underage of soldiers have been sent to caroline to lead the rescue effort. thousands of people are stranded across the southern indian state at least two hundred twenty thousand people have sought refuge in relief camps. hundreds of homes have been swallowed by floodwater. north and central carol have been worst hit by the floods but the

entire state is on red alert as heavy rain is predicted for several days in. inundating. as. we have deployed our forces over there in seven districts. the government says ten thousand kilometers of perilous roads have been destroyed. the international airport is flooded and have been temporarily closed. monsoon rains are a fact of life in india but these are the heaviest since one hundred twenty four millions of dollars worth of crops have been washed away. indian prime minister narendra modi says he's praying for the safety and well being of the people of color bernard smith al-jazeera. speak to donna rajan draw on who's the editor in chief of the news minute dot com she's joining us on the line from three sewer that's in kerala state itself i know you're covering the story on your website what can you tell us about the rescue operation itself and how it's being executed. the

operation still going on in at least i can speak districts of lot of people have been there you know but it on sunday i don't what appears on the rooftop of a house is still boarded not able to reach out places in other places and i just don't many people that are school politics that five hundred thousand people at one point but there is no way the people can be thought to speak for sure but i've not noticed in the needy and dropping food packets but the people the chief minister the feet of care but more boards will be put into service tomorrow to leech more people be there if you will but in some places things are becoming pretty tough and what can you tell us about what people have been telling you about how they're coping in these circumstances. the deuce just meant to just continue to keep

coming for it all please. accept it all testing talk to people change but the biggest problem they face now is that they are not able to travel to one district and the city landslides across highways even pooled access to skilled and i think relief well can go on back to the government on crayolas he explained to kill the city old but god will cause all cannot progress as much as they would have like i actually people know to eat they will hate eating through the day to day things progress active now three point one knocked people into least cans of coffee and that's what would be a mighty go up quite a model and for those that have made it to the relief camps what are the priorities there for them what do they need the most and are they being afforded the services . we are hearing reports of shots of smoke drinking water line not in many of these can be even the campus places where that is the thing that

is in our nation but it's because to take food items from any camp you've been getting it to it's best just being a drop to god it was a notice ebay's the government is trying to take food to all these places but they're just too many people to look after not didn't like at all that just on the red alert and the water from the dime. being thrown into that it was kind to me the amount of thought to leave from the van have been in the last few days we just got my thoughts to the relief and achievement said that i too model hopefully everyone to be rescued that is same thing they're said to be but that did not happen because in many cases it took all to see such a tranquil inaudible you have to be either fishing boat off the boat because the cut into the water are very strong only three boats can be taken and some of the boat to reach will need to be hopefully everybody can to model ok we thank you for

giving us the update from caroline. israeli forces have killed two palestinian protesters in gaza during the latest round of friday demonstrations at the border more than two hundred seventy people are injured the gaza health ministry says hospitals are preparing to take in more injured people they've been demonstrating since march calling for their right to return to lands their families were forced to leave charles stratford has more from gaza. well this is one of five locations along the border where protests are ongoing today large crowds here we have just actually a few minutes ago come from one of the medical treatment tents that we would able to bring you live pictures from but certainly distressing scenes in their wounded being brought in all the time one man we saw a bullet so the doctor said alive bullet it passed through both his legs also people they're being treated for tear gas inhalation these protests have been going

on now for twenty one weeks but this particular one this week comes off a few days of relative calm we saw earlier in the week that there were restrictions lifted on the only commercial crossing with israel here in gaza that was opened by the israelis and they were also restrictions lifted for an area that expanded the area of which the fishermen can operate but certainly today the numbers here of these protests are very big and the big concern is is that of course anything deemed as a provocation by both sides could destroy what i say can only be described as relative calm in recent days well china has offered support to turkey and made its worsening currency crisis caused in part by u.s. sanctions beijing has also called for a dialogue between the nato allies after the u.s. president donald trump's threat to introduce more sanctions on thursday the turkish lira has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year

causing deep concern about its broader economy. well at the center of the diplomatic dispute is american pastor andrew bronson who's been detained in turkey for nearly two years a turkish court has now rejected an appeal by brunson for release from his house arrest he's being accused of espionage and links to the failed coup in twenty sixteen washington is threatening to impose more economic sanctions on ankara brunson is not free. well he's been a problem for a long time they have not acted as. we'll see what happens they have a wonderful christian pastor the wonderful pastor brunton. made up this phony charge by. now to by. going through a trial right down your goal that they should have given him back a long time ago. turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly

so we haven't seen the last of that we are not going to take it sitting down they can take our people so you will see what happens so you go has an update from istanbul. the high court has upheld the decision from the lower court in is and has also struck down any request for there to be a lifting of the travel ban which was put upon him as well his lawyer in turn has said that they will try the appeal again same court and there's even hinted that they might even try to appeal to the country's constitutional court with with this case but really it just is more and more of a affirming of. intrenchments of both sides really as this war of words continues it's been dissipating like this for months and has spawned an economic crisis as well here in this country with a devaluing of the lira which is only stabilized this week but really it's put

the relationship between these two allies in a very precarious situation of course not forgetting that while mr trump is coming out with these very tough words as well it is benefiting him in the sense that it is actively calling out to his evangelical base in the sense one of his major support sectors there so it really does. play into that and in the meantime as well turkey is giving out the impression that it's not going to give into this and that there needs to be some kind of diplomatic resolution to this something which has been echoed by other countries as well who have called for the u.s. to not be so harsh or not to use such tough language and to resolve things diplomatically while the trumpet ministration is changing priorities in syria are redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars in stabilisation funding elsewhere the u.s.

department says the money will be used to fund other key foreign policy priorities our white house correspondent kelly hard to joining us what are we to read into that decision can really. what this looks like tarion is essentially another incremental retreat of the united states from syria something that donald trump said he wanted to do on the campaign trail essentially he has task department heads the state department and one of them with trying to figure out how to do this in a constructive way so we saw essentially in march a freeing or a freezing rather of two hundred thirty million in funds well the united states essentially cobbled together either in concrete donations or pledges from other nations including one hundred million from saudi arabia to support stabilisation now that there is approximately three hundred million in place the united states says that in consultation with the white house as well as sort of looking at the

military and financial contributions already made by the united states that it is essentially able to now put this into a fact so you're right what this is this essentially the united states saying look we want our partners to play a bigger role now that we see that happening we are able to the money that we had frozen now set aside work with congress to determine what other priorities need to be addressed or writes a committee how to thank you so heads on al-jazeera we look at the fallout from a vaccine scandal that's raised fears over the safety of drugs in china. hello and welcome back to international weather forecasts we're going to start this hour here across parts a little we are looking at fairly dry conditions across much of the area but the

temperatures are very very warm across the region look at this baghdad at forty four degrees on saturday down towards quaint city we expect to see a high temperature for you of forty eight degrees and that really doesn't change too much as we go into sunday and i think as we go towards the beginning of the week we may even see some a dust starting to build up so lower visibilities are going to be in your forecast as we begin into monday and into tuesday as well down here across much of the arabian peninsula clouds down here towards the south across parts of yemen as well as into southern parts of all man as well we do expect to see so well at a temperature of twenty six degrees and up towards the scot a little bit better at about thirty to temperatures moderating there but doha we expect to see a temperature on sunday of about forty two degrees for you there and then very quickly down towards the southern portions of africa we are going to see a funnel system make its way towards cape town you can see those clouds right there on the satellite that will continue up here towards the north east and we do expect to see rain coming into the forecast over the next couple days for durban you can

see those clouds right there with the temperature there of seventy degrees in cape town you can be clearing out with a temperature of seventeen. hello

again the top stories on al-jazeera the indian state of carola faces an extremely grave crisis that's according to its chief minister as monsoon rains battered the region more than one hundred sixty people have been killed in the last ten days doubling the death toll to three hundred twenty four people since the end of may damage has been described as the worst in almost a century israeli forces have killed two palestinian protesters in gaza during the latest round of friday demonstrations at the fence more than two hundred seventy people were injured palestinians have been demonstrating since march calling for their right to return to lands their families were forced to leave on the trumpet ministration says it's redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars in stabilisation funding for syria the u.s. state department says the money will be used to fund other key foreign policy priorities now that it's managed to raise three hundred million dollars from allies

like saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. russian and turkish defense ministers are meeting in moscow to discuss the plight of syria's refugees millions have been forced from their homes since the war began and many are now fleeing one of the last opposition strongholds ahead of a planned offensive by the government they're taking refuge in camps near the turkish border city of kosovo glue has more from may that's inside syria near the border with turkey. this is the marketplace of a refugee camp in northern syria by syria syria keyboard there the camp which is one of the oldest in the rising began and the reality shows more than eight hundred to. thousand syrian refugees those refugees this place maybe once maybe a couple of times since the sunni rising and the bashar assad regime's assaults began and many people here feel stuck because as the there is the syrian regime

president bashar assad threatens to touch it these people say no where else to go because this was the ultimate point by the border that they could reach and now you see the dots you see the shops and people who are trying to make their living days friday the shops are all with them but when you speak the way they are going to be close they made up any outsold. by the syrian regime. parliaments has endorsed him on call on the next prime minister has to make insaaf party became the largest in the national assembly after an election last month that some of the opposition disputed as expected to be officially sworn in on saturday thousands of people have been paying tribute to the former indian prime minister atal bihari vajpayee who's been cremated in new delhi he was the first prime minister from the hindu nationalist b.h.p.

b j p excuse me. he was considered a consensus builder and successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller parties and the thomas has more from new delhi. india's current prime minister was among the last to life laos next to one of its most respected then came the last post the new delhi's. memory place. was gently taken from escaping and laid on its pile. to the crack a ceremonial gun fire. the fire was lit earlier budget price body had been taken on a perception through the streets of new delhi he didn't really be devoted to that he to be the right man for everyone. and he wants everything but everybody i twenty five roads in the center of the council with close to allow the crowds to gather thousands of people have come through here on their way to reach the funeral

rites and this is just one of many ways among the official mourners is a delegation from the incoming government. imran khan about to be sworn in as pakistan's new prime minister also sends a message of goodwill saying budge pi's death left a vacuum in the subcontinent political arena. that's why is remembered fondly by most indians his period in office was one of strong economic growth and investment in roads and bridges for i it was also when india became a nuclear power the tests i was sore in one nine hundred ninety eight so controversial internationally but popular at home divisive though with two thousand and two use events in gujarat after a train carrying hindu pilgrims was set on fire killing fifty as many as two thousand mostly muslim men were killed in riots many thought the state government did little to stop them but europe's then chief minister is today's prime minister

on friday the renderer modi called by his guru. cremation marked the end of a new political giant andrew thomas al-jazeera new delhi. rescue workers are still digging through the rubble in genoa after tuesday's bridge collapse at least thirty eight people were killed and hundreds injured the government is now focusing its attention on its aging bridges and tunnels some of which are more than forty years old. or families continue to arrive at the us mexico border seeking a new life in the united states most remain hopeful that they will be able to enter despite the trumpet ministrations hard line policies that have jailed families and separated children from their parents. has more from texas for immigrants just released by the u.s. border patrol the first taste of freedom on american soil is this bus terminal in macallan texas here they enter in neat lines clutching plastic bags containing the

first and only belongings of what they hope to be their new lives in the u.s. and the progress that is being philly's thank god i'm here i'm happy because i'm with my family i mean a lot and is doing it with. this man and his fourteen year old daughter had timing on their side they arrived at the border just after a government policy of separating families ended rather than enduring weeks or months apart as did almost three thousand families before them the two were processed and released within days. i think before it was a terrible moment for all who went through that thank god we and during this mobile this time that we can be together despite the trump administration's zero tolerance policy to deter people from crossing the number of families apprehended by border patrol remained above nine thousand in july adults who are caught crossing this border without their children are still being prosecuted for the crime of

a legal entry punishable by up to six months in prison every day dozens of people are arrested and then taken to a federal courthouse where i'd. here's their cases not as individuals but in mass hearings as long as the push factors that are pushing these people out of guatemala and on the earth however the more violence that the reds and security extreme property as long as those they push back to for their people are going to keep coming because they're fighting for their lives blocks from the mccallum bus terminal is a shelter for newcomers run by catholic charities here children and parents receive a brief respite before continuing their journeys they recognize their fortune of being together while hundreds of kids who came before remain alone and in shelters the government deported their parents and is still determining how to reunite them i know of us who've been out i do feel sorry for them there must be said the

parents left and the children stayed behind my children have to be with me because they are my life. these families will now catch buses to take them deeper into the u.s. then they'll have to convince an immigration judge to let them stay and most will be ordered deported but for now each step forward feels like a triumph heidi joe castro al-jazeera mccallan texas. just to bring you some breaking news and we are hearing that israeli police have closed the gates off of the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem following reports of a stabbing attack israeli police have released the statement there saying that a man approached several officers in the old city and tried to stab one of them they then opened fire on him killing him police are saying that the suspect was an israeli palestinian. now in china for senior officials including

a provincial deputy governor have been dismissed over a defective vaccines program one hundred eighty eight thousand children in chandon province have been given the injections which contains what the government's called substandard medicine adrian brown has more on that story from beijing. of the four officials who've been dismissed one is the deputy head of the organization responsible for regulating the drug industry here in china as well as the deputy governor of jilin province these dismissals were confirmed in a report in the people's daily overnight the people's daily is the newspaper of record here in china it's said that the state council which is a body headed by president xi jinping had met to discuss the case and this was the result president xi jinping it seems has been playing an active role in the fallout of the scandal which appears to be widening now this all began back in july when it was revealed that the chunk chunk biotechnology company had been falsifying

production records it produced vaccines which were then given to children these are vaccines which are not dangerous they simply ineffective in effect useless so now you have thousands upon thousands of parents in china still not sure still not convinced they can trust the industry which provides vaccines for their children there really is a trust deficit in this area at the moment and a lot of anger in the streets when you speak to people about the scandal they say how can we trust our vaccine industry and of course foreign vaccines simply aren't available in china so people here in china have no option but to use the locally produced ones now we know also that some five hundred thousand ineffective vaccines were produced that's double the figure the government gave a month ago and that one hundred eighty eight thousand of these vaccines were administered to children we know also that fifteen officials from the company at

the center of the scandal are still under investigation including its chairwoman. women in the paul are denouncing a bill they say would make them second class citizens if pos the proposed law would make it much harder for some women to pass on their nepali citizenship to their children sabina shuster reports nah. i'm not god good and i don't think that but if i leave state recognizes them as equal citizens i know there is a bill being i did great in the parliament right now which was that women had to was the identity of the father as an acknowledged that in order for that show to be and it was that how do i do is to say that the woman doesn't lose the identity of the father i know i could travel sites like those. people would have to say that

when i'm around i don't know what was going on and i do not have proof that the mother of the chinese in the arms of the law they should women should not have that either and i feel like yes in the preamble that's us that. they are going to be but i think most of those who spoke to a child there are now saying why is there a chance that many women can not return second class and off this country. i think it was done. well for the next two weeks a dancing spectacular will color the argentine capital one of sirees the tango was born in the city way back in the late nineteenth century and now the international tango festival and world cup attracts fans and competitors from around the globe terrorism reports. it is the dance music of one of science.

and for two weeks the festival and world cup energizes the argentine cappie. yes and. traveled from colombia to compete last year they came in third place this time they're hoping to make it to the top of the news in the summer school helps me express what i feel is the most complete dumps and the most beautiful is the anything obama says best that alyson team and it's an arch that helps you express what you're feeling if you're angry or sad happy or in love you can express everything in a stance. this is the world's most important tango competition almost seven hundred couples competing to win the cup it is here in the neighborhood of our tangle was born it is the place where the firstborn of one our side is was no kadian when thousands of immigrants arrive here in search of a better life and that's why many say that tango is full of sorrow because it

expresses the feelings of those who had to leave everything behind in their home countries and the hardships they faced when they arrived. and they were no new one is the instrument at the heart of the sound of tango first crafted for religious services in the nineteenth century germany it is now in tune with dangle. though it has been playing it since he was a child and now it helps him make a living. as a coach and how but in the beginning it was persecuted because of the way it was danced or what the songs meant a powerful opponents like the plus the catholic church on the military but slowly is what its place and now it is all it. says this time of the year is a period that held argentines pay tribute to the dance that has come to represent them the moment picked already brought it is

a historic moment because it's the time when we see how time goes nurturing is opening up mixes with other musical cultures but we always look back to our historical references. to continue to teach us and to keep us on the right path. a path that has come a long way since dan was born but that continues to amaze arjen times and for you. it is how will i just. follow again the headlines on al jazeera this hour the indian state of caroline faces an extremely grave crisis that's according to its chief minister monsoon rains batter the region more than one hundred sixty people have been killed in the last ten days doubling the death toll to three hundred twenty four people since the end of may the damage has been described as the worst in almost a century israeli police have closed the gates of the mosque compound in occupied

east jerusalem following reports of a stabbing attack israeli police released a statement saying that a man approached several officers in the old city and tried to stab one of them they then opened fire on the man killing him police say the suspect was an israeli palestinian meanwhile israeli forces have killed two palestinian protesters in gaza during the latest round of friday demonstrations at the border more than two hundred seventy people are injured the gaza health ministry says hospitals are preparing to take in more injured people palestinians have been demonstrating since march they're calling for their right to return to lands their families were forced to leave. they trumpet ministration says it's free directing hundreds of millions of dollars in stabilization funding for syria u.s. state department says the money will be used to fund other key foreign policy priorities now that it's managed to raise three hundred million dollars from allies like saudi arabia and the united arab emirates china has offered support to turkey

amid its worsening currency crisis caused in part by a diplomatic dispute with the us beijing has also called for a dialogue between the nato allies to the american threat to introduce more sanctions on thursday the turkish lira has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year causing deep concern about its broader economy on pakistan's parliament has endorsed imran khan as the next prime minister has to headache and soft party became the largest in the national assembly after an election last month that some in the opposition disputed those other headlines on al jazeera more news coming your way right after inside stories stay with us.

italy comes to terms with a bridge that collapsed killing thirty eight people the government is turning its attention to the aging infrastructure engineers are warning hundreds of bridges and tunnels could be dangerous so what can be done to ensure safety this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted hamid with dozens now dead and the hope of finding any more survivors diminishing by the day the general a bridge collapse has many across the world questioning how this could have happened.