supposes backed by russia and iran victory gate and be al jazeera still ahead here on the al-jazeera news a year after hurricane maria puerto rico's governor a dramatically higher death toll from the storm and its aftermath. also a heated political climate in france as the environment minister quits saying his government is failing to do enough. and in sport find out if this badminton rally ever gets the best of the action from the asian games coming up with cho so do stay with us here and i'll just. by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. as i was it still flooded of in the northeast of china as a legacy of the last tropical storm to go forward typhoon the current rain is

further sighs and briefly in this ness here there was a circulation that was named tropical storm was all for the partner just indicates how much energy there is there how much rain can fall out in taiwan possibly hong kong certainly in southern china back to cross the border into vietnam that's true for the next two days and the whole lot wants to push up towards from hans so we've not seen the end of the summer rains just yet but the concentration is probably still going to be in taiwan south of that so you don't expect therefore to see very much and you would be right this is a satellite picture revealing growing thunderstorms by day they are all there in borneo in sort of icy cross and sumatra but there's plenty of space between so it's as much sunny and humid as it is occasionally sundry forecasts why bring a shower into singapore again scott around cruising to the south to console look strong the whole of java looks dry soloway see maybe not so that takes at least. as

for the monsoon rains or the monsoon is retreating the rains of and should be everywhere to be arsed in the next day or so and still occasionally heavy. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. september on al-jazeera with the us mid-term elections just over two months away will explore the mood of the nation as american philip greatly britney on television and online this stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news sweden the country known as the happiest in the world has been shaken by a recent spike in violence and it's now preparing for a general election people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world. the main body of the united nations general assembly is to build its seventy third session we'll bring you all the updates september on al-jazeera.

al jazeera where ever you. welcome back you're watching ultrasounds a whole robin a reminder our top stories this news are the u.s. has defended its support for the saudi or r.t. coalition fighting in yemen defense secretary james mattis says washington is backing is constantly backing under the review he says he's hoping for a u.n. brokered to go shake on the conflict in yemen colombia and peru have agreed to set up a joint database in response to the rapidly growing number of venezuelan migrants arriving

at their borders united front was made after a two day regional meeting according to the u.n. more than two million venezuelans have fled into neighboring countries since twenty fourteen. and canadian officials are in washington d.c. for talks on the nafta train treaty with the u.s. and mexico canada's prime minister justin trudeau says progress is being made on a potential we work of the treaty on monday the u.s. and mexico announced a new deal which could replace their trade terms agreed under nafta. u.s. president donald trump has accused google of giving prominence to news articles that are negative about him trump also says facebook and twitter are silencing conservative voices to address the situation our white house correspondent kimberly healthcare has been. you know i think google is really taking advantage of a lot of people in a allegations from u.s. president donald trump that tech giants like google and facebook are silencing

conservative opinions we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in and you just can't do that so i think. twitter and facebook they're really treading on very very troubled territory and they have to be careful it's not fair to large portions of the population trumps comments follow a tuesday morning tweet we're trying to claim to google the search term trump news with negative results he says online searches are rigged by liberal owned media groups to shadow ban or silence conservative viewpoints that's why trump economic advisor larry kudlow says the administration isn't ruling out action even regulation you know we're taking a look at it in a statement google denies it searches are selective it says that when a user types a query into the google search bar its goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant alzheimer's in a matter of seconds search is not used to set

a political agenda we don't bias our results toward any political ideology is not accurate this tech industry analyst says trump's allegation that tech giants are systematically biased against conservatives is nothing new if trump is google searching himself in finding that a lot of people don't like him that's because a lot of people don't like him to be clear that would also been true if barack obama had googled himself but conservatives in the us are pushing back it's basically an intergalactic invasion. people they point to the recent removal of controversy all right wing radio host alex jones from facebook you tube and spotify private tech companies say they're legally within their rights to ban offensive content critics said. a there's silencing dissent some republican members of congress are even arguing today's big tech companies are monopolies in the marketplace and should be regulated to foster political debate from all sides

a move the white house now appears to be considering can really help get al-jazeera washington bruce fein is a constitutional and international lawyer joins me now live from washington d.c. good to have you with us again on the program is to find come the president really do this. no i in fact was general counsel of the federal communications commission at a time when there was a so-called fairness doctrine to do what the president says he wants to do require broadcasters to give equal time no to conflicting viewpoints on matters of importance this was held to be a violation of the first amendment the government does not have any authority to favor a disfavor any private exercise of speech whether it's a biased or not and in fact the initial abandonment of the fairness doctrine aided the people who now are for trump right wing radio talk hosts like rush limbaugh are hannity made their way through the abandonment and the government hands off policy

when it comes to viewpoints expressed by private entities that's the same issue that's being claimed against google well you have too many liberal viewpoints well that's too bad the first amendment entitles private broadcasters newspapers al-jazeera others to be as biased as they want the remedy for what's the ought to be ill conceived speech is more speech not suppression so this position that bristol trump is articulated has no constitutional foundation it may play to his base but in fact he's somewhat shooting himself in the foot because it's precisely this principle that has given a surge to companies like fox news that are heavily pro trump and he doesn't have any complaint about the bias on fox news no matter what the audience reaches the president does like a sort of conspiracy theory but it in fact finds it's hard in reality to prove that it doesn't really matter does it also means he can appeal to his base support. well that's correct with regard to politics now that doesn't mean it has any legal

standing but if he just shouts and screams any and warehouses based to disbelieve anything that they read because he's claiming there's a conspiracy it advantages him politically even though it goes nowhere legally and that's basically i think why did this i have no doubt that he didn't consult anybody who knew anything about the first amendment or the constitution or the fairness doctrine before he made these kinds of statements but there is one element that he happened upon that may have some legal credence but i doubt it's factually true he insinuated that twitter and facebook and google get together and they collude to agree to exclude conservative viewpoints from their their outfits now if there was collusion like that then you might have an antitrust problem but i highly doubt that these entities which are competing in some sense for the same audience are colluding that being the case they have a total first amendment right even if they wish to be purposely biased to bring

forth whatever viewpoints they want directly or through third parties how difficult is it going full somebody like larry kudlow who is the president's economic advisor to find a loophole or an issue with google twitter or whoever if he's if he doesn't run he's going to be on the wrong side of the president isn't me. well that's right in that i think that once they is many other things that he said he also said he wanted to tear down the defamation laws make it easier to sue broadcast companies or the newspapers you can't do that under the first amendment and it went away i think that's what's going to happen here now the one element that might happen it doesn't have anything to do directly with what he's complaining about the bias is that are under a statute it's called the communications decency act platforms that except really indiscriminately anything that comes into their domain to give it a voice are free from being sued for defamation or or aiding and abetting criminal

violations now that's not a requirement under the first amendment but it really doesn't have anything to do with the scheme by is that trump is claiming exists with regard to google that could be filled with his retaliation but it's not going to solve what trump uses his problem which is the media companies do when you search their their content come up with a very large majority of antitrust viewpoints who should see what the fallout of this is in the coming weeks i'm sure for the moment bruce fein thanks so much for joining us from washington d.c. thank you now a new study has found that nearly three thousand people died in puerto rico in the six months after hurricane rita destroyed much of the our last october the figure is doubled is double the government's previous estimates of fourteen hundred deaths it's also in sharp contrast to the sixty four deaths announced immediately after the storm puerto rico's governor says lessons need to be learned from the disaster

. while. it is time to show solidarity with all those who've lost a family and friends it is also time to reflect on what we've done will and what we did we need to find it hard to correct what we didn't do so that we can respond in future. also jordan has more from washington d.c. . for nearly a year after hurricane maria plowed through puerto rico the official death toll there has been set at sixty four that's on an island of several million people well now a research report conducted by the george washington university and the university of puerto rico has determined that the number of people who were killed in the aftermath of hurricane maria actually was two thousand nine hundred seventy five and that's because this calculation includes an important definition how many people's health was impacted negatively by the hurricane or some other natural

disaster after the immediate passage of the storm people who were older and presumably in poor health people who lived in poor communities and who did not have electricity or clean water or access to regular medicine were much more vulnerable and thus experience higher death rates in those parts of puerto rico the report is calling for improved generating physicians when they're looking at diagnosing the cause of death after a major disaster such as a hurricane or a blizzard they're also looking for better ways of preparation for particularly vulnerable communities to make certain that there are enough emergency supplies emergency generators and other steps taken to protect people who can't get out of the way of a major natural disaster a number of muslim tend to standing in the u.s.

primary elections has risen dramatically advocacy groups say they've been galvanized by president trump's policies and rhetoric the primaries decide the candidates and of investment election and a gala a small. but i could tell the most meaningful thing to him was just being listened to johnny morton has been knocking on doors in mesa just east of felix few weeks the twenty five year old democrat has long been a community activist is openly bisexual and converted to islam several years ago he's also one of a growing number of first time candidates who happens to be muslim i want to put all of that emphasis on my policies on saving our schools on giving our teachers competitive pay on banning private prison contracts in arizona these are the things that are really important to me hopefully someone will just get used to the fact that i'm also a queer muslim but that's not what this campaign is about. across the u.s. other muslim americans are getting involved in politics abdul el slade's bid for

governor of michigan gained a lot of attention but he's far from alone so i think he had an uphill battle representative athena solomon says it's partly a reaction to hateful rhetoric coming from the white house which trying to ride under the radar and we're still on the menu and we're still being attacked so now we have to step forward we have to step up and actually actively insert our own voice in our own truth into the conversation because the other alternative was not working in arizona muslims make up about one percent of the state's population making political inroads here won't be easy but some residents are ready to embrace candidates like johnny we need people like them honest people instead of crooks who just for themselves. it was miller that was for more than me the truth. and he could do it bless america if they are written goal of the trumpet ministrations anti muslim rhetoric is to scare people away from public life it seems to be

backfiring from school boards to congress muslims are running for public office in unprecedented numbers for his part johnny martin says his religion has very little to do with his political ambitions but how people vote for these candidates in the coming months will be very telling i am joining martin as part of his civic duties joining martin spends time talking about his faith he says he wants to help break down stereotypes but is ultimately more interested in politics than religion and gallacher al-jazeera mesa arizona opposition parties in the philippines are challenging the president's decision to withdraw from the international criminal court the supreme court in manila is due to hear arguments against roderigo to tertius move activists and families of eight victims in the drug war have filed a petition with the i.c.c. accusing the president of crimes against humanity this is the second complaint against attack the court. south sudan's rebels have agreed to sign the final peace

deal with the government after fusing to do so sudan which has been trying to mediate says it will be done by this week sudan says assurances have been given to rebel leader rife with shar that a power sharing deal would be honored the peace deal with president salva kiir and would have ended years of civil war in africa's youngest country. france's environment minister has shocked the president by resigning on live radio without telling his boss first nicholas ullo words a popular t.v. presenter and campaigner before going into politics he says the government isn't doing enough to stop climate change the touch of battle has more from paris. it was on french radio that nicholas who law announced his sudden resignation as france's environment minister the pre-mortal the first time i'm going to take the hardest decision of my life i don't want to lie to myself any more i don't want my presence in this government to be taken to mean that we are doing enough to tackle this challenge who had spent fifteen months in government under president emmanuel

michel during which it helped stop controversial plans to build an airport on farmland but he said too little progress had been made in other areas such as rolling back nuclear power before entering politics is a popular t.v. presenter of environmental programs and campaign. this makes it clear that the government isn't interested in the on the violent considering project as a gesture to the low but on every other important issue concerning our future such as pushing for an environment tax nothing has changed. macro was almost state visit to denmark when he learnt to the resignation who had not told him the forehand to the two i hope still to be able to count on him in one way or another i think that in fifteen months this government has done more than any other in the same time on the same subject and use departure is a blow for mycroft who is positioned himself as a leader on the environment last year he criticised donald trump's decision to pull

out of the paris climate accord make our planet great again micro also hosted an international conference on climate change right here in paris it was attended by dozens of world leaders environmental experts and campaigners michael likes to present himself internationally as a leader friend of until issues on climate change and here you know says i did really what i could i did my very best for one year and three months i did not succeed because this president obviously does not consider a run of the issues as primary issues so that's a really tough tough row for michael the resignation adds to its. few months for the president's opinion polls suggest his popularity has fallen some people say he focuses too much on economic growth and not enough on social issues now his commitment to the environment is also being called into question. al-jazeera paris which. will be back with sports news in just

a minute but before the break let's take you to detroit cues the phones have been waiting patiently to say goodbye to the queen of soul aretha franklin the public is being allowed to view her body in her home city of detroit aretha franklin died last week of pancreatic cancer at age seventy six her decades long singing career included hits like respect and that's real woman the funeral is set for friday. aretha she was i thought she was. summer.

welcome back it's time for sports. thanks very much will we start with donald trump a welcome the head of world football into the oval office on tuesday the u.s. will co-host the world cup with mexico and canada in twenty twenty six and fee for president johnny pitino wants to make it even better than the one we've seen in

russia when russia president said that he would organize the best world cup ever right and we did organize events will come out right in the u.s. together with kind of the mexico we want to organize the greatest world cup ever and we've got canada we got back she going well there we're going to have a great partnership and it's going to be very special i look forward to it so let's see twenty twenty six i will be here. and will be here maybe they'll extend the time because they know they left this year so. it was if they donated to the reason that the media is going to be very boring going to be very boring or to get a business i guess you're part of the tea party that's good. that's good one more thing that could be useful for you you know in soccer we have referees right and they have contacts. you know. and. yellowcard is a woman. and when you want to call someone.

i'm going to ask for this you know. that's very good this could be useful i don't know i like this for you. know he's saying you're saying vote me false but as he prepares for his first competitive football match he admits he's finding it hard to stop bolton's trying to secure a contract at the australian side central coast mariners and his expenses play fifteen to twenty minutes in a preseason game on friday but it's been training hard but says some of the new skills have taken some getting used to. it's a stop and go so he don't mean that the to duck because i'm not used to because he's gone but down up and down on the back and forth ducking that's the most challenging i definitely would be nerves are is not that is a charity game anymore this is carried out on my first two and organizers at the u.s. open have implemented extreme heat breaks as players suffered in temperatures over

thirty two degrees c. on day two in new york one of those who struggled in his opening round match was two time champion novak djokovic he took the first set against hungary's martin foot of it but as the match went on both players needed ice packs to cool them down after a ten minute break between a third and fourth set joke of it went into survival mode as he called it to win three sets to one. seventh seed and two thousand and fourteen champion met in chile which came from five one down in the first set to take control of his match with marius coco only for his remaining opponent to retire with a leg injury in the third. in the women's draw all second seed caroline wozniacki played at the start of the day and didn't wilt in her first round match against two thousand seven champion sam stosur she came through comfortably in straight sets six three six two and she plays less yes so then coach of ukraine next. and take over was another former champion in action on tuesday the two thousand and

sixteen winner is looking for back to back majors having fixed the title at wimbledon she did not get the progress but i am in straight sets. now china have passed the two hundred medal mark at the asian games and one of their goals today was won by twin sisters the jang sisters tainting and when when won the women's two at synchronized swimming is the third time they've taken the asian games title and you can't see them in these pictures but there are actually another set of twins that took bronze alexandra and you capturing an image from kazakstan. china took gold in the men's team pursuit as well but only after the favorite south korea crashed out a gnostic on this one they missed out on a medal together china beat hong kong to take the title. their emotional scenes in a step back to malaysia for from behind to beat host indonesia in the men's regular final with a spectacular winning point lots of his own show as they ended

a twenty four year gold medal drought at the asian games last time they won gold as a russian macgames way back in one thousand nine hundred four but the best of the action of the day was in the men's badminton doubles where there was an all indonesian final watch this amazing rally and see if you can spot the moment one of the players in red runs off court to change racquets. us. i. guess to thank you old.

incredible well the philippines basketball team are on their way home without a medal even though the sport of really popular then many people feel the height is holding the country back but could a growth spurt be about to change that german island organ reports. basketball is big in the philippines but traditionally its people are not. they haven't qualified for in the olympics in four to six years participation is not a problem the. size is. but could a national growth spurt yet about to change things there seems to be that trend that filipinos are getting taller taller kids are being brought to metro money to train at the younger age so their bodies are also seemingly physically to grow on their they're given the best training the best attrition to travel abroad to play

against tougher competition so that also strengthens them so their children in turn become taller and bigger and stronger. i saw a slam dunk contest to modi to the philippines growth spurt theory the son of a former filipino pro the sixteen year old already stands out amongst to steve meets at seven twenty if you're on the hype list i said tightness in my soul it's going to be a huge advantage especially when you're playing against legs slowly a bit like one of the things that you just know it's just going to be like a power against them so to me my business is going to start you see even to sort of stature me be extraordinary his coach says in general he's definitely seen a shift in filipino players getting taller with us by the way take gardai average height ok if your libido is around five for now at the pro or the average height of

a we are all six four he's already had offers to play in europe and the states but there's no doubt what the ultimate goal is for soccer it will make it to the n.b.a. the learn of the n.b.a. is everywhere and for kids here it would certainly provide a golden ticket but individual ambitions aside filipino basketball fans would just like to see the country competing back on the international stage. nine hundred seventy two was the last time the philippines basketball team competed at an olympics but the passion for the game is a strong as ever. and who knows if kids are indeed getting taller it may not be too long before they're back for medals jamila and doug and al jazeera manila and that's all the sport for now more later. thanks to and of course you can follow all of the sports and news stories that we have here on al-jazeera by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com we'll be watching the avs their

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when my father and my most or all working for king for how the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven on our just sarah. the debate over genocide in the range of prices and made about moves to the u.n. security council. hello i'm daryn jordan this is down to zero live from doha also coming up another grim report on the war in yemen this time from the u.n. it accuses all sides of carrying out possible war crimes. three latin american governments meet to discuss the growing crisis of migrants fleeing venezuela. i

think google is really take it is then and give a lot of people i think that's a very serious thing and it's a very serious geo edge. donald trump goes after some of the internet's biggest names. the un security council has been debating a report calling for senior officers and men most military to face genocide charges released on monday details mass killings and gang rapes of range of muslims investigators say at least ten thousand people were killed during the crackdown by the military which began last august mean mosque government has rejected the report mike hanna has more from the u.n. . this meeting was before the release of the un report but it was the subject of discussion of many of the speakers in particular as the report held that the military leaders responsible for atrocities and recommend state acted

it said with genocidal intent the secretary general did not give any specific direction to the security council as to how it should proceed however it did say that the report must form the basis of its negotiations i believe these reports findings and recommendations these are of serious consideration by all relevant united nations bodies you.