the rains easing but southern india's problems are getting worse floods in kerala for eight hundred thousand people from their homes. hello i'm asking this here without is there live from doha are also coming up. questions for the trumpet ministration over reports of an american made weapon was used in the strike in yemen that killed forty children. desperate to escape from economic and political crisis but venezuelans face new restrictions from their neighbors. nicholas you're in touch with.

a movie drawing big crowds and breaking racial barriers in hollywood. there are tens of thousands of people still stranded in the southern indian state of carola after days of heavy flooding there the worst monsoon floods there in a century and more than one hundred ninety people have died in just over a week but there is some good news the rains are easing and major roads have been cleared so help can get three hundred thomas reports from carola. right there is where the dry roads and the flood wall is again that is the spots to which all the rice some bottles of drinking water being rolls and you can see this big crowd essential forming a great conga line and then people are walking across here this is not normally

a river this is the only dry land as you can see they hold on to this yellow rope that's been strung right across and they carry boxes and bags of water food and medicines across to about five hundred people who live two clauses in that direction now most people have chosen not to leave because although obviously this flood water is bad it's generally taking up the lower part of people's houses not the upper floors you can see a house just there. is ok on the top floor and it's the same over in that other community so what the people there want is to get a stay with their houses to get a date and that is what this operation is all about and this is being repeated right across kerala state on sunday the need is huge. homes nearly submerged in flood water people forced to leave their properties behind you know to to avoid the floods or landslides. this has been the scene for over

a week because the southern indian state of carola battles heavy rains. the subsequent floods have been described as the worst in nearly a hundred years. what a little surprising since yesterday the rains have been heavy it's still ongoing people are worried. the floodwaters and mudslides have killed hundreds of people since the start of the monsoon season in june some parts of the state to receive nearly double the average annual rainfall in digital double. the rainfall has led to massive landslides where chunks of the mountain of come down blocking the entire stretch although the clearance team is working to open the road it's unlikely it will happen here still in the well. forecasters say heavy rains will continue over the weekend but will ease off towards but while that is good news for those affected in kerala the rains will likely be drifting to other states in the country and that is for the future though right now the relief effort is in full swing here

in the state capital which is far enough south of the suspect the worst floods for a fly collection points like this one each with hundreds of volunteers full sourcing for donations and putting them on the trucks to send in or. there are biscuits rice medicines and toiletries and then the irony in kerala right now what is needed most is water under thomas al jazeera to move out on top of carol. we've been speaking to randi kumar rana he's the deputy inspector general at india's national disaster response force and he has ever fifty teams that work across carola. why don't the president. you know. as your yesterday are. here have. the never returned.

since yesterday. what has started receding most of our. though now we're living. right here was this also i mean our. situation is are we not really you know. our means that we behave and again. the number of people who are here we. just don't know where the role. if you have hawk. or gas or we're here what all. maybe it's really on worse there right now what we're really. more. forecasters government is page five million dollars in assistance for carolyn's

flood victims the emir shake tamim been hammered out fannie announced the aid package saying he acknowledged the special bond with india and the contribution the people of carolina have made to catarrh. landslides have come down several buildings have been badly damaged after another powerful earthquake amened an easy an island of lombok the magnitude six point five quake was shallow at a depth of just over. eight kilometers and it was centered in the northeast of the island people ran into the streets in panic because it struck late on sunday morning exactly two weeks after another earthquake this one measuring seven cool's widespread destruction a community hall in one of the villages collapsed as well as a mosque and other buildings have been badly damaged so far though we haven't had any reports of any serious injuries two weeks ago though more than four hundred thirty people were killed and thousands of buildings were destroyed. emergency

workers in this really are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on tuesday firefighters captured this video of the efforts to stabilize a section of the bridge the death toll officially sounds at forty three rescuers believe no other people are missing the company which was responsible for maintenance has pledged more than five hundred million dollars to help rebuild the bridge david chase has more now from katie born in savannah province. a consumer associations report that has come out in the wake of the general tragedy is actually named twenty two spans and bridges that are in need of very careful analysis there are huge worries there that they are deteriorating in the same way as i'm around the bridge in genoa did and if you look behind me this is one of the sections named in that consumers' association report were on a stretch of motorway between genoa and children which is heavily used during the

course of the week contains a lot of heavy traffic now if you look at the span underneath you can see that the water has started to seep in to the concrete the the metal rods are being exposed and corroded and there is a worrying gap there you can see between two sections and having seen what happened with the marandi bridge in general you can see why so many people are concerned that something must be done to look at these bridges these twenty two bridges and have a very careful analysis now the company that was responsible for the marandi bridge say that they are happy with the reports so far they believe this is the bridges in the spans are safe but that's not the opinion of many people who are using the their own eyes as witnesses can see what's happening to these bridges and they feel that a lot more investment must go into it a much more careful engineering analysis of these dangerous bridges. israel has

closed one of the key crossings into an already severely deprived gaza strip defense minister avigdor lieberman said the areas crossing was being shot in response to recent violence along the border fence on friday israeli forces killed another two palestinians and wounded sixty others during the week of return protests talks aimed at easing tension between hamas and israel are continuing in cairo. the trans administration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media reports say an american made bomb was used in an airstrike that hit a school bus earlier this month fifty one people were killed forty of them children and gallagher has more from washington. in northern yemen graves who recently dug for the victims of a saudi led coalition bombing that shocked the world on august the ninth a school bus was hit in an attack the coalition called legitimate military action more than fifty people were killed at least forty of them children aged between ten

and twelve dozens more were injured. the u.s. has provided support to the saudi led coalition with intelligence and aerial refueling now there are renewed questions about the weapons being used in the war reports suggest the bomb used to attack the bus was made by lockheed martin and according to c.n.n. supplied by the u.s. government as part of a sanctioned on deal politicians in the united states are demanding answers senator chris murphy who's announced a measure to hold military assistance to the coalition tweeted the following last week the saudi led coalition in yemen bombed a school bus killing forty four innocent kids and they did it with us supplied bombs intelligence support and midair refueling democratic house and senate members are also asking questions about u.s. involvement in a war that's been raging for more than three years the key concern is that the u.s. may not only be culpable but potentially violating international laws in two thousand and sixteen president obama banned the sale of precision guided weapon way

to saudi arabia citing human rights concerns that measure was undone when the trumpet ministration came to power the us a since sold on to saudi arabia as part of a multi-billion dollar deal and gallacher al-jazeera washington. well after three and a half years of war little remains functioning in yemen repeated bombings have damaged or destroyed water and sewage facilities and that's making people even more vulnerable to disease as mohammed day now reports. aiden's congested streets pulls over all see which is of the where heaps of garbage piled up in most neighborhoods in the city's divil habbush area barefoot children trudge through human waste oblivious of the risks we face a slope that sees this. we are living very hard conditions diseases are rife from cholera to diarrhea clean water is

a rare commodity here above all electricity is out all the time the government has not done anything to repair the sewage system government officials refused to move unless they're given bribes. entire neighborhoods have been flooded by sea would spill starts in some cases of contaminated water supply as another i've got it out i don't know about other diseases sewage garbage so what on earth is this this is shameful we cannot even walk around the neighborhood to reach and waste have flashed into our homes we are forced to scoop it out with our hands of. yemen has long been the arab world's poorest country and all suffered from frequent conflicts . the current one started in two thousand and fourteen when all the fighters from the north allied with parts of the yemeni military stormed the capital forcing the internationally recognized government into exile. in march two thousand and fifteen a coalition led by so did a bia on the united arab emirates launched

a military campaign aimed at pushing back the old ways and restoring the government many. not only killed and wounded civilians but also damage to water and sanitation facilities the world health organization is in the middle of a company to prevent a recurrence of. the destruction to yemen swore senate titian facilities has already cost to call it a dummy which has affected more than a million people let is that you are. currently rates of contraction of cholera are still high according to the latest to sticks and infection rates across the twenty three provinces across the country is about ninety six percent in other words twenty two out of the twenty three provinces in yemen so we can say the country is playing with the epidemic which is alarming an acute shortage of food on the resulting look suisham is wallsend in what is already the world's wast humanitarian crisis the. father of color in the middle of the model to show crisis

could intensify the situation in yemen ramadan the world does either. and also as a comair it out is there including thousands of syrians crossed the border from turkey to rebel held in play province. nobody knew their names revisit the graves of the thousands of migrants who drowned off making the desperate journey across the mediterranean. more wet some windy weather more tropical systems heading towards japan had this was the korean peninsula we would have the remnants of a previous system still psyche lighting away just around the same seeing some war heavy downpours as a result of that vote will continue to drive this way for the race was there comes

first of ira systems for this week ahead how to roll this way up towards q.c. towards south korea as we go on through the coming days but ahead of that flooding rains there just around the far north east of china and to the korean peninsula and that will continue to drive its way further east which as we go on through choose to and i just by choose de wet weather started to push its way into the fosse out of japan the cloud and rain affecting the korean peninsula that does also stretches way back down into shanghai little cloud in place here for the time being heavy rain some big disturbances just down towards the southeast of china and also affecting taiwan going to be the case as we go through tuesday still of the dry weather does come back in behind shanghai gets up to around thirty three degrees is starts to settle down as we go on through the next couple of days setting down nicely thirty three degrees celsius that looking good for the asian games and stay settled and sunny to further north the showers continue.

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trying to take a look at the top stories here and out there tens of thousands of people are still stranded in the southern indian state of carola after days of heavy flooding more than one hundred ninety people have died in just the last week after one of the worst monsoon floods in kerala first century but the rains are now easing a major roads are being cleared so help can get through to a number of landslides have been reported and buildings collapsed after the indonesian island of long bach suffered another earthquake this time six point five in magnitude of ascended in the northeast but so far there been no reports of any injuries it was just two weeks ago that a quake of seven hit the island killing more than four hundred thirty people and destroying thousands of buildings. the trumpeter ministration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media reports say an american made bomb was used in an airstrike that hit

a school bus earlier this month fifty three people were killed forty of them children. the world's largest annual pilgrimage to hodges began in saudi arabia as mecca but many muslims living in qatar say they're being stopped from getting there now about monthly reports from. this mosque in doha's education city suburb is famous for its architecture the impulse was of the car on the wall and a building that rests on five pillars representing the five requirements of islam. one of these is to attend the hutch pilgrimage in saudi arabia. but to question him says the saudi imposed blockade on carter he's been unable to do so i applied last year just two days before the plane. and it happened that. i paid and gave my passport to. the blockade happened just two days later so i was

able to go. from france believes in kata and has attempted to gain a visa many times over but he's constantly told the same thing apply from your country of origin so the embassy in nigeria you need. it was not if i was not able to get the visa for his case isn't unique many worshippers here in qatar face the same difficulty it's not possible to fly anymore it is more like saudi arabian council or the embassy used to apply from so it's not possible anymore this shouldn't happen and for any muslim anywhere in the world i don't think that. something like this has to do with some political issues it's something religious people attending this mosque live in qatar but have come from all over the walls many here say they'd like to apply to had but have found no claim mechanism to do so instead many said they have no choice but to apply for that own

country something they say is time consuming costly and against the core principles of islam. saudi authorities say that cesspool website to handle requests from countries who wish to go to hardship but carter's ministry of religious affairs says the border crossing remains closed there are no planes transferring people from doha and there's no clearly defined way of applying for hodge agencies that organize hutch travel from qatar say they're also be banned by saudi arabia and i've heard a lot of things about going back to another country and then a plane for which from there which is not very convenient for a lot of people prior to the blockade jasmine says she would simply drive to saudi arabia with her family it was almost like. issue merrick like a road trip so it was really fun justin says she's more familiar with saudi arabia than her country of origin and since she live so close to the border she doesn't

understand why it's become so difficult to perform hodge about a manly al jazeera doha. the un has warned that any syrian government offensive in the province of italy would put three million people in danger of a hasn't stopped refugees in turkey from going back across the border to syria for the holidays thousands of people have crossed through the crossing into it which is the last rebel held province in the country to them cause the early who has more from the checky syria border. in the last ten days that these fifty thousand syrians have close the border of from turkey to the syrian side to spend a year in the fields with their family with their relatives and the daily crossing at the skate is five thousand syrians per day according to turkish officials numbers that they tell us but this is why they come here the sentiment of each of

the feast is not that much felt especially in the camps people know that there is a feast there is a need and it's a very. important celebration for the muslims but they are so upset when we ask them how they feel about that because they missed the reform they missed have used to spend the aid with their family of course poverty is one of the major problems over here during the ada. listen separate fires some sheep and other enemas to share the meat with the relatives friends and. with the neighbors but however they don't have any money they are dependent on the it's that are delivered in a month it's only about school of some of some goods so the situation is kind of dire here still and there are almost eight hundred fifty thousand people stuck in my camp which is metres of a from the turkish border you can feel the sentiment of the feast in the it looks at the center and other places like down

a city but the camps they are under so dire conditions and people know that it is eight but they are upset. afghanistan is marking the ninety ninth anniversary of its independence amid a deteriorating security situation president ashraf ghani laid a wreath at the independence minaret inside the defense minister's compound on sunday he paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives in the long running struggle to stabilize the country. venezuelans have been lining up along the ecuadorian border trying to leave their troubled nation but ecuador's government has tightened entry requirements venezuelans now need a possible to get in previously they'd only needed their national id. we want them to help us at least with processing the temporary travel card or something at least to facilitate it for us because it was too short of notice we were on the road already when they put out the news just like that boom on

wednesday we left and all of a sudden they tell us that today well maybe it was saturday i think it's saturday because i'm still a bit disoriented so geez we would like them to at least facilitate that for us or that the ecuadorian institutions at least help us on that part. of the un migration agency says more than sixty three thousand migrants and refugees across the mediterranean for europe so far this year and spain has become the new favorite location with forty two percent of new arrivals but many others don't survive the journey karl penhall reports now from to refer in southern spain where burying the are no has become all too common. nobody knew their names and soon the letters spelling out on the migrant will peel away to you to give. you nothing but grave digger packer iglesias remembers where they were buried

a lucky few have been identified barely in you a little hope. well know that there are no destiny we all have our own destiny we all know when we're born but none of us really know when we're going to die it's packer's words to this cemetery into reefer on spain's southernmost tip for fifteen years when a refugee or migrant dies mourners rarely come. i've got a heart and we're all human beings whether you know them or not you must treat them well if this ever happens to me i'd like to think somebody would help me to. this crossings to the spanish coast of surge this year migrant drownings have tripled spanish authorities spend months trying to identify remains and repatriate them if possible. calls these the pioneers twenty two moroccans washed up two decades ago. flower seller antonia velasquez has

a message for the mothers of all those buried here. they are here and where treating them well they are dead but if i can i will put a flower on their grave there are some people here along the coast it's a short distance to the town a part of batty grave digger who claims shows me the tomb of the five year old congolese boy some world was swept ashore here his mother was found dead on the other side of the mediterranean in algeria. it's outrageous there's so much power and money in the world and yet the rich don't invest more in the countries where migrants come from so they don't need to travel here like animals. until those in power he dad advice the grave diggers just help juggle the consequences. as i bury these migrants i told them that they didn't find

a better world down here but i'll ask god to give them a better life up there they have sacrificed everything and this is what is left. and not the monument to a wandering song on the. name another. culprit whole lodges era to reef spain. a new film with an asian cough is signaling a big change for hollywood it's called crazy rich asians and it's drawing in the crowds and it's regarded by many as an effort to showcase a long neglected part of american society program notes reports now from hollywood . a gala opening night for a movie that's breaking barriers. the romantic comedy crazy rich asians is the first major hollywood film in a quarter century with an all asian cast director and executive producer we all recognize the significance but to be honest right now as i'm talking to you i feel

nothing but excitement. the actors may be asian but the movie's themes are universal family love and money. is the biggest appellate burst in on the scene crazy rich asians is based on the bestselling novel by kevin kwan who produced the film you know i think it's important to acknowledge that it's been way too long since we've had an all star asian cast in a hollywood sort of movie business and i'm this is the movie for everyone lori nakamura has already seen the film once and she's back with friends for a second viewing it's a wacky brahm com but i think at the same time it's also showing. asians in normal situations just like everybody else crazy rich asians is in a way a repudiation of ali would sad history of racist and stereotype depictions of asians in film. from the exploitative kung fu flicks of the seventy's and eighty's must make. the link.

to mickey rooney's performance in bra. vista tiffany's asians have been denigrated and asian actors passed over for leading roles according to a recent study only about five percent of hollywood movie parts go to asian actors like laura condom or e just really seems that there are a lot of character parts out for ethnic you know are people of color but there weren't a lot of leading roles but sure the hoopla over crazy rich asians is box office hype the idea that an all asian cast is some sort of novelty glosses over the historic achievements of japanese korean and thai cinema among others but coming after recent films like the superhero hit black and and the charming animated feature coco crazy rich asian seems to be part of a long overdue trend i feel like we are seeing a sea change though

a lot of these americans come out of screenings they have this this it is like this urge to cry and they don't know exactly why this movie is for that crazy rich asians will open in theaters worldwide in august and september robert oulds al jazeera hollywood. let's have a look at the top stories here about as there are now tens of thousands of people stranded in the southern indian state of carola after days of heavy flooding there the worst monsoon floods in kerala for a century and move on one hundred ninety people have died in just over a week about the rains have also a major roads have been cleared so help can now get through under thomas has more from kara. this is the sort of saying that is being repeated right across. the rays

in a river between where i'm standing and as far as you can say that's normally dry land but a river about a claim about why has spilled its banks to such an extent but the water. here it's very very large that's why there is a rope along the right hand side as people walk across with their bags of rocks and with bottles of water there's about five hundred people over there most of them don't want to leave their homes or living on the upper levels but they do need help and this is a scene that's going on the want to cross the start. they've been landslides and a community holds collapsed after another a. in island of lombok struck on sunday morning with a magnitude of six point five no reports of injuries so far but just two weeks ago a quake of seven magnitude killed more than four hundred thirty people the trumpet ministration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media report saying america made bombers used in an airstrike that hit a school bus earlier this month in all fifty three people were killed forty years

and children afghanistan is marking the ninety ninth anniversary of its independence amid a deteriorating security situation president ashraf ghani laid everything the independence minaret inside the defense ministries compound he paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives in the long running struggle to save allies the country the un has warned that a syrian government offensive in it would put three million people in danger but that hasn't stopped refugees in turkey from going back across the border for aid thousands of people of course cross through the crossing into italy which is the last federal help profits in the country those are the headlines inside story is next.

he has promised to improve pakistan's battered economy and fight the rampant corruption now that eminem kind has been sworn in as prime minister can he deliver on those promises this isn't sad story. hello welcome to the program how about that hamid in one can had campaigned for what he called a new pakistan promising to end corruption and to fix the struggling economy but the cricketer turned politician has numerous challenges ahead chief among them.