and of course nothing. many people in chiang kong northern thailand blame it on overfishing and dams built on the upper reaches of the mekong river in china they make always 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 but i can chum can remain on the dams that have already been built have changed the rivers by tall ety the occurrence have been altered which is causing the ecosystems will 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 bang 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 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 generating more authority of thailand wouldn't grant al-jazeera an interview but it seems it's realised 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 being wheeled out soledad has no standout guideline of safety procedure that late in cares about the police when the dam breaks you know. the warnings his stand the road access to roach to a problematic involves. 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 gen kong thailand's. still ahead for you on this news from london the exit proving a pitch a thousand. and in sport less than two months off to appearing in the world cup final croatia's footballers concede six goals to spanging will be here with that and much more. business updates brought to you by qatar oh we're going places to get the.

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they were invented in japan where a complex alphabet made texting cumbersome and in the past few years emotions have become part of the way we communicate now they're being used in everything from trying to eradicate malaria to modern conceptual art from london and the haywood explains. a picture can paint a thousand words happy thoughtful even horrified with one tap there's a short cut to human emotion and emote and now making it into the art world at a new exhibition in london artist and one khattala is exploring their impact on society a video loop of a conversation and silicone emerges plant to show how a few words and symbols can change the way we talk think and react written language is sort of fixed but oral language changes over time is different means of transmission of information and if we don't know how they will look like in ten

years the text will read the same and so it's kind of interesting to think of it as some kind of archival form and how would it look in ten years more than five hundred sixty billion texts are reported to be sent worldwide every month we've been sending text messages to one another for more than twenty five years they have totally transformed the way we communicate but they've also been blamed for encouraging bad spelling and reducing emotion down to a simple moji and dark has always been about emotion and expression none more so than at the victoria and albert museum in london among other highly politically charged exhibit sits and emote which will be soon added to your phone or tablet shows a mosquito and it's part of a public health drive which will let scientists track the occurrence of mosquitoes this emerge may be used by you and i after

a barbecue one evening having been stung one too many times but it's also about how you might track the movement of mosquito across place so scientists can use that means to understand where the mosquitoes are art and science are always reaching out with new ways to try to grab people's attention changing lives could just be a click away and he would al-jazeera in london. with peter. thank you very much croatia have been brought back down to earth less than two months after appearing in the world cup final they lost six nil to spain in the u.a.e. for the nations league on tuesday there were six different scorers for spain among them seoul and surgery ramos the result for spain firmly in control of group four after their defeat of england last week this was croatia's first competitive match since they lost the world cup final to france in july while iceland are in

something of a crisis after the stylish ing rise to the top ranks of world football in the last few years they have a goal difference of minus nine in the group after losing three nil to belgium in reykjavik in the lower ranks hungary be greece and finland down their bolted rivals estonia football legend says taking drugs caused him to waste away but that he's now moving forward with these life he's actually moved to a new club in mexico at the heart of the country a drug that lands the arjen time as taking over as coach of mexican second division club dos is held these first training session and news conference the club is based in the hometown of the sin a lower cartel which is one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world you will all. i made a lot of mistakes in my life i'm now fifty seven years old and i'm assuming this

responsibility like someone who has a new child you could say a lot of things but since i overcame my sickness fifteen years ago and when they were talking about drugs it was just dragging me down i was just wasting away i wanted to explain this to kids that when i used to consume drugs i was going backwards and what a football player has to do is to go forward what happened i stopped all of this thanks to my daughter's. they say that football is a religion but sometimes the two don't mix a football stadium in peru was the scene of clashes on monday between fans and a group of evangelical christians both say they own a piece of land on which the stadium in lima stands earlier on monday hundreds of members of the religious group into the building painted over the club's emblems and set up a church but football fans chased them up with sticks at least one person was injured and several rested. a cartoonist whose depiction of serena williams as

outburst in the u.s. open final was condemned as racist and sexist has defended himself in the face of a storm of online criticism this is the image in question drawn by australian cartoonist mark knight for the herald sun newspaper based in melbourne critics say it uses racist stereotypes but then lies that and says he intended only to portray her poor behavior in the match which williams lost to soccer of the being deducted a point for smashing her racket and then a game for virtually abusing the umpire. perhaps the most high profile critic is harry potter author j.k. rowling who responded to the cartoon on twitter saying well done on reducing one of the greatest sports women alive to racist and sexist tropes saying turning a second great sports woman into a faceless prop she's referring to soccer to you in an interview cartoonist mark knight city had drawn through the many times in the past without being criticized

and only intended to depict her outburst on court. when i drew that cartoon i wasn't thinking of racial politics in america i simply saw the world number one playa one of the greatest players of all time who i have admired and drawn many times having a dummy speech and i can say that when i drew the cartoon it was like you know that's not bad and off it went i did not expect it would be picked up and used case as i a symbol of racism in gender politics in america i was drawing cartoons about. politics in south africa before most of these people were born to have j.k. rowling trolling me is well it's something i didn't expect in life but yeah it's happening. it's crazy serena's arguments with the umpire started when her coach patrick moore a toddler was caught coaching her from the stands he says her angry reaction was justified for her i mean her integrity is the most important thing she felt that

she was insulted she felt that she was. she was treated a cheater. and that's was she felt completely that's why she would deliver. the announcement that formula one driver came here i can and will leave ferrari at the end of the season has been met by a petition to keep him signed by eighty eight thousand fans the furnace said to rejoin salberg with whom he made if one debut seventeen years ago the position is however unlikely to stop monegasques ricky charlotte clerk moving from silva to take his place. england wrapped up a four one test series victory over india with a one hundred eighteen one triumph in the fifth match at the oval in london it was delayed thanks to k.l. rahul's one hundred forty nine and one hundred fourteen by plant the pair added two hundred four for the sixth wicket after that james anderson overtook glenn mcgrath

as the leading wicket taker for fast bowlers in tests with five hundred sixty four it caps a great way for alastair cook to exit international cricket he scored a century in the second innings india will next play in the asia cup in the united arab emirates where bangladesh are hoping to leave their underdog tag behind them the tigers have arrived in the u.a.e. of the back of a victorious one day series against the west indies that's their first series win outside asia in nine years bangladesh begin their group b. campaign against sri lanka on saturday american tourney for now has become the final player to make the ryder cup team for now finished tied for eighth of the b.m.w. championship in philadelphia which impressed us captain jim furyk enough to hand him the last wildcard pick. and which also impressed the crowd for now celebration as he tapped into a stronger than samoan ancestry he joins fellow wild card picks for mickelson and tiger woods on the plains of paris for the showdown with europe at the end of the month. and that's all the sport back to london thank you very much. that's it for

the news hour i will be back in just a couple of minutes with the full blessing of news and round up of all the day's top stories coming up in just a couple of minutes and that. brazil's constitution grants its people the right to essential medicines but it's been a long struggle and the system is constantly challenge sabich within it down uppish that i know that nine some one medical treatment could lead to get death but on the other hand i also know that the cost of providing that treatment would have

a negative impact on the rest of society. brazil's real drugs war on the people's health on al-jazeera. conservation is helping kids stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves or refining all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species police suspect a lone gun man is behind fifteen unsolved shootings in the city all targeting immigrants an ethnic minority and an attempted murder on

a young life friday evening police were out in full force again after another man was shot at last cycling disillusioned with the state prosecution of the victim's sister strikes up an unlikely relationship with the accused in letters to serial khanna a witness documentary on al-jazeera. a defiant vic to old band defend tough border policies as the e.u. debates imposing sanctions on his country. no i'm mariama mozzie in london without zero coming up high stakes diplomacy in geneva and the un is fears grow the humanitarian catastrophe in syria as it opens.

brazil's workers' party replaces the founder and former president he's an ass who limited silver as that presidential candidate. and emergency is declared in the capital of zimbabwe off to a cholera outbreak kills twenty people and in fact two thousand more. allow our top story the european parliament has been debating whether to strip hungary of its european union voting rights out of a vote on wednesday there were major concerns over the direction the government has been taking notably on immigration issues but. now reports from strasburg on gary a prime minister is strongly defending his position. victor oban arrived in strasburg to defend himself and his far right policies as any piece debated punishing hungary for breaching evaluates the prime minister accused the european

parliament of blackmail what has been a hungry does not give in to blackmail hungry will defend its borders stop illegal migration and will defend its rights that can be no compromise some enemy peace say that obama's anti immigration an anti e.u. government is violating the rule of law and human rights at the height of europe's migration crisis in twenty fifteen hungry built a fence along its border with serbia and croatia to keep out refugees sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report a particular rest regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the judicial or ban says he's been unfairly targeted by a pro migration liberal elite but this one garion opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr orbán is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five percent of this

report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of hungary and citizenship hungary on wednesday m.e.p.a. zwar votes on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in a few circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its council voting rights or ban supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty his opponents say he's part of a populist wave that threatens the future of the block and must be reined in before european parliamentary elections next year natasha butler al-jazeera strassburg france. u.s. ambassador nikki haley has accused syria's president bashar assad and his allies russia and iran of demolishing the last major rebel held stronghold she says russia must act to stop the looming humanitarian catastrophe in a lab where more than three million people reside let's not waste time with the

december mation distractions and outright lies that the assad regime and their russian and iranian partners constantly use to distort this conversation let's talk about the facts on the ground in syria this month already the world has seen a clear military escalation in. russian and assad regime air forces launched over one hundred airstrikes they are using barrel bombs rockets and artillery they are targeting hospitals and medical facilities or russia's u.n. ambassador insists that russia iran and turkey are committed to ending what he called terrorism in a lab he also denied reports that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack there yakob it is just gossip gossip of the union who will allegedly president assad ordered the use of chlorine the syrian authorities have

no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we ask you to hit was when we're saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from a military viewpoint cannot be justified and the diplomatic editor james bays asked the u.n. six secretaries general about the impact of an all out offensive by syria and its allies. secretary general wouldn't all out offensive on it live a place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet kept and is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the city get into the standard process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilians will not be the price paid to solve the problem of

italy meanwhile delegations from russia iran and turkey have been meeting in geneva for a second day of talks on the expected offensive the u.n. is saying fallon's of people have been displaced in the rebel held province because of continued syrian and russian as strikes. brazil's former president always an ass only with the silver has been replaced as the workers' party candidate in the all tobar elections his running mate and former south palin mayor fernando dad will take his place instead and asked america at its release in human has more from credit tiba where the former president is being held in prison. but took several hours hundreds and hundreds of supporters of president of the former president lula and members of 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 saying gree defiant very very much in his character when 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 people here were crying it was so upset even though they knew this was coming because they adore. and they don't know that much about have died he was instrumental in a lot of the education reforms during one of those 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 died 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 or now to afghanistan where at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide attack in the eastern part of the country this happened during a large protest against the local police in the province of nine more than one hundred twenty others were injured the taliban denied any involvement. and israeli demolition order for a palestinian village in the occupied west bank has officially come into effect meaning it could now happen at any time activists have set up homes and barricades

in qana ahmar in defiance of the order foreign policy chief federico greeny is warned israel of serious consequences if that demolition goes ahead a call or a budget has been declared in zimbabwe's capital off to twenty people died and of the two thousand were infected with the disease it's led to many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands a decade ago. 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 in two. to four hours and over two thousand cases it's not over are is it a big problem for programmers or is an evidence roll call bred through us zimbabwe's health sector 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 headquarters because we know this is if you see this issue is relieved when for quite a huge investments to leave the country. so you're working very hard to try to find what is 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. in the united states officials are urging residents to flee the coast as a massive hurricane is moving and 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 cohen 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 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 calling al jazeera.