hundreds killed and thousands more stranded india's southern state of carolina is hit by the worst flooding in nearly a century. and i'm nick lowe this is al jazeera live from london also coming up in the program to keep rejects another appeal to free the pastor at the heart of its role with the united states as its currency goes into a tailspin and more sanctions all threatens. u.s. president donald trump read directs millions in funding for syria warning it won't give any more money to hold as a credible peace process. and they were and can promise is a new era of responsibility and prosperity for pakistan as he's formally elected the new prime minister.

so we begin in india where over three hundred people have died in flooding in the southern state of kera thousands more have been left stranded with troops and local fisherman staging desperate rescue attempts power communications are also down and there are fresh alerts of more torrential rain to come but it's a myth as a report. hundreds 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 carola have been worst hit by the floods but the entire state is on red alert as heavy rain is predicted for several days if you have a fresh spell of floods inundating vast areas. 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 had 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. well pavane is seeing is the communications manager for the red cross in india and he says rescue efforts are really ramped up in the past few days. really. how really gain momentum will last what particular bit army navy air force and n.p.r. the national disaster. relief well it's basically. stepping in and trying to go

on and the figure of people being air lifted their image is going to shoot me. i've been streaming but the nature of the blood it's this one of the worst in last hundred years it's it's truly. are in a state of alert so i mean the magnitude of this calamity is fairly large and that is really stretching all the relief efforts and rescue efforts that are going in. israeli police in jerusalem have closed the gates of the al aksa mosque compound after a knife attack the police say an israeli palestinian man trying to stop an officer in the old city before being shot dead the closure means muslim worshippers will be unable to pray at the mosque a previous closure earlier this year resulted in huge protests meanwhile at least

two palestinian protesters have been killed and two hundred seventy have been wounded during new demonstrations near the gaza israel border fence the gaza health ministry says hospitals are preparing to take in more injured people palestinians have been staging protests every friday since march calling for the right to return to lands in israel that their families were forced to leave they're also demanding an end to the israeli blockade of the gaza strip charles stratford is a medical tent on the israel border. the medics here tell us that this man has been injured by a live round that has gone through both his legs. the medics here say that the majority of those injured are injured in the lower limbs and they say that ninety percent of the time these bullets are live ammunition if you come over here this man. is one of the countless people that is suffering the effects of tear gas inhalation medics saying they're seeing people like this all the time is not a man head who so doctor tells us has been injured by what he describes as an

exploding bullet obviously we can't independently confirm the spot don't to say that he's ready soldiers are using that type of ammunition that explodes in middle and the shrapnel obviously flies out and many people are being harmed this way now how maoists say is that the palestinians of gaza have every right to continue these protests and as we heard earlier today in the mosques there were calls for these protests to happen in various locations across gaza hamas says that people here have every right to protest until israel's sea is lifted and that's despite the countless injuries we're seeing here every week turkey's battered currency the lira has weakened on friday after a turkish court rejected an american pastas appeal for relief the case of andrew brunson has become a flashpoint of tension between washington and ankara with the united states

imposing sanctions and threatening more until he's freed the evangelical christian missionary lived in turkey for two decades the government there cusins him of espionage and links to the failed coup of two thousand and sixteen of president donald trump has promised not to take his detention sitting down. well he's been a problem for a long time they have not acted as a friend we'll see what happens they have a wonderful christian pastor a wonderful man pastor brunson. made up this phony charge that he is by at least not is by he's going through a trial right now do you call that a trial 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. well the last many forty percent

of its value against the dollar this year the crisis is also cause a lot of a president talking to one's influence over monetary policy so he has the latest now from istanbul. the war of words between the u.s. and turkey has descended into a financial crisis for turkey and at the center of it is the american pastor bronson who stands accused by turkish officials of having links to terrorist organizations as well as espionage mr bronson lawyer said on friday that they would be appealing the decision and also that they would probably take the case to the country's constitutional court as well and it's a case that has been vocally supported by the president donald trump but it has had a very negative effect on the relationship between the two nato allies and of course the negative impact as well on turkey's economy and the turkish lira has already created some forty percent this year thanks in part to the sanctions that

have been put on to government ministers as well as tariffs bartz there had been some stabilization of the turkish lira this week. due to measures and also a pledge by catto to inject some fifteen billion dollars worth of investment directly into the turkish economy but so with the threat of further sanctions there seems to be still a worry that this could impact the turkish economy even further and also further devalue the lira well you know the. two hundred thirty million dollars of funding away from syria until it engages in a credible peace process led by the united nations let's get more of the straight away from our white house correspondent kimberly heloc at who's in washington d.c. tell us more about this. yeah what it seems to be nic and we've certainly heard this desire from the president on the campaign trail that as president is that he's

been pushing for some time now to have what he calls regional partners taking a greater role in the rebuilding efforts particularly when it comes to the u.s. coalition's efforts to rebuild in syria and of course also combating the tens of thousands of eisel fighters that still remain not only in syria but also in iraq centrally what the night and state state department has said is that in march it froze about two hundred thirty million in fines for the rebuilding effort specifically it reached out to its partners including saudi arabia and it amassed some three hundred million in contributions in both contributions as well as pledges notable in all of this is one hundred million from saudi arabia as a result the united states says that it able to read direct those frozen funds to other foreign policy priorities what is also notable in all of this nic is the reaction from syria as

a result of that one hundred million dollar saudi arabia contribution in fact syria's state run news agency saying that this is morally unacceptable that the u.s. coalition is criminal it doesn't deserve support particularly from saudi arabia because its goal is simply to fragment the region so what would you think has prompted this stones from the u.s. president. well essentially in the president knows that it's his public his voters and particularly his base of support is very much war weary that there is a bit of fatigue from the u.s. taxpayer in terms of funding a lot of these projects that's one of the sort of campaign promises made by donald trump that he is eager to try and deliver on particularly before the november congressional elections so this is something that he has been working on he's been working particularly when it comes to saudi arabia very closely cultivating that relationship in terms of a number of his foreign policy priorities we know that back in march he actually

reached out to the kingdom looking for some four billion in contributions but this this contribution we're talking about right now is minuscule compared to what he requested it's just one hundred million still this does seem to be something that the united states feels it is is large enough to be able to move forward with it and so that's why we see this now this redirection of funds we should note though that the united states is saying this doesn't affect its larger strategic goals which remains not only defeating eisel but also continuing its u.s. support for humanitarian assistance it says that that has remains unchanged and that that right now it's very proud of its contribution some eight point one billion for supporting those displaced inside and outside of syria so this is something the united states says they have been working towards for some time and now we've seen that come to fruition or that's a picture from washington d.c. it can be help that reporting things what can be. syria is also featuring on the

agenda of the meeting between the russian and turkish defense ministers in most one of the key issues for discussion is the plight of millions of civilians displaced from their homes since will begun back in two thousand and eleven this includes the latest group of people who are seeing it in one of the last opposition strongholds ahead of a planned offensive by government forces. many are taking refuge in camps near the turkish border assuming because you know now reports from the town of. this is the marketplace of the refugee camp in northern syria by serious or a keyboard there the camp which is one of the oldest and self-rising began in the reality post more than eight hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees those refugees for this place may be once maybe a couple of times since the seaweed authorizing and the bashar assad regime's assaults began and many people here feel stuck because as the prayers as the syrian regime president bashar assad's threatens to

a touch if these people say have nowhere 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 some of the solid start following them but when you speak to the people they are kind of those the clothes they are made up and they have sold on the time by the syrian regime still to come on the program high level cycling's in china are often hundreds or thousands of vaccines intended for children have been found to be substandard. women in the poor take to the streets to protest against the new law which they say undermines their rights as citizens.

hello there we've had some severe weather over parts of europe recently ukraine has seen a lot of thunderstorms and this is what it looked like in the capital kiev this is central kiev an awful lot of water there flowing down into the shopping center there and causing quite a few problems that was just the rain though we also had some very gusty winds as well and they caused a fair amount of damage to now that system responsible is just making its way eastwards now and behind it we've got this system here this is a weather front is making its way eastwards and behind that it's turning a lot fresher than it has been so we'll see some pretty violent downpours here but behind it not quite as hot so around twenty four in paris and twenty three in london watch out saturday night into sunday though because we're going to see a very severe system work its way across parts of the british isles and that will make things here very very stormy across the other side of the mediterranean generally fine and dry for many of us in the east but further west we are seeing

a few areas of cloud develop and there's a chance of seeing want to showers particularly as we head through the day on sunday i think some of those around a likely to be rather heavy of course it's further south where we've got the more persistent rain for some of us in west africa it is looking particularly wet on saturday. national bulletins for debate on migration is polarized into the two strident positions harkless and the headless how do you define an indigenous person who they found if it isn't it's more about living with defense and you in pieces and who do they contain people have the right to live anywhere in the world that have the right to leave their country. and get his head to head for the polk county on al-jazeera.

but again a reminder the top stories here analogies are over three hundred people have died in flooding in the southern indian state of corona thousands more have been left stranded with troops and local fishermen staging desperate rescue attempts. israeli police in jerusalem have closed the gates of the al aksa mosque compound off the knife atomic police say a man attempted to stab officers before being shot. china has lent his moral support to turkey in the country's ongoing sanctions dispute with the united states beijing calls for more dialogue between the policies and said that he would overcome temporary economic difficulties. imran khan has promised a new era of prosperity and justice for pakistan after being elected the new prime

minister by lawmakers his. policy which campaigned on an anti corruption but from. also become the largest in the national assembly but he will still need to set up a coalition government in now faces a mammoth task in preventing an economic crisis and boosting jobs as promised during election campaigning. the first thing we will do is crack down on corruption i promise you in front of god that whoever stole from this country and burden us with. a single one of them. listen to what's more from islamabad pakistan the. children emraan khan and their twenty second prime minister of pakistan they were chaotic scenes inside parliament and the opposition made a lot of noise shouting slogans against iran and shouting and favorite roles. the prime minister who was disqualified and sent to jail his younger brother. for

the opposition candidate for the prime minister. however the difference between the politician in pakistan had meant that the opposition airlines had already fallen apart the pakistan people's party decided to abstain from the warning and that of course had given emraan khan a clear advantage imran khan has spoken on the floor of parliament saying that he's going to be a bigger an accountability and he's going to deliver on the promises he made to the people of pakistan who have voted for change in iran started its political party back in nineteen ninety six and in twenty two years has become that great if they can prime minister. afghanistan's president has visited the embattled city of guns and you know we can offer the taliban most a surprise attack which killed over two hundred fifty people. members of

afghanistan's armed forces and congratulated them on the victory against young group you also met elders in the local mosque and some of the victims' families. the united nations has invited yemen's government turned iraq on back to the rebels to geneva next month for talks on resolving the country's civil war the september told same to revive un backed negotiations that broke down in two thousand and sixteen nearly ten thousand people have been killed since the conflict started more than three years ago one hundred has more now from jupiter. all of the yemeni government on whole the fighters and looks across the willingness for attend the talks in geneva you want off the shelves say that the initial days of the talks will dwell on breaking the ice and also drawing up a framework for talks before planning that attention to establishing some sort of a polish sharing agreement between the purtiest the difficult issue of the port city of the day that which is a lifeline for millions of yemen is expected to dominate the talks going to

officials say that the whole of the fighters have expressed some willingness to homs over the course of the day that. an administration that is supported by the united nations but not the city itself something the u.a.e. say this is unacceptable on but coupled with the other issue or for lack of a ceasefire before even the talks begin and the sudanese will be shown nothing invited to the conference going to fix a limit more of a success the hopes my thought hard for all senior chinese officials have been dismissed over defective vaccines program which affected over one hundred eighty eight thousand children in shandong province a jim brown has more now from the chinese capital. 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 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're 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. nepal's parliament is debating a bill that could make it difficult for women to pass on their citizenship to their children to say the proposal is discriminatory and they want to stop it so has more often come under. these women are protesting in the mid day heat and cut spending they say they refuse to be treated as second class citizens. because

parliament is debating a new bill that says women need an apology husband in order for their children to be in a party citizen activists say the constitution itself which was adopted in two thousand and fifteen is discriminatory. although it says a child of an apology mother or father can be citizen there are clauses that do not allow the poly women married to foreigners to pass on their citizenship to their children. to groom had to go to the supreme court to get citizenship for her children her husband whose mother is also in a poly citizen has no citizenship. my husband is trying to get citizenship for his mother his father died when he was young we went to the courts and even though the courts instructed local officials to do was necessary to give my husband citizenship the local authorities refused. bureaucrats many of whom are

seen as socially conservative can now make it more difficult for people like dip these husband to obtain citizenship difficult bill is deeply problematic now nepali women have to prove that the father of their child is it isn't a requirement that is just not there for men the only other way out is to say that she doesn't know the identity of the father in an already deeply patriarchal society where women face many indignities this bill is seen by these women as yet another level of discrimination. been there is a member of parliament who has been a strong advocate for women and equality last year about sonia whenever there are some parliamentarians who think men are the only ones who can say finish and sovereignty they think women are inferior yet there are many who have come to realize they shine and they were voted in by both men and women so we are objecting this bill while the debate goes on in the parliament women's rights activists say

they will not stop protesting until they're treated as equal citizens sabinus russia al-jazeera katmandu german chancellor angela merkel has warned against expecting too much ahead of her meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. will hold talks with the russian leader near berlin on saturday she says she doesn't expect the meeting to elicit any specific results but although the two leaders are far from allies they do have shared interests thought it came reports. when angle americal me to vladimir putin on saturday it will be for the second time in just three months on the table of the conflict in syria the situation in ukraine and the controversial north stream two gas pipeline under the baltic sea but hanging over the meeting is this statement from donald trump july's nato summit but germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia because it is getting so much

of its energy from russia so we're supposed to protect germany but they are getting their energy from russia explain to the. russia provides only around half of germany's annual energy consumption but most is in the form of natural gas and that is why the nord stream to gas pipeline is so contentious it's a network which when complete will transport natural gas from russia under the baltic sea to western europe bypassing the existing land based pipelines through ukraine and it might deprive the government in kiev as much as three billion dollars a year in revenue ministers in kiev say the project is purely political moscow insists it's just business but i sure wish i knew when you got the stomach sick that most of us could come up to talk yes we have always treated this project as exclusively economic we have always kept outside the scope of any political process i would also like to say that after the launch of nord stream to the stopping the

movement of russian gas through ukraine it is not intended. but russia's role in ukraine continues to concern the leaders notably angle americal specifically moscow's immoveable a-t. over the minsk agreement which brokered a cease fire between government and separatist forces on the often does he offer we hope to move forward on the issues of the mens get agreement with ukraine and russia france and germany took on responsibility many years ago we are saddened that still no day goes by without a violation of the ceasefire that we don't give up hope and we know that through this the relationship with russia could be significantly improved. ukraine aside to the two leaders do have common ground such as in keeping the iran nuclear deal and both share concerns about the trumpet ministrations tariffs and diplomacy but their relationship has never been easy i think both sides have accumulated a lot of skepticism mistrust ruto reproaches and grievances that overshadow their

relationship which is why few people in the german capital expect any breakthroughs as a result of this meeting dominic came. in. the city of detroit has produced many music stars but none as i call it because the u.s. soul singer aretha franklin she died on thursday of pancreatic cancer at the age of seventy six and as john hendren reports from detroit her legacy and impact on the city is still being felt. detroit is a city in mourning a day after the death of a wreath of franklin people are still coming here to the church where her father preached and where she got her start singing in the choir to lay flowers and balloons and to remember her and her family is coming up with more ways for people to remember her there will be a viewing of her body at the museum of african-american history here in detroit and after that in the coming days there will be a funeral and we can only guess the kind of talent that will be there back up

singers became icons themselves people like whitney houston and chaka khan and as people remember her there's a lot of talk about her legacy aretha franklin said she didn't consider herself and icon of the civil rights movement though she sang it martin luther king's funeral and contributed to the end. she said she didn't consider an icon of feminism that way and perhaps it was because she was able to take a song like respect a song he had sung before and imbued with a sense of import and moment so that other people viewed it as an anthem of feminism an anthem of the civil rights movement it was that and the quality of the sheer talent of a voice that sword for sixty years to a height that led rolling stone to declare her the best singer ever the state of michigan declared her voice a natural resource and it's those things that. are here in the days after her death and ultimately in her music. which is.

the stories that we're covering lots of comments. that. don't. so as a reminder of the main headlines hit on al-jazeera and over three hundred people have died in flooding in the southern indian state of carola thousands more have been left stranded with troops and local fisherman staging desperate rescue attempts communications are also down and there are new and lots of more turn to rain to calm. israeli police in jerusalem have closed the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound offer a knife attack the police say an israeli palestinian man tried to stop an officer in the old city the full being shot that took his battered currency the lera has weakened on friday after a turkish court rejected an american pastas appeal for release the case of andrew

brunson has become a flashpoint of tension between washington and ankara with the u.s. imposing sanctions and threatening more until he is freed well said he's been a problem for a long time they have not acted as the brand we'll see what happens they have a wonderful christian pastor a wonderful man pastor brunson. made up this phony charge that he is by and he's not is by he's going through a trial right now do you call that a trial they should have given his background a long time ago and 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. rush and then take his defense misses a meeting in moscow to discuss the plight of syrian refugees millions have been forced from their homes since the war began in two thousand and eleven many are now

fighting it live one of the last opposition strongholds the head of an expected offensive by government forces that taking refuge in camps near the turkish border . imran khan has promised a new era of prosperity and justice for pakistan off to be elected the new prime minister by law make his historic and stuff party which campaigned on corruption platform has become the largest in the national assembly but he will still need to set up a coalition government right there up to date with all the main stories on al-jazeera work on china's democracy experiment is coming up next for the.

tens of thousands of demonstrations erupt across china each driven by anger over corruption and the illegal sale of communal land most protests fail to make an impact but in two thousand and eleven one village defied the odds. constantly just rose up demanding the return of their land calling for their leaders to step down to decades of corruption. and made a crackdown activist shoots him poor died in police custody. that really kind of chieftan thinkable their right to choose their own d.v.d.'s. well that's.