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 discordant 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 way. al-jazeera . still ahead for you on the program why the number of students in south africa has

gone up while the number of those pos in question exams is down. they also exhibit proving a picture is worth a thousand one. hell even enjoyed the twenty's for a day or so in melbourne adelaide got to go down this is a cult front and it always means well colder air and all those not much on it the wind direction will change to a data sixteen adelaide about seven melbourne but still a rather high twenty eight in sydney ten degrees higher than purpose which has got tired even folks hugging the coast and that won't change very much but sydney's down to nineteen comes to the front is gone through and it was a fairly weak effect to be on the sleeve sunshine behind so even though it doesn't

look very good seventeen it'll probably feel fine the cloud itself as it goes across towards new zealand isn't showing very much life it's grey the white tops what might carry some rice he sold out in north island but to recover days now virtually nothing happens beyond seventeen degrees in the sunshine again this is probably low cloud even for going on to the coast but inland it's looking fine rain has been the persistent problem in japan through chicago in the middle of honshu that is of course following on from typhoon now there's more rain to come on wednesday is coming up from the south and it does look significant may well come across she's on a soccer ball time to get to thursday's grazing in tokyo so rain is still a potential problem. in germany's capital there is a barber like no other sort of put it to. go strong cross with us.

but as he said he changes he's moving with the time. and going on the roads. the stories we don't often hear told by the people in. the master barber of berlin this is you know on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now hungary's prime minister viktor orban has accused the e.u. of blackmail over its threat of sanctions against his country the e.u. parliament is meeting of whether hungary should face penalties because of policies

that breach court in new values the situation in adelaide has been under the spotlight at united nations where russia quested a meeting to brief members before an all out military assault begins the un chief has appealed to the parties in geneva to protect civilians and brazil's workers' posse has vowed to order a course war doesn't replace former president was an ass who needed to silva with the mayor sao paolo and other dad as its candidate for the elections. sentence for corruption. well in all the stories we're following palestine's chief negotiator says that united the u.s. is not a reliable broker in any future peace talks with israel p.l.o. secretary general cya barack kat's remarks come a day after the u.s. announced it's shutting down the p.l.o. mission in washington d.c. i did your castro looks now at the effects of the trumpet ministrations latest move . the flag of palestine has waved above this brick building in washington d.c.

for more than two decades a symbol of struggle controversy and for mohamed a wise pride especially when you don't have anything to show for your identity except this flag. the rest of. it is under occupation the rest of our identity is that if you are there and everywhere in the us this was a wise was born in a refugee camp in lebanon that's myself here my sister. my brother after moving to the us he became a businessman and a white house advisor who took part in the one nine hundred ninety five negotiations between israel and palestine we had hopes for peace but after getting closer to the peace process i realized there is no way no way at the time for a comprehensive peace agreement but there was progress like the strength and acceptance of the palestine liberation organization as the official representative of the palestinian people in the us there are about quarter million palestinians

like me who live here we have business we have families we have things that we need documents to be attested by the author of the in order to transfer the land best certificated marriages a set the fits all these things while the palestine liberation organization is officially recognized by much of the international community it remains a pariah to the trump administration the order for it to now close its u.s. offices may be a calculation to pressure the palestinians politically but it's on a personal level that palestinian americans are counting the cost i believe that this is going to be temporary because political change is coming through the united states and once again december so it will open up and the palestinian flag will fly over the city but that outlook is uncertain polls of the american public show a widening partisan gap regarding middle east conflict with eighty percent of

republicans sympathizing with israel trump's closure of the p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington muslim. leaders of ethiopia and eritrea have reopened crossing points on the border for the first time in twenty years if the o.p.'s prime minister ahmed in eritrea is off work he 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 car is stationed along the border but also be moved back to camps to ease tensions. well chinese president xi jinping says russia and china should work together to oppose trade protectionism she made these comments following a meeting with the russian leader vladimir putin at the easton economic forum in vladivostok it comes as the two nations stage the biggest war game since the fall of the soviet union mobilizing some three hundred thousand troops or

a challenge has more now from that of all stuck. with this large awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands but he may have putin conducted some pancake diplomacy and 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 china is 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 involved 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 to 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 frets 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 last oct two thousand and eight team. russia's biggest war game since one thousand nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to one particular aggressor is really we can see continued. between russia and china because of or very assertive line of the united states.

against both countries and in this regard because we. will say that the problem is the major path thrown over russian chinese. closer relationship fortunes and 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 u.s. to know that if a regional crisis ever exploded into conflict with russia and china could present a united front or rory chalons al-jazeera vladivostok. meanwhile south korea's president says u.s. president trump and the north korean leader kim jong un need to make bold decisions to achieve denuclearization of the korean peninsula when jay and will visit the north capital pyongyang later this month for his third meeting with the north korean leader talks are expected to focus on the denuclearization of the region and regional stability trump has received

a letter from kim asking for second meeting hundreds of people have been paying their respects to former united nations secretary general kofi annan ahead of his funeral on thursday his body is lying in state and across the capital of his native gone there 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 nobel peace prize he died last month in switzerland at the age of eighty. now around a million people have been marching 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 catalan leaders jailed and he was at one of the major events in. well of course this is an annual event the d r the catalonia national day but it's the first since the referendum last year which was so controversial which was ruled illegal and

eventually which saw it dependence declared and then many of these regions political leaders put in jail that's something that the demonstrators calling for their release now prime minister pages sanchez says that he is willing to offer this region greater autonomy but for many people demonstrating here today that's simply not enough yet is more amazing than we have to reaffirm our staffs because they that things are happening to us we have political prisoners some people say they are not but they are in school and the one you know yes you are 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 catalonia as regional president kim thora has made it clear that he intends to carry on the work of his predecessor colors which is the man who's still in exile in belgium and that's pushing for the implementation of that referendum going for independence something

that everyone here wants to see happen now there has been dialogue between president torah and spain socialist prime minister pedro sanchez but the regional president has made it clear that the starting point for any real dialogue needs to be what he calls the total exoneration and the release of what people here call their political prisoners but their trials could start to see you know it's early early in october so the political battle over the future of this region certainly is not over. in south africa access to education is improving with a higher number of students joining schools this year but social inequality and family backgrounds are still having a huge impact on the number of students who actually do well in their exams for me to mentor explains from johannesburg. twenty three year old since then in charley dropped out of high school after he failed grade eleven when he went back to finish

he failed again his now volunteering at this community center to keep busy he still wants to finish high school but says he's living conditions make it difficult at that infinity for safekeeping and that's the end of the fertile includes time ratings no electricity to even floor a program of a struggle so when it's constant studying in the evening i cannot study because we are using a kinder for a life a report by the organization for economic cooperation and development says the social background of students determines axes to an success of education a legacy of inequality still persists in schools like this one in soweto twenty eleven the department of education changed the past mark to forty percent for home languages and thirty percent for other subjects it's now proposing that the past market be lowered even further according to the department of education last year seventy five percent of students who wrote their final high school exam last but of

those students three quarters asked with an average mark of just thirty percent while less than one percent got an average pass mark of ninety. yes miriam it cough a senior research associate at the university of johannesburg says a lack of proper primary education is the two half of high school students dropping out she says the poor not only need access to education but also a good education in south africa by create for the gap in performance between it the the wealthier families and the poorer families is marked after four years of schooling and that gap just increases all the way to metric we have to intervene earlier in a positive way to ensure that a quality of education last year eight hundred thousand students took the final year high school exam that's a drop of five percent compared to the previous year while ball children are

starting school fewer a completing their education and it's thought that persistent inequalities a worsening the problem for me to al-jazeera johannesburg. now they were invented in japan where a complex alphabet made texting cumbersome in the past few years emerges a become part of the way we communicate or now they're being used in everything from trying to eradicate malaria modern conceptual art and the heywood reports. 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 twang 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 a mission and we don't know how they will look like in ten years the tax 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 and moji and darts 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 emerging 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 it 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 a click away and he would just zero in london. a quick look at the top stories this hour hungary's prime minister viktor orban has accused the e.u. of blackmail over its threat of sanctions against his country the european parliament has been debating whether to strip hungry of its european union voting rights there are major concerns over the direction the government has been taking

on immigration issues. president let's be straightforward with each other hunger is going to be condemned because hungary and people have decided that this country is not going to be a country of migrants with all due respect but very firmly i have to refuse threats the blackmail and defamations by force to support the immigrants or migrants against hungry and hungry people i must state that whatever you decide hungry will protect its borders stop illegal immigration and defend its rights. brazil's workers' party has bowed to court orders to replace former president always an asshole it is silver as its candidate for the october elections lula is currently serving a twelve year sentence for corruption instead be replaced with the former south power may often under her dad. at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide attack in eastern afghanistan it happened during a large protest against the local police in the province of mangal more than one

hundred twenty others were injured the taliban has denied any involvement zimbabwe's declared a corner emergency in the capital harare the health minister says at least twenty people have died and two thousand others are infected. the leaders of ethiopia and eritrea have reopened crossing points on their shared border for the first time in twenty years ethiopia's prime minister met in eritrea as president of work attended ceremonies at the eastern and western ends of the border to cement a reconciliation between the former enemies around a million people have rallied in barcelona in support of catalan independence it's been a year since the central government in madrid declared the region's independence referendum illegal and ordered many catalan leaders to be jailed erupt right with all of our top stories do stay with us from makes progress this is year at which follows the story of a palestinian baba making

a name for himself in. ugandan pop star turned politician now charged with treason but released on bail empowering people is the only way we're going for one that knew but again the president be king in uganda robert. a k a bobby wiener talks to al-jazeera.

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