and as the workers' party candidates on tuesday latin america editor lucien human is in to be. tiba. is in jail. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate for the had that it was widely expected that lula would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. oh the man made them. we vote for liz ideals we have a program for our country. it's the same thing for us because we are voting for

a program but instead of a new candidate but they got was the message there is still no giving up hoping against the odds that one of two superior court appeals that he still has open will overturn an electoral court decision barring from running experts say it's highly unlikely that this will happen although legally lula still has options unless there's a favorable decision before september seventeenth it will be too late for him to run and that brings us back to the original question and the workers party risk it all and wait or will they give another candidate had that the chance to run as name they have almost no time left to decide. we're going to weather update thanks here on al-jazeera then rights groups accuse china's government of using. methods to crackdown on muslim weakness and. i'm on the banks of the mekong river in northern thailand just across the. there is

a blouse and downstream from here the lao government is building another big dam we'll tell you why many people on this side of the river want it stopped. now the rain heavy again has moved through genea and pennsylvania and his disappearance i mean no through new england the tail of cloud that run to the southern states shows little action but the most true still there so big showers are still possible from texas all the way through georgia to the east coast and new york at twenty seven degrees is feeling the humidity slowly rise again so will they the rain will probably go offshore for the most part you go to constantly rising temperature regime once more and he was to come out with it and just on the screen oh yes a spitting storm this is the one jus to hit possibly north carolina as

a hurricane and a strong one will switch on wednesday but possibly on thursday rest the u.s. much quieter picture you can see but note the appearance of snow in british columbia jumping sas still a fairly active region the gulf of mexico on the caribbean is a massive cloud here which might develop into something over open water producing heavy rain in honduras possibly in yucatan and down nicaragua as well and the showers in mexico been tremendously big recently sundry of course and producing flash flooding chances will continue that regime least the next two days. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. provided attempts into someone else's work out inspiring documentaries from impassioned

filmmakers everybody's going to know well what we did the sacrifices that we made is going to be sold as the remembering. all. witness on al-jazeera. color again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. has threatened to sanction the international criminal court if it prosecutes american soldiers for war crimes in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton also criticized palestinian efforts to bring israel before the i.c.c. and confirmed that the u.s. would be shutting the palestine liberation organization office in washington.

lawyers for brazil's jailed former president says that he'll keep fighting to run in next month's presidential election louis ignacio lula da silva is banned from standing due to a corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal. and the united nations says that thirty thousand people have been displaced within syria as it played province in the last week alone due to an increase in the number of airstrikes in an article in the wall street journal turkey's president has called on the international community to take action to stop the attacks. aid organization save the children says that more than one child will die every minute from hunger in war zones the group is warning that starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war the tory agape in the reports. in towns and cities across syria forces loyal to president bashar assad have long used a surrender or starve strategy against civilians in rebel held areas eastern gator

is now under government control but earlier this year four hundred thousand people would be featured there many starving. a similar military strategy is being used in yemen both the fighters and government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition deliberately obstruct deliveries of food hunger has become a weapon of war and its use is more prevalent now than it anytime in the last twenty years. save the children has looked at child hunger in the world's ten worst conflicts it found that four point five million children under five will need treatment for mt nutrition this year but five hundred ninety thousand a likely to miss out on the care they need and die of starvation and disease that's an average of sixteen hundred a day or one child a minute i think what we've seen this time is a buckin kind of

a two decades trend where global hunger has been decreasing for the first time in that time period is now increasing and complex is behind so. yes it's always been there but i think we're seeing a much more acute pinch on children across particularly eastern countries in some areas starvation is a military strategy in others war disrupts food production which in turn leads to hunger. in the democratic republic of congo years of fighting has displaced large numbers of people from their homes aid groups say three hundred thousand children are at risk conflicts disrupt people's ability to farm to keep their livestock jobs disappear it can lead to economic collapse that causes food prices to skyrocket so even people who are miles and miles and miles away from any active fighting or find that they are no longer able to afford the simplest of meals fighting in just ten countries is now responsible for reversing

a twenty year decline in global hunger save the children is calling for governments around the world to protect children and hold to account those responsible for using food as a weapon victoria gayton be al jazeera. aid organization doctors without borders has confirmed that more than one hundred migrants died this month when their rubber boats were damaged off the coast of libya survivors were brought to the port of commons by the libyan coast guard on september second one survivor said that two boats that set out from the coast but ones engine failed and the other began to deflate when he managed to survive by clinging to wreckage. at least two people are dead ten others injured in libya's capital tripoli after gunmen stormed the headquarters of the national oil corporation their security forces say that they've now regained control of the building last week a truce between rival armed groups for an end to more than a week of fighting in the city. eighteen people have been killed in central nigeria

after a gas depo exploded it happened in lafayette the capital of our state more than forty others were taken to hospital with serious burns. the united nations human rights chief has called on china to allow independent investigators to look into allegations that it's mistreating hundreds of thousands of weaker muslims human rights watch accuses the chinese government of conducting a systematic campaign of rights violations in chin jane province iran come reports . just practicing islam has become a problem for the chinese government. this man says he survived what the government calls a reeducation camp as one of. his. own one again and then told to wit it. i think they will in just one day me would turn up let me make it then in so many getting them all along.

that you can download awful the rights group says interviewed fifty eight people including mainly ethnic weakness and kazakhs they cues officials of all the true detention religious repression and surveillance against thirteen million muslims the government says it set up the reeducation camps with the sole purpose of eradicating religious extremism and terrorism and secure what it calls ideological diseases. the un's new human rights chief of michelle bachelet has called on china to allow international monitors into asian yang to look into what she calls a deeply disturbing situation human rights watch china director sophie richardson welcome the call but says much more needs to be done one of the challenges that everybody faces is of course chinese government restrictions on access to the region and beijing really has nothing to hide then it's time to correction. in

areas perceived by beijing as anti-government hotspots many interviewee say moving half of their family members are imprisoned or in these so-called reeducation camps the report also cites what it calls disturbing high tech mass of violence and says officials have a database of everyone's biometric data including their d.n.a. the chinese government has not yet commented on this report but it has denied accusations of mistreatment of muslims and jin yang it says the increased security measures at a guard against the threats of separatists in the region iran car. russia and japan say that they are ready to resolve a decades long territorial dispute over a chain of islands in the pacific ocean russia's president vladimir putin and japan's prime minister shinzo made comments to me sing in vladivostok in eastern russia they say they're working toward signing a peace treaty which would formally end second world war still it sees.

the relations between our countries progress for the first time in our history including joint military cooperation. today i would like to have a baritone on bilateral issues including economic questions also on international issues and cooperation with russia in the field i would also like to discuss our historic task to sign a peace treaty just one seat separates the two main political blocs in sweden after parliamentary elections on sunday neither one majority leaving the make up of the next government unclear the far right sweden democrats party says that it will hold the balance of power but both leading blocks have ruled out including them in a coalition journal reports from stockholm. so even wakes up to a confused political picture one of the main parties or blocs as a clear majority coalition talks could take weeks and the sweden democrats the far right party much talked about before is down in third place but its achievements

are very real nonetheless pushing the national discourse to the right stripping support away from the main parties and forcing sweden to confront important questions about immigration integration and the kind of country it wants to be sweden has a trajectory of historical past with open society open to immigration open for other cultures and they believe that their openness is the key to its success in terms of economic development and being a donor dynamic and creative and so that you think is still the case i think that is still the case but so-called socio economically challenged areas like this not far from stockholm tell a different story the government refers to them as segregated areas the far right my call them ghettos it's not the sort of thing one often associates with the idea of sweden this may be a country that's taken in per capita more asylum seekers and refugees than any

other but it's hardly a model of integration i live in and minal the community activists both swedish born of foreign descent the challenge is that we have a society in sweden has. has been ongoing for a long time it's not something that has been just popped out of nothing we're. always explaining our rights yes they may are right zooming over a certain made nova feeling kind of this sense included in this is say that it's not the same for us as. if you like swedish or if you are born. this election demonstrates that immigration policy and all that comes with it matters to a lot of people not least those subject to it perhaps now lifting the lid on these things means that sweden can begin talking about them and dealing with them joe the

whole al-jazeera she stood stock of evacuation orders have been issued to one million people in the united states is a powerful storm approaches the country's east coast florence is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm it's predicted to strengthen further in the coming days authorities say that people should leave the areas listed for evacuation by tuesday the u.s. national hurricane center is warning of one hundred ninety kilometer per hour winds flooding and coastal surges. laos is pushing ahead with plans to build more dams along the mekong river despite a deadly collapse in july it wants to become asia's power source exporting electricity to its wealthier neighbors but critics say the rapid dam building is harming the environment and threatening livelihoods into hey reports. fishing on the mekong river has never been an easy way to make

a living but here where the river flows between thailand and laos fisherman say it's almost not worth the effort these days. in the past there were plenty of fish here and they were big i could catch more than twenty every day now i've been fishing here for three days in a row and of course nothing will meet many people in chiang kong northern thailand blame it on overfishing and dams built on the upper reaches of the mekong river in china the mekong is the largest inland fishery in the world and the people in this community want the dam stopped they've been protesting against lao government plans to build a dam downstream from here in part bang which they say will impact the ability of fish to migrate up and down stream where it can charm can remain on the dams that have already been built have changed the rivers. the and the currents have been altered which is causing the ecosystem to malfunction a coup. construction of two dams on the mainstream of the lower mekong in laos is

well underway there are plans for at least seven more including being the government wants to become the battery of southeast asia by exporting elektra's from hydro power projects mainly to thailand much of the push to develop hydro power projects in laos is driven by electricity demand in thailand under the original proposal around ninety percent of the electricity generated by the pop bang dam was to be exported to thailand but that's now in doubt after the thais decided to hold off signing an agreement to purchase power from that project the electricity. generated more authority of thailand wouldn't grant al-jazeera an interview but it seems it's realize that it may have enough power and would need to buy more from laos critics say another reason to reassess was july's partial collapse of a dam in southern laos which killed more than thirty people i think down business is quite loud so days no stand out guideline save the procedure that

way in case of backed up when the dam breaks you know. the warnings the stand road access to roads to a problematic in laos. the lao government says harnessing the energy of the mekong is vital to its plans for economic growth opponents believe the cost to the environment and livelihoods outweighs the benefits not only for laos but the whole region wayne hay al-jazeera genco thailand. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the international criminal court if it pursues an investigation into american troops in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton issued the warning in his first major speech speech since joining the trumpet ministration in april in the same address he confirmed the u.s.

is closing the palestine liberation organization office in washington khaled gindi is previously served as an advisor to the palestine liberation organization he says the u.s. decision will further damage peace efforts. that house in leadership has changed on a u.s. led peace process for all these many years for more than two or three decades and there will be a lot of pressure on this leadership to come up with an alternative what is the plan now and frankly leadership doesn't have a plan b. . except perhaps to go back to you know national forums like the i.c.c. . but whether these forums can be effective in actually securing the primary demand which is an end to the israeli occupation is very very uncertain the united nations says the thirty thousand people have been displaced within syria

is it glib province in the last week alone due to an increase in the number of airstrikes turkey's president is calling on the international community to take action to stop the russian and syrian government attacks evacuation orders have been issued to one million people in the u.s. as a powerful storm approaches the country's east coast are concerns is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm it's predicted to strengthen further in the coming days authorities say that people should leave the areas listed for evacuation by tuesday . lawyers for brazil's jailed former president louis ignacio lula da silva say that he still fighting to run in next month's presidential election. is topping opinion polls but he's banned from standing due to a corruption conviction the country's supreme court has rejected his latest appeal . and those the headlines i'll be back with more news for you here on al-jazeera

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