from dillard in june two thousand and thirteen but his party was beaten in that year's election by the liberals led by tony abbott well then lost the leadership challenge mark turmel in september two thousand and fifteen malcolm turnbull now plans to resign from parliament forcing a byelection ebony bennett is deputy director of the strainer institute a public policy think tank she says turnbull's resignation could force an early election. so at the moment the terms of the greatest temple government had a very slim majority are one. wentworth which he is our former prime minister malcolm turnbull's state 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 a byelection at these indicating it then that really does put at threat. new prime minister scott morrison and ability to form a government it is

a safe state byelection senatorial sleep difficult for sitting governments here in australia and it would not be unheard of if a very good independent candidate way 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 morrison 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 for example the national committee we've been they've got men in coalition threatening to move to the crossbench so very difficult still very unstable and australians be asking

themselves what if anything has changed or what are we gaining out of this change in the prime ministership. turkey's foreign minister is warning a murderous solution in the syrian province of idlib would be a disaster he made the comment after meeting the russian foreign minister in moscow syrian government forces are sending reinforcements to surrounded the last remaining rebel held province the military has been on the move in neighboring hama and aleppo the government is also dropping leaflets urging people not to resist them on the go she is with rebel groups are said to be happening one of the most powerful heya to hear the show is promising to fight until the end still had allowed to serial killers worst floods in a century send more than a million into shelters by mentalists believe it could have been avoided and preparing for the worst why braces for the impact of hurricane lane.

hello again well this i want to take you to the not the parsons of asia of course we have been watching two storm systems of the last couple of days i want to take you over here towards japan this is cimarron and this is what cimarron did as it made its way across parts of japan now the storm system is weakening it is now a tropical storm but still we did see quite a bit of storm surge flooding and rain across this area things will be improving for japan expression the central portions of the sram over the next few days and that is some good news there out here towards the west this is soo look making its way out of the korean peninsula that storm system is still going to bring some very heavy rain showers up here towards eastern china as well as the russian maritimes as we go from saturday but into sunday those storm systems really begin to dissipate and we're only left with some rain showers down here across the south

down here across taiwan though we have been seeing some very very heavy rain over the last twenty four hours that all due to a brand new tropical depression right there now this is still going to bring some very heavy rain and we're going to be watching very carefully because the flooding has been very significant and that area forecast map looks like this see the area circulation right there here is on saturday not really moving too much and as we move towards sunday the system moves up slightly but very heavy rain across much of the area hong kong partly cloudy to mostly cloudy days with rain at thirty five. yeah there's nothing intrinsically linked to the slave trade and well you know i'm consistent and insurance company there's no way to separate that kind of terror from the labor on the plantation from the profits that lou produced. ass in europe industrialized slavery and amassed it's great wealth resistance they can take full

. from sugar to rebellion episode to have slavery when it's on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching out zero 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 who feed media say it happened in her day the province a new human rights watch report says the saudi led coalition's investigations into a larger war crimes lack credibility. australia has a new prime minister after malcolm turnbull lost his second leadership challenge in a week former treasurer scott morrison has been sworn in as the sixth leader in

eight years turnbull says he'll quit politics which would force a by election and could see the ruling liberal party lose its majority. zimbabwe's highest court is set to rule on the opposition's challenge to the result of last month's presidential election m.d.c. alliance me the nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of president anderson and then god was. nearly a million people remain displaced from their homes in the southern indian state of carola as it recovers from the worst floods in a century many are now questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided if there's andrew thomas reports from the town of karbala some blame overdevelopment and mismanagement. hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but how that troll was carolyn'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 i agree we did this to do it another way the flood plains in the form of paddy was 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 so. seem to have made it worse andrew thomas al-jazeera. the outer bands of hurricane lane have breached why people in honolulu have been warned to expect flooding and landslides the

hurrican has been downgraded but it's still packing winds of up to two hundred ten kilometers an hour schools and universities have been closed and emergency shelters already j. gray is in honolulu let's give you an update on conditions here in honolulu right now we've seen the wind intensify at times the search been growing for hours here the rain's been on and off we're getting a break from it right now but this system has slowed down a bit and that means the worst of conditions from hurricane lane we will feel those here for quite some time across the island chain though we've seen severe flooding that a result of driving range as well as a bit of storm surge and winds of not downed power lines so you've got some without power here and it's a situation that's going to continue for the next several days here this is a huge and slow moving storm at this point if here once the rain begins in earnest we expect to see it for one four to thirty six hours if that's the case

we're going to see severe flooding in some of the low lying areas officials warning those who are writing this to make sure they have enough food water and medicine for fourteen days it could take teams a full two weeks to get into some of those hardest hit areas. the un is calling on latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing venezuela's deepening economic crisis a call came after a neighboring accord or in peru announced tightened requirements for venezuelans they will now need valid passports when as well as were previously allowed to come in with just their id cards our latin america editor lucy newman is in the venezuelan capital caracas. this is sandra angeles's last day at her home in her working class caracas neighborhood she sold everything possible and packed the rest she and her sister her two daughters and therefore small children prepare to abandon israel. 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 you know what. 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 an 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 but hell 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 from one they bought a month ago at four hundred and forty now they have to pay eight hundred eighty one 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 and. 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. all of those who missed a behind the tragedy that taking place every single day in every corner of venezuela. you see in human al-jazeera got back. police in argentina raided homes owned by former president cristina kirchner they're investigating widespread corruption involving former government ministers and top businessmen and the corruption officers are following leads from the notebook of a former chauffeur alleged to contain details of bribes ukraine's military is putting on a show of force to mark twenty seven years of independence from the soviet union

u.s. national security advisor john bolton is attending after talks with russia he's expected to discuss the war in the rebel held east with president petro poroshenko the conflict has killed more than ten thousand people since it began in two thousand and fourteen at least one hundred fifty people are stuck on a coast guard ship after being refused entry into italy the interior minister is calling those on board illegal immigrants he wants he won't allow them to set foot on italian soil he wants other european union nations to take in the refugees. an investigation in arizona has found that u.s. border patrol is under reporting the number of migrant deaths activists in the fischel suspend years compiling a so-called death map the darter is being used to help identify those those who have died trying to cross the us mexico border and the guy has more from tucson.

head north we're going to hit this site for years alvarado enciso has been scouring the sonoran desert with one goal in mind the colombian born artist wants to expose its secrets by honoring the dead along with a team of volunteers alvarez planted six hundred crosses each represents a life lost on a deadly frontier. when the families see that because there's somebody here that cares doing this to sort of give them a little bit of a voice to the casualties to the fallen heroes you know that the me they are fallen heroes do come all the way from there to leave everything behind the to look for a better life here it's it's quite a journey that should be. then aerated in some way alvarez works inspired by arizona's so-called death map it's a joint project between state officials and activists that shows close to three thousand people have died in the last fifteen years this does it covers an area of

more than a quarter of a million square kilometers in the summertime temperatures exceed one hundred degrees at night it gets very cold and yet those seeking a better life continue to try and cross and they continue to lose their lives what's happening here in the borderlands of arizona is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis you can see we have some of the long bones from floor strategies and we have portions of the power of us around one in three of those found to go unidentified but karnow gregory has who helped develop the map wants to change that you have somebody is missing and people are looking for them clearly that provide can provide a sense of closure if they are found even if it is kind of tragic but it also provides us a sense of satisfaction to try to answer those questions for families activists say was the number of illegal crossings has fallen migrants are being forced to take bigger risks this is the consequence of paramilitary techniques being used overseas . thousand years of death mapping what we see people are dying closer to the

international line and farther from towns and roads we are literally pushing people to their death sonoran desert has a secret three thousand people have died here two thousand are missing overall will continue to plant crosses in the desert but says he doesn't have enough to pay tribute to those who lost their lives and a guy like rogers era tucson arizona hundreds of young people are taking part in a chicago basketball tournament hoops in the hood aims to provide its peace and 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 on al-jazeera now a saudi led panel investigating a legit war crimes in yemen is being accused of lacking credibility and independence the human rights watch criticism has emerged as another restaurant raises questions about the targets of the saudi u.a.e. coalition who threw rebels say at least thirty people were killed in that strike me a data at least twenty of them children they blamed warplanes from the coalition the strike happened near i can't for internally displaced people. 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 in a ceremony at government house in cambra he defeated challenge of peter dutton who is the driving force behind of move to oust. 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 is 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 judges in zimbabwe's highest court or about to begin delivering their ruling on last month's presidential election and d.c. alliance leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of president emerson the magog war zanu p.f. leaders inauguration is being pursued by own did to the ruling. turkey's foreign minister is warning a military solution in the syrian province of it would be a disaster he made the comment after meeting the russian foreign minister in moscow syrian government forces are sending reinforcements to surround italy it's the last

remaining rebel held province. those your headlines news continues after inside stories stay with us. former u.s. presidential aides guilty of federal crimes as congressional elections draw closer how will it impact the midterms what would any change in congress mean for the world this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the show i'm sam is a damn it's been a bad week for donald trump starting with the conviction of his former campaign chairman paul man a full financial crimes and fraud then came the guilty plea by his former lawyer michael cohen who said he broke campaign finance laws on trump's orders but cohen's willingness to help them all or investigation could mean even bigger war is ahead for the u.s. president he denies he's done anything wrong and says cohen's making up stories will bring in our guests in a moment but first and the galaxy reports from washington d.c. . he once said he'd take a bullet to donald trump now michael cohen is offering to help an investigation the president has repeatedly called a witch hunt on tuesday don trump's longtime lawyer and fixer pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations cohen told the court he was directed by trump to make payments to two women he's alleged to have had affairs with cohen's lawyer says the

fifty one year old is now more than happy to help special counsel robert muller's investigation into alleged collusion between the trump campaign and russia my observation is that michael cohen knows information that would be of interest to the special counsel in my opinion regarding both knowledge about a conspiracy to corrupt american democracy by the russians robert maas investigation centers on a meeting between campaign aides in a russian delegation that promised to dish political dirt on hillary clinton cohen's lawyer has indicated his client has direct knowledge of the meeting with claims don trump knew it was happening something the president denied of the president knew about it and there is other evidence in addition to michael cohen just basically saying it on his own then the president at this point could be one his way when a very fast pace to impeachment at the first press briefing since cohen's appearance in court so how could be sanders says the president has nothing to hide

as the president has stated on numerous occasions he did nothing wrong there are no charges against him and this just because michael cohen made a plea deal doesn't mean that implicates the president. on the same day cohen pled guilty in new york the president's former campaign manager paul manifold was found guilty on eight charges of tax and bank fraud both cases sprang from a list team leading one republican to say it's proof miller's investigation is anything but a witch hunt democrats say trump's legal woes are far from over to take a step back. president trump's campaign manager was convicted of federal crimes president transpersonal attorney pled guilty to federal crimes president trump's first national security advisor pled guilty to federal crimes a foreign policy adviser to his campaign pled guilty to federal crimes and more trials are coming these two cases may now be the biggest threat to donald trump's presidency cohen's lawyer says his client is now liberated to speak truth to power

and there are unconfirmed reports cohen has tapes from space will remain loyal but with november's midterm elections approaching the stakes have never been higher and he gallacher al-jazeera at the white house. well let's bring in our panel we have joining us from london james boys an analyst on u.s. politics in lubbock texas we're joined by all of a maggie on skype he's an advisor at the national diversity coalition for trump and in brussels steven erlanger who's also on skype the chief diplomatic correspondent for europe at the new york times welcome to you all if i could start with stephen have the last few days been a turning point in terms of the vulnerability of the white house yes i think they have no this is a story that has a long way to go but this is the first time that president trump has been quite

clearly implicated in a crime it's personal lawyer is considerably airy if you like but knows where a lot of the secrets are kept. pled guilty and testified that he had committed a crime of instigation and in coordination with the president of the united states but they are not let me say i mean i'm going to turn as our show you know trump supporters would argue he hasn't been charged himself trump hasn't been charged themselves not why does this make him vulnerable then. well we don't indict sitting presidents but i'll tell you if he wasn't a sitting president he probably would have been indicted ok i can see oliver is shaking his head in horror i'm sure he has something different to say about this go ahead all of our. whole heartedly agree with you it's very difficult to indict a president who's done nothing there's no collusion collusion isn't a crime it's

a wink wink nod nod or hang on oliver let me think it leave interrupted we don't know yet that he hasn't done anything we can only say so far the investigation is ongoing we can only say so far no charges have been brought or accusations leveled against him right. the investigation is going on for five hundred days still no collusion has been found we basically are basically indicting everyone else in the world except for implicating donald trump this is a man who is basically campaigning that for. dozens of campaigns every forty eight hours to ten thousand people he was speaking in front of cameras when did he have time to collude with the russians not at all he was too busy beating hillary clinton in the campaign and he was out on the road so this is very difficult to kind of make that stretch into colluding with apparent power when he wasn't in charge of the united states so i think that's a reach for the democrats i think they're overstepping i think they have over comp despite all the bias and i think there's a quite silent majority in america they're saying we're going to go to the polls in

two thousand and eighteen in a few days and we're going to vote like we were putting in two thousand and sixteen because right now this election is about enough i think all of a you kind of an all right let stephen come back and then we'll go through james' point. the michael cohen case had nothing to do with russia the michael cohen case have to do with paying off two women for their silence so that donald trump as the republican candidate was not embarrassed during the election campaign rushes an entirely different issue cohen accuses trump of instigating a crime about campaign finance russia is another matter and which we can talk about that is exactly the point i was going to raise thank you for doing it with even let me say that's five let's take it on a step forward though and ask the question to james in london i think where we're

going now with this discussion is the question that if the president's lawyer eggs lawyer is now facing jail time for doing something that he says he did on the orders of donald trump can donald trump at some point face charges himself. you know what's interesting i think about how both robert mueller is building this case and have donald trump is responding to it all the interesting overtures to how one would build and respond to a case in investing get it regarding organized crime so we see it going after the lower level individuals getting convictions against them then facing serious jail time and then them to use donald trump's words flipping against their higher ups that's exactly how criminal cases are built against organized crime organizations and now don't have a course has come out and praised. for staying silent and

attacked. the chap for basically basically spilling the beans and and talking about the situation. how his face don't trump legally well as he pointed out under the constitution and d.o.j. guidelines united states simply doesn't indict a sitting president but we're no longer to be presidents either through his resignation his impeachment and removal from office or is eventual stepping down from the presidency at the end of one or two terms he could then face legal jeopardy if indeed there is evidence to bring to court after that time period you raise the ire you were there impeachment let me take it back to all of those the real threat to the president from all of this perhaps. tied to what happens in november if the republicans lose the control of congress does this open the door for proceedings against the u.s. president within congress. i think the democrats are overreaching about the twenty

eight thousand midterms i think that we're going to see a very big surprise what's interesting about this upcoming midterm election is this is going to be about donald trump not on the ticket but he is going to be on the ticket i think voters on the trump side are going to go. just like they did in two thousand and sixteen a silent majority and they're going to vote straight down the g.o.p. ticket because they don't know what's happening they know this is a witch hunt they know that this is a state news they know that this is basically basically just i. think it was brought in by the hillary clinton campaign who said she was going to accept the election as it was and now we're into a russian collusion delusion right now but also we're now gone into five hundred days investigation to all kinds of given for camping and again all of us so just to clarify what you mean when you say it's a witch hunt there's already been admissions of guilt are you saying that the u.s. justice system is politicized it is not fair the conveying the charges brought

against manifold the guilty plaiting by cohen himself all of that is a political witch hunt. sammy what i'm saying that this is a political persecution not a proper prosecution this is designed for a stage in the court of public opinion and then to basically demolishing the u.s. justice system although no i'm not polished you know u.s. justice system i believe in the u.s. justice system but i also know how can it be a political witch hunt and it can be a credible justice system at the same time explain that to all of you i know what. well we know from supporters we know what the miller best occasion is this is a witch hunt we know that basically is trying to go into tangency that someone's trying to prosecute you stabbing and they can find anything they can find anything the base prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich so that's essential what we've got is no way to get depressed that could defend himself and not get nowhere nor can trump supporters so we're not paying attention to it we're just simply stand this is enough is enough we're going

to vote straight down the ticket for donald trump in the g.o.p. and that's when we're going to preserve his presidency i really and i think trump supporters do as well they find it insulting that they want to impeach this president just merely because he beat hillary clinton that is not going to work so i think we're all going to wait in a few days the election see another surprise if the democrats were smart they would basically play it cool and they were basically let their base come out and vote vote straight up and all of a sudden you could have a flip in the congress and house but they always do that in midterms but given this type of emotional trumped arrangement central going to take place we're going to come out and grow some are just going to simply go in resistance to what is happening in the media right now against the g.o.p. let me take your vision of what's going to happen in the elections to stephen do you see it that way do you think any of these issues that the convictions the guilty pleadings the scandals is any of that going to impact the trauma base in midterm elections do you.