we're in from. india trying to the people of kerala but as the rains the skull of the disaster becomes clear. and welcome to al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha me it is a problem also ahead as the u.s. says it welcomes the afghan government ceasefire with the taleban. brazil sends troops to as border with venezuela as tension builds over its neighbors migration and greece completes its financial bailout program but the country's future remains uncertain.

one point five million people have been displaced in the indian state of care and the worst flooding there and a century almost eight hundred fifty thousand people have been squeezed into displacement camps as they wait for the flooding to conditions all improving and major roads have been cleared but now the outbreak of disease is a big concern for authorities andrew thomas isn't going to leave one of the worst affected areas. people in kara describe the height of the water not in centimeters or inches but in debt relative to their bodies ankle deep. deep waist deep. some walking kilometers to the nearest dry road to home my house and then it went up on my head no it ground floor was completely covered

the old are evacuated first cared for the folks that came for them elsewhere the water is shallow enough the trucks to drive in and. out works in and found most people want to stay at home in houses with second floors they can pass families guard because like morning i wake up they're having so much alike that in my heart boys are having wacko's weisel for free. where people remain in their homes food water medicine and toiletries are being carried in the car to 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 are 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. tim thomas isaac is careless finance minister and he says although the rain has stopped the crisis is not over. now we're really two distinct sort of the fourteen delegates. of the crisis us already picked but that doesn't mean. for example the a.b.a. book is a part of care law allowed to tract of land below the ceiling is. made rights going you. know the fact checks are really good for the two or three days will because all the rivers are draining into the city so

for such for the sake of. all of the it will come down but remarkable achievement in a matter of three four days we have been able to move. a chair very pretty prowse the persons to care. i think the talk of them are displaced because including those who have moved to the lake these for friends. would be well over one point five billion as they want to run the new valve the u.s. secretary of state has welcomed the afghan government ceasefire announcement with the taliban my post at washington is ready to facilitate direct talks between the afghan government and taliban any on sunday president us rabbani declared a conditional cease fire ahead of the muslim holiday but the policy on and yet to respond the fall is a bloody week of fighting with the taleban after it launched

a massive attack on the provincial capital gusting yunus atheists and has more from kabul. this is not the first time that president musharraf of any announced a cease fire on a religious holiday back in june in either the fifth or the end of ramadan president or any announced a cease fire for three days taliban were accepted for and many people here in afghanistan remember when taliban fighters and army soldiers share the same mosques right next to each other and hug each other it was for many here and it's an inspiration that peace perhaps is. reachable and it's possible in afghanistan however this offer is quite different the duration of the cease fire proposal proposed by president romney is for three months like three

days in a little fitter and also people here believe that the president is trying to reach some sort of agreement with the taliban to secure the country and to provide the necessary conditions to help the election at the end of october and also. this offer and this proposal is different because president rohani said that this cease fire can last as long as taliban onerous and respects the terms of the cease fire of course has yet to deliver its. position on this offer but today they announced a symbolic gesture they said that they were they will release. hundreds of army soldiers held in taliban's custody according to our sources taliban is not a united front on this on this matter some members of the political bureau of the taliban are with this offer and they think that it is necessary to accept

the government offer but some members. can be called here in kabul as radicals they don't think that this is a good idea. now omar samad is the former afghan ambassador to canada and he says a peace deal is needed given the recent violence well what we have sixteen more over the last few weeks is you know collision of violence you know hundreds of afghan civilians military people. you know which are sitting in. military encampments as well as on the rules in so what we are going to people. who are unarmed. well is for a cease fire that is meaningful. it is not just words it is not a pretext in order to improve troops ounds in villages and. use that little wrong

as a means of doing influence or acting government in our groups so i think that this is their offer we will see if i want on this opera or. you know but at the same time it's going to have to you know we know that. the. now hundreds of palestinians are being stranded in egypt at the edge of a border crossing with gaza egypt has tightened its border security procedures leading to longer waiting lines israel says it's also shutting the area's crossing in response to recent violence along its border fence on friday israeli forces killed two palestinians and wounded more than two hundred during the weekly protests. by u.s. national security advisor john bolton is meeting israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu button is in jerusalem to discuss the ongoing dispute with iran after president trump called the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal in an earlier television interview button said the united states israel and russia shared the objective of removing forces from syria . now the un says two point three million people have left venezuela since twenty fifteen to look for work and escape poverty tens of thousands have crossed into brazil and colombia has given temporary residence to eight hundred thousand venezuelans some travel to peru and ecuador but both countries are cracking down they're now asking migrants who want to enter to show their passports instead of national identity cards but many don't have passports elsewhere in the region a crackdown on anti-government protesters by president daniel ortega in nicaragua has led to people leaving their two they were violent protests in costa rica on saturday some people shot of the n.t. migrants slogans and attacked

a group of nicaraguans others on the ramp yet the has more now from colombia's capital bore with a. clear that the situation seems to be getting out of control in many of these border crossings in colombia i've read the oh and also now in ecuador as more and more a venezuelan migrants are out of necessity fleeing their country they are flooding many of these towns like back around where the worst incident has happened on saturday are already very poor towns that are ill equipped to receive such a huge influx of people the brazilian government has recently steals their northern border at the beginning of august and they've sent troops in better saying that if they continue to see the numbers in the un says that another two million colombians or even it's well and could be leaving their country. this year this

situation could get completely out of control and we're seeing an increase in incidents like the one that happened on saturday in brazil and this of course a war is the governments here that are taking more extreme measures to try and control or stem the flow venezuelan migrants now of all but valencia is latin america correspondent to newsweek and he says models government needs to admit it has a major economic crisis. unfortunately we are seeing for example in brazil is that the locals in the state of araya are burning down some of the tents and the possessions of belongings that many even this will ins bring with them when they had to flee their country colombia cannot carry the burning or de brunt of the crisis and that's why the haley who visit of colombia for the swearing in of

president even took a pledge to poor u.s. a to colombia so they can work with venezuelan refugees south american countries and even central american countries like panama are establishing restrictions for venezuelans to visit this country i think it's it's it's not the best solution to a humanitarian crisis i think we all agree that there's a humanitarian crisis in venezuela but the first step for a solution is for the mud dural government to recognize that there is actually a crisis in venezuela but we're not going to see that because they do not want to recognize that the coming is faltering still ahead on the bulletin officials and as a research the viable for clothes and to walk or for a doctor a bridge collapse and often decades of waiting some two hundred koreans finally meet their long lost loved ones.

by the skyline i mean the ancient harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. the clouds are gathering over the southern parts of china once more we look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud it really does bloom during the day and then really get going and push its way north woods that's what we're going to see over the next few days as well in fact it looks like the rain will push even further inland and some of us will see some heavy rain i do still think that some of the heaviest downpours a likely to be along the south coast of china away from there looks fairly wet force in the philippines recently in the west we've had a lot of heavy rain has caused just a few problems a few disruption on the road and you can see plenty more wet weather still to come for the south this far more dry weather to be found across many parts of borneo down through java looks dry to towards the west there are more clouds here and for some of us in thailand being really very wet over the last few days and more wet weather is expected as we head through monday and choose day two of course across

in india and for carolina we've had the devastating flooding here but the good news is that the rains are easing a little bit now so although there will still be somewhat weather here it won't be as heavy instead of the heavier rain will be towards the east here this system is getting going a little area of low pressure developing within the monsoon that's giving us some very heavy rain on monday tracking its way towards the west on tuesday that could well be flooding here the way sponsored by qatar airways. some are suffering. but this is. going to make the truck dangerous. i'll just. try to. lawyer. just to. make very secure. this is. just you know.

i want to say here these are our top stories one point five million people have been displaced in the indian state of carolina in the worst flooding there in a century the conditions are improving and major roads have been cleared but now the outbreak of disease is a big concern for. the u.s. has welcomed the afghan government cease fire announcement with the taliban ahead of the muslim holiday secretary of state my pompei all said washington is ready to facilitate direct talks this comes after president bush declared a conditional cease fire the taliban is yet to respond and venezuela's mabel's have

begun to crack down on the number of migrants crossing their borders brazil is sending troops to its border after hundreds of venezuelans were run out of town by calls to set fire to their camps. financial markets around the world are beginning to open and much attention remains focused on turkey's currency the lira which dropped sharply last week president treasury remained defiant over the weekend he insists the growing economic crisis is part of a plot against turkey but many analysts say the problems go beyond turkey's diplomatic rift with the u.s. . now on monday greece want to merge from eight years of financial dependence on its eurozone partners now it will have to borrow exclusively from markets the government has balanced its budget and raised the tax revenues to pay off its huge debt but the economy is far from stable as john vause reports. correct production's is a strong among greek companies at the beginning of the crisis the bulk of its

business disappeared as. advertising industry collapsed it cut its costs and found overseas clients and managed to keep all of its seventeen workers on payroll but even this innovative business cannot thrive as greece rejoins the world economy at the station is. absurd i would call it the state is now. owes the fifty percent i mean i with taxation you need to give that half of the money to taxes we will lose the opportunity to expand maybe we need to do this in a very slow. slow so perhaps as many as half of greek businesses have been closed by the crisis those that survive have shouldered the country's tax burden business is sluggish because greek consumers have little money and banks are still unable to provide much finance all this means that a dramatic recovery is unlikely even after august twentieth when greece finishes

eight years of dependence on its eurozone partners the state remains expensive and greece has to produce large budget surpluses for the next thirty years to pay off its lows but the current high taxes could sink the economy that's left a recent study shows that greeks work seven months of the year to pay taxes an increase of twenty five percent over the past decade that puts them on a par with german taxpayers and above most europeans what differentiates them is that they have the lowest levels of satisfaction from public services like health and education in the developed world the center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs. even if it meant more

taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks want bigger government and that's a pro growth mindset if the greeks are finally tired of paying for a wasteful state this presents the political elite with an enormous problem how to slay the monster of a public sector built with political favoritism precisely to sway elections jobs are open. affluence. the italian interior minister is demanding other e.u. countries take one hundred seventy seven refugees and migrants after multiple fused mateo salvini is now threatening to send them back to a port in libya although this could be a breach of international law as they in malta have previously argued over where ships carrying rescued refugees should dock malta has accused as only of rescuing them and maltese waters to prevent them from entering as holy well it's

a hardline approach to refugees has seen arrivals drop but that is not the case in spain where three times as many people have arrived by sea compared to this time last year and the rise has put pressure on rescue services and few political debate on how to handle the situation and hold reports from say that as in southern spain . exhausted but happy almost three hundred refugees in migrants rescued after setting out for most rocko in baba rafts and spending the day adrift. this is the southern spanish port of the his serious most to from west africa including guinea ivory coast in mali the youngest is just a month old. this mother tells me she's hungry the missing the taste of tapioca fish from home. twenty three year old has suddenly arrived in spain two months ago

he was no 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 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 mayor. of

the opposition people's party says the surge in migrant arrivals has become a crisis they cannot that it was sufficient to 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 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 bridget stood among. them and a baby cries for his mother he hasn't yet realized he's in safe hands called pedal i just zero his sitters spain. now the italian engineer who designed the genoa bridge that collapsed on tuesday had warned for decades ago that it would require

constant maintenance emergency workers and all struggling to secure what remains of the miranda bridge before it causes further damage they would change reports from genoa. work at the scene of the bridge collapse has now switched from the search for bodies to a search for clues firefighters are working under the supervision of the prosecutor's office to collect any evidence that might help them piece together the cause of the tragedy but working out exactly what was in there for who is responsible might prove even more difficult as for the collapse of the bridge the number of a cause that actually employed it compared to the first two years of it's. more than four times the same number of workers and each of them is normally much heavier than it used to be forty or fifty years ago a survey by the italian consumers association that ended by twenty two bridges in the country's motorway network that i showing worrying signs of degradation. one of

them was on the main highway between genoa and sharin we look beneath the spans to see for ourselves we found this crude plank of wood stapled to cover the cracks in the structure the steel rods used to reinforce the concrete walls showing signs of corrosion. the bridges are an economic lifeline to nearby towns like. the mayor said people here all too aware of the dangers generally annoying on the book and that if you know this bridge has been reported on for a while here with pictures on facebook feed for show we'll be approaching the company about what they can do a moment like this economy other diners in the restaurant told us they went out of their way to avoid driving on the motorway it's prime very frightening and you think. what we're going to do now a sophisticated geo radar has now been installed on the remains of the bridge in general to monitor any dangerous movements but it's not just italy that has to

learn the lessons from this tragedy the french government have just published their own assessment of state run motorway networks and they've identified eight hundred forty bridges which are showing dangerous structural defects which could cause collapse it's taken more than forty deaths here to raise the awareness of the government to the scale of the problem and it could be one that stretches right across the european. traitor al jazeera general. the un is warning that a syrian government offensive and one put three million people in danger but that hasn't stopped the refugees in turkey from going back across the border for the muslim festival of aid thousands of people have entered syria through the bab al how across an end to it lead which is the last rebel held province in the country now imran khan has promised change in his first address as pakistan's new prime minister in

a televised speech can promise to build an islamic welfare state he vowed to improve his country's relations with its neighbors and strengthen security and an autist on and along the afghan border. as interior minister so that he can personally oversee the fight against money laundering and graft come on high there has more from islamabad. twenty two. started its political party and run condor twenty second prime minister of pakistan nation for the first time he talked about the grave economic crisis confronting the country saying that a country that great to the outside. did not have any self-respect he also talked about the fact that their former rulers had taken over ninety five billion dollars of loans saying that the country was now bordering money just to pay interest on the loans are dead already taken from the international community is said that it was time to broaden the base because many people in pakistan were not paying their

taxes. better health care than the government hospitals and also emergency plans to ensure that their twenty five million pakistanis children who were out of schools got an education in iran has made several promises but on the foreign policy level he. said on the need to improve relations with neighboring countries that message that will go down well in the region but on the other promises given the fact that the country is confronting national crisis it was said by many experts that it was going to be a difficult if not impossible task. now some two hundred koreans separated from their families them's the korean war finally reunited this week for six decades most koreans have been forbidden from sending letters or emails or calling their relatives on the other side of the border millions of families were separated

during the war one hundred and thirty three thousand people in the south have applied to meet their relatives on the fifty seven thousand applicants are still alive and many are in the eighty's or older this week's reunion event will be the first of its kind since october twenty fifth ping portugal and has the story of one of the one hundred people from the south missing had long lost loved ones eighty five year old bikes on has been waiting for this day for decades she was just a teenager when the korean war broke out in one thousand nine hundred fifty bucks survived the war because her family was warned chinese army forces were coming his allies and they said the women all grown up will be killed so people told us to evacuate our village for just a few days bike still remembers the horrors of the three year war she witnessed as she flood forever etched in her mind is the image of an eleven year old and his siblings wandering after their parents were killed. in a jet would come down with

a loud noise and there would be bombs being dropped those massive amount of people would haul down to. bikes says walking for five days on her swollen feet in cold temperatures is how she managed to stay alive this week she will finally meet her nephews were born after she settled in the south could kill. you cannot describe that in words and i'm probably not the only one who feels that way i wanted to meet my nephews because they share the same blood and i wanted to visit the place where i used to live. by ken ninety two others from the south will meet their loved ones in a resort in the north. among her group is ninety four year old kwan c.e.o. koos reunion will be bittersweet if i do not get to see my son but i'm happy that i will be meeting my granddaughter and to the reunion is one of twenty that have been organized by the red cross since one nine hundred eighty five the north and south

agreed in june to resume reunions after a landmark meeting between north korean leader kim jong un and the south's president when jay in paul chowder gian al-jazeera. just a reminder that you can always keep up to date all the news and much more on our website that said allen c.n.n. dot com. again i'm elizabeth with the headlines on al-jazeera one point five million people have been displaced in the indian state of kerala and the worst flooding the in a century conditions are improving and major roads have been cleared but now the outbreak of disease is a big concern for authorities the u.s. has welcomed the afghan government and elsewhere with the taliban ahead of the muslim holy day secretary of state said washington is ready to facilitate direct talks this comes after president ghana declared

a conditional cease fire the taliban is yet to respond venezuela's neighbors have begun to crack down on the number of migrants crossing their borders brazil is sending troops to its border after hundreds of venezuelans were run out of town by locals who set fire to their camps while financial markets around the world are beginning to open and much attention remains focused on turkey's currency the lira which dropped sharply last week turkish president at the one remained defiant of the weekend he insists the growing economic crisis is part of a plot against turkey many analysts say the problems go beyond turkey's diplomatic rift with the u.s. now iran has promised change in his first address as pakistan's new prime minister in a televised speech can promise to build an islamic welfare state he also vowed to improve his country's relations with its neighbors and strengthen security in baluchistan and along the afghan border will serve as interior minister so that he can

personally oversee the fight against money laundering and graft. we will keep good relations with. pakistan needs peace i repeat we. peaks as without it no progress and development is possible half of the population is below the poverty line and we can't uplift them we would do well base to have good relations with our neighbors ukraine's capital having has been flooded following heavy rain on saturday that's resulted in traffic disruptions and destruction across kiev. partially submerged in floodwaters with levels as high as a meter one of the city's shopping centers was also flooded with people trapped inside those are the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you for watching.

the u.s. on the donald trump is you know sanctions against other countries from iran to russia even its will up washington imposes economic penalties over 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 good up there how meat punishing its enemies economy plea when stopping short of force has long been a favorite american way of achieving foreign policy goals sanctions have been around for decades.