tack this on al-jazeera. the rain eases but southern india's problems are getting worse the floods carola for seven hundred thousand people from their homes and into camps. alexander robin you're watching al-jazeera live one headquarters here in doha also coming up a budget see workers in italy are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on choose day. also trying to flee the country but nowhere to go and it's wayland's find the lack of travel documents to noise and entry into neighboring countries. libya's financial squeeze how the rise in price of sheep is casting a shadow over the annual eve celebrations. welcome

to the program thousands of people are still stranded in the southern indian state of kerala after days of heavy flooding more than one hundred ninety people have lost their lives in just over a week conditions and i'm proving a major roads have been cleared for use the largest port in coach is still water logged but the military is opening up its base to commercial traffic from monday andrew thomas has more from a door in kerala. on sunday alone twenty two thousand people were evacuated from there we saw some of those evacuations where trucks can get by all and they're bringing large numbers of people out but in other cases there has to be boats particularly the elderly who can't get up with the trucks they are being brought out slowly on boats and then carried once they reach the. but even

though you're twenty two you haven't paid full of evacuees just in one day and more than eight hundred thousand people now are living in camps that is only a small part of base because a much larger number of people are still staying in their homes mostly voluntarily they don't want to leave we saw many people whose ground floors of their homes were needy whites deep in water they're living up stays they want to stay where they are so the other room they get the people whose homes are being flooded they've been affected by this disaster is in the millions it really is a huge huge huge disaster in this part of india on monday the military will continue to fly helicopters in they will drop materials from those helicopters in the most remote communities and also continue with their air rescues as well although we believe that the majority their rescuers now are finished and astroids it's not raining at the moment it hasn't done for most of sunday and that

means that a lot of levels are slowly receding so i've some good news there. tim thomas isaac is the finance minister for the status carol and he says although the rain has stopped it doesn't mean the courses are eva. now we're really two distinct sort of the fourteen. which means that great has already peaked but that doesn't mean we had a big job for example be a book in the pocket care law and order out the tract of land below the ceiling is . right near you. but tears are really good for the troop three days ago because all the rivers would really need to do so you. were perfectly safe then. b. it will come down but remarkably good

a matter of grief for the every be able to move. a very pretty proud two cans. toddler number two. relate to her friend's house would be one word five billion. qatar's government has pledged five billion dollars in assistance for carers flood victims the air shake to me but how it all tiny and i was the aid package saying he acknowledged the special bond with india and the contribution the people of caroline have made to cattle the state charity organization has also launched a campaign to raise funds israel has announced it's closing one of the key crossings into an already severely deprived gaza strip defense minister of indoor lieberman's of the air its crossing will be shut down in response to recent violence on the border fence on friday israeli forces killed another two palestinians and wounded sixty others during the weekly march of return protests

toffs aided easing tensions between hamas and israel continues in cairo. landslides or come down several buildings have been badly damaged after another powerful earthquake on the indonesian island of lombok a magnitude six point five quake was shallow depth of less than eight kilometers and centered in the north east of the island people ran into the streets in panic that this tremor comes exactly two weeks after one measuring magnitude seven caused widespread destruction destruction a community hall in one village has collapsed and the mosque and other buildings are badly damaged in this latest tremor but so far no reports of any serious injuries more than four hundred thirty people were killed two weeks ago and thousands of buildings were destroyed. south koreans along with separated from relatives are preparing to travel into north korea for a rare reunion there being they've been at a orientation session before being allowed to cross the border on monday it will be

the first event of its kind since october twenty fifteen only the twentieth this millennium many korean families have been divided since the war in the one nine hundred fifty s. which split the peninsula. a bit as the workers that italy are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on choose day firefighters captured this video of the efforts to stabilize a section of the bridge the death toll officially stands at forty three rescuers believe no other people are missing the company which was responsible for maintenance and construction has pledged over five hundred billion dollars to help rebuild the bridge thousands of bridges and tunnels are being structurally assessed across italy david chaytor reports from cutted boda boda province. a consumer association report which was published just two days after the general of bridge collapse says that there are twenty two bridges on the italian network that need serious made since work because they're showing signs of structural damage now i'm

under one of those bridges that was mentioned in that report now just to take a look up underneath this span and you can see what's happening there is a series of water leaks coming through corroding the metal and what they've done here is they've stayed pulled a piece of wood between two of the cracks to try and hold it together that seems extraordinary that doesn't seem to be the sort of maintenance we need on this motorway which is on the main drag between genoa and children so it does appear this bridge is only twenty years old it does appear that there is a serious problem with the quality of cement that's being used and it's not only here in italy that there are problems but the french government have just published an audit they commissioned on the state of french bridges and motorways and they say that there are eight hundred forty bridges in france that are showing serious signs of still of structural deterioration and might indeed in the end collapse

much like the whole genoa tragedy so this seems to be a problem that is throughout both italy and france and needs serious attention. venezuelans have been lining up ecuadorian border trying to leave their troubled nation but i could also government has tightened entry requirements but as well as the need a passport to gain entry previously they needed that national id. we want them to help us at least with processing the temporary travel card or something at least a facilitative 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. sonia schulte is a latin american analyst in washington d.c. she says venezuelans are finding it difficult to seek help in neighboring countries

. they've been in for a long crisis has created every general crisis and on the top of the many challenges stubbornness will and has to face not just only in the contrary in venezuela because of the economic and political crisis now going to swell and they are trying to not to leave the country to escape in a spoiler and now there we are and they are facing a lot of a lot of problems because neighboring concrete especially ecuador she lay in bed all too they announce her annual said the free will ations in order to stop the influx of benefits wayland's not just only to cross the border there or was all for all this but is full of who wants to try to stay in their conflicts so in the first place they are asking menace well i'm still percent there bali passport and

this is really a challenge for every been a swale and because not only big oh but a man failed to control a quandary filled with a smile on a chick on three both also here they go over to men face to each to their documents for venezuelans because of her lack of papers so many benefits wayland's they try to use he their id cards in order that the girls their borders but now. this congress are announcing that they are not going to allow that to anymore. but as well as government is to put into circulation a new currency on monday it's called the sovereign and it's the latest attempt to control hyper inflation the new note will be paid directly to the states cryptocurrency the petro which is backed by the country's crude oil reserves while the petro has a value of three thousand six hundred barley vaal so the move effectively devalues the sovereign believe are by ninety six percent now this is part of

a series of moves by president nicolas maduro to contain an economic crisis which also includes a promise of raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent of the international monetary fund predicts that as well as inflation will climb to one million percent by the end of the year garrick harbored is a crypto currency economist and a research associate at the university of cambridge he says there are many unanswered questions over the security of venezuela's cryptocurrency market. so the petro does achieve a degree of credibility and is in fact oil back there are oil reserves that people can count on to be backing the petro then it's very likely that petro could actually help stabilize. the situation in venezuela and that in turn could have a positive effect for the average venezuelan who's been being expropriated really liquidated by the hyperinflation that's been taking place in venezuela over the past seven years but again is there really going to be oil backing. could

someone go to the government to have like my petros for oil we shall see we just don't know the answer the question if the currency is designed to help fins a whale a skirt sanctions and has privacy built into it in anonymity then that could have both ways it may also undermine the bins the wailing government's ability to collect taxes and crack down on the list of track trade so it wouldn't surprise me if it has a little less privacy than many currencies like the coin. well still ahead here on al-jazeera thousands of syrians crossed the border from turkey into the rebel held italy province to celebrate. and heroes of haiti how statues are teaching history to younger generations their stories of the other side of the break.

however still got some rather heavy rain into southern and eastern parts of china see a fair amount of cloud in place him or big downpours then as they can be the focus for the heavy rain as we go on through the next day also see some very heavy showers there went to hong kong into taiwan tourney somewhat troyer there for a high of around thirty three celsius over the next couple of days out west the weather tending to ease a little further south as we go through chews day still not too far away from hong kong you notice the rain in the shower as they stand the way down towards the southwest of the country to northern parts of vietnam and the use of showers continue across a good part of indo china for india of course all eyes remain on karen places say will be a less wet the rain is tending to ease as we go on through the next couple of days there will still be some showers in the forecast as monday's picture more heavy

showers right up the western gas the heaviest rain will be into the central and northern plains even over towards that northeastern corner you can see that's where we're going to see the the heaviest downpours by the time we come to choose the southern areas yes we'll still see a few showers in the northern parts of canada could see some heavy right but it is going to turn less wet and less windy in the coming days. southbound on the economic heartbeat of a thriving brazil but boom times mean rising rents and the lack of public housing isabel is just one of thousands looking for a place to call home was no choice but to occupy one of the city's many vacant buildings facing an uncertain future. you find a latin america occupying brazil on al-jazeera. every

weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories happened was in the truck didn't happen on the boy told through the eyes of the world journalists images matter a lot international politics joining the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the big third is someone from the country who guides you all need you to this story of the byline tells us who wrote the listening post on al-jazeera. both about your watching al-jazeera. top stories thousands of people are still

stranded in the southern indian state of carola after days of heavy flooding the worst monsoon floods in a century of play more than one hundred ninety lives in just over a week but the rains are easing a major roads have been cleared so help is getting through of urgency workers in italy are also trying to secure what's left of the bridge in genoa which collapsed on choose day firefighters have been working to stabilize an upper section of the bridge as teams clear away rubble below the death toll officially stands at forty three. venezuelans have been lining up along the ecuadorian. border trying to leave the country but they could also government has tightened entry requirements but as well as no need a passport to gain entry previously they only needed their national id. the afghan government has unearthed a conditional cease fire with taliban fighters to mark the religious holiday of ied present a shift garvey said that he hoped the taliban would follow up with a cease fire of its own earlier he paid tribute to fallen soldiers on the anniversary of afghanistan's independence government forces will stop hostilities

starting august the twenty eighth and will honor the cease fire so long as the taliban does the same the un is warning that a syrian government offensive it would put three billion people in danger but that hasn't stopped refugees in turkey from going back across the border to either thousands of people have crossed into bubble how are crossing into it lip which is the last rebel held province in the country seneca sulu has more from inside syria the border with turkey. in the last ten days at this fifty thousand syrians have crossed the border of bubble have off from turkey side to the syrian side to spend their either the feast 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 about the spike 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 miss their home they miss have used to spend the aid with their family of course forwards is one of the major problems over here during the day the. lissome sacrifice some sheep and other animals to share the meets 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 full 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 meters away from the turkish border you can feel the sentiment of the feast in the in the city center and other places like down a city but the camps they are under so dire conditions and people know that it is

aid but they are upset. well auspices for path to celebrate the just full of either how the libyans are complaining of a huge rise in the price of sheep but they say they called for to buy love to slaughter for the whole day but what he has more from tripoli. it is lamb season in libya like all the muslim countries. mr feldman hurries to guarantee one for his family. his making sure it is old enough to secure finds during the holiday. he says it used to be affordable to buy a sheep that weighs faulty kilogram but now prices are very hotly. it took us months to save the land price in fact many people can't even afford to buy one this year is worse than the previous years banks are struggling with a shortage of currency and people queue up for long hours to cash their de lay

cherries some lim traders are even accepting checks and credit cards but they often charge high interest trades sheep markets are everywhere in libya these days but yet the prices are very high and average land here is valued at around seven hundred dollars that's largely because during the last three years the libyan d.n.r. has lost much of its value. oil exports are the backbone of libya's income but fighting in the east has led to the blockade of four major oil ports for almost forty years that has wasted more than one hundred billion dollars according to estimates this internal bank of libya has approved around one hundred million dollars to import plans but because this decision was made late civil shipments

have not arrived on time for the holiday but there were no maché for a forward first state does not care about domestic livestock sheep have been smuggled to egypt and tunisia we can't be blamed for the high prices of the prices of water we buy has increased two hundred percent libya is rich in natural resources experts say it can grow more than its share of livestock but many here say mismanagement and corruption force them to compromise even on religious obligations. tripoli after three and a half years of war little is functioning in yemen repeated bombings have damaged or destroyed water and sewage facilities and that's making people more vulnerable to diseases reports. aiden's congested streets pools of water which is where heaps of garbage piled up in most neighborhoods in the cities

develop area barefoot children trudge through human waste oblivious of the risks we face says 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 refuse 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 island i got it out i don't know about other diseases sewage garbage what on earth is this this is shameful we cannot even walk around the neighborhood to reach and waste has slashed into our home 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 capitol forcing the infamously victimized government into exile. in march two thousand and fifteen a coalition led by so did a bia and the united arab emirates launched a military campaign aimed at pushing back the old piece and restoring the government many coalition airstrikes are 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 through human swore senate titian facilities has already caused a cholera epidemic which has affected more than a million people left 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 and the resulting look christian is wallsten in what is already the world's last humanitarian crisis the whole fishel say any father. in the middle of the model crisis could intensify the situation in yemen ramadan the world does either. a spokesman for the u.s. led coalition in iraq says american forces will stay there as long as necessary the coalition has been patrolling regions that were previously under eisel control at the beginning of the year the pentagon said there were more than five thousand u.s. troops in the country. the results of iraq's election in may have been ratified by the country's supreme court that means a three month deadline has been set in motion for the winning parties to form a government and nationwide recurrent earlier this month confirm populistic

clerical there are some other one most of the votes as italy hardens its immigration policy by preventing ships landing so the number of migrants trying to reach the southern coast of spain is increasing the rise has put pressure on rescue services and fuel political debate on how to handle the situation karl penhall reports from southern spain. exhausted but happy almost three hundred refugees in migrants rescued after setting out from morocco in baba rafts and spending the day adrift. this is the southern spanish port of the arc is serious most are from west africa including guinea ivory coast in mali the youngest is just a month old. this mother tells me she's hungry already missing the taste of tapioca and fish from home twenty three year old has only arrived in spain two months ago

he was not position party youth organizer in guinea canakkale for told as he fled to escape arrest. he crossed from morocco in a dinghy like this packed with fifty others paying as much as four thousand euros each. i couldn't turn back the arabs forced to suborn with machetes at one point the engine gave out and i saw death before me i ask god to pardon me it was the worst moment of my life it was a catastrophe. a spanish in geo pays has sounds board and lodging until his political asylum request is processed. did vassal give to my african brothers is that crossing the mediterranean is because people don't risk their lives but hope for a better future is a powerful magnet standing here helps put things in a lot better perspective this just fifteen kilometers of see that separates spain from the north coast of africa and if you're standing over there europe must look

like a dream that you can almost touch at city hall mayor. of the opposition people's party says the surgeon migrant arrivals has become a crisis they cannot get it was you that we don't have sufficient aid to help all of africa we don't have enough capacity to receive all those who want to come we have to use our head because the budget simply is not figure human rights activists say the people's party is scaremongering. back at the port it's after midnight hundreds more are still arriving. a sick woman is stretchered off some huddle under red cross blankets and wait to be brave just it was. a baby cries for his mother he hasn't yet realized he's in safe hands called pedal i just sirrah. spain. nearly every country in the world has choose to all the iconic figures of

the past but in haiti images of suffering and national heroes serve a very different purpose. in the nation known for its resilience. he sits quietly overlooking the city his name is angry krzysztof a former slave who fought to free modern day haiti from the french ruling eighteen zero four a statue honoring him is in one of the main squares of the capital port au prince in many ways it's incredible it's still standing the two thousand and ten earthquake reduced much of haiti to rubble two hundred thousand people killed three hundred thousand homes destroyed after the quake hundreds of thousands of people took refuge in parks and plazas right underneath the very statues that are still standing today through it all they remain unscathed and often overlooked symbol of the country's long history overcoming hardships like the statue of john gasolene

who helped fend off incursions from the british and spanish before revolting against the french occupation the first ruler of haiti after independence the haitian national anthem named after him subtly. every time i look at this deafening structure i feel like doing a second revolution to liberate our country a second revolution is needed today. but it's this statue that often resonates the most with haitians a runaway slave completed by haitian sculptor in the one nine hundred sixty s. it is one of the most important pieces of art in all of the caribbean it's full of symbolism. a broken shackle hard fought freedom a machete to fight a shell of his lips alerting the people to their freedom. the symbols represent the glory of the past generations when we look at them it's

a reminder of what they have done for us and what we can accomplish for future generations. the statue's unbreakable a trademark of the haitian people of today gabriel santo i'll just leave port au prince. your geologist their own civil robin these are all top news stories thousands of people are still stranded in the southern indian state of carola after days of heavy flooding the worst of all soon floods in a century have claimed more than one hundred ninety lives in just over a week but the rains are no easing and major roads have been cleared to help can start to get through and to thomas has more from a door in kerala. on sunday alone twenty two thousand people were evacuated from there we saw some of those evacuations where trucks can get aid they are and they're bringing large numbers of people out but in other cases it has

to be boats particularly the elderly who can't get up with trucks they are being brought out slowly on boats and i'm married once they reach the brow. the afghan government has announced a conditional cease fire with taliban fighters to the religious holiday of ied president of gunnies said he hoped the taliban would follow with a cease fire of their own earlier he paid tribute to fallen soldiers on the anniversary of afghanistan's independence government forces will stop hostilities starting on august the twentieth and while all of the ceasefire so long as the taliban does the same emergency services in italy are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in general which collapsed on choose day firefighters have been working to stabilize the upper section of the bridge as teams clear away rubble below the death toll officially stands at forty three and rescuers believe no one else is trapped venezuelans have been lining up along the ecuadorian border trying to leave the country but ecuador's government has tightened entry requirements but

as well as no need a passport to gain entry previously they only needed their national id. the united nations is warning that a syrian government offensive in it would put up to three million people in danger but that hasn't stopped refugees in turkey from going back across the border thousands of people have crossed through the rubble who are crossing into it which is the last rebel held province in the country and of course you can follow all of those stories on our website at al-jazeera top of dot com of course our top story is that iraq supreme court ratifying the result in day do stay with us here. the philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. now private corporations are capitalizing on the chaos. one of one east investigates zero. mass demonstrations. i

think by now i said i. don't know social. if you come to feel like i just have that much to. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week in bangladesh it's not just what you say about the government that might get you in trouble it's where you say it this jailed journalist found that out the hard way facebook has issues with tele sword a news network headquartered in venice away what kind of issues is the question we take a long look back at the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's a movement called new journalism and the importance of the literary in the reporting of the news and all for one one for all when it comes to donald trump and fake news more than three hundred american newspapers around the same editor.