united nations well now to brazil where the former president was a nasty to silver has been replaced as the workers' party candidate in the october elections is running mate in form of. doug will take his place instead let's get more on this now from our last in america at least in human who joins us from could it why lula is currently in jail you see a we finally have confirmation that will not be participating in the presidential race what's been the reaction there that's right mariama took several hours hundreds and hundreds of supporters of president of the former president lula and members high ranking members of the workers' party including former president rousseff or out here to read the letter written to the people of brazil by lula he sounded as defiant very very much in his character maryam and he said that he repeated rather that he was innocent that he

has been unjustly imprisoned and charged for a crime he did not commit and then he said if they think that they are going to silence me they are very very much mistaken my voice for social justice would continue now my name is had died referring of course to the number had died who had been until just a few hours ago his vice presidential candidate let's take a look now at the legacy of. the cd and why he has made such an extraordinary impact on south america's largest country. he was once described as the most popular politician on earth and based on the polls. the ceiba still is at least in brazil but those polls will be tested convicted for corruption the man better known as lula was forced out of october's presidential race by the people on our list from a bringing laid the foundation for his popularity as a champion of the people he had little formal education but charisma and political

skill that far outweighed it as a metal workers union leader he took on brazil's military. he was a founding member of brazil's workers' party he fought and lost three presidential elections before finally winning the presidency in two thousand and two six an economic boom in brazil helped fuel his leftist reforms over two terms he's credited with lifting at least thirty million brazilians out of poverty when he was constitutionally barred from running for a third consecutive term nul hand picked his chief of staff. as his successor. and left office in two thousand and eleven with record approval ratings above eighty percent but his popularity wasn't enough to protect him in two thousand and seventeen he was convicted of receiving a seaside apartment from a construction company part of a sprawling bribe scheme connected to

a state owned oil company petro brass and. he became the biggest bigot to fall into this nicknamed operation carwash an investigation into money laundering. has always maintained he is innocent and a victim of a campaign he says is meant to prevent him from standing in presidential elections that many believe he would have won his supporters hold a religious like faith in him. movement but many of the. call him a criminal hold the same fervor. in january a court upheld his conviction even raising his sentenced to twelve years in jail. before surrendered to authorities he vowed to stage his political comeback from prison. you. know i'm not hiding i'm going to go there and see their faces so they know i'm not afraid so they know i'm not going to run and so they know i'm going to

prove my innocence. but ironically he had become the victim of a law he introduced himself while president barring candidates convicted of serious crimes from running. was ultimately forced to give up his presidential ambitions but like him or loathe him no one can deny that lula has been brazil's most significant political figure in more than half a century. of workers posses prospects now rest on the shoulders of financial hi dad he has some pretty big shoes to fill. absolutely maram and you know people here were crying it was so upset even though they knew this was coming because they adore lula and they don't know that much about have died he was instrumental in a lot of the education reforms during one of lula's presidencies as he mentioned in his letter so he is asking brazilians especially those who would have voted for him to put to have a leap of faith to take

a leap of faith and vote for had died as though they were voting for him it's almost like he's a stand in a play for the main actor whether or not had that can pull that off is another question altogether we've seen in the past that many politicians simply are unable to inherit the popularity of their predecessors that happens over and over again whether or not this will be x. an exception we will see on the seventh of october when brazilians go to the polls and how that has very little time to convince brazilians to do that to vote for him thank you very area thank you very much our latin america editor lucien human very good at brazil full ahead for you on this news hour from london as state of emergency is declared in the capital of zimbabwe after a cholera outbreak kills twenty people and infects two thousand more. activists set up makeshift camps in the palestinian village which is due to be demolished by israel. and diego maradona says the cocaine caused him to waste away but he's now

moving on with his life at a new club in the heart of mexico's drug cartel country. the chinese president xi jinping says russia and china should work together to oppose trade protectionism she made the comments following a meeting with russian leader vladimir putin at the easton economic forum in vladivostok it comes as the two nations stage their biggest war game since the fall of the soviet union mobilizing some three hundred thousand troops were a challenge from a lot of us talk. with the slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting playing hands friday may thirteen conducted some pancake diplomacy in blood of all stock the chinese president is here for the eastern economic forum and his meeting with putin this year despite the presence of other asian leaders it's russia and china strengthening ties that are the bedrock

of this event and with caviar and vodka the two presidents were happy to let the world know how close they become we were constantly meeting this year for example in beijing in johannesburg and now here we are in the blood as fausto if we keep close contact with you it means we have good relations i am ready to strengthen these relations from now on including the exchange of ideas through close cooperation china has the largest delegation with almost a thousand people it is quite clear we have a really close cooperation we had eighty seven billion dollars of trade last year this year will almost certainly reach one hundred billion dollars the cooperation makes sense the two eurasian giants are next door neighbors and china's hungry economy needs natural resources which russia has in abundance this growing relationship is about more than just the kind of business and energy deals on offer here at the eastern economic forum it's about the threats that both russia and china feel

a share in the modern world. while she jinping and putin were talking the heavy metal of russia's military was moving into place china's two it's been invited to take part in a hostile to thousand and eight team russia's biggest war games since one thousand nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to one particular aggressor in the early we can see continued. between russia and china because of or very assertive loyal of the united states. against both countries and in this regard because we killed. say the problem is the major part thrown over russian chinese. because the relationship with washington has imposed sanctions on russia times trade tariffs on china each country is too independent minded to make a full alliance at all likely but they still want the us to know that if a regional crisis ever exploded into conflict with russia and china could present

a united front to reach islands how does it bloody vostok you at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide attack in eastern afghanistan happened during a large protest against the local police in the province of non-god on one hundred twenty others were injured the taliban has denied any involvement and is ready demolition order for a palestinian village in the occupied west bank as officially come into effect meaning it could happen now at any time activists have set up homes and barricades and a con in defiance of the oda european union foreign policy chief federica mongering is warned israel of serious consequences if the demolition ahead so for more on this we can cross two planets misses and qana but at the deadline has passed what's happening there any signs of israeli forces emerging. no no signs at the moment if they do try and come tonight there's at least

a couple of hundred also activists and support but you know there's a lot of locals who live here we understand though from sports is that a verse spoken to us that these really police say this is a very very big operation and they wouldn't be doing it tonight simply because of the logistics involved in frankly destroying the homes of one hundred eighty people who live here so for the moment this is really a commemoration a marking of the passing of the beginning of the and really for har lacma this is when the village is counting its last days nobody knows when the israeli authorities can come in they can come in at any time and as you mentioned various european countries have said to have asked israel not to enforce the demolition order to allow it to stop. thank you very much with all the latest from burnet smith and other leaders of ethiopia and eritrea reopen crossing points on

a shared border for the first time in twenty years ethiopia's prime minister ahmed in eritrea is president of working attended ceremonies at the eastern and western ends of the border to cement the reconciliation between the former enemies each nation's forces which a carny station along the border will also be moved back to camps to ease tensions the move also means out is under will now have a direct route to its former foes right seaports to zimbabwe now where a cholera emergency has been declared in the capital after twenty people died in a further two thousand and one fact and with the disease it's led to many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands back in two thousand and eight army task has more from harare. patients who are suspected of having cholera have been quarantined in zimbabwe's capital harare health officials say this is an emergency but i realize that the numbers are growing by the number of cases.

two. through crowds and over two thousand cases it's not over a very big problem. problem as a result of that is roll call bread through us zimbabwe's health sector and other departments in the country has been underfunded and poorly resourced for decades government officials blame the current economic crisis and say they lack resources opposition leaders say it's because of decades of corruption and mismanagement public hospitals sometimes run out of essential drugs you have all of it or you know offices and have those because you know this is if it is serious issue is relieved when for quite huge investments to contain the outbreak so we're working very hard to try to diminish the source of that money for more so. typhoid and cholera outbreaks occur regularly in zimbabwe because of dilapidated water and sanitation facilities government officials say this latest outbreak started in glenview a poor neighborhood in harare is believed some of those people who visited the area in travel to other parts of the country that's why the outbreak has spread to other

provinces. zimbabwe's biggest cholera outbreak was a two thousand and eight more than four thousand people died health officials and the international community accuse the government of not responding to the emergency fast enough right now as the bombings don't know how long it's going to take to contain this outbreak. al-jazeera. still ahead for you this hour we'll tell you what is doing to tackle one of the highest rates of stunted growth in children. i'm wayne hay on the banks of the mekong river in northern thailand just across the river is laos 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 and the oldest man in formula one is set to leave ferrari but can a petition from fans make him stay he too will have that story and much more.

al is still reading in norway but that range receding to the west coast i think it'll carry on as life has to for a long time you can see from the medicaid is coming in something's going on there's still a few showers wandering around the ukraine thirty eight millimeters it's just a lot of rain in comparison with what's forgot to persistent like the stuff up in norway and the show's over spain they've not actually been falling over rain gauges they look significant but they're on them and they are however that's a development area it looks like we have showers in the eastern side of spain sudden from maybe the riviera this is a jury wednesday this just a bit of coastal rain otherwise lot of breeze down to seventeen in stockholm and a few wandering down towards beaucaire in or even the turkish coast of the next day or so but the development area as you saw in spain they're going to show and south

of the alps but to germany and france come thursday and the tension well once they've gone through we're down to twenty two in paris and ninety in london probably in the sunshine but the same up in stockholm it's looking like summer as well gone really drop south of course it's still nice and hostile north coast of africa thirty one in two days look at the matter cloud to the west and look right on this side of your screen showers in western sahara and mauritania that's rare. what makes this moment if you will live in for the show you. we haven't seen the president this unpredictable. leader speech is a reality oddly clumsy that is a formula for authoritarianism and here in the early into the light so long as there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the true state solution

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come back a quick look at the top stories now hungary's prime minister viktor obama's accuse the e.u. of blackmail over its threats of sanctions against his country the e.u. parliament is meeting over whether hungry should face penalties because of policies that breach core e.u. values situation and has been under the spotlight at united nations today where russia requested a meeting to brief members before an all out military assault against the u.n. secretary general has appealed to the parties in geneva to protect civilians. and brazil's workers' party has bowed to court orders and replaced former president always a nasty religious silvo with sao paolo methane and dad as its candidate for the opto board elections is currently serving a twelve year sentence the corruption. now the number of people in the world suffering from hunger is on the rise one out of every nine people is malnourished this according to a report by the un's food and agriculture organization it blames war and climate

change is the main reasons behind the alarming numbers a lack of growth stunted growth because of chronic malnutrition is now affecting nearly one hundred fifty one million children under the age of five but while the number of undernourished people is increasing at the same time obesity continues to rise as of today six hundred seventy two million adults will than one in eight a considered obese or guatemala has the world's highest rate of stunted growth in children almost half of all children under the age of five a chronically malnourished with a figure far higher in the indigenous maya community successive governments have promised to tackle the issue but as david musser reports from the modern highlands progress has been slow. inside this makeshift kitchen in guatemala highlands mark to hwy prepares lunch for children her son alex looks healthy but the one year old is in medical terms chronically malnourished traditional diets here lack vital

nutrients meaning children can be fifteen centimeters shorter than they should be but stunting also affects brain development and a child's ability to learn making it harder to break the cycle of poverty for the most of those. are children eat the same things that we eat and when there's a possibility to give them something extra you do it because you want what's best for your children i give my children what i'm able to but sometimes it's a struggle. around half of all what i'm all in children under five are chronically malnourished and in indigenous communities like mark to us that number is even higher what of all it might be one of the regions main agricultural producers but it also has the world's sixth highest rate of chronic child malnutrition it's a combination of poverty lack of access to education and lack of access to health care that's causing the problem but one group says that they're trying something new to resolve this. and those that they coon brings health care to the rural

families who need it the most armed with scales and measuring board and nutrition booklets rosa visits mothers with children under two to combat stunting the ngo she works for focuses on the first thousand days of life raising awareness and empowering women is key but building that trust takes time. that. the simply don't know about child malnutrition or the importance of complementary foods it's good for them to learn how to look after their children better and you see how happy they are when their children game weight the programs project manager says this personal approach is paying off. in the communities where we've been to choose this program we've seen a reduction in chronic child malnutrition by up to twenty percent over the last two or three years this is a big achievement people here are becoming more aware that this problem exists it's

not just families like marta's who pay the price for chronic childhood malnutrition it's estimated that stunting cost around three point five billion dollars a year but without a major investment by the government or private groups millions of children here will fail to reach their potential david mercer al jazeera what amala. around a million people have been demonstrating in barcelona to celebrate catalan national day since last year's event region has been thrown into turmoil with a referendum on independence from spain ruled illegal and many cattle and leaders jailed again baba has more from. a huge rally to demand a catalan republic. this national day included the usual celebration of catalan culture but it was the first since last year's referendum and subsequent declaration of independence which led to direct rule from madrid.

and one of the main symbols was the yellow ribbon in support of the nine activists and politicians jailed on preliminary charges of rebellion and abuse of power citing. you know that as a consequence of these democratic events the government of the spanish state closed parliament removed the government imprisoned the great majority of members of the government and president bush to mourn and other colleagues had to exile themselves well in recent months mr thorold has been talking to spain's socialist prime minister pedro sanchez but he says that any real dialogue can only start with a key demand of many of these demonstrators a much the exoneration release of all of those figures that these people call their political prisoners here is more amazing than we have to reaffirm our scale because very bad things are happening to us we have political prisoners some people say they are not but they are. in the when they have used you out of that we have to with our freedom they will give it to us i don't trust anything from prime minister

sanchez or any spanish government present or future in the event this was an impressive display of program dependence feeling and recent opinion polls suggest more people in catalonia back a split from spain than oppose it but a significant number don't fall into either camp what came to arrive here realize is as mentioning more and more as not only that the independence itself or there but the right to have the referendum i mean that he has a why there support because there's more people saying we want to be able to vote on that regardless whether we will vote even if it's a no that's an idea rejected by the main opposition in the catalan regional parliament. you say the celebrations of the hijackers and us my eyes we will never accept that this can't be at the other for all cattle lands a day when all of us catalans can celebrate together we want to give a voice to the millions who are not out on the streets that. night the first

trials of the leaders currently in jail are expected to start by the end of the year they could prove another flash point to the ongoing battle for the future of catalonia didn't bother al-jazeera bosler. hundreds of people have been paying their respects to form a united nations secretary general kofi annan ahead of his funeral on thursday his body is lying in state in the capital of his native ghana kofi annan was the first sub-saharan african to serve as leader of the united nations and was joint winner of the two thousand and one peace prize he died last month in switzerland at the age of eighty ugandan opposition politician bobby wine is calling on the united states to stop its support for the ugandan military he says he was tortured by the army after being arrested during election campaigning about morgan has more. he left his country to receive treatment in the us after being arrested by the ugandan army and charged with

treason but once doctors tended to him the musician turned opposition m.p. robert downey famously better known as the wind had a message for the us government in exclusive interview with al-jazeera he urged congress to stop the eight hundred million dollars support for the ugandan military which he accuses of torturing him during his recent detention it's important. lack of say especially to the united states taxpayer to know that much of the military aid we get is actually used to oppress and brutalise the citizens of uganda not that the gun that killed my driver that could have probably killed me is an american gun. lobby wine is a vocal opponent of longtime president have any he was arrested in late august while campaigning in a by election in the north of the country he was accused of throwing rocks at the

president's convoy as it drove by then on the same day gunmen attacked his car killing his driver but bobby wine was not in the vehicle he says it was an assassination attempt his arrest and alleged torture led to police and military deployment across the country. people protested not just his arrest but the recent changes to the ugandan constitution which lifted the presidential age limit of seventy five years making it possible for seventy three year old seventy to run again in twenty twenty one he has been repeatedly accused by critics and rights groups of using security forces to silence those who oppose him the president blames what he calls external powers for the recent instability in his country and warrants others from interfering in uganda's affairs it is important that the external players the roof drain from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries interfering in the internal affairs of other countries is

a moral and practical role morally wrong because the question is what stream thirty years should you have to sing that you can understand the problem with my house better than we do which guns. if there is a problem you know we do which ones would sort of these. were the external players are involved or not bobby wine has become the face of uganda's opposition and president hu seventy who has ruled for thirty two years appears just as firm in his bid to continue his time in office he morgan al-jazeera palestine's chief negotiator says the united states is not a reliable broken any future peace talks with israel p.l.o. secretary general side erekat also accuse the trump administration of doing israel's bidding by allowing more illegal settlement building and cutting desperately needed aid his remarks come a day after the u.s.

announced it's shutting down the p.l.o. his mission in washington d.c. . meanwhile in the united states officials are urging residents to flee the coast as a massive hurricane is moving in highways have been reversed in south carolina to make it easier for coastal residents to evacuate more than a million people have already been told to leave their homes ahead of the storm as patty calling reports. it is huge and it is powerful this is hurricane florence as seen from space now tracking toward a direct hit on the coast of the carolinas prompting all kinds of warnings she's a strong girl and is coming to see us and i don't care what you do you better get ready because she's coming to see us officials are more specific telling one point five million people along the atlantic coast to get out to evacuate to higher ground florence is intensifying steadily this storm is stronger and it's getting stronger it is expected to come ashore as

a category four hurricane with winds up to two hundred twenty five kilometers per hour scary statistic but likely not enough to make many leave their homes there are always those who voted to stay behind and try to make it a festive occasion just couldn't gas and supply. generator going on everything else and just hunker down and wait it out but with this storm there's more to worry about than winds it's the rain that could cause the most damage if it stalls promising scenes like this one hurricane harvey did the same in houston that is leading to officials issuing stark warnings we will experience power outages we will have infrastructure damage there will be homes damaged there will be debris on the roads this will be a storm that creates and causes massive damage to our country and it is coming in just a matter of days and much of what you see now could simply be gone in its wake patty klein al-jazeera. so for more on this story we can cross live to

j. gray and carolina beach north carolina what are conditions like over there. marion right now the conditions are fine i mean we've seen some building clouds i don't think that has anything to do with the pending storm the surf is up and the rip tide is out that does have something to do with this system behind me you can see the arena here most of the boats are gone at this point the few that are left or locked down there's a mandatory evacuation in effect here right now they're trying to clear out this island obviously before florence moves in and most people taking those orders very seriously topping off their cars with fuel getting cans to collect more fuel in case they need it and moving out getting to higher ground they'll have to move quite a ways because this storm expected to linger for a while and really dumped incredible amounts of rain catastrophic amounts of rain

in areas not only here along the coast but inland as well this is a system that's going to cause problems for a couple of weeks in the hardest hit areas even longer it's going to pack strong winds and again it's going to slow down dramatically at times just stalling as it moves inland the rain and strong winds expected to start here sometime tomorrow and then it's just going to go downhill dramatically from then we'll see it really start to pick up as the storm approaches and then as it makes landfall thursday night more likely very early friday morning this area right now if the track stays the same is in the center it's in the bull's eye of where this storm could go and so a lot of people here using the last eighteen or so hours they have to make sure they are ready to get out if they're going to those that are staying here or doing so officials say at their own peril they better have a good plan in place because first responders are not going to get out during this

storm not going to put their lives at risk sure they'll come out and help after it's all moved through but until then those who are writing this out and i've talked to some they're on their own chambering carolina beach north carolina thank you. now laos is pushing ahead with plans to build more downs in a let me call whether a partial collapse of a dam and july killed at least thirty people the country says it wants to become asia's power source exporting electricity to its wealth and neighbors but critics of warning of an environmental disaster waianae reports now from chiang kong in neighboring thailand. 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 fishermen say it's almost not worth the effort these days. in the past there were plenty of fish here and they were big while i could catch more than twenty every day no 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 to make only 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 the way it can chum comin up the dams that have already been built have changed the rivers by tall ety on the occurrence have been altered which is causing the ecosystem functional coup. construction of two dams on the mainstream of the lower mekong in laos is well under way there are plans for at least seven more including being the government wants to become the battery of south-east asia by exporting elektra's from hydro power projects mainly to thailand much of the push to develop hydro power projects in.