all kinds of warning 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 strong 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 paddy calling al-jazeera. a look at a weather update next here on al-jazeera then the zimbabwean government to pleasant emergency in the capital after at least twenty people die in a cholera outbreak. under pressure from the west russia's president vladimir putin looks east. hallow 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've 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 tos going to be watching out for floods from flash floods actually from thunderstorms and then you were 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 as a hurricane we'll watch and talk more about it as we get closer rusty 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 won 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 and throughout mexico the showers are still pretty big. ugandan pop star turned politician now charged with treason but released on bail and parting is the only way we're going off on that name but again when a president be making that robert. a k a bobby weiner talks to al jazeera. al-jazeera this is the opportunity to understand the story in a very different way where they're before coming out and saying we don't believe after.

well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.n. secretary general is warning of a full scale military offensive in syria's province could unleash a humanitarian disaster on a scale not previously seen during the war the united nations security council has been meeting to discuss the issue meanwhile the u.n. special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran. brazil's general former president louis ignacio the silver has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election the former mayor of san paolo her dad will take over lula's says that he'll continue legal efforts to get on the ballot paper. and leaders from asian countries are in vietnam for world economic forum talks tension in the south china sea and the growing u.s. china trade war that used to top the agenda in hanoi. china's president xi

jinping has met his russian counterpart vladimir putin in flooded vos talk that the eastern economic forum the three day summit is bringing together the leaders of russia china japan and south korea five thousand delegates in total from sixty countries are expected worries chalons is in flood of all stock. with the slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands bloody made through tin 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 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 we are in blood of all stock if we keep close contact with you it means we

have good relations i'm ready to strengthen these relations from now on including the exchange of ideas through close cooperation of 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 eighteen russia's biggest war games since one thousand

nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to one particular aggressor in the earlier we can see continued. to push more between russia and china because of or very assertive line of the united states. against both countries and in this regard because we care. say the problem is the major path for all 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. how to zero zero stock. at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a large crowd of protesters in afghanistan more than one hundred others were

injured in the blast near jalalabad the capital of province the protesters had gathered to demand the resignation of a local police commander this was just hours after a series of bombings in schools across talal about seeing a spate of i saw attacks in recent months the taliban has denied involvement. ugandan opposition politician bobby wian is calling on the united states to pull its support for the ugandan military in an interview with al-jazeera he said that he was tortured by the army after being arrested last month hit morgan reports. 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 any famously better known as well the wine 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 miss 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 rain from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries interfering in the internal affairs of other countries is a moral and practical wrong morally wrong because the question is what stream thirty years you have to sing that you can understand the program with my house better than we do which guns if there is a problem in

a house we do once would sort of keep our. when 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 bed to continue his time in office he will morgan al-jazeera. as you can see our full interview with ugandan opposition leader bobby wine on talk to al jazeera which follows this bulletin on al-jazeera in about eight minutes time from now at three thirty hours g.m.t. the european parliament has been debating whether to strip hungary of its european union voting rights members have major concerns over the direction of the government particularly on immigration the tasha butler reports from strasbourg viktor orban arrived in strasburg to defend himself and his far right policies as

any piece debated punishing hungary for breach an e.u. values the prime minister accused the european parliament of blackmail is also hungry does not give in to blackmail hungry will defend its borders stop illegal migration and will defend its rights to some any piece aided or bones 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 hungary built a fence along its border with serbia and croatia to keep out refugees sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report it particularise regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the judicial. oban says he's been unfairly targeted by a pro migration liberal elite but this one gary in opposition in the piece disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama 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 citizens and hungary on wednesday any peace will vote on whether to trigger article seven against hunger it's known here in e.u. 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. supporters say he's defending hungary sovereignty he's 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 i'll just sarah strasbourg france papua new guinea has launched an emergency vaccination campaign in an effort to contain an outbreak of polio ten people have been diagnosed since june first case in the capital port moresby was confirmed last week most of the

cases are young children living in remote areas it's been eighteen years since the disease was officially declared eradicated in papua new guinea. a medical emergency has been declared it's a bad ways capital after twenty people died of cholera it's reignited fears of a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands in two thousand and eight ports. 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 way the number of cases in two hundred eight. two thousand over two thousand cases it's not over are is it a big problem problem is that even if it is roll call breakthrough 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 we have left over you know offices and headquarters because you know this is if it is serious issues relief when for quite a huge investment to contain the outbreak so you're working very hard to make sure that in 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 it's 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. hundreds of people have been paying

their respects to the former united nations secretary general kofi annan ahead of his funeral on thursday his body has been flown to his native gonna the nobel laureate was the second african to serve as u.n. secretary general he died last month in switzerland at the age of eighty. now they were invented in japan where a complex alphabet made texting cumbersome but in the past few years him o.g.'s have become part of the way many of us communicate now they're being used in art exhibitions and in the fight against malaria do not adjust your set you may have to watch with your head on the side as haywood explains from london. a picture can paint a thousand words happy thoughtful even horrified with warm 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 fix but oral language changes over time is different means of transmission of a nation and emotions 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. and how we 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 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 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 al-jazeera in london. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories now to syria the u.n. special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey iran

and russia staffan de mistura is trying to persuade moscow and tehran not to support an expected syrian government offensive to retake rebel held province the u.n. secretary general says the attack could spark a humanitarian disaster russia's ambassador insists that any offensive would be aimed at ending what he calls terrorism he says the government the syrian government has no intention of using chemical weapons yacob but it didn't also. opinion you. 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 him his way saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from the military cannot be justified. more than five point four million people have been issued with storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one of the half million

have been ordered to leave their homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years it's likely to make landfall in north or south carolina in the next forty eight hours brazil's jailed former president luis ignacio lula da silva has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election a former mare of sao paolo founder her dad will now represent the party on the ballot lula was topping the opinion polls but was barred from contesting because of a corruption conviction. at least thirty two people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a large crowd of protesters in afghanistan more than one hundred others were injured in the blast near jalalabad the capital of the province the protesters have gathered to demand the resignation of a local police commander. activists are holding a city to try to prevent the demolition of the bedouin village in the occupied west bank israel's top court approved the destruction of col amar village last week it's expected that the land will be used to expand israeli settlements. as the headlines

i'll be back with more news for you a little over twenty five but it's what i have to talk to just zero with bobby wine next. an instantly shifting news cycle of the regime change in america tweak the listening post take sports and questions the while to me the devil will be in the details the kind that cannot be conveyed in two hundred eighty characters or fewer exposing how the press operates in their language and their culture and their contacts and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored we can have a better understanding of how news is created we're going to have a better understanding of what. the listening post on al-jazeera. you can. see.

down is known as bobby wine ugandan pop star turned politician robert she made headlines after being detained on august fourteenth he was charged with treason accused of throwing stones at president you were in the seventies presidential motorcade to release on bail to kalani said he was tortured by security forces he was again detained before being allowed to seek medical treatment in the united states amanda gallacher in washington d.c. robert chuckle lonnie's just been released from hospital and is ready to talk about the accusations made against him by the ugandan government his detention and alleged torture robert chuckle lonnie bobby wine talks to al jazeera. let's start with the events of last month you were arrested twice firstly for throwing stones at the presidential motorcade and then secondly you were arrested and charged with treason your driver was shot and killed and what you think was an assassination attempt and then you say you were brutally tortured by the security

forces what happened. a lot happened like you say brutal wristed beaten terribly thing. in the car and charged for the legal. position of a charge that was later dropped by the government itself and then later charged with treason so in my opinion it was more of prosecution than prosecution but the beating you said it was with an iron bar sounds like it was almost a sexual assault in part from what you've you've said before who carried out and why. the section on the military court of the special forces command. that section of the military is charged with guarding the president and it's actually led by the president's son. carried out all those atrocities and me beat

me with and i admire with them and beat me with a gun bites and squeeze my taste of cause and you know do unspeakable things to me one commentator in uganda said that in some ways as unfortunate as this event was it was almost your baptism it's given you a higher profile and they said now your supporters will be watching because of your profile what's your next move what do you do now well we've always been wanting the free uganda but that free uganda should not come at the cost of torture should not come at the cost of mind. you know illegal executions should be good free because our generation feels like the prize has released the price as only they'd been paid for presidents even to. in power we lost more than half a million people in what he said was

a liberation now that anybody does not make sense to us because we are made with a brutal force every time we try to raise our voices every time we try to. seek for the change that we know we can situationally deserve no you're here to get medical treatment one of your major concerns is to get your blood tested because you didn't trust what the doctors were injecting you with in uganda will have been a long term effect to your health do you think. i don't know still waiting for the results so i can know what is actually in my blood treatment as you can see many of the ones out here and. graduated from using crutches to just a walking skip walking stick physically i'm getting better i wish i would be free in their blood like i'm beginning to be free physically now when you were detained

up believe around thirty two other people were detained you say some of those were tortured as well women among them could you have done more should you have done more for them could you have flown them here perhaps to get medical treatment. i wish i could do it. only still my friends i feel humbled that my brutalization attracted the attention of friends across the world but at the same time i feel ineptitude to the men and women that have and you are similar to each of us in particular the people that were arrested together with me with so brutalized i remember a lady called cyril she had just had a baby you. biases syrian section but she was beaten so much that even by the time i left you can they sure still passing blood in the privates there's another guy called a teco doctor told us doctors told us he will never be able to walk there's another

young lady called sold out my dad i lived in those little. my family and i myself believe that it was important to save my life because i am lucky to have the resources that can bring me to america for further treatment i feel like this is a right that everybody deserves and that is why i try as much as possible to use. this remaining time as a steal leave to raise my voice to speak for those people to make sure that what happened to me and wapping of what happened to my colleagues has not happened to any other you can now because nobody deserves this i believe what can be done is not just to be done by me. what i have is the voice to raise the plight of you and but i continue to call upon ugandans especially the young ugandans to speak up the more we unite the stronger we will become the stronger we become today the regime seems to be shaking simply because ugandans a more united and east

a call that i continue to call upon ugandans to stand to be resilient and to continuously demand for the dignity that they deserve you're facing a president who's been in power since ninety six is removed term limits removed age limits and plans to run again in twenty twenty one how do you take on someone like that that seems to have such a grip on power i know that we are facing a president who came to power when i was only four years but i also know that the population of uganda is over eighty five percent and that the age of thirty five i know that it is many people like me who share the same dreams and aspirations for a better country a country where this city is in will be the true mustapha and the leaders are going to be servant a country where when you work hard you achieve so we share the same pain we share the same operation and i believe that our numbers are not such

a lie i believe that the dreams will hold together the aspirations we hold together a much stronger than the fear and terror that has been unleashed to us so much as president has the guns much as they have the ferocious forces we have. the dreams that you hold together and nothing can stop us from achieving what one achieve by running as an independent politician is there a concern that you are not joining one of the main parties you may split the vote or you may so we're cordon and make things harder by not having join one of the main parties by not adding your voice to someone that's already established well knows joining politics or what anybody would love to call politics i looked at not the divisions that we're having i looked at the plate that we shared together today uganda is split into two types of people they are

prisoners and oppressed so many people are or press through godless of what political party tribe or religion they belong to many people are even when they belong to the ruling party so our desire as the oppressed people is to redeem ourselves and we know that we are continuously being joined by people from across the divide from all political parties from all tribes and from all religions so what we unite us more is not the identities of the political parties or sections that will belong to no but the desire of freedom and liberty that we have as a nation is what unites us but how do you turn those desires those wishes that longing for change into real political change in your country because the challenges are huge against

a president who seems to want to stay in power for as long as he lives. well the challenge is huge but we are very a very optimistic generation we know that we have nothing to lose apart from a useless life we know that we are millions and millions of young professionals doctors lawyers teachers who can't make sense out of life we know that we are together with groups our reserve thousands of arid as who are continuously being embarrassed by the way things are going you know we know that even the young people in the armed forces young people in the police and civil servants all desire change now i know you're planning to go back home in a few days' time these treason charges are still standing it seems to me that you're a marked man are you fearful about returning home well. i'll be

honest yes i'm fearful as a person but i don't have another country uganda is my country so i either live in a dignified country or i be remembered as a ugandan who died trying to make a better uganda you're talking about your own death is that something is that a possibility that your aware of as a father with four children as someone who is a loyal ugandan i love my family so much i love my country but i also know that just less than forty eight hours ago one of my best friend was shot dead simply because he dared to speak truth to power so many people day even without saying a thing so it's important for me to raise their voice for as long as they can do you feel like you're qualified to lead these people do you feel like you have what

it takes to be a leader. i believe that everybody can play a role i'm only trying to play a role as a person i grew up from the ghetto and i was elevated by the common people the ugandans they gave me this platform and that is why i am talking to you today so i believe that i can only play my role or anything tiny position and by encouraging all the millions of you can answer for each of them to keep playing their role you say your playing a tiny role what if that role that's played the scenario means that you become the next president of uganda do you want that job i want to be ugandan lives in a free uganda does not matter who the president will be as of now nobody is free i want to be free and every man and wants to be free regardless of what the press.