not enough to make many leave their homes there are always those who vowed 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 wake pedicle hain al-jazeera. the european parliament has been debating whether to strip hungary office of european union voting via its head off a vote on wednesday members have major concerns of of the direction the government

has been taking particularly on immigration let's watch a bottle of reports from strasbourg us today arrived in strasburg to defend himself and his far right policies as they meet these debated punishing hungary for breaching evaluations the prime minister accused the european parliament's old blackmail justin of hungry does not give in to blackmail hungry will defend its borders stop illegal migration 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 says the concerns expressed in the report in particular receive god's fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the traditional. well beyond saying is he's been unfairly targeted by pro migration

liberal elite but this one gary an opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration refugees but ninety five percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights and should dissension for greed on wednesday m.e.p. votes on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in the e.u. circles as the nuclear option because of its seriousness it's a procedure which could lead to budapest being stripped of its e.u. council voting rights. 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 reigned in before european parliamentary elections next year. i'll just strasburg france.

are plenty more ahead on news hour including zimbabwe government declares an emergency in the capital after at least twenty people die in a cholera outbreak a new u.n. report says that one in nine people suffer from hunger around the world and the oldest man in formula one is settling for can a petition from france make him stay. more. brazil's jailed former presidential reason arceo lula da silva has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election the former mayor of south paulo fernando huddled has the difficult task of taking over from him. topping opinion polls and says he'll continue legal efforts to get on the ballot paper he's been barred from entering the race because of

a corruption conviction let's go to our latin america editor lucien human now she is joining us live from could achieve at the southern city where there's been jailed so he's out of the race but it would be uncharacteristically sea of blue letter just fade away. you are absolutely right the announcement that you just mentioned was made at a very emotional kind of ceremony held exactly in front of the detention center where lula is serving out his twelve year sentence for corruption in it he a member of his party wrote out a letter that lula had sent a defiant letter that was read out to the brazilian people in which he repeated that his sentence had been a travesty of justice that he was innocent but that there was now no other option than to cede his positioned and to pass on the baton to the man who had been his running mate for nanda had died he said that had died who was going to be able to carry on with his legacy many people were crying they were very very upset but they

promised to support had died in the name of lula this clearly however was that the sign of perhaps the most difficult battle of all that lula seems to have lost. his once described as the most popular politician on earth and based on the polls. still is at least in brazil but those polls will be tested convicted for corruption the man better known as lula was forced to bow out of october's presidential race. list humble 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 see an

economic boom in brazil hope 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 new law 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 petrobras. he became the biggest figure to fall was nicknamed operation carwash an investigation into money. i. have 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. movement but many of those who called 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. release. no 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. and as you said elizabeth is not giving up he still has two appeals pending but that may take some time and in the meantime with the election less than a month away her dad certainly has his work cut out for him trying to fill the shoes of the bigger than life and trying to win over the support of the millions of brazilians who wanted little or not had to be their next president thank you very much for that as a latin america editor lucien newman live in could achieve thank you. palestinian activists are holding a certain to try and prevent the bulldozing of a bedouin village in the occupied west bank israel's top court approved the destruction of. last week it's expected the land will be used for israeli settlements the proposal to destroy where two hundred people live has drawn international criticism five states have made

a final plea to israel to change its plans well let's get more on this now we're joined by our correspondent burned out smith who's there in. what's happening there bernard do we have any idea when the demolition will take place. i think blaze is now it's half past twenty past two local time in the morning here most of the people. gone to sleep there are some activists still around in one of the little meeting rooms here there's no sign of any activity this evening and i think given the scale of the operation of the israeli military have here the largest. better when side they've ever tried to clear it's not going to happen tonight i don't think we would have expected some indication by now when they would have started preparing the ground and we've been told by sources police sources in the israeli police service that they're not going to do this operation is not they say it's a very large operation and the fact is that destroying all these people's homes is

going to be complicated there are a hundred eighty people living here they have to be moved out while the destruction goes ahead so it's a very large operation for the israeli security forces list and why are they doing it at all then as well of course there's a nearly a ten year long battle to save acma the school and the bedouin community one hundred eighty people is some forty odd families but this land is right slap bang in the middle of prime territory between east jerusalem and the occupied west bank is between two israeli illegal israeli settlements and his believe the ultimate ambition in. this bedouin palestinian bedouin community is kicked off here the two settlements israeli legal settlements will eventually build so much they'll join together and then they'll cut through the occupied west bank essentially cut splitting it north to south splitting that west bank into and preventing the

continuity of any future potential palestinian state that's why this bit of land is so crucial and the bedouin living here well they've been have a nearly seventy years lease then and where will they go it is a clear breach of international law and with had to because of that with head you know the e.u. foreign policy chief edem ecomog raney been incredibly critical of this but also what is the e.u. willing to actually do about it as well the bedouin who live here first of all they've been offered land elsewhere they will say it's very near to a rubbish dump and there is enough grazing area for their sheep now they say that they fact will keep coming back in this one interesting thing about this ruling from the supreme court the ruling is for the destruction of the of the homes not be a vixen of the people from it and the bedouin say they will just keep coming back and they'll come back in the tents up again and you'll set off this cycle

potentially of bedouin coming back in the israeli forces coming into destroying the towns again the bedouin coming back it happens it's happened in other bettering communities here in the occupied west bank the e.u. is said israel doesn't have to go ahead with this the e.u. itself has said and other europe and european countries themselves of said israel doesn't need to do this these bedouin palestinian bet it wouldn't have been if seventy years we don't want israel to go ahead with it and they've asked israel not to go ahead with the destruction no word though from israel then and thank you very much for that is ben smith joining us live from cannes village thank you. well palestinians in the u.s. have criticized the trumpet ministration for closing their diplomatic missions saying it further erodes any chance of a peace deal the palestine liberation organization office acted as an embassy for the quarter of a million palestinians and the us. has more. 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 specially when you don't have anything for your identity flag. the rest of. it is under occupation the rest of our identity is that if you see here there and everywhere in the us that if 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 that's fair 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 will open up and the palestinian flag will fly over the pursuit 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 trumps closure of a p.l.o. office plays to his base while palestinian americans pay the price. castro al-jazeera washington. if here and eritrea so they'll pull back their soldiers stationed at their disputed border to ease tensions well earlier there were celebrations after the reopening of a joint crossing for the first time since the two nations four to war twenty years ago the crossing is on the main route that links the capitals are spot on and at its ababa the conflict began in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight over a dispute in the same border area tens of thousands of people were killed a medical emergency has been declared in zimbabwe's capital after twenty people died of cholera that's reignited fears of a repeat of the arc break that killed thousands in two thousand and eight how do we toss a has more from her already. 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 and to. two thousand over two thousand cases it's little thought out is that a big problem. problem as a result of that is roll call breath 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 left over you know offices and pockets because you know this is if it is serious issue is relieved when for quite huge investments to contain the outbreak so you're working very hard to make sure that what is the source of that money from outside. 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 a bobbins don't know how long it's going to take to contain this outbreak. al-jazeera. still ahead on the bottom while the number of students in south africa have gone up bob is passing crucial exams as down under pressure from the west russian president vladimir putin looks east and in sports less than two months after appearing in the world cup final footballers can save six goals to spain pace ever be here with more.

hello the obvious of coming story in the states is what's about to hit the carolinas how can florence but it's not quite on your screens here you've got the remains of the old frontal system that has been producing heavy rain for the last few days it's a bit weak now but it is still plenty of moisture and then we got twenty nine degrees as washington warms up d.c. that is and new york with rain likely stretching doesn't carolinas and out through georgia texas too is going to be watching out for floods from flash floods actually from thunderstorms and maybe worse in the days to come now about time we get to thursday this will be close enough to have been felt to be seen almost from the coast but certainly is a hurricane we'll watch and talk more about it as we get closer rest to us a dry looking picture with exception to texas but snow is showing up still in british columbia indicating yes the season's changing but it's still peak hurricane

season is actually we're on his way to the leeward islands where we haven't got on this chart and with the development of white cloud here which might turn into a tropical depression but no more it's heading out to the gulf of mexico to enhance the rains in texas but it also in the immediate future will give you a big cuba in jamaica son to the main goes fossil answer mexico the showers are still pretty big. millions of dollars is being stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe when he gave exclusive access to this cut throat underworld to a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera where ever you were. overthrown and exiled they appoint say i'm sure all of this wish me to give you an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency he knows that the troops from by and. nothing to do you think he is still. look for a change in today's return of a president on al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news top stories the head of the u.n.

has warned that a full scale assault in syria's province would unleash a humanitarian might not previously seen in the conflict the u.n. has held a special security council meeting meanwhile in geneva the u.n. special envoy to syria talks with officials from turkey and wrong. brazil's president. has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election the former mayor of. continuing legal efforts to get on the ballot. and one and a half million people across three u.s. states have been ordered to leave their homes as part of preparations for the worst storm in thirteen years and florence is building in the atlanta and category five status that's expected to make landfall in north or south carolina on thursday let's get more on this now we're joined by n.b.c.'s jay gray and he is live from

carolina beach in north carolina so as we've been reporting it could be the worst storm in thirty years jay the preparations in place. mostar elizabeth and they continue and will through tomorrow at least you can see the marina behind me most of the boats are gone they've been pulled from the water through the charters here but they've been locked down and many of the people here gone as well there's a mandatory evacuation in place not only here but really along the coast from virginia through the carolinas it affects more than a million people today we've seen them gassing up and and really heading out to higher ground there are some who say they're going to ride this thing out and what officials are saying is you're welcome to do that we can't force you to leave if you do so you do it at your own risk so we're not going to send first responders out during the storm we will send them out afterwards when things clear but remember this is a storm it's going to linger once it crosses the shoreline here so it could be two

days or more that people have to wait before they get help that they may need and what are we expecting jay in terms off the weather. well i think right now it's nice tomorrow it's going to start to go downhill we'll see the rain start the winds pick up and then really it's going to go from bad to worse and pretty dramatically will see this thing as it approaches the shoreline kicking up strong hurricane force winds and rain that just will not stop there is concern about a storm surge as well moving into places where the water frankly shouldn't be and that's going to continue for a couple of days at this thing lingers like the forecast says it will. thank you very much for that for now that way live from a cow line of beach thank you. at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a large crowd of protesters and afghanistan more than two hundred others were

injured in the blast manager not of the capital of longer province the protesters have gathered to demand the resignation of an the local police commander just hours after a series of bombings in schools across town on a bad one has seen a spate of my soul attacks and recent months the taliban has denied involvement and michael semple is a professor at at queen's university in belfast and has a ceasefire talks with the taliban and dead in the water from the the june cease fire i think from what ordinary taleban they are the ranks of the movement what they said when they came into town was that they want an end to this killing of muslims but the the leadership of the taliban movement took a very different view on it the leadership of the taliban movement still believes that they can win this war they were worried by the cease fire they thought that it could actually served in the enthusiasm of the ranks for the fighting so they rounded off as soon as possible and avoided entering a new cease fire for

a deal curb on the taliban leadership is determined to fight on others not interested in negotiations for now i think that those who planned parliamentary elections which are jew in six weeks time did not anticipate this level of violence . i think that there are major major risks are around the elections and people seriously concerned with afghanistan are probably now looking to see if there's any responsible way of to stoning them for a few months to give a chance for both the security situation to improve and also for the election preparation to be completed to a satisfactory level i think if they go ahead with elections i'm afraid that is six weeks time we will be discussing the chaos precipitated by the elections. china's president xi jinping has met has russian counterpart vladimir putin and vetted last talk to economic foreign and three days solid brings together the latest off russia

china japan and south korea as well as five thousand delegates from sixty countries or a challenge has more from. with a slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands bloody if newton conducted some pancake diplomacy in blood of awe struck 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 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 corporation makes sense the two eurasian giants are next door neighbors and china is 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 two thousand and eighteen russia's biggest war games since one thousand nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to the. one particular restaurant really we can see continued to. push money between russia and china because all for

a very assertive line of the united states. against both countries and in this regard to can we can. say that trump is the major patter on of russian chinese. closer relationship 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 door each islands how does it feel stuck with you steven erlanger chief diplomatic correspondent for the new york times and he says both russia and china attempting to project a wide a sphere of influence well there is an effort and it signals and. the relationship between russia and china. is serving union as the birthplace of

communism and china as the sort of little brother that relationship is very much we're versed now very different conclusions both governments drew about how to try to preserve communism both of them are struggling to assert themselves china as a regional power and russia also as a regional power in a way that there are powers but essentially only in really in an regional terms united states and still the world's hyper power but there is an effort to send a message without. now the number of people suffering from hunger is on the rise of the u.n. is calling it both unacceptable and an excusable that's for an agricultural organization says one out of every mine people don't have enough to eat it blames one common change for the alarming numbers and says one child dies from hunger every five

seconds at the same time obesity is also increasing with six hundred and seventy two million adults that's more than one in eight considered obese while and walk a mile or almost half of all children under five a chronically malnourished and that number is much higher among and digitas mayan communities david mercer reports. inside this makeshift kitchen in guatemala highlands. 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 those not. our 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 what i'm all and children under five are chronically malnourished and in indigenous communities like mark that number is even higher what tomorrow 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. those addict brings health care to the rural families who need it the most armed with scales and. measuring board in 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 trust takes time. some others

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 traduced 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 martyrs 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.

hundreds of people are paying their respects to former united nations secretary general. ahead of his funeral his body has been flown to his native gonna lie in state funeral the nobel laureate was the second african to serve as the head of the here when he died last month at the age of eighty. the legacy of inequality still persists in south african school access to education as improving their concerns that standards of slipping and fail students of finishing school fall into the middle of reports from johannesburg. twenty three year old sins in him charlie dropped out of high school after he failed grade eleven when he went back to finish he failed again he's now volunteering at the school munity center to keep busy he still wants to finish high school but says he's living conditions make it difficult i didn't faint before as a beating and that's been most of the time being clipped on ratings no electricity

to even floor a program for structure so when it's constant studying in the evening i cannot study because we are.