that trip was carol's disaster the quantity of rain it was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over development in flood plains is to blame left. claiming that even as an wetlands for other uses that is one of them a good thing which we did was to do it another way the flood plains in the form of paddy fields on about plants what are they going to accommodate on morsels of water . the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish cloaking rivers stopping them flowing fast and really instead the rivers burst their banks but even with those issues the floods say some could have been avoided aside from the long term impact of environmental mismanagement and pollution there is another way that some here are seeing this as a manmade disaster they're blaming those who manage the dams and reservoirs carola

has fifty three large reservoirs where the collective capacity of nearly seven trillion liters of water they are managed primarily for hydro electricity production and irrigation for farmers many operators are reluctant to let the water go when it's not needed so they were near capacity before the worst of the rain fell when it did the water had to be suddenly released to stop dam walls breaking people think infrastructure is a security against flood but more of the flood waters did not come from the rain they come from the release of their downs never happened before if we know too much rain is coming dams should releasing water as gently and not impounding the last drop and then flooding people's out of their homes it's likely no one factor caused carolus flooding but human activity and inactivity seem to have made it worse andrew thomas al-jazeera cultural i'm. still ahead and i'll just. the un urges

south american countries to aid century for venezuelans fleeing a worsening economic crisis we have the latest from venezuela to and hundreds of kids in chicago turn a busy street into a basketball court in an effort to promote peace. hello good it's good to have you back with us i want to take you down here towards a southern portions of asia we are watching quite a bit of activity here across most of the region you can see across borneo there are a lot of heavy rain is really the problem there making its way down towards indonesia over towards malaysia as well up towards the philippines we are seeing quite a bit of activity here in little parts of luzon where they saw over about one hundred fifty millimeters of rain just in the last twenty four hours more heavy rain is expected across that region but down towards jakarta we do expect to see

a partly cloudy to mostly cloudy day with a temperature few of about thirty three degrees well across parts of australia we are still looking at very dry situation across sydney that is all due to the drought situation there normally this time of year they would see about for the month of august eighty one millimeters of rain so far they've only see just over five millimeters of rain and half of that came from today so we do expect to see more rain over the next few days so that is some good news for sydney up towards brisbane attempt a few of twenty two degrees there and then as we make our way towards sunday we are expect to see more rain across the region and melbourne a temperature few of forty very quickly across parts of our new zealand we are going to be seeing some showers across much of the area down towards auckland in terms of there about fifteen degrees for you. he is a self-proclaimed messenger of god painting millions of devoted but his path to

enlightenment involve the rape and abuse of his followers when he used investigates the fall of one of india's most powerful spiritual gurus on al-jazeera china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business spark the long term plan of china to secure its resources for the future the i.m.f. said sub-saharan region as a whole now is expected to grow we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. welcome back time to recap our headlines now a saudi a morality coalition air strike near a camp in yemen has reportedly killed at least thirty one people including women

and children who theme media say happened in a day the province a new human rights watch report says the saudi led coalition's investigations into alleged war crimes lack credibility australia has a new prime minister it's six in eight years after malcolm turnbull was dumped by his party former treasurer scott morrison was sworn in as leader a short time ago to ceremony in canberra he defeated challenger paul peter dutton brother who was the driving force behind the move to. south africa has some of the top u.s. diplomat there to criticize president dog trumps tweet on land reform it says it's disappointed by washington's failure to use diplomatic channels south africa has accused trump of fueling racial tensions after he tweeted land is being seized from white farmers and many of them getting killed. the u.n. has called on latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing venezuela's deepening economic crisis the call came after neighboring

ecuador impose ruin outs tighter entry requirements for venezuelans they will now need valid passports venezuelans were previously allowed to enter using id cards our latin america editor lucien newman is in the venezuelan capital caracas. this is santa angeles's last day at her home in her working class neighborhood she sold everything possible and packed the rest she interest sister her two daughters and their four small children prepare to abandon israel so. i have to get my daughter out of here before it's too late. friend jelly's three year old can't speak since she had a stroke provoked she says by the lack of medicine to treat her repeated convulsions half of them will go to peru the rest to chile to join husbands and sons but sandra is angry. we wanted to remain here in my beloved venezuela the best country in the

world until my door destroyed it we're leaving half of our family behind our family smell scattered. indeed oil rich venezuela is on recognizable disease hunger uncontrollable violence and hyperinflation are driving millions from a country where poverty has reached eighty percent president nicolas maduro blames u.s. financial sanctions but they don't begin to explain a crisis that began long before they were imposed a year ago. what is happening is of such gravity that it looks as though we were going through a terrible war like syria except there is no war and if the expectation that things will get even worse it is nourishing the stampede. not that it's easy to leave a passport is worth its weight in gold to my money that i need to leave but help is no way to get a passport at least to pay two thousand dollars under the table which i don't have

. that's when the passport office official asked us to move away. those lucky enough to have a passport come here to catch a bus going to peru via colombia and ecuador like everything else the bus tickets go on day by day so the people who are lining up here are doing so not to get a new ticket but to pay the difference someone they bought a month ago at four hundred and forty now they have to pay eight hundred eighty what they can't get on the bus it's prohibitive so like many others alexander is leaving for peru to try his luck with his pockets empty. there's no work a consequence my family obama milk and diapers my baby so i have no choice as the departure time nears the waiting room begins to look and feel like a mass funeral parlor. husbands wives children and fiances say goodbye to each other and certain what will become of those who leave. or of those

who will stay behind a tragedy that's taking place every single day in every corner of the news we. see in human al-jazeera. but i am a sanchez has more now from the crew ecuador border well there are many venezuelans arriving much more than the days before of course because of this restriction that will be in place on saturday were they will need a passport to get into thousands of venezuelans do not have passports it's very difficult and very costly to get them in venezuela so they are rushing to this border of the middle has had an open border policy for venice will and there are nearly or nearly four hundred thousand as well and already living in pay too. many are also coming at the number has increased because the ecuadorian authorities are as transporting many buses for free so they can get across as well as

territory all the way to this border crossing they do the question will be what will happen to two thousands of innocents who do not have a passport when they get here they won't be able to go back to equality because it will have the same restriction of benefit of having to hold a passport to be able to go in so there is a big question for a peruvian authorities and for international organizations as to what will they be able to do to help these than a swell of who are on their way to do right now. ugandan judges ordered that musician turned politician bobby wine be allowed urgent medical treatment one is facing charges of treason after he was rearrested minutes after being freed via military court he's accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yoweri museveni catherine sawyer falls from kampala.

this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see while view wine of popular musician and member of parliament appeared at a military court in the north end town of good looking weak and in pain he had been in military cassidy's since last wednesday he was arrested following violence in local election campaigns in the north after president yoweri in the seventies mottaki it was attacked the state withdrew the military leaders charges of possession of firearms and ammunition you are poorly served free i lived in here on out of jail just. it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not really free in the future when you come to wonder and they're arresting him now he was immediately taken to a magistrate's court where he was charged with treason with intent to do harm to the passing of the president of the republic or uganda i don't know fully. understand moved towards them. and smile she's.

the real when screwed over the pretty sure. income part of the government's deployed police and soldiers in some parts of the city that are seen as hot spots including where we are right now we're trying to prevent people from gathering or trying to get to their town fantastic you forces also blocked several opposition politicians from leaving that. opposition leader who has been arrested and detained often over the years was a game taken by police he had talked to the media cutting off their new people to be cutting off forty million people. so whenever the they must what can we do what of the have the magistrate in gulu ordered that wine gets argent medical care and that doctors be allowed and he needed access to him he will

remain in cassidy until the end of the month when he appears in court the thirty two others also charged with treason. all the while he supporters in cheered him on the wintry and tired hits from catherine so i al-jazeera. police in argentina have raided homes own device former president cristina kirchner they're investigating widespread corruption involving former government ministers and top business people and the corruption officers are following leads from the notebook of former ministerial driver it's alleged to contain details of cash deliveries and bribes the u.s. attorney general is hitting back at present donald trump's latest criticism saying he won't be influenced by political pressure trump has accused jeff sessions of not being in charge of the justice department from washington d.c. hi joe castro has more. impeachment is

a real possibility for trump if his party of republicans lose control of the house come the november midterm elections and so while the president's statements that essentially say if he is impeached everyone may be poor may sound surprising on its face but when you look at it it may be a motivator the in the president's belief to turn out his base in november it's notable that on tuesday the same day that two of trump's most closest allies became convicted felons was the same day that the american stock market rallied to record highs and recent polls show that ninety percent of republicans think trump is doing a good job in office and so trump is adamant in issuing this threat or warning however you look at it to his base that they have to turn out in november or ause perhaps risk their pocketbooks now in this long and winding interview with fox news

president trump also went on to renew criticism of his attorney general jeff sessions he renewed the the refrain that sessions should not have recused himself from the russian vessel should have us at a stand simply done a better job to protect the president sessions who has long been quiet amid these criticisms did shoot back with a strongly worded statement saying that he would not be influenced by political considerations many are seeing this as the attorney general drawing a line in the sand between himself and the president and it remains to be seen what action if any the president will take finally on this day of much intrigue and breaking news surrounding the white house the wall street journal is reporting that david pecker a longtime friend of donald trump and the publisher of the national enquirer has made a deal with federal prosecutors that implicates trump in the pay off of two women who claim that they had sexual relationships with trump to buy their silence. the

outer bands of hurricane lane have drenched the big island of hawaii people in honolulu on the island of wahoo have been warned to expect flooding and landslides the hurricane has been downgraded but still packing winds of up to two hundred ten kilometers an hour schools and universities are being closed and emergency shelters are ready saudi arabia is reportedly seeking eleven billion dollars in international bank loans to fill the shortfall left by the persona and of its state oil company going public a report by the financial times says riyadh is now shifting its focus to other forms of financing to share sales in iran kind of been expected to raise about one hundred billion dollars far less than the two trillion originally hoped for so part of crown prince mohammed bin sandman's economic reform to help reduce dependency on oil and come debt. at least one hundred fifty people are stuck on

a coast guard ship after being refused entry into italy the interior minister says those on board are illegal immigrants and won't allow them to set foot on italian soil he wants other european union nations to take in the refugees hundreds of young people in chicago are taking part in a basketball tournament called hoops in the hood it aims to promote peace in one of the most violent cities in the u.s. john hendren reports. this is hoops in the hood it's a basketball tournament but it's also a statement about safe neighborhoods in america's most violent major cities each year about five thousand children participate they get together and with the help of the city they block off streets in violence hot spots across chicago and they play and these are violent streets last year thirty five hundred people were shot and more than six hundred of them killed in the city of chicago many of strada was

a member of one of chicago's violent gangs now he's a coach we do have an issue of violence in our neighborhood and i think basketball and sports is just one way we can get kids to kind of do something other than look like i'm forcing this happening with someone in some of our neighborhoods this is the end of the morning rush hour so normally the street would be choked with cars but instead four hundred kids from twenty different neighborhoods are here to determine who are the champions of chicago and they come from neighborhoods with names like englewood austin and back of the yards the most violent neighborhoods in chicago and they've come together for a championship but they've also come together to find common ground and when it comes to finding that common ground those we've talked to say. they're nailing it. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now a saudi led panel investigating alleged war crimes in yemen is being accused of

lacking credibility and independence human rights watch is making the criticism as another as strike raises questions about the targets of the saudi u.a.e. coalition houthi rebels say at least thirty people were killed in that strike now data at least twenty of them children they blame warplanes from the coalition the strike happened near a camp for internally displaced people. strayer has a new prime minister it's six eight years after markham turnbull was dumped by his party former treasurer scott morrison was sworn in as leader a short time ago in a ceremony at government house in cambra he defeated challenger peter dutton who was the driving force behind a move to oust turmel. we have a lot of challenges as a country and we will get through them as we always have together now our job particularly for josh and i as we take forward this new miracle of

leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together which has been bruised and battered this week but that will enable us to ensure we bring the parliament back together that we can continue to work to ensure that our country stays close together saudi arabia is reportedly seeking eleven billion dollars in international bank loans to fill a shortfall left by the persuasion listing of its state all company around co a report by the financial times says riyadh is shifting its focus to other forms of financing to share sales and around code been expected to raise about one hundred billion dollars far less than the two trillion originally hoped for south africa has summoned the top u.s. diplomat there to criticize president donald trump's tweet on land reform it says it's disappointed by washington's failure to use diplomatic channels

those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one o one east. i mean this is different but there is someone going for something is very rare in this matter when you think it's how you approach a vigil that's it is a certain way of doing it you can't just. inject a story in. it's a land famous for its mystic spiritualists a place where saints and swamis guard the secrets of an ancient wisdom. for thousands of years people from india and abroad have devoted themselves to these holy men in their quest for lighting. but some gertrude's have proven to be far from divine accused of rape murder and mass

castration. i'm steve chapman on this episode of one of one east reinvestigate one swamis spectacular fall and a blind faith many still have it. be were be thankful. they call him the rockstone truth thanks. for not so subtle swami of spirituality. thank you. thank you this isn't laugh charge told a man is good meeting romper him saying and his say is he's the messenger of god. but the center for almost thirty years he has led the data such as sought out the

place of truth sect in northern india we get that. we get that one he claims to have sixty million followers worldwide exaggeration perhaps but his fans assuming enthusiastic i. read write or. sing revels in his popularity he has funded several bollywood style films starring himself. not to mention his many music albums. but it isn't all discos and dancing singh has made headlines for his charitable works spearheading environmental drives campaigning for women's rights and tackling drug addiction. up hogs that are going to give identity young people you mentioned

that some people his charity work has won him some influential friends. this is rumble last sharma a cabinet minister in heaven on a stakes i thank god. it was there was there was this not the only politician to bow before the screw in the two thousand and fourteen state elections almost half of the ruling party's candidates sort sings placing. to his do they tease he is a song. that others have called him the devil in disguise.

in two thousand and two an anonymous letter was sent to the most powerful man in the country. to the honorable prime minister shri at the bihari vege. it was from a disciple who lived in sing. in hindi as his day what she wrote about the guru shocked the government respected. one day at ten o'clock at night i was informed that father has called me to his room. she found her guru lying in bed next to a watching a pornographic film. taking me in his arms he said to me he would like to make love to me. the woman said

she tried to stop him but saying wouldn't. when i resisted he said there was no doubt that he was god he said that he can kill me without any harm being done to him after that he raped me and has been doing so for the last three years. the woman also revealed that singh was abusing other girls. if any girl dares to open her mouth against. has order to finish her off. she begged the central government to investigate she could never have imagined the dozens of people would be killed after she sent her a letter. i cannot keep silent. almost three hundred kilometers north of india's capital news of the lead has spread

through a town called sears it's the headquarters of good me thuram rahim singh sect of. the dare i had a lot of influence people were scared of it. they had political power. until church of the day was born and raised in syria. he says almost everyone in town followed will feed the guru. then in two thousand and two local officials and journalists began receiving copies of the anonymous letter. he would let us a little while wherever that letter was circulated people would be better not crashed people's offices were attacked but if they found out a shot was photocopying the letter they'd attack the shop. people would whisper amongst themselves nobody had the courage to speak out against them. no one

except on shills father ramchandra chip property was a small town journalist with a big reputation he ran his own nice paper called food as such or the whole truth. he didn't run his newspaper like a commercial business he ran it to serve our society whether it was social issues or corruption or political issues he would raise his voice against powerful people . for years darkroom as had been circulating about saying and his deraa whispers that he was involved in land grabbing corruption and mysterious disappearances of the north and second that in those the. no media and so so would speak against the darrow they were scared of but even in this environment of fear my father was reporting. and chills father published the anonymous letter with its

explosive allegations of rape immediately and got threatening calls i immediately started receiving threatening calls telling him not to report on this but he said you can't stop me from publishing the truth. those threats soon turned deadly. on a cool of tobit evening two men road towards the journalists house. uncial a university student at the time was home with his father. abuse. we were preparing to have dinner. outside the house somebody called my father sleep better be. sure that i did. ramchandra chapter but they left his son and when town side.

within seconds until heard five gunshots. me i am never thought that they would go to this extent it never crossed my mind. the gunman fled in opposite directions but they didn't get far. when mrs actual data or one of the shooters was apprehended at the police post close to our house. they seized the weapon in a walkie talkie set from him. prosecutors say the two suspected gunmen was sings disciples and the item seized from them were registered to his darragh. allegations that singh rejects. the nation devastated chapter but his family and his community. are no beach or beach.

as the funeral procession was going through. there were men women children standing on the rooftops they were throwing flowers on my father people was so shaken by the terror inflicted by the dera. assholes who are. that day i realized that people were saluting the crusade that my father had started we felt proud of him whatever he did it wasn't wrong was me. ever since then uncial has been fighting for justice he has invited me to his home in sears or where he lives under twenty four hour police protection. fire.

i'm firing. on my father this unity. is preparing for yet another hearing in his father's murder trial the state has charged singh with two murders including that of uncial father but the case has dragged on for over fifteen years and there's still no verdict in a body the truth is what's giving us strength we've taken on such a powerful empire what are we in front of them with nothing until says the guru and his followers tried every trick in the book to prevent him from testifying. they never directly threaten me but indirectly they tried really hard through my relatives through a local administrator through a former state chief minister they tried to get me to compromise. my

reply was what more can they do to us. there's nothing more valuable than life and that they've already taken. for the past eleven years the central bureau of investigation has assigned an armed bodyguard the threat he says is real the gurus devote on just followers they fanatics. this fanaticism spilled onto the streets last august when good meat rather him seeing was convicted of sexually assaulting two of his female disciples. all esteem a plus list in rivers of all ordered power than three hundred thousand people were present and in and out on the open misses at the time of the war dick. sumeet go while is one of the prosecutors responsible for sings conviction in my career as

a lawyer i have never ever even heard of so many people gathering at the time award so there was a lot of tension at that border and everybody had a sense of fear inside that anything would happen. what happened was an all out for riots hundreds of thousands of seing supposes rampage through several cities burning media vans train carriages and picture stations. was a move markets were closed everything was so the city shut down but practically shut down for three days. the government imposed a curfew and deployed the army electricity supplies mobile internet and cable television what cost to prevent crowds from gathering. almost forty people were killed and hundreds injured in the mayhem.

hunt strikes cho han says he watched with horror as the carnage unfolded on t.v. . for thirteen years he was one of could meet ron where he sings most fervent followers until the unthinkable happened. i made johanne at a secret location with his bodyguard. he too is on a hit list the big. winner would have to go anywhere i can't tell anyone where i'm going i need to change god. i need to call a friend to come with me even today i had to do this. john says his parents sent him to live and work the saying when he was just a teenager one day the guru summoned him living with in the summer.

he called a meeting of his closest male duties there were about four hundred five hundred people he said we're going to remove your reality after that your mind isn't going to want to. come closer to god. chohan says he didn't understand that the group was talking about castration he said it's just a small operation you won't feel any pain or discomfort no one knew what castration was. chohan says he was sent to the dare is own hospital and instructed to tell the doctors that the guru had blessed him. dimmick something in the pepsi and gave it to me to drink after that i didn't know what they were doing to me where they were taking me i fell unconscious and. john says he was in agony and his growing was bandaged the month i was in pain for two months

i couldn't walk properly i was on bedrest my bandages what changed every two or three days. before and even after the operation chohan says he was made to sign a number of blank documents. to have a lot of property under the memes of castree to do he knew that we would never get married or have children when we die we leave the property here and he would put his name on our power of attorney. he says hundreds of men and boys were castrated he's now helping investigators prosecute his former guru. could meet romber him saying is already serving a twenty year sentence for his rape convictions but he continues to deny all charges of rape and castration we tried to speak with him but the indian courts

would not give us permission we did however interview his spokesman. and from the beginning to the end i have tried to understand and investigate these allegations i never saw anything that indicated that a crime had been committed. is not only a devote the group he's also a relative he says men volunteered to be castrated but are now blaming saying. whoever has had this done it was their choice. he also dismisses the multiple allegations of rape and murder against his guru saying they are politically motivated. mechanism our system is being used by people who are communal corrupt and liars. he refuses to identify

which people instead he quickly moves on blaming a conspiracy by drug dealers. whenever a man tries to clean a bad things in our society he will be opposed by people who profit from these bad things but still wara saves his most passionate attacks for the press and the investigators who put his guru behind bars indian media a large part of the indian media is making a fool out of people it's not journalism looking. good the court itself admitted that the media's coverage is influencing judges as far as the central bureau of investigation goes it has been called a puppet. believes his group is a victim and will soon be exonerated. the truth hasn't been completely better and i believe that someday it will come out.

and his faith is shared by many other devoted. even now despite saying languishing in jail he says saw shroom is packed with followers. it's more than forty degrees in the peak of summer and still thousands of people have come to hear recorded speeches by their group. we were banned from filming inside the room but we listened to the dare is own film crew interviewing disciples lording it over to you do you want you to. set out to a daughter or extra daughter both god and doing the local business for you this is the mafia their grandson is the only one but tony look the local is if you love this party and the federal you too will be down there be a political. will. to do so it is hard to be here for good in

the. obvious because we believe in our good want to get out of it was a model no mother should watch here if there are going to some on her remark that are you fucked up. the whole lot of october's run. these devoted a say they will never believe the allegations against a guru but would they believe one of his most trusted confidant. fall from the city from we've tracked down a man who was once willing to die for the guru today it's his life that's in danger . i believe that he was god. that he was a great soul i never knew about the evil in him. for ten years

cut us sing who worked as a personal bodyguard driver and manager for good me toronto he'd say. he says he was present when they grew older the assassination of journalist ramchandra to property after he published the anonymous lace up. a quad or local or around in the field what they thought he was shown the local paper that drum chen that attacked the party published a call the whole truth the minute he saw the report he was livid he said silence him forever. in front of me christian law went and got a revolver and a walkie talkie set. in front of me he gave the. who then gave them to new. and told them take this and kill him as soon as possible. qatar has given a detailed account to the courts of what happened that day he says he also know about the sexual assaults. a lot of girls who were ready to come forward

but the problem is with our society to morrow if she wants to get married people will point fingers at her and say she is this kind of go because she's been abused so these poor girls just swallow their pain like poison the either kept silent or went home by two thousand and five cut does singh says he'd had enough. when i stopped going to dura. to my home when i'd leave the house they'd spit on me i said if you say anything we are ready for you. i went to the police once or twice and gave them my written statement. instead the police threaten me that's what i thought if the police themselves are not listening to me then what's the point. when word spread that he'd gone to the authorities he received a letter stained with blood. commandos corrigan

a man can marry go to carry out. the rebirth. of the rabbit of a witch or talk of the. brotherhood of terror going ashore bringing the only anomaly conly him an audience on the. street with them here at the apollo in some. rescuing carrier just when you're in a government to get around a political. poker nonny the only governor is a little liberal way of with the little league. cutter has no doubt that his former guru is behind these threats. this guy is no saint he's using spirituality as a smokescreen to conceal murders. but in india saying is not the only self-proclaimed saint accused of serious crimes others include also out on

a popular guru recently convicted of raping a sixteen year old girl. and swami nityananda who is facing a space of charges including rape and criminal conspiracy. while tens of thousands of swarmings here a devoted to serving the community's spiritual denies ations are alarmed by these controversies. not only are they dangerous. with us mean those in the giddy heads an umbrella group representing hindu holy man he is urging devoted to be cautious and sensible his organization has taken the un preset into step of releasing a list of fake groups including good meat romber him say. these

days any time. there's a guru sitting there with a laptop people call in saying i'm not married. i'm getting sick. if you are sick go see a doctor if you're not getting married go look for a partner and you get married what's concerning for us is how to break this kind of blind faith that people have in today's world there's no astrologer ah guru who can solve problems with the press of a button all of this is just to make fools out of people. it's age advice but in india belief runs deep. even. despite his father's mierda and his struggle for justice he says

his faith remains unshakable. god is in the truth whoever is with the truth of god is with him. business. going to get the.

business. going.

again. at least twenty. six. presidential election. clearing kings of. all the action from the asian games later this news hour. the rebels in yemen say at least thirty people have been killed in an airstrike by the side of the amorality coalition at least twenty of the victims said to be children the rebels blamed warplanes from the coalition the strike happened in the camp and then the displaced people in. while human rights watch has

criticized the lead panel investigating alleged war crimes in yemen the group looked into the panel's work over the past two years and found that the investigations lacked credibility transparency and independence most of the time the coalition concluded it acted lawfully or made a mistake or did not carry out a reported attack and investigators failed to provide redress to civilian victims but let's get more on this now we're joined by christine bacco yemen researcher at human rights watch and she's live for us in beirut very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so the report says the investigations are deeply flawed have dubious shortcomings tell us more about how the saudis are failing to investigate themselves. so first of all thank you for having me basically you would be human rights watch did is the u.s. and the u.k. and other coalition allies have repeatedly pointed to the coalition's investigative

body as evidence that the coalition is serious about minimizing civilian harm so what human rights watch did is we went and we looked and said ok what has this coalition investigative body actually done and if you review the statements that that body has put out publicly in the vast majority of attacks it is clear the coalition of any legal liability and i think perhaps more damning is that it paints a very different picture than the one we see on the. around that the one yemeni groups are reporting on human rights watch amnesty and others are reporting on in terms of the absolute devastation that coalition airstrikes continue to cause and the many coalition airstrikes that appear to not only violate the was laws of war but be potential war crimes so why then they investigate themselves that. it's a good question i mean so first of all international law requires states to credibly investigate allegations of war crimes so the thing is what we're basically saying is the members of the coalition saudi arabia the u.a.e. other states are failing in that international legal obligations so they set up

this body and said ok this body is going to look at what the coalition has done in past attacks unfortunately what that body has done is really primarily help shield coalition states from any form of accountability and when i say that what i mean is say for example the coalition's investigative body says ok you know what the coalition unintentionally targeted this well or partially damaged this residential complex even in those statements they don't say saudi arabia carry out the attack the united arab emirates carry out the attack have any steps been taken to ensure that those states hold potential war criminals accountable so really what we're seeing is you have this investigative body that says it's credibly investigating but is in fact not at all in accepted except a sort of substitute for the states themselves actually carrying out credible investigation so given all of that you did mention that human rights watch and they see international carry out investigations but what about other international organizations like the united nations are they doing so too and if the saudi and

the coalition isn't being held to account for these massive civilian deaths who will hold them to account. so that's a great question and basically what we're saying in our report is that given the record of the coalition over the past two years other paths towards justice need to be pursued and that can happen in a couple of ways so one like you mentioned the u.n. . states should absolutely do is renew and strengthen the mandate of a un inquiry into yemen crimes and that you an inquiry looks at both coalition crimes and crimes carried out by other warring parties in yemen so that should absolutely continue the second way in which we can really see accountability move forward is basically if coalition allies actually step up so for more than two years the u.s. and the u.k. and others that kind of said ok coalition investigate yourselves but what our report shows is that's not at all adequate in terms of birth sponsor when for example a bus filled with kids is bombed again in yemen so what we're calling on coalition

allies to do like the u.s. and the u.k. is to finally stop selling weapons to saudi arabia until the coalition actually does credibly investigate actually does end unlawful attacks and actually does pay redress to the many civilian victims who deserve it most because it's very good to get. more on the on that human rights watch report with you thank you for your time that is christine beckel joining us live from favorite thank you. let's move on to other news now and australia has a new prime minister after malcolm turnbull was dumped by his party his former treasurer scott morrison has been sworn in as these thicks leader and eighty is where he defeated peter dutton who was the driving force behind a move to remove turnbull. we have a lot of challenges as a country and we will get through them as we always have to give them now. as we forward this new model of leadership as

a new generation. is to ensure that we not only bring now party back together which is believe bruised and battered this week but that. to ensure we bring the parliament back together. that we can continue to work to ensure that our country studies close together. well let's get more on this now a correspondent kathy novak is joining us live from sydney so what is going on in the ruling liberal party kathy did turnbull's energy policy cost him the job was he too moderate for the more right wing in the party. i think it's a bit of both of those the there had been some disputes over policy most recently energy turnbull had to appease some of those in the right wing of the party who wanted to scale back government action on climate change and pull out of some of the commitments for example around the paris agreement but more broadly it really was factional infighting within the government turnbull represents

a more moderate wing of the party he came to power by pushing out the conservative prime minister tony abbott back in twenty fifteen and there are many conservatives who simply don't like malcolm turnbull who found him too moderate and wanted instead to install a more conservative leader they had hoped that would be peter dutton the former immigration minister who challenged tony abbott pardon me with malcolm turnbull earlier in the week initially lost that first vote on tuesday another one was called here today but instead it was the former treasurer scott morrison who ended up emerging as the victor and he is seen as more conservative then malcolm turnbull but still not the man that the conservatives had back in this vote elizabeth and so one of the scott morrison with the new leadership the more white swing the liberals are now in power what are you saying that means cathy for australian policy on key

issues like energy like immigration. well that remains to be seen because coming to this vote scott morrison really had been on malcolm turnbull's side he had been backing malcolm turnbull to remain in his position as prime minister when peter dutton first mounted the challenge so there is an argument that now that maurice than has come out on top that perhaps there will be some of the same that we saw under malcolm turnbull well when he spoke in his first news conference he talked about some areas for example addressing the drought keeping australia's economy strong and he said that there would be an change in areas where it's needed but continuity in other side from policy i think the real challenge for scott morrison will be uniting this fracture of the liberal party and also convincing the australian voters to reelect this government in less than a year or straightly and really don't like seeing these all too common changes at

the top job to give you some context my brother is thirty one and he has never voted in an election where the prime minister has seen through the full term on the other end of the spectrum there are five year olds in this country who have lived through five prime ministers so now scott morrison will have to say to us truly and after this leadership challenge that he is the prime minister to provide stability for australia going forward kathy thank you very much for that finale that is like correspondent kathy novak she is live in sydney thank you. well malcolm turnbull is the fourth sitting astride and prime minister to be thrown out of office and twenty ten just before that is elections then labor leader kevin rudd was replaced by his deputy. raj ri took the leadership problem in june twenty said teen that his party was big and then that is election by the liberals led by tony abbott abbott then lost a leadership challenge to malcolm turnbull and september twenty fifth dean ebony

bennett as deputy director of the astray institute that's it. public policy think tank and she says turnbull's resignation could force and early election. so at the moment the term of the greatest total government had a very slim majority are one. wentworth which our former prime minister malcolm turnbull's in new south wales very well to do he's out at very comfortably for very many years but if he does resign and go to you know byelection at the indignant then that really does put a threat. new prime minister scott morrison ability to form a government it is a safe state by elections and tories sleep difficult for sitting governments here in australia and it would not be unheard of if a very good independent candidate where to raise their hand could say what was once a safe liberal state go to

a prominent independent or indeed to the electors of wentworth could register their protest as the prime minister being unceremoniously dumped by these are in a political party and choose to vote in someone else as a protest vote but things look very difficult here for the new prime minister scott morris and the numbers are very precarious and the liberal party is not prepared for a federal election at this stage that we're doing everything that they can to try and hold that possibility off but they have got members of great nebel the national committee we've been they've got men in coalition threatening to move to the cross so very difficult still very unstable and strains will be asking themselves what if anything has changed or what are we gaining out of this change in the prime ministership. to uganda now a musician turned off as a politician bobby wright has been charged with treason he was rearrested just minutes after being freed by

a military court where he'd been accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying president seventy catherine sort of a.