the courthouse. how's the court session any direction which way the judge. proceedings have just started security is tied. behind me people as they go in to bring in pens and notebooks no recording devices no phones that. put up with people can watch the proceedings as it fit inside the court today zimbabweans will get to hear what evidence. they have when they say that they can prove the election was stolen the m.d.c. say they have documents that show that numbers were inflated in favor of the party they say in some places the rule areas village waiting a polling stations telling villages who to vote for and if they didn't vote for

zanu p.f. they would be given food they also say they have evidence and people were told when they got to polling stations they must say that they needed help and the person at the polling station who helped them made sure that they voted for nine judges are going to make a ruling we don't know when that is going to be they'll make a ruling and once that really has been made the decision is final there is no room for appeal. doesn't go the. whole process. well they haven't said much about what the backup plan has or they say that they will look at political avenues it seems ill will approach the regional body subject to ask them to intervene it also seems that calling on the international mean to spatially the united states of america to also come and intervene in the process the proceedings could last a day could last two days but if the judges say person x. has won then that person has to be sworn in within forty eight hours if the judges

call for a fresh election that has to be held within sixty days that means the bobbins have to wait again a bit longer go through the process again of voting run of the country is in limbo parliaments con convene cabinet con be appointed so a lot is at stake here but as far as what the m.d.c. alliance is going to do they say it's a wait and see what happens after the court ruling. from harvard still ahead on al-jazeera no more austerity bruce's prime minister announcers what's next also. from brisk listen. to the one trying to those of southeast asia. hello there we've had quite a few showers over parts of italy recently and they've been very very heavy you can

see them here over the southern half also affecting us in sicily and they have been pretty violent as lots of heavy downpours they've melted away just over the past few hours but i think as the day gets going today and the heat rises once more it looks like we'll see a couple more popping up but also be across the southeastern parts of europe stretching across the outs and of course the peyronie's as well and it's all because it's just a role the warm here at the moment the change is happening to the northwestern parts we've got our cold front moving in that's turning things a lot cooler than they have been i think for london on thursday will still get to around twenty two degrees but after that i think the temperatures will drop off a bit further for the other side of the mediterranean plenty of sunshine here but there are one or two showers most of those over parts of morocco and algeria this system still with us as we head through the day and it could give us a few more showers eventually as we head through into friday who thought that cloud will be breaking up the central belt of africa though is where the majority of the showers are at the moment you see plenty of the marching their way towards the west

as you'd expect this time of year some of them pretty heavy and more catch plenty more as we head through the next few days but macos likely to catch one or two well the shelf ones. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. where they're on line this isn't some abstract fish can eat a bit into their shops or if you join us on sect rather than stopping terrorism is creating it this is a dialogue and just the community is want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be unveiling a short while everyone has a points i'm part of civil society i need to talk but i never get listened to by those in the corridors of our joint global conversation. on out is iraq.

back you're watching our just zero time to recap our headlines dog transform a lawyer has pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws during the two thousand and sixteen election michael cohen says trump directed him to pay money to have been the president allegedly had affairs with. and in virginia a jury found former campaign manager paul ford guilty of eight fraud charges both cases emerge from the rubble pollers investigation into alleged russian fear exist . the u.s. national security adviser says a lot more pressure will be applied to all of iran over its nuclear plans and syria john bolton has been holding three days of talks in israel. now people across india have been paying tribute to those killed by the worst floods in

the state of carola for a century hundreds prayed for the victims in the northern city of. more than three hundred seventy people so far have confirmed have died candlelight vigils were also held in the capital new delhi where volunteers have been collecting relief supplies more than a million people are still living in makeshift camps but some are returning home and are thomas reports from the town of menar we'd met daniel thomas in an evacuation camp fisherman rescued him from his home on friday now he wanted to go back but on tuesday morning the only way back was by canoe if we can do it. we can very easily go from there they go where it is that it. is that is the road we cannot see. as we were paddled for kilometers across produce over paddy fields and through people's gardens we heard and saw animals left behind

and occasionally came across people. thomas's village itself is on relatively high ground the central street almost now dry it's very different to when the greatest volume of water barrel through on saturday after thomas had left. his adult son had stayed behind to help rescue others and say forty could home he took us inside the news generally good a both property and people is anybody in this town. low on getting over that wall. of good. news. from the. one. that's remarkable when you see the damage. thomas' neighbor state to his house shook as it cracked it's still

under water and in the front garden there was another hazard. but all day tuesday the water was dropping and back on the main street a surprise two big wheel trucks from the national disaster response force had managed to drive in people just salt and then queues formed fast. yes. they had. the men brought the basics rice biscuits water they also brought hope. these trucks getting in is a really good sign of the waters are receding and bad by the situation still it's good it's getting better and richness al-jazeera man our carol. newly printed currency has done little to stop hyperinflation in venezuela most businesses remain closed as they try to work out what to charge for goods after all

was devalued by ninety five percent latin america human reports. venezuelan government supporters tried to rev up with views as i'm introduced economic measures described by president nicolas maduro as an economic revolution to defeat hyperinflation conspicuously absent from a rally in front of the presidential palace liz mcdougall himself hasn't made a public appearance since an apparent assassination attempt on august the fourth. if the right wing crosses our path will run over them like a train nothing will stop our reform. just blocks away many shops and markets remain closed some adhering to an opposition call for a national strike others unsure how much to charge now the five zeroes of been slashed off the currency head of a compulsory thirty four hundred percent increase in the minimum wage they go into

effect september first the price hikes are in two a.z. . two hours ago these eggs cost fifteen hundred and when i came back with the cash they were two thousand. the bus company that takes venezuelans to the border remains shut until further notice and that's the web. for the moment it is not operational one of the few things that has not changed prices are these bananas they're now five of the. five hundred thousand of the old ones which is roughly the same if you take away five zero s. but according to the people selling them by next week the. three hundred percent of the government blames the crisis that brought on precedented hunger and illness and what it calls the domestic and international economic war that many economists warn the new measures will only make things worse. there are pointing fiscal measures to increase. refusing any type of international financing or aid so they'll keep

printing out money and we'll see that hyperinflation will not stop. and amid the uncertainty neither it seems will the exodus of the desperate to find relief anywhere they can. see newman al-jazeera. the u.n. describes the conflict in yemen as one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern times civil war has left millions struggling to afford basic goods and it's estimated eight point four million on the verge of starvation. reports from neighboring djibouti the fight to survive comes in many ways conflict tone of this country for almost two years abdul karim ali faces a daily battle just to feed his family he goes to the market in the city of aden when he can but finds every day that the little money buys less and less today it's bread and milk for karim and his four children. it makes life harder harder to

support growing children harder to keep that knowing hunger away harder to believe tomorrow will be better. as. i choose moken bread according to my potential to eat because as i consider this is a main meal for me and my family and today we cannot see meat and it was usual to eat meat and fish on fridays but unfortunately we are now eating only one meal a day because it is all we can afford. all the stores in the southern port city of aden receive full fewer people can afford what's on display the value of the yemeni reale continues to drop against me to foreign currencies that mixed importing everything the country needs much more expensive prices of going up across the board firstly doubled and tripled its no estimated food and medicine is five hundred percent more expensive. shuttle most of the lead our local currency is now in constant decline and the central bank has not done what it should do which is to

inject foreign currency into the market and consolidate the exchange rate but the different prices and the big rise in the price of the dollar is very difficult as the more the currency loses the more we and our country. last year the yemeni government moved the central bank from who controlled capital sanaa to it it was a step many experts predicted could bring the country to the verge of economic collapse around this lemon went bankrupt after moving the central bank to the city of atlanta the legitimate government spent a long time recovering some of the central bank's functions and activating an ad in the legitimate government has not been able to restore the state institutions especially the revenues institutions and therefore could not maintain the revenues in the liberated areas. the internationally recognized government relies on saudi arabia for cash injections which helps pay some public sector wages which goes some way to halting a complete economic collapse and stop the country running out of food it's

estimated almost eighteen million people in yemen like access to good regular nutritious meals but it point four million are on the verge of famine they simply don't know where their next meal is coming from. abdul karim ali in this family today tomorrow. that's another battle alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti. greek prime minister. officially declared an end to the era of austerity as the nation exits the biggest ever international bailout three hundred billion dollars in loans since two thousand and ten helped greece of void bankruptcy but the past eight years have had a profound effect reports. prime minister alexis tsipras may have been trying to custom self in the role of a hero when he chose to send a message to the greeks that their economic odyssey is over this is the island home his hero odysseus finally returned home to after twenty years of war and adventure

and live the same this see america today a new day has dawned for our country historic day the bailouts of austerity recession and a social desert are finally over our country began to the right to shape its own future and fortunes like any normal european country without external device blackmail or sacrifices by our people for this group of young people the news comes too late the economic crisis struck at the beginning of their teens and changed their lives you know to go see one who is studying political science but what he really wants to do is three d. animation there's no market for that here so he'll go broad. my parents had invested everything in government bonds we lost everything it had a huge effect on our psychology and it immediately changed how we lived it was as though you had flipped a switch stefanos going to studying molecular biology the greek genetics market is shrinking as people have fewer children so he plans to end up in the united states

or canada and look at me as has a job waiting for him upon graduation at a u.k. company you know what as many of my parents are divorced the moment i realized there was a crisis was when i watch my mother counting out money to pay eternity bills i thought i have to finish school and find a job quickly so i can have my family i have two smaller siblings and they need a chance to grow up to you know. all three would prefer to stay in greece they just don't think this economy will produce the jobs they want nor do they believe greece's political elite can create that economy at least half a million young educated greeks have emigrated over the past decade in search of better jobs and that brain drain is likely to continue greece is forecast to grow. by only about two percent a year for the next five years but over the same period it's obliged to spend at least three and a half percent of its economy per year repaying debt so its gains will be swallowed by its commitments the markets greece will now depend upon for its borrowing

a looking for signs of stability that includes keeping up debt payments but not everyone believes it can go to stephanus and looking on lost all studied the odyssey in school they're well aware that to disuse was the sole survivor of his homecoming expedition all his men perished whether his has done enough to ensure greece's survival as well as his own political survival remains in the lap of the gods jump sort of pull us out of syria athens. former cambodian opposition leader has been denied bail he's been in remote prison for nearly a year awaiting trial on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government his cambodian national rescue party was forcibly dissolved just before july's election when haye has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. they had being some hope that kim would be granted bail by the courts in phnom penh given that over the last few days we've seen

several people released from prison either having received pardons or having been granted bail side chairs journalists land rights activists and in one case a political analyst but it seems that releasing at the moment was seen perhaps as a step too far for the government and a judiciary that seen as far from independent so camps a car will remain in jail awaiting trial on treason charges he wasn't in court for the bail hearing in fact he's only been to court once since he was arrested in september last year this is all happening after july's general election in which the ruling party the cambodian people's party of prime minister hun sen who's been in power for thirty three years won all one hundred twenty five seats in the national assembly. time to take you through some of the headlines here now just syria now gone

transform a lawyer has pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws during the two thousand and sixteen election michael cohen says directed him to pay money to women the president allegedly had affairs with and didn't virginia jury found former trump campaign manager paul manifold guilty of a fraud charges both cases emerge from robert muller's investigation into alleged russian interference the u.s. national security advisor says a lot more pressure will be applied on iran over its nuclear plans and syria john bolton has been holding three days of talks in israel he suggested working with russia to get iranian forces out of syria. consequences of the reduction in resources available to the regime we think is already manifested in some extent in constraints on the could force in. in syria and iraq and perhaps also in its

assistant to the who tees in yemen now it's very important we're going to do other things to put pressure on iran as well beyond economic sanctions tech giants facebook twitter and microsoft have deleted hundreds of fake accounts and websites in twenty four hours facebook says they were part of fake news campaigns originating in russia and iran it's allegedly accounts targeted uses in the middle east latin america the u.k. and the u.s. . zimbabwe's top court is hearing the opposition party's challenge to last month's election results opposition leader nelson chamisa says it was rigged in favor of president emerson and the gang and one with just over fifty percent of the vote is in all of your ration has been postponed pending the court's ruling the electoral commission has denied claims of bias. people across india have been paying tribute to those killed by the worst floods in the state of carola first century more than

three hundred seventy people are confirmed dead. it's the stream now stay with us. it takes discipline and. this is not a game or is. what is a healthy balance between work and play. and. story of the highs and lows of. the pull. of clarity with this documentary. i am femi oke a new in the screen today thousands of u.s. prisoners are starting a nationwide strike the better condition imo they could be little examine what's

compelled inmates to protest and what they can achieve join the conversation through you tube and twitter. over the next twenty days inmates in prisons jails and immigration detention centers will hold peaceful citizens hunger strikes and labor stoppages to push for reform of a system that they say abuses and exploits that's right this is the second national prisoner strike in two years organizers hope to encourage even more inmates than than the twenty four thousand who took part in that record breaking protests this year is demonstrations are led by jailhouse lawyer speak and incarcerated group of reform advocates they're supported by several other groups seeking changes to the prison system the strike was called in response to the death of seven inmates in a riot at a south carolina state prison in april it was the worst disturbance in a u.s. prison in twenty five years organizers of the strikes have seventeen months take

a look at this case featuring a former prisoner and organize a court cold dorsey he outlined some of the most pressing issues for inmates. prisoners of calls for. media prisons and prison conditions access to vote having access to law library law resources rehabilitation access and services. grants should be reinstated there's been less and less services were there to be college degrees and particularly rehab services for more in the strike we are joined from columbia south carolina by crystal rountree she is a representative and organized if a jailhouse to speak which is leading the protest we're also joined by shawn drug was out though she's a formerly incarcerated writer whose prison diaries was honored with several awards she joins us from orange connecticut where molly roasted is a member of the california coalition for women in prison is she's also a program coordinator for project rebound at california state university as well as

a just leadership usa she joins us from fullerton california hello everybody. not on my computer and hello on my computer with a member of our community who explains why we're here today and why this strike got started kimberly here says what led to the strike today were the horrible conditions that prisoners were forced to live in a condition or conditions that mirrored the conditions that in slaves people were forced to live in and i think anyone being oppressed would fight back she goes on to say it was this incident at least correctional institution that we mentioned at the top of the show in south carolina and the horrible deaths of seven inmates and injuring of others that really galvanized the situation and sparked these men and women into action kristal. that apart for our international audience explain to us what happened that led to why we're here today. thank you for having once again. you know prison conditions you know this to this trial is essentially

a demand for the recommendation of the human rights and prison and the state of the prisons in this country currently. there was a why that took place you know which you alluded to a bit earlier there are at least correctional institution a policy here in south carolina where seven inmates were in fact you know and seven four others were injured in very preventable under forgettable circumstances certainly. as a as a result of that prison or the process the nation especially want to bring worldwide mass ascension in awareness again to the conditions that they are being subjected to to the dangerous and violent and non productive conditions of the prison system right now prisoners are simply being warehoused without any sort of insensitive no rehabilitation no treatment programs and so we.

we have a situation here that i describe as they cried. wolf. the prisoners are they have a whole. array and that they are requesting as a result of this you know as a part of their demands but it's national prison strike some of those things are definitely in a media and. that they are. going to going thanks and immediate in your presence which is legitimately happening and going on right here today in america presents a question that you'll certainly can't just making i hear i'm out and i. and some resonating because you have been on the other side you have been inside. what point would you have just been surprised that ok that's a nationwide strike i would say no surprise whatsoever the question is some places

to say we're not working i'm not surprised that out you know what happened at least correction no facilities was a tipping point and so across prisons in california you know were overcrowded there's a lack of programming conditions of the needs of the policy improvements and so when you're warehousing folks in these deplorable conditions. something that happens even in another state can give you the courage and energy to step up and represent what you feel is it's human dignity for you within california prisons we have almost one hundred and sixty thousand folks and. we leave the national rate in suicide in deplorable conditions we've been warehousing folks through prison expansion since the eighty's so it's really time for. governor

brown who's the governor here in california governor it's a across this nation to start treating incarcerated people with dignity and respect ninety five percent of all incarcerated folks return to their communities that return should be a return where there is jobs where there is access to resources where there is higher education and it can start inside the prisons and they say because his son and i can i jump in your post i mentioned there are two two separate issues though involved in this strike one to tap demand is changing prison conditions which i wholeheartedly agree with the second one is about wages and abolishing prison labor i have written extensively on my experience with prison labor was actually positive i know that's not a typical situation but there are people who undergo significant emotional and rehabilitative changes through their prison jobs and i know when i was in if

someone told me we're striking and then as of tomorrow we might not have jobs i don't know if i would have survived. do you want to explain what that was and the how it helped get through your time you were shonda it was a kitchen job so it was manual labor setting up the food serving it to the other women in the facility it actually taught me a significant number of leadership skills and as i have explained to a lot of other people it got me out of a five by ten cell that's not a natural state for a human being that's maybe sitting in a box or a cage maybe for as doing animal or a new litter of kittens it's not to all we're not for human beings so even though i was being brought into a kitchen where i had to work very hard for seventy five cents a day i was still in an open area where i could move around like a human being i was also doing things like cooking a soup or serving a stew that somewhere in the world someone else was doing the same thing whereas sitting in my cell that's just rotting in festering that's not human activity. i

mean and that's i think some of the. i think that's one of the reasons why it's been hard to get some of these reforms and policies change because the labor their folks still inside they are grateful for some of those skills to translate to jobs on the outside however you know those jobs inside can be a whole lot better wages can be improved the conditions in which people were definitely can be improved and instead kind of attitude of gratitude that many of us have going into the prison system. because we're shamed and we're embarrassed of the things that we've done to get there common leads us to this really graceful attitude around getting out of the sale and having these kind of dining room jobs for eight cents an hour or seventeen cents an hour but i think the bigger picture here is that it doesn't allow us to say it doesn't it doesn't allow us to support

our families on the outside prison wages don't allow you to be productive members of your family when you're incarcerated and that income is removed from your family when you're locked up right now and i think that's why there are several people online who are likening it to slavery this is august twenty one j.b. where who says the u.s. prison labor system is based upon the thirteenth amendment which justifies slavery as punishment for a crime the system claims a lot of labor is voluntary but if prisoners refuse to work they are inherently punished by being trapped in the confines of their cells or solitary now and on that note we also got a video comment from someone who's working directly on this issue this is as is a legal and advocacy director for projects south which is focused on this issue in this is what she told the stream. in a glance at the salute to our bishop we call every wish to participate in this one

for the program by using threats of violence facing them in solitary confinement and they don't participate actually placing them in solitary or depriving them of life assessing so one of our life scientists one of our named thing to side he actually had sensed in the morning to bangladesh but he was detained at this with his hands in the center and i. said that because you have interesting he's a man and judges mention these here wages between one we all used to get in the sixty's came in and so he said no work tomorrow and so forth that he will stays in solitary for several days and he continues to suffer from the impact of that. so american i can see you nodding your head there i want to know for and trash audience as i did there in that video comments talking about immigration detention center but it shows really how broad this issue is because it's across jails prisons immigration detention centers and other places so that idea of this being

modern day slavery is not something that you can understand why people are saying oh it is still you it's a program results in you lose in time it may result in you lose and prove her religious it will result in you not earning any day for day milestone credits so working in the prison is a voluntary thing but then this is not voluntary because you're honest if you don't work but again you don't receive the sufficient amount of pay for that work the labor that you put in is nowhere near equal and just because there's a loophole in the united states constitution doesn't mean that people should be treated inhumanely without it. and that's what the thirteenth amendment so i can see we can stand on the light let me just say that amendment abolished slavery except if you said so.