from heaven on al-jazeera. a dam collapse since a wave. and forces the evacuation of more than sixty thousand people from their homes. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. an appeal for calm in libya's capital after days of fighting between rival groups. argentina for a multi-billion dollar advance from the i.m.f. as inflation source and fears a new economic crisis. of france at risk as the democratic republic of congo decides to let loggers back and.

more people remain missing in me and mar after a dam collapse sent waves of water through dozens of towns and villages more than sixty thousand people have been affected many of them forced from their homes government disaster management teams as well as soldiers police and the red cross have all joined the rescue and relief operation lawrence louis reports. this is the swatch. the spillway of the dam collapsed wednesday morning off to days of heavy rains sending torrents of water into towns and villages in some places the surge of water reached nearly two and a half me toots the military the police and the myanmar red cross are taking part in the rescue and relief efforts and. the water came so fast. and we didn't have

time to run we have never been flooded before how many nothing like this has ever happened the rains don't cause flooding here. eighty five villages have been flooded and more than sixty three thousand people affected to some they've lost more than just their homes. after we got there are already rising behind we lost a carts and engines everything including our rice bags by wednesday afternoon flooding at the dam site had begun to subside although transport remains disrupted and a badly damaged bridge will need to be replaced. we're going to build another bridge right away in place of the damaged bridge. only days people living around the area had raised concerns about the dam but authorities reassured them it was safe the accident now puts the spotlight firmly on the issue last month

a dam collapse in neighboring laos killed at least twenty seven people and displaced thousands of homes lawrence lee. saying and man maher while global attention is focused on the run hunter crisis there's a warning about another group also facing persecution fortify rights says the government as blocking aid to tens of thousands of captions displaced by a civil war in the northern state of catchin on the chinese border there has been fighting there since a ceasefire between the main mar military and the caption independence army broke down in two thousand and eleven the conflict began in one nine hundred sixty two when the military took control of that area before the report found there are one hundred six thousand caption displaced by war living in one hundred forty camps they face government imposed restrictions to health health care food shelter and sanitation and so far this year approvals have been given to less than thirty of the five hundred sixty applications to deliver catchin aid david is with fortified

rights the group that came out with this report and he is calling for the international community to take action. well the government has worked hard to keep international attention away from the conflicts in kitchin state an organ shan state up near the china border the chinese authorities are worked in concert with with the government of me him. to the same and and that's a problem because when you are strict human rights groups humanitarian groups human rights monitors the media and others from from going to these areas. you really limit the amount of information that can come out of them. but they have a good reason to try to keep international attention away from kitchen state because we see continued evidence of mass human rights violations there. and we see avoidable deprivation aid as a direct result of government policy in myanmar and most recently the report from the u.n. fact finding mission this week. said that mimo military should be investigated

for crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide those are not terms that people use lately and we're well past the point now where domestic remedies are still to be taken seriously frankly the government of myanmar both civilian and uniformed have demonstrated they have no interest in holding themselves to account for mass human rights violations in this country whether we're talking about the ranger community in the west or the kitchin population in the north it's long past its own to the international community to act which is why us and many other groups are calling for the u.n. security council to refer the situation in myanmar to install national court otherwise we worry that the pattern of impunity for the types of crimes that we document will just continue. fragile ceasefire in libya appears to be holding out for an appeal for calm by the government. the

three day ceasefire came into effect on wednesday after days of fighting in libya's capital tripoli between rival armed groups at least twenty six people including fifteen civilians were killed in those clashes. i had has more from tripoli. the situation is still very tense and the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli despite a cease fire agreement that has been recently reached between the competing all of the warring groups this recent conflict is for control of a strategic locations in the capital tripoli and that includes military camps and also tripoli international airport now that the seventh infantry brigade from the city of tijuana is in conflict with other groups from the capital tripoli the seventh infantry brigade. that used to be part of the presidential guard despite the fact that the national accord the government has recently this owned that

brigade on the other hand bring it out with groups from tripoli which are backed by the national accord government now the seventh infantry brigade says that the arm of groups in tripoli unofficial and they are blackmailing the state institutions in tripoli and now see the cease fire agreement stipulates that a neutral force should be composed from the central and western military soon to intervene in tripoli to put an end to this conflict and maintain order in the libyan capital tripoli now twenty six dead including fifteen civilians because of these clashes that is according to the health ministry in tripoli and so many families have been forced to leave their houses in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli because the clashes have been going on during the last three days in populated areas. argentina's economic problems are going from bad to worse

the value of the peso plunged to a record low after president appealed to the international monetary fund to speed up a fifty billion dollar emergency bailout and reports. the international monetary fund has agreed to speed up bailout payments to argentina president made the request as the argentine peso dropped to record lows. but you have to keep in mind also that the perception of the i.m.f. . is very negative for what happened two thousand and one. two thousand and one is when argentina defaulted on its ninety three billion dollar loans tens of thousands of businesses closed unemployment skyrocketed and a huge number of people were left in poverty but i don't know. the new generation that did not live through the two thousand and one crisis like me as i was still a kid we see what's happening now and there is less and less trust in government.

lack of trust trust stem from the government's inability to cut deficit spending it's also failed to address pension reforms or create revenues from taxes all that and the spiralling worry global investors and argentinians who want to take their money out of the country in. the country is a problem which is that due to all the government's lack of credibility we think a lot in dollars and it is logical to think in dollars with inflation it's thirty thirty five percent per year. workers who've had enough are planning strikes and protests and as argentina prepares for elections next year president must stabilize the economy or lose control of it. john al jazeera a court in cambodia has extended the detention of former opposition leader for another six months the leader of the dissolved cambodian national rescue party has been in custody since september of last year on charges of treason the accusations

are widely regarded as politically motivated there's not been a date set for his trial. a rain forest the size of france has that risk in the democratic republic of congo it's the world's second largest rain forest but the government has now planning to end the band on industrial logging has a story. it takes about eighty years for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. from any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo when he was a teenager to starve upon by learn to use a chainsaw and how to survive looking. down in this is my life it helps me to feed my wife and my two children and pay for their school fees it's the only job i know the forests provide a small income for thousands of people who live in and around them each of these timbers sells for about two and

a hoss dollars out of the whole tree. get about one hundred dollars worth of timber five dollars to be paid to the landowner is an annual license fee for using a chain saw the rest of the money is divided between the five people that it takes to do the work it's low key and it's informal the government gets very little revenue the environment minister says the government could be making a lot more timber the carried out of the forest and exported congolese hardwoods of demand all over the world most end up in china europe and the us. the government hasn't granted any industrial logging concessions for sixteen years supposedly to preserve the disappearing forests but it now plans to welcome back industrial loggers he says to fund development projects moved from don't fall we sell what we can it can be mineral resources it can be any resource it can also be the resources of the forest they are ours we want to turn them into resources that help the

wellbeing of our people. the forests are also home to about half a million indigenous people who've lived in them sustainably for thousands of years lower miss emily says they'll be among the many victims if the government goes ahead with its plan. the government has been lying for a long time about development which was never realized the big companies would just take the profits from the forest and leave the population in poverty the government should abandon this plan to benefit the local population not only for ecological reasons the authors know logging is supposedly regulated but widespread corruption mean it's not the world's second largest rain forest is disappearing steadily and it's loggings industrialized it'll go a lot faster and it'll never grow back. malcolm webb al-jazeera it's hillary and the democratic republic of congo. so i had on al-jazeera endangering much more than the economy iran stocks or say u.s.

sanctions will have a deadly and pack and dennis rolls out the red carpet for its down that's only a look at this year's contenders for the top award. hello again well we are going to see continued rain here across parts of the korean peninsula now has been the trend really over the last several days flooding rain that is and notice right here all of the the priests of that indicated here on our friday map we do have a frontal boundary that stalled out right here and you could tell because sendai twenty five degrees tokyo thirty five and right below tween that area that is where our front is so anything to the north is a little bit cooler to the south is very warm tokyo thirty five degrees there but as that front starts to push a little bit more towards the south well tokyo you going to get more rain but the

temperatures are also going to come down to about thirty degrees for you well here across parts of southeastern china has been very rainy for you as well you know since clouds along the coast you saw quite a bit of rain the rain's going to continue a thing as we go for the next couple days but it would suck to be as heavy as it was actually it's going to be a little bit spotty but the clouds are still going to be in the picture we do expect to see a temperature of about thirty two then very quickly over here towards the philippines we do have a little bit of a tropical wave notice that circulation right there on our map that's bring some very heavy rain across much of the philippines here on friday but as we go towards saturday things are beginning to improve most of the rain is going to go towards the west but down towards jakarta we expect to see a rainy day for you at thirty three. when the us has all collapsed this university professor became a millionaire and

a criminal on the run. fifteen years old his daughter mbox on an extraordinary journey to find him. my six million dollars father a witness and documentary on al-jazeera. and these are the top stories right now four people remain missing in myanmar after wednesday's dam collapse torrent of water flooded dozens of towns and villages forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes soldiers police and the red

cross have all joined the rescue and relief operation. a cease fire appears to be holding in the libyan capital tripoli days of fighting which means rival armed groups killed at least twenty six people before the internationally recognized government appealed for calm in argentina the value of the peso as plunged to a record low after the president appealed to the international monetary fund to speed up a fifty billion dollar emergency bailout with in place and about thirty percent argentines are headed for their second recession and three years. to syria has called for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor or cord or that it is to allow civilians to leave that as the last rebel help province the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says fighters and need liquidating he says they are using civilians as human shields russia's ambassador to the us earlier warned against what he calls groundless and illegal aggression in syria the u.s. has talked to retaliate of syrian government forces attack opposition areas with

chemical weapons doctors in iran say sanctions imposed by the u.s. are endangering lives they say they can't get enough medicine to treat patients foreign companies are able to sell medical supplies for new banking restrictions make that harder same bus robbery reports from tehran. has been struggling with since he was born it's a blood disorder that his parents know means he will never live a normal life. but the medical treatment he gets at this clinic gives him a fighting chance. he's a boy he should play with his friends and. if he does he has to go to the hospital to get an injection the effects his spirit and he could not enjoy. he seems to serious his father says his condition makes him a little weak but like any other kid his age he has dreams. he wants to be

a police officer when he grows up he says because then he'll get to catch criminals living his parents are hopeful that the treatment he's getting now will make him strong enough to take care of himself and turn his dreams into reality. i have something to tell the americans they shouldn't exist with haitian issues and they must separate these things from each other the iranian hemophilia care center treats thousands of patients in dozens of clinics across the country. in the past blanket sanctions on banking made it nearly impossible to find companies willing to sell medicine and equipment to iran. and so iranians began domestic production taking matters into their own hands half of the medicine used to treat many of the patients in facilities like this is made right here in iran the other half is imported from pharmaceutical companies outside the country but it's the second half that has medical professionals worried once again. iran can't make all the medicine

it needs on its own. as governments play political games aid workers say civilian lives hang in the balance. i'm saying this to the leaders of western states and americans you may have political conflict with our government but your methods actually hurt people in classic war when it's guns and tanks rules but with sanctions we have no rules i call it a silent battle a war without sound of guns the first victims in this war are the civilians it's women it's children u.s. president donald trump and his administration say they will impose the most stringent biting sanctions on iran the world has ever seen the white house says sanctions are designed to weaken iran's government but people in this clinic want donald trump to know that at some point that means fighting kids who are fighting for their lives. and supreme court to have another look at the case. now under house arrest place on wednesday.

and left us rebels active in some areas and they're also accused of inciting violence between those at the bottom of india's caste system and right now. protesters arrested earlier this week that the supreme court ordered police to release them from jail and keep them under house arrest kryten and he has a lawyer in india supreme court he says the community needs to stand by the activists. point of course is that of the first instance it's governments that must behave constitutionally and in accordance with due process of the rule of law because once accused starts there's only in which just the sheer force of the inertia juggernaut that keeps going to some extent so i think the point you're making is great great but at the same time i am proud to be part of the legal system to do because not only have two high courts. of the supreme court itself to

do said that dissent is an essential part of democracy but it's. a church service has been held in germany for what's described as a terrible wrongdoings committed in southern africa more than a century ago seventy five thousand people were killed for resisting german cloning of horses and. maybe a pardon me for maine said the dead have finally been repatriated that there has been no german apology from berlin dominic came reports this was a moment more than one hundred years in the making remembering one of the darkest crimes of the early twentieth century sent to stage with the last remains of proud people's imperial germany sought to exterminate on wednesday democratic germany expressed its remorse. in the greatest sadness i cannot

undo the cessna's coolest but i beg from the bottom of my heart to accept my apologies. those terrible wrongs took place in southwestern africa in the one thousand nine hundred six when colonial german forces suppressed uprisings by the herero and the nama peoples those who survived the fighting worked to death in concentration camps it's thought eighty percent of the herero and fifty percent of the nama people perished today the collective memory of their ordeal motivates the communities to seek reparations something the federal republic of germany will not give which is why the namibian government is suing berlin in the us court. there. was. some people cannot understand why the german state paid reparations to victims of

the nazis but will not do so to the herero peoples in the media and. you have no victims who had suffered personally we are talking through the art art grandsons and granddaughters and therefore we have to look far different raised real difference. but as well meaning as those thoughts are they clearly aren't enough for the government of namibia for many of the congregation in the church and indeed for the protesters here outside who believe that the only real restitution would be full reparations and recognition of the devastating effect wrought on the herero and nama peoples today we are and making the last man noted to group one of the smallest ethnic group in memory in these people something genocide. for the last twenty eight years germany has been the largest international investor in the namibian economy in part perhaps an expression of the lingering guilt many in

modern germany feel don't it can. the philippines has a long history of people who disappear apparently abducted by police or government agents never to be seen again some of them missing since the one nine hundred seventy s. when martial law was imposed but has changed since then but filipinos continue to vanish from manila real alan duggan reports. this a paris yours or the disappeared is a theater play in manila that aims to remind young filipinos of the horrors of their recent past. the scenes here hope to recreate the atmosphere of fear and brutality during the time of the late dictator president for didn't marcos. civilians brother her money mind was

a human rights lawyer he was abducted by military agents and has been missing for more than forty years the loss is immeasurable she says not just for her family but also for the country the political dissenters during the marcos that the dictatorship where our hmong the finest men and women our country has ever produced they were really consciously the liberate the silence by the agents of this because they were very critical. rights groups say the practice of enforced disappearances by state agents started during martial law and continues to this. almost two thousand people are known to be victims of enforced disappearances but rights groups believe the number of unreported cases is even higher. power longs for her daughter surely the pardon was deliberate activist who was abducted in two thousand and six by military agents when gloria macapagal arroyo was president and

linda feels that even if a case reaches court the odds against people like her are much higher because they are poor and get very little government support the building. when they faced the perpetrator or general who beat up old byron in court there were so many soldiers protecting him but there we were the teams with no one on our side and then i realized this government to protect women knows these are relics and memorabilia of filipinos who were abducted tortured and killed over the years it may seem like the horrors but curators say it is necessary to preserve the memory on these recent historical tragedies. there's been a resurgence of protest art in recent times. i mean we hear it over and over again

never forget always remember. because history is a cycle and we have to break it families who mourn for their dissipated see to see even though they are no longer there they're struggling for fundamental freedoms continues if anything their absence has only made it stronger. zero. the new work from the man who gave moviegoers la-la land has officially opened the seventy fifth annual venice film festival and also for winners of the past have had their premier at that event they. spent taking a look at this year's favorites. going for a view in venice as the celebrities arrived for the start of the seventy fifth film festival there was plenty to get excited about. whichever film goes on to take the top prize here in venice what's clear is that is

a great debt from the great variety of films on offer here critics are saying this is one of the strongest selections in many many years. the opening film comes courtesy of damian shows zell whose last movie la la land also kicked off this festival two years ago before winning six oscars. first man is the story of how nasa astronaut neil armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon the risks that we have every intention coming back there are strong performances from ryan gosling in the lead role and from clear for you he plays armstrong's first wife janet. but the true story in the running is peterloo by british festival favorite mike lee it's a historical drama set in one thousand century northern england but should resonate with audiences around the world when cavalry rode into a huge crowd had gathered to demand democratic reforms it became known as the peterloo massacre. by alfonso quattrone set in the more

recent past it's about a nine hundred seventy s. family in mexico where coral grew up like his last film gravity which won the oscar for best director it's visually stunning and it's one of twenty one titles competing for the venice is top prize the golden lion will probably start speaking to each other because the selection this year is incredibly rich an incredibly powerful or task is not easy but i believe that we are like midwives are showing new life into the world of cinema and i know that i'm off all the festivals in the world men is one of the rare ones that can actually change your life or filmmaker no matter what point of the career not for the making of maybe end. to the next week and a half there's a world of sin of our own offer here for big blockbusters to the most intimate documentaries proving variety in venice go hand in hounds. al-jazeera at the venice film festival.

i'm richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera for people remain missing in me and more after wednesday's dam collapse the torrent of water has flooded dozens of towns and villages forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes soldiers police on the red cross of joining the rescue and relief operation staying with me in mar there is a warning about and other group that is facing persecution and addition to the rwanda or the far right says the government is blocking aid to people in northern patchin state who have been displaced by fighting between separatists and the army there's been fighting there since a ceasefire between the me and more military in the caption independence army broke down in two thousand and eleven. a ceasefire appears to be holding in the libyan capital tripoli days of fighting between rival armed groups have killed at least twenty six people before the internationally recognized government appealed for

calm. in argentina the value of the peso has plunged to a record low for the president appealed to the international monetary fund to speed up a fifty billion dollar emergency bailout with inflation above thirty percent archon tyrants are heading for their second recession in just three years. according cambodia and has extended the detention of former opposition leader kim soca for another six months the leader of the dissolved cambodia national rescue party has been in custody since september of last year on charges of treason the accusations are widely regarded as politically motivated and no date has been set for his trial . you know envoy to syria has called for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor or to allow civilians to leave and live as a last rebel help province but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says fighting in the lead in the fighters rather need liquidating he says they are using

civilians as human shields russia's ambassador to the u.s. earlier warned against what he calls groundless any legal aggression in syria the u.s. has talked of retaliate and of syrian government forces attack opposition areas with chemical weapons. and a supreme court as to have another look at the case of five human rights activists under house arrest they're accused of supporting band leftist rebels and of inciting violence between indians at the bottom of the caste system and right wing protesters human rights groups have said the arrests are aimed at dissent and india . as are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come including inside story next.

war crimes in yemen strikes by the sound in iraq today coalition caused most deaths but a u.n. report also blames for the rebels do reports are cheap and if thing and will anyone ever be held to account this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm husham. non have clean hands that's the conclusion of a un human rights act spurts who say all parties in the three year long conflict in yemen may have.