in a series of special reports al-jazeera looks at the challenges developing in an already volatile region. the rain in southern india has problems are getting worse the floods in kerala forced eight hundred thousand people from their homes and into camps. launching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead trying to flee the country by going nowhere venezuelans find their lack of travel documents denies them entry to neighboring countries emergency workers in italy are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in genoa which collapsed on tuesday and libya's financial squeeze how the rising

price of sheep is casting a shadow over the annual are huge celebrations. hello water levels have started to fall in the southern indian state of carolina after the worst floods in a century there are now fears of diseases rescue workers are still trying to rescue thousands of people stranded after days of heavy flooding more than one hundred ninety have lost their lives in just over a week temporary relief shelters are currently home to around three quarters in a million off the people and the thomas has more from in kerala. people in kara describe the highlights of the water noted since meats is all but in debt relative to the. ankle deep only waist deep. some looking to do is dry road to home my goal and then it went off on

my head. the old are evacuated first carry for the folks that train for them elsewhere the water is shallow enough the trucks to drive in and. out walked in and found most people want to stay at home in houses with second floors they can last name is god because like morning i wake up they're having so much alike that in my heart planes are having like those lysol for free where people remain in their homes food water medicines and toiletries are being carried in the car it is simply too strong to promote on a boat like that and hope it ok it will get swept away so they started going to holding on to this rope as they walk the boat about an hour and a half in that direction this is and walking through fast flowing water with debris . hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes and now in camps statewide

an unprecedented relief effort is underway india's military has fifty four helicopters over carola some drop supplies others amounting rescues the weather is improving there was much less rain across carola on sunday than at the end of last week but what is already full is fast flowing dangerous and everywhere this is an ongoing emergency i do thomas al jazeera carol. well tim thomas isaac is the finance minister of carolus states he says although the rain has stopped it doesn't mean the crisis is over. now or really two distinct sort of the fourteen. which means that great has already peaked but that doesn't mean we had a great job for example be. part of care law and order out the tract of land. is. right.

but. jerusha really goes from one of the two or three days will because all they really need to deceive you so. much for the sake of. the it will come. but remarkable achievement in a matter of three four days we have been able to move. fifty thousand persons to care. i think the talk was number displaced because during those two the late eighties for friends. would be well over one point five billion well cut her as governments have pledged five million dollars in assistance for carolers flood victims. i mean but how does any announced the aid package saying he acknowledge the special bond with india and the contribution the

people of caroline have made to. the state charity organization has also launched a campaign to raise funds. brazil is sending troops to its border with venezuela after hundreds of migrants were run out of town by locals dozens of brazilians attacked two makeshift camps and. where at least a thousand venezuelans have been living they've burned belongings and set fire it's one of the sites cheering as the venezuelans were forced to cross back over the border residents say the violence began after several migrants robbed a local shop owner tens of thousands of venezuelans have fled to brazil in the past three years to escape economic and political crises back at home. is in the colombian capital bogota with an update. it has been a major incident but just one of many that we've been hearing of course many of the countries that are here that you know equipped to receive such a high number of migrants especially in that such

a short time span in colombia for example almost a million venezuelans arrived in the last two years these are countries that already have a high level of poverty so it's very difficult for them to integrate these people in this crisis. we don't see an end to it any time soon. well venezuela's government is set to put into circulation a new currency on monday it's called the solver in bolivia and it's the latest attempt to control hyper inflation the new notes will be pegged directly to the state's crypto currency the petro which is backed by the country's crude oil reserves one petro has a value of three thousand six hundred both of ours so the move effectively devalues the sovereign by ninety six percent well 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 the international

monetary fund predicts venezuela's inflation will climb to a million percent by the end of the year garrick heilman is a cryptocurrency economist and a research associates at the university of cambridge he says there are many on answered 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 the petro could actually help stabilize the currency 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 couple of years but again are is there really going to be a while back in the petro could someone go to the governments have like to convert

my petros horwill we shall see we just don't know the answer to these questions at this point if the currency is designed to help venza will a skirt sanctions and has privacy built into it in anonymity and then you that could cut both ways it may also undermine the venezuelan government's ability to collect taxes in crackdown on illicit track trade so it wouldn't surprise me if it has a little less privacy than many cryptic currencies like the coin a magnitude seven point two earthquake has struck the indonesian island of lombok the u.s. geological survey says it was a very shallow depth and just hours earlier another six point five magnitude quake triggered landslides on the island the tremor damaged several houses and disrupted electricity supplies the local airport and hospitals were evacuated. the taliban have promised to free hundreds of prisoners following the afghan government's offer of fire president said he hoped the taliban would follow up with

a cease fire off its own government forces will stop hostilities seize starting august the twentieth and will honor the cease fire so long as the taliban does the same. israel has announced it's closing one of the key crossings into an already severely deprived gaza strip the defense minister avigdor lieberman said the areas crossing would be shut down in response to recent violence along the border fence on friday israeli forces killed another two palestinians and wounded sixty others during the weekly march off return protests. emergency workers in italy are trying to secure what's left of the bridge in genoa which collapsed on tuesday 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 on construction has pledged over half a million dollars five hundred million dollars to help rebuild that bridge and

meanwhile thousands of bridges and tunnels are being structurally assessed across the country david chaytor reports from. seven a private province in italy. 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 there 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. still ahead on al-jazeera thousands of syrians crossed the border from turkey to the rebel held adlib province to celebrate. on the heroes of haiti how statues are teaching history to younger generations.

how about the usual blast of hot air across much of the middle east and we have still got some showers a little further north between the black sea in the caspian sea they seem to have been here pretty on and off for the last couple of months or so that a bit of wet weather there just around armenia georgia easing over towards asia by john a little change as we go on through choose the elsewhere there's that heat the hot sunshine continuing to pull the thirty four celsius thirty one there for karate we're into the forty's still for kuwait city and also for baghdad pleasant sunshine around the eastern side of the med getting up to thirty celsius also in beirut say for the next couple of days further south well let's see about across iran even plants that we call the dry wind continues to feed its way down towards us here in casa doha getting up to forty four celsius on monday similar value really as we go

on through tuesday before perhaps a hint of those winds just coming in off the sea so it will be a little more humid little cloud there into southern parts of yemen still certainly a little bit of cloud there just hugging southern most parts of mon will see some cloud and we have seen some rain making this way across southern parts of africa just easing over towards the western cape crossing the southern capers you go on through the next couple of days there will be some cloud of rain for cape town but i think brighter but choose day.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera thousands of people are still stranded in the southern indian state of carell ofter days of heavy flooding the worst monsoon floods in a century of claiming more than one hundred ninety lives in just over a week but the rains are now easing in major roads have been cleared so help can get through brazil sending troops to its border with venezuela after hundreds of migrants were run out of town by locals dozens of brazilians attacked two makeshift camps and. now the un is warning that

a syrian government offensive and would put three million people in danger but that hasn't stopped refugees in turkey from going back across the border for. thousands of people have crossed through the bab and how a crossing into adlib which is the last rebel held province in the country sin and cos all glue has more from the turkish syrian border. while the muslims prepare for the most important feast in the muslim calendar that it's not the same situation in the i.d.p. refugee camp in northern syria by the turkish border here in the camp and we have been speaking to people how they are preparing for the it and what are their expectations from the east when you speak to women they say that they're horrible they're desperate and they say they don't feel whether it's the fees so not because they don't have family members only relatives around here they don't have anyone to visit and we ask them what whether they sacrifice they sacrifice an animal

as performing the religious duty to share with others and they say there is no one who performs this duty to sacrifice an animal so it to me is they don't eat meat and i ask them how often they eat meat and they say it's very very little during a year the nutrition is very bad here as well as the dire conditions infrastructure and basic facilities and services and people here are hopeless because they are stuck by the turkish border the doors are closed and bashar assad is threatening to bomb them despite their relatives are coming from turkey to here wrong. crossing to visit them this is not even enough to make them happy they are desperate. as muslims prepare to celebrate the festival of libyans are complaining of a huge rise in the price of sheep when they say they can't afford to buy allowed to slaughter for the holiday without going to our heads has more from tripoli's. it is

lamb season in libya lake other 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 haunting image or know 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 deal a cherry's some limb 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 in through the 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 on your first date 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 the religious obligations. tripoli. after three and a half years of foreign little is functioning in yemen repeated bombings have damaged or destroyed water and sewage facilities and that's making people more vulnerable to diseases as muhammad said oh reports. on aiden's congested streets pools of will see which is of the way heaps of garbage dump piled up in most neighborhoods in the city's develop area barefoot children trudged through human waste oblivious of the risks we face a slope that says this but. 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 ones thought that in two thousand and fourteen when all the fighters from the north allied with parts of the yemeni military stormed the coppertone forcing the infamous laverick nies 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 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 campaign to prevent a recurrence of all it'll. the destruction to humans will turn senate titian facilities has already cost to call it a dummy which has affected more than a million people left is that in our market and is 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 see the countries playing with the epidemic which is alarming an acute shortage of food and the result. is a waltz and in what is already the world's last humanitarian crisis the. father.

in the middle of the model crisis could intensify the situation in yemen ramadan the world visitor. 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 while the results of iraq's election in may have been ratified by the supreme court that means the winning parties have three months to form a government a nationwide recount earlier this month confirm the populist cleric looked at the souther has won the most 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 the rock over in baba rafts and spending the day adrift. this is the southern spanish port of the his serious poster from west africa including guinea ivory coast and mali the youngest is just a month old. this mother tells me she's hungry already missing the taste of tapioca fish from home twenty three year old has only arrived in spain two months ago he was an opposition 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. the advice i give to my african brothers is that crossing the mediterranean is because people don't risk your 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 c. 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. land the lucy of the opposition people's party says the surge in migrant arrivals has become a crisis they cannot get it was you that we don't have sufficient aid to help all

of africa and we don't have enough capacity to receive all those who want to come we have to use our heads because the budget simply is not fake enough 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 stretch it off some huddle under red cross blankets and wait to be brave just stood up. and a baby cries for his mother he hasn't yet realized he seemed safe hands pendle just zero. a new movie with an all asian cast the signaling a big change for hollywood crazy rich asians is drawing the crowds and regarded as a long overdue so case a long part of american society reports from hollywood's. 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 can just director and executive producer we all recognize the significance but to be honest right now it's on talk radio 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 going to be way too long since we've had an all star asian cast and a hollywood movie about the same time 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 and asians in normal situations just like everybody else crazy rich asians is in a way

a repudiation of hollywood's 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. key what the lingo you cannot to mickey rooney's performance in breakfast at 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 it 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 have 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 is for that easy rich asians will open in theaters worldwide in august and september robert oulds al-jazeera hotly. on the movie every country in the world hostile choose to honor iconic figures of the past but in haiti images of suffering and of national hero serve a different purpose gebril the zongo reports on how statues there offer encouragement in a 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 hundred two. 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. 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 shouting god. every time i look at this

deafening statue 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 fight 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 statues unbreakable a trademark of the haitian people of today gabriel santo i'll just leave port au prince.

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera thousands of people are still stranded in the southern indian state of tara laughter days of heavy flooding the worst monsoon floods in a century have claimed more than one hundred ninety lives in just over a week but the rains are now easing in. major roads have been clear it's a help can get through andrew thomas has more from a door in carolina. on sunday alone twenty two thousand people were evacuated from there we saw some of those evacuations when trucks can get seen by all and they're bringing large numbers of people out but in other cases there has to be boats but they can't get into trucks they are being brought out slowly on boats and then carried once they reach the dryland. brazil is sending troops to its border with venezuela after hundreds of migrants were run out of town by locals

dozens of brazilians attacked to makeshift camps and. where the thousand venezuela's have been living residents say the violence began after several migrants robbed a local shop of a magnitude seven point two earthquake has struck in deletion island of lombok the u.s. geological survey says it was a very shallow depth just hours earlier another six point five magnitude quake triggered landslides on the islands the taliban have promised to free hundreds of prisoners following the afghan government's offer its officers fire president ashraf ghani said he hoped the taliban would follow up with a cease fire off its own government forces will stop hostilities starting august the twentieth and we're on of the cease fire so long as that does the same those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next then it's the news hour i'll see you then bye bye.

the u.s. on to donald trump is keen on sanctions against other countries from iran to russia and venezuela washington imposes economic penalties of a variety of issues but due to sanctions serve any purpose and who gets hurt the most this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program could up there how meet punishing its enemies economically when stopping short force has long been a favorite american way of achieving foreign policy goals sanctions have been

around for decades but came to the fore after the nine eleven attacks on the u.s. in two thousand and one then now.