less than a year before that mars in government which has a majority of just one seat is likely to have another electoral test. malcolm turnbull says he'll leave parliament soon triggering a byelection for his electorate kathy novak al jazeera sydney well as i mentioned earlier malcolm turnbull became the fourth astronomy and prime minister to be removed from office since twenty ten well just before that year's elections then labor leader kevin rudd was replaced by his deputy julia raj re took the leadership in june twenty third teen but his party was beaten and that year's election by the liberals led by tony abbott abbott then lost a leadership challenge to turnbull and september twenty fifteen turnbull now plans to resign from palm and forcing a byelection every bennett as deputy director of the astray it institutes a public policy think tank and she says turnbull's resignation could force an early election. so there at the moment the term of the great eternal government had

a very slim majority are one. wentworth which 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 and if he does resign and go to a byelection at these indicating it then that really does equip actors read the order of the. new prime minister has got marston's ability to form a government it is a safe state by elections and the tories 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 going to a prominent independent or indeed the electors of wentworth could register their protest at 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 the numbers are very precarious and the liberal party is not credible election at this stage they'll be doing everything that they had to try and hold that possibility off but they have got members of for example the national party weeping they've got men in coalition threatening to marriage to the crossbench so very difficult still very unstable and australians will be asking themselves what if anything has changed or what would be gaining out of this change in the prime ministership. but plenty more ahead on the news hour including carol as the worst floods in a century sent more than a million people into shelters and environmentalist's believe it could have been avoided. preparing for the worst why braces for the impact of hurricane lane. force and the news as host of the asian games has the country dreaming of the

olympics will be here with more. ugandan judge has ordered that musician turned politician bobby wine be allowed medical treatment the opposition politician is charged with treason is accused of inciting his supporters to attack a convoy carrying president yarima seventy catherine sawyer reports from compiler. this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see you wind up popular musician and member of parliament appeared as a military court in the north and town of 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 montacute was attacked the state withdrew the military leaders charges of possession of firearms and ammunition you are poorly served through. out of georgia.

it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not truly free in the future grain two hundred and they're arresting him now he was immediately taken to a magistrate's court where he was charged with treason with intent to move harm to the passing of the president of the republic or uganda i don't know fully. understand moved towards them. and smile she. the real when screwed over the prison. in kampala the government deployed police and soldiers in some parts of the city that are seen as hot spots including where we are right now but trying to prevent people from gathering or trying to get to their town center security forces also blocked several opposition politicians from leaving that. jan opposition leader who has been

arrested and detained often over the years was again taken by police he had talked to the media cutting off spinning people cutting off forty million people. so. the most what. we what. the magistrate in gulu ordered that wind 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 are also charged with treason. all the while he supporters in cheered him on the winterland and tell us from catherine sawyer al-jazeera. the un has quote in latin american countries to ease entry for thousands of fleeing venezuela's deepening economic crisis the call came after

neighboring ecuador and announced new entry requirements for venezuelans that made passports whereas before they only needed their national id is a latin america editor lucien 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 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 madeira destroyed it we're leaving half of our

family behind our family is now 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 the. note 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 will stay behind the tragedy that's taking place every single day in every corner of the news we. see in human al-jazeera kodak. well let's get more on the situation now we're joined by vanessa neumann she's a latin america and of the stern sea of asymmetric and that's a political risk consultancy and she's joining us live from washington d.c. mr newman always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so a devastating situation for venezuelans the government has introduced a range of financial measures in the past week new currency the cryptocurrency increase in salaries reducing fuel subsidies will any of these measures make a difference or help do you think no quite the contrary i have a told friends of mine who who live live in the neighboring countries like colombia and brazil to expect you know a spike in the exit is because if you saw the reaction right after the announcement of these so-called economic plan which will get into my mind is an absolute

incineration of what little was left of honest one economy for various reasons we expect that people were confused they immediately started shattering their small businesses they closed the shops they were quiet from the streets and we expect that they're sort of packing up and going to start leaving even even a hearty ring in the even greater numbers if it's not going to help the situation at all is president losing support now among you know the socialist base that have this does. well he has to be so that in the ruling coalition was always sort of a mixture of parties you had like military and nonmilitary you had some you know former socialist and communist and ideologues the ideologues have a long time have parted ways with him some of even joined some of the opposition coalitions and even the ones that he did manage to keep you know the you have a lot of infighting the problem is this part of the economic plan which is not an economic plan because

a friend of mine said you might as well compare that you might as well peg the currency to unicorns i mean a crypto currency that's mine by them that's dependent on a future barrel of oil that won't be gotten out of the ground is just fantasy it's not a real economic plan but you know what one of the aspects that will also erode military support for him is the getting away of the arbitrage opportunity of all the different currency exchanges by sort of devaluing and trying to bring together the different currency exchanges he actually uses one of the main ways of illicit finance that has got loan not quite illicit finance that has kept the military going which is foreign exchange arbitrage so. we expect that you know the inflation will continue to spike possibly even over the one million percent that the i.m.f. said the exit is will continue to spike and the question is you know will will

sometimes a greater parts of the military. you know rebel against him now because of because of the forex measures listening in on flushing that is all the time we have today but we thank you very much for your time and you analysis on this one less than human life in washington d.c. thank you. thank you very much. now police in argentina have raided homes owned by former president cristina kirchner they're investigating widespread corruption and involving former government ministers and top businessmen anti corruption offices the following leads from the not work of a former chauffeur it's alleged to contain details of bribes. now to india where nearly a million people remain displaced from their homes in the state of carola as it recovers from the worst floods in a century many are now questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided as andrew thomas reports from the town of karbala and some blame overdevelopment and the mismanagement of reservoirs. hundreds of people have died more than

a million fled their homes but how that trip was kara's disaster the quantity of rain 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 but. claiming that he was and what plans for other uses that is an automated thing which agree with the situation either way though for the form of pride he was on about plants would have begun to accommodate on morsels of water. the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish clocking rivers stopping them flowing faster freely 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 with a collective capacity of nearly seven trillion liters of water they are managed primarily for hydro electricity production and irrigation for farmers when the operators are reluctant to let the water. 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 it's 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 the dams never happened before if we know too much rain is coming dams should release the waters 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 and

written us al-jazeera. now the outer bands of hurricane lane have reached hawaii people in honolulu have been one to explain flooding and landslides the hurricane has been downgraded but it's still packing winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour schools and universities have been closed a gray has more from 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 is 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 is here once the rain begins in

earnest we expect to see it for twenty 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 riding this out 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. well it's time for the when and how it can lay not making landfall but still a major threat kevin that's right category three right now it is getting very close to making a curve but it's very going to be close to land in this area so let's take a look what we are seeing here is a satellite image i want to put this into motion for you notice of the storm even though it's down towards the south a lot of the feeder bands are already producing quite a bit of rain across the region as a matter of fact we are seeing excessive amounts of rain on the island of hawaii in hilo four hundred thirty two millimeters of rain have fallen over the last forty two hours and we have seen eight hundred eighteen millimeters of rain just the last

forty eight hours so flash flooding downed trees mudslides landslides across the region and because the storm is moving so slowly it's only moving to the north at about eight kilometers that means it's going to be raining over this area for quite a long period of time now this is the track we expect to see with the storm making its way north and then turning to the west but until it actually turns to the west where there's still a little bit of uncertainty and what we're going to be seeing actually a couple of the models the european model as well as the american model actually disagree with the direction of this so until that turn actually happens we need to be watching this very very carefully over the next few days and as they said we are looking at flash flood warnings and watches across much of the area hurricane watches and warnings as well and this is going to be going on at least through monday. thank you very much kevan still ahead on the news hour signs of more trouble in saudi arabia's economy as it tries to move away from its dependence on

oil exports medical workers now need the gods to combat the worst hit areas and the democratic republic of congo and. to maintain one of sports and longest records is here with that story. whether on line this isn't some abstract fish eating into their shops or if you join us on sect stopping terrorism it's creating a base is a dialogue then just the community is want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be a villain in a short while everyone has a voice in civil society but i never get listening by those in the corridors of joining the global conversation. on how to zero.

goes hand in hand with growing old. refusing to be defined by mexican women and bringing out their dancing. and rediscovering their use in one step at a time. to be part of the viewfinder and latin america. this time. on the al-jazeera news salad days or. top stories zimbabwe's highest court is delivering its ruling on the opposition's challenge to last month's presidential election result and d.c.

alliance leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of president and the same money. the a morality coalition air strike near a camp to displaced people in the game and has reportedly killed at least thirty put the media say it happened in one day the province meanwhile a new human rights watch report says the saudi led coalition's investigations into alleged war crimes lack credibility and 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. now saudi arabia is reportedly looking to borrow money from international banks to help stabilize its economy according to the financial times of the others seeking eleven billion dollars in loans the decision comes after plans to list at say to owned oil company in the stock market were delayed crown prince mohammed bin model is looking to use the new revenue to launch economic reforms including investing in high tech companies like tesla aramco this thought

to be the world's largest oil company but a drop in oil prices and the war in yemen have affected saudis economy well let's get more on this now we're joined by the editor in chief of the national interest that's the current affairs analysis news website and he's joining us live from london this is always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so it was listing shares in iran called that it needs to borrow money what's going on in saudi arabia how much trouble is the economy in. i think what we have to remember first and foremost is the context to which the i.p.o. was originally announced it was technically designed to build confidence to show the world that nothing is off limits that side really is genuinely sincere it's the suits for diversification so i think it wanted to leverage this particular piggy bank it was also designed to garner support from donald trump or to help boost up foreign policy by dangling around potentially being this that in the new york stock

exchange since however that not with of i.p.o. things have changed once the oil prices have started to go back up as opposed to being low as they were before but also saudi arabia finds that donald trump is having more and more the message trouble and that their foreign policy that they built around him is now under threat in other words it doesn't want to give up a stake in it state secrets and a stake in it because the cash cow to anybody it was to be able to navigate the difficulties that it faces let's remember that in pakistan they often ally in the washer event in iran kind of become prime minister they brought an ally in the g. runs like in malaysia and now they have allotted one and who is revamping this particular foreign policy but also one of the cement the crown prince of saudi arabia faces if they don't mystic trouble at this swath of political imprisoned prison as for a subset of how it is that men are all there all of them got any advantage the police who cemented their wish all of these other various religious authorities who

have lamented wildebeest segment dr who was a liberalization of the particular society one of the cement doesn't want to press saudi society to heart a decision of this scale of this magnitude of the iraq war i feel could have severe ramifications for mohammedan segment domesticity and also the probably the most important fact in all of this is that there was a stark difference in valuation of a radical the saudis want to get closer to two trillion whereas everybody else will see that it will probably only amount of a trillion or perhaps run. you know if you get the saudis are very upset at the valuations that they were receiving so at the end of the day if they're not going to get the money that they want for al gore why would you vote for i don't just get loans and i'm going to give you ways and so now that they're going to ask our international banks to borrow some eleven billion dollars even though saudi arabia has one of the biggest sovereign wealth funds in the world how much would you say sell these troubles right now because of those domestic issues that you mentioned

and how much of their was are related to their foreign policy and their to their foreign policy. i think what is difficult to ascertain is whether the saudis were ever really genuine in listing around co in new york or in singapore anyway really were and whether this was merely a p.r. stunt in order to encourage investment the reality is that with trump wavering in the us sally really isn't sure what the future looks like because a democratic president or an obama as president would probably be profitable and you'll probably be anti saudi of foreign policy and request reforms to saudi arabia without giving anything in exchange i think this is the key issue that goes to oracle saudi doesn't feel good enough in exchange this still severe scrutiny on issues such as yemen this deal severe scrutiny on its domestic issues on the imprisonments that it feels is necessary in order to force through those reforms and it also feels that international allies are not committed to the reforms in

saudi arabia and the proof is that for them it's canada which is unable to turn a blind eye to what saudi arabia sees as necessary measures in order to keep society in check if it's going to push through these particular reforms so i think with regard to saudi it's a very difficult position and now when it looks around itself it thinks nor should i give up my main weapon which is around go and with oil prices started to go up should i give that up to foreign investors to foreign markets to foreign governments who might seek to invest in it or should i keep that to myself should i protect the state secrets as to how much reserves i actually add remember articles and operate we have organizations and the requirements of new york would require them to release information that saudi arabia doesn't want to release do i really want to give this i give this up i think one of the segment now is in a situation whereby he's seeking to adapt his foreign policy but he doesn't know how to do it all right has to have dinner i feel is part of this drive us to have they would thank you as always for your time and your expertise unfortunately we have run out of time that a sami haven't they joining us live from london thank you. now turkey's foreign

minister is warning that a military solution in the syrian province of idlib be a disaster he made the comment after meeting the russian foreign minister in moscow meanwhile syrian government forces are sending reinforcements to surround the last remaining rebel held province the military has been on the move in neighboring hama and the government is also dropping leaflets urging people not to resist meanwhile negotiations with the rebel groups are said to be taking place but one of the most powerful that. has promised to fight till the end. the u.n. has been forced to start using armed escorts to get into a bowl affected areas of the democratic republic of congo the latest outbreak was declared in north kivu province on the first of all the rest so far sixty three people have died and seventy six have been infected ballasts has the latest. this is a united nations video of

a thirteen year old boy. the youth the center of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. is also a conflict zone journalists can't get in safely so the u.n. says. they all died of ebola was my entire family was my mom an issue we and then my sisters in answer followed and others in the hospital i've lost family members again. this month ebola has spread from the town of mingora across two provinces and is now in six locations the area sits stage four on the un security scale stage five is evacuees immediately. requires a daily risk assessment of how to reach people who vaccinations investigations and psychosocial here fifty three children have been orphaned and. can't just kill myself i must continue to live even in this situation. the world health

organization has one hundred fifty staff and east india say this week for the first time health workers used a military escort to reach a town where a doctor had died of a bowler because which is almost entirely surrounded by one of the main insurgency groups called the a.d.f. on pretty much all sides of the town and there's been many security issues including. civilian deaths. the a.d.f. or allied democratic forces is a ugandan rebel group it's feiss ambushed a un base in december killing fifteen peacekeepers. where the a.d.f. is the un isn't which opens up blind spots for ebola detection and treatment. but where conflict is complicating the response science is helping us for forty years ebola has been incurable with a fifty percent fatality rate but now a breakthrough more than a dozen people are being successfully treated with two experimental drugs another

three treatments have been approved for use the decision is made of which drug to use based on the condition of the patient the informed consent of the patient and a group of clinicians who are advising the treating finnish a physician. thirteen hundred others have been vaccinated immunizing populations against ebola has only become routine this year proving successful in an earlier outbreak some two thousand kilometers away whiston border province of a quick tour but the concern remains health workers can immunize against ebola but not against the threats of an active conflicts. ballasts al-jazeera. now a logical i will study published in the lancet medical journal says there is no safe level of alcohol consumption a previous research death suggested the round one drink. a day for women and two

for. men could protect against heart disease but the new study of alcohol use in one hundred and ninety five countries found that even an occasional glass of wine or beer increases the risk of health problems or dying the reporter attributes two point eight million premature deaths worldwide each year to alcohol and of found that an average of two drinks a day led to a seven percent rise in disease that's compared to people who don't drink well let's get more on this now we're joined by max course wall the lead author of the study is from the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera thank you for your time so as we mentioned up until now we've had various studies that say you know light to moderate drinking reduces heart disease so what's changed well we heard both diabetes and heart disease which on occasion. but we also looked at a hoarder battery because it specifically cancer wide range of you know all

diseases and injuries and that when you get into consideration all of these factors there's no real benefit to drinking across the spectrum. it is said to be the most comprehensive study on the effects of alcohol ever so how do you think you know the world's two point four billion people i think who consume alcohol read this information. well i would hope any drink or study will consider cutting your consumption in half or just a little bit any amount can be hugely beneficial given the shape of the risk for it rises exponentially with consumption so we're very heavy drinker you'll see huge benefits by cutting down by a drink per day and if you're still drinking one drink per day you'll see huge benefits of the down as well and we talked about you know the sort of the risk of disease even from drinking wanted two glasses a day is. translated into a seven percent hike in disease so you know is that enough to.

do you think for people to make the decision to not drink control oh absolutely. not every year you have a seven out of one hundred cancer developing one is condition and when we look at the global population that's an immense amount of our the average male drinker it's now consuming around two drinks per day. do you expect mr griswold you know governments and health ministries to take all the information in this report i would certainly hope so a lot of recommendations don't say up to two drinks a day is good for your health you want to counter that a bit by really looking at the whole structure of the research that's. walt thank you very much for joining us on that is max of course walter the lead author of that report thank you. now an investigation in arizona has found that the u.s. border patrol u.s. border patrol is under reporting the number of migrant death activists and

officials have spent here is compiling a so-called death match the doctors being used to help identify those who died trying to cross the us mexico border and gallagher has more from tucson. north we're going to hit this site for years overall enciso has been scaring the sonoran desert with one goal in mind the colombian artist wants to expose its secrets by on or in the dead along with a team of volunteers alvarez planted six hundred crosses each represents a life lost on a deadly frontier. when the family because there's somebody here that cares i'm doing this to sort of give them a little bit of a voice to the casualties to the fallen heroes you know that to me they are fallen heroes to come all the way from there to leave everything behind the to look for a bit of light beer it's. quite a journey that should be.