homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years it's likely to make landfall in north or south carolina in the next two days forecasters are warning of winds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour flooding and coastal surges president donald trump has already signed emergency declarations to free up federal funds for the response jay gray has more for us now from carolina beach in north carolina. calm conditions right now here in carolina beach north carolina that's going to change dramatically and pretty quickly starting to more you can see in the marina behind me most of the boats have been pulled away a few charters left but they are locked down at this point many of the people are gone as well there's a mandatory evacuation in place not only here but really from the virginia coastline all the way through the carolina coast and a lot of people said they're not willing to ride this out even those who have been in storms before they think this one may be different a strong category four storm with driving winds the possibility of a massive storm surge and of course you've got that rain that's going to continue

once this storm makes landfall and that's likely early friday morning now it's going to linger for a bit and that means the problems want to be here along the coast but in line as well and pretty far inland this is a storm that's growing in size as it moves closer to the shoreline here so the time to get out the time to make your plans if you're going to stay all of that is now the window closing we expect to see the rain and winds start in earnest some time tomorrow and again continue up until and possibly through the weekend we'll get a weather update next. disempower when government declared as an emergency in the capital tripoli people die in a cholera outbreak. at expressions for him oh geez a new exhibition in london looks at how the symbols could be used in the fight against malaria.

another shows a deserted turkey ham but they may well be coming back to afghanistan this is the last twelve hours or so a satellite picture you see the clouds drifting north on through the caucasus here at there's nothing on this as your screen but it's in the forecast rain possibly even start of course at some height is trying to get back in hasn't quite made it on this particular chart and we're still looking at a very late summary picture but forty seven kuwait and forty five baghdad we're still on the hot side it has been little bit cooler with more of a breeze on the coast of lebanon and syria still thirty one units in beirut with an offshore breeze here the temp is unchanged inland though that's all we just got the first signs of rain of stuff coming into maybe the fall in the walls of afghanistan or beyond south of this humidity is in and out around forty one suggests dryness again there's nothing much in the way of forecast cut here

a hint baby down the mountains of western yemen you might get isha and cities. he's blowing useful rain third aside from thank you south africa once more there's nothing in the immediate forecast ross which we had so much a week ago got to give it a bit of time off that it's only about forty to fifty degrees down in cape town. brazil's constitution grants its people the right to and since but it's been a long struggle and the system is constantly challenge to fight big. stuff i know that nine someone medical treatment could lead to get down 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.

again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the un secretary general is warning that a full scale military offensive in syria 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 jailed for president lula da silva has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election reform of sao paolo fernando how dad will take over says that he'll continue legal

efforts to get on to the ballot paper. china's president xi jinping and his russian counterpart vladimir putin about to work together to ensure world peace and stability at a meeting in the russian city of lot of also talk a three day summit is bringing together leaders of russia china japan and south korea. china's vice premier has told amazing of asian leaders in vietnam that the united states policy of protectionism must be category. rejected the growing u.s. china trade war i am tension in the south china sea a top of the agenda at the world economic forum talks in hanoi event will also look at how the growing workforce around asia can compete as automation artificial intelligence develop around a thousand people are attending out of serious way today is to he joins us now live from hanoi so what is the aim of this forum where.

well officially it's a cold the fourth industrial revolution the theme of this will economic forum on a sea on the southeast asian nations and how the nations in this region can get on top of all of new technologies such as artificial intelligence robotics three d. printing crypto currencies and things like that but as you mentioned of course trade and regional security issues will be very much discussed as well in those comments from the chinese vice premier really having an early dig at the united states for the apparent protectionist trade policies as opposed to many in this region who favor multilateral trade deals with me to talk more about that now is chandra not from the global institute for tomorrow thank you for joining us i mean how concerned should the nations in southeast asia be about this trade dispute

between the u.s. and china i think given how will all interconnected clearly you know need this will be good so. i see it as inevitable that this would happen and what's surprising is that people are surprise we should also be very clear that this is a war launched by the current us administration nobody else wants it and he's launched that against the europeans and everybody else i think it will pass i think china as we have seen will try not will do everything it can not to escalate but it might respond as it needs to but i i in the longer term i don't see this as a big thing i think things of the united states will change but we may have to bessemer pain for maybe some say two years some smoke some of us might say six years and hangover that combined with that is this battle for influence in this region between china and the united states and a clash of ideas when it comes to trade most countries here prefer

a multilateral deals as does china how do you think that is going. down in this region i think it's inevitable that is china rises and hopefully india rises that the influence of the united states or other actors will diminish i don't see that as a bad thing i think all of us in this part of bill from asian r.c. on understand china is part of our civilization not trajectory china is not going to build the way we should embrace china and you know not see china as disrupting order which to be frank it's only been in place about sixty seventy years since the second world war with united states to presence here that cannot exist for law for ever and there has to be a shift and it's inevitable china will hopefully work with its neighbors and behave appropriately. in a diplomacy the asian style should prevail to make that reality come true tender and i thank you very much for joining us so plenty to discuss at this world economic forum we just heard some opening addresses from some of the regional

leaders here including the state counselor from me and my own son suchi giving her opening speech she will take part in two other panel discussions and not surprisingly in that speech there was no mention mention of the remaining issue despite this being the first major international appearance since that u.n. report condemned government and the military leaders when it came out last month i was there as when a reporting live from hanoi when many thanks indeed. 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 strasburg. arrived in straws but to defend himself and his father right policies as any piece debated punishing hungary for breach an evaluation the prime minister accused the european parliament of blackmail is hostile 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 bands 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 so b. and croatia to keep out refugees sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report in particular rest regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the traditional oban 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 obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five of percent of this report is about. undermining the fundamental rights of hungary and

citizenship hungary on wednesday any peace for 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 strasberg france. the u.s. is considering sanctions against china over allegations that it's mistreating members of the week muslim minority in shin jane profits a un human rights panel estimates that one million week is being held in so-called reeducation camps the u.s. state department expressed deep concern over the allegations it's considering

economic penalties against senior chinese officials and companies linked to the detentions at least sixty eight 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 there jalalabad the capital of non-god 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 jalalabad see the space of islip tanks in recent months the taliban has denied involvement. 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 the first case in the capital port moresby was confirmed last week most of the confirmed cases are in young children living in remote areas it's been eighteen years since the d.'s disease was officially declared eradicated in papua new guinea. a medical emergency has been declared in

zimbabwe's capital after twenty people died of cholera it's regarded fears of a repeat of the outbreak that killed thousands in two thousand and eight reports. patients who are suspected of having cholera have been quarantined in zimbabwe's capital harare health officials say this is an emergency and i realize that the numbers are growing by the day the number of cases and to date. we have about two thousand over two thousand cases. is that a big problem with the problem is that even if that is all it will break 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 offices and because we know it is as if it is serious issues

relieved when for quite a huge investments to contain the outbreak so you're working very hard to try to diminish 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. is an associate professor at oxford university told us that the about the factors that led to this outbreak. they relate to problems around the

planning of urban talent and ships where many of the urban poor live where been given poor live these areas have long been underserved in terms of housing. overcrowding has been a perennial problem on the water and sanitation facilities in beef areas places like glenview and eagle which are currently affected by cholera. isn't adequate for the number of people that the underlying or trigger structure the water pipes after the delivery of household use run parallel to the sewage pipes and are prone to cross contamination when pipes burst and then on top of all of this there's been a political dimension to this the management of a lot of urban wharton particularly in the last two decades has been an area of contestation between the ruling party in the national government versus the opposition party which is often run water services to the municipalities hundreds of people are 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 garda but overall loria was the second african to serve as he secretary general. now they were invented in japan where a complex alphabet made texting cumbersome but in the past few years emergencies have become part of the way that many of us communicate now they're being used in art exhibitions and in the fight against malaria as emma hayward explains from london. 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 fix but oral language changes over time is different means of transmission of mission 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 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 an emergency which will be soon added to your phone or tablet shows

a mosquito and it's part of a public health drop 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 al-jazeera in london. it's good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera 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 it live

province the u.n. secretary general says the attack could spark a humanitarian disaster at the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says that there will be consequences for russia and iran if airstrikes continue in syria 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. more than five point four million people have been issued with storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as are akin 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 louis ignacio lula da silva has been replaced as the workers' party candidate for next month's presidential election before mare of sao paolo fun and her dad will now represent the party on the ballot who that was topping the opinion polls but was barred from contesting because of a corruption conviction at least sixty eight people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a large crowd of protesters in afghanistan one hundred others were injured in the blast near jalalabad which is the capital of province the protesters had gathered to demand the resignation of a local police commander. as the headlines i'll be back with more news for you in a little over twenty five but it's on al-jazeera after this week's edition of

listening post. millions of dollars has been stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe. exclusive access to this country underworld to a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. a court has sentenced to turn once for four years to. work out. a strike to. make twenty two point archie i say. hello i'm barbara sara and you're the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week the sentencing of to reuters journalists in myanmar and the failed promise of media reform there there's a voice from inside the house the white house and it's speaking through the pages of the new york times the magic and mystery of the british royal family and the

role of the media in spinning the fairy tale plus putin the in a sense man or at least that's how russian state t.v. sees him police in myanmar admitted there had been a set up the burmese military said the massacre that was reported did indeed happen and yet after eight months in prison to reuters journalists while on and shot all have been sentenced by a burma's judge at the seven years in jail their crime obtaining secrets that documents as they research the killing and mass burial of ten range of men in two thousand and seventy the story of the ethnic violence against minority range of muslims in myanmar has been in the headlines for over a year now international media have had access into the country severely restricted and much of the local media have taken the government and military side over the treatment of the range up amid stories of military orchestrated violence recently

confirmed in the united nations report. the trial and sentencing of the reuters reporter has captured the tension inside and outside me and are they listening posts that mean actually ravi now on the case of waldo and shah or and the very high price journalists in myanmar pay if they report on favorably on the military. outside a courtroom in yangon myanmar on the morning of the third of september journalists awaited news on the sentencing of two burmese reporters one on one and. the verdict came down seven years in prison and just as he had done so many times in the eight months before that the two men came out to declare their innocence and get into the trial. and were hauled into a police line to be driven away to jail. good to his asia editor kevin connolly he

was inside the courtroom when the judge issued the sentence against his colleagues we had been prepared intellectually prepared when there was possible. that the judge would rule as it did. but nothing can prepare you for confronting. in justice as it happens the very hard work with words of warning for both young families we've been following this case from the beginning that we already know that there will be and that it is actually but that it's just it is not very good but it's really in this moment but it is not surprised us because we've been through this. a long. long and trial so in the rested in december last year a blues policeman admitted in court that the man had been entrapped and they had been researching a story about the mass killing and burial of ten million german in myanmar as

northern rock kind state the police offered them a key secret state documents that would corroborate their findings the documents would in fact not secret the situation was a setup and the reporters were arrested and charged under the official secrets act a law that has been on the books since the one nine hundred twenty three when myanmar was called burma and was a colony of great britain these two voices journalists were one of the few journalists that were actually doing investigative work into the situation in rakhine state they were sentenced under a clonal era law at the official secrets act but other repressive laws are extensively used as well the unlawful associations act the peaceful assembly act the penal code has a whole raft of repressive laws these two journalists reach their freedom and their their lives to expose regional site exposed the highest crime that was quite committed by the various military and this is the biggest threat for them for the

military but they will never tolerate this. government has a unique structure unlike any government anywhere else in two thousand and sixteen chief the political activist who had been kept under house arrest for fifteen years during the military dictatorship took up the post of state councilor akin to a prime minister. sure it was a momentous event i mean historic day for the better people around the world men must transition from military to civilian government was heralded as the start of an era of democracy for the country. and the reality was never quite so simple twenty five percent of parliamentary seats are reserved for the burmese military and as mandated by the constitution three key ministries of home affairs defense and border affairs are headed by serving members of the military franson suchi and her emily d. party being in government has effectively meant working alongside and often in

subservience to her former captors of his a anxiety che and her government are limited in their powers because the military are still very much in control the military control the police and much of the judiciary so i think cities government cannot stop the police arresting journalists or other human rights activists however they do have the power to stop prosecutions going forward and also under presidential amnesties they can release political prisoners but more importantly they have the power to repel these repressive laws that are being used but we've seen none of those actions by by the government in terms of and they're going into the. money that is but the problem is about radio you know not done yet where we are very disappointed about it so media freedom is not brought this country. to putting in local burmese outlets on the violence against the hinge of people has been poor it isn't just intimidation

censorship or lack of access that has affected the coverage many burmese have grown up hearing political and social rhetoric against it. calling them vermin illegals and a threat to the buddhist majority a lot of this language has been reproduced in the countries media over the years. and yet when it has come to the case of war loan and choice of journalists in myanmar have largely shown solidarity this case has set on winding precedent and they can see the danger that faces them on if you look at this media the majority of them the tool of the propaganda machine of the military and they have bred so many hatreds and mis information about the range of minorities but this too generally is when they were arrested medias to speak out but they are not doing this to generally expose the crime of the military but actually this media is

focusing more on the press freedom. whether media in myanmar choose to report on it or not but all of the country's military in the killings and forcing out of revenge of muslims has been documented in international reporting the un team said as too much that the military's scorched earth tactics have led to ten thousand deaths a conservative and most damningly in a recent report published by the united nations human rights council. the report states that the burmese commander in chief climbed and his deputies bear quote the greatest responsibility for the ethnic cleansing of range of people. the government declined our request for a statement on one woman and child whose case in a press conference however a spokesperson said the sentencing of the journalists was the clearest indication of an independent and a functioning judiciary. they had been hopes that aung san suu kyi would use one of

the few powers she does hold to grant a pardon to the reporters that didn't happen i mean a media landscape already intimidated and controlled by the state there's now a chill more intense than it has been in the past few years whatever happens now nothing can make up for. eight months while on trial so i have been. separated from their families deprived of their freedom and on the able to work as journalists. but it is important now. that the injustice of this conviction that the prison sentence be overturned. does send a very chilling message to the media and whether they are released and amnesty nato or not and a very strong message given about reporting on issues connected to the military issues relating to range and the situation in rakhine state unfortunately the verdict if anything provides support to those. in the security forces who sought to

cover up evidence of a real crime those who participated in the maps killing persons the ten year prison terms the two men who exposed the killing were sentenced to seven years as an injustice by any standard can't be allowed stand. for discussing other media stories that are on our radar today with one of our producers that. there's been a lot of concern over a new social media law that's been approved by the egyptian president of the father why the concern barbara this new law gives egypt supremes council for media regulation the power to monitor any social media account website or blog with more than five thousand photos which effectively means a personal choice of page can be regulated in the same way as a media outlet the law states that pages or websites that publish fake news or inciting material will be suspended or blogs and of course that's

a clause that can be interpreted very widely indeed a mistake international says it gives the state near total control over print online and broadcast media and i spoke with egyptian john that's almost ready for about the law. this new media law is nothing short of social political a six year for egyptian citizens it seeks to not only limit and suppress any journalistic. means of expression but it does so for citizen journalists more so than anything else you may not even think of yourself as a citizen journalist but you will be equally a respite if the government deems what you say to be inaccurate fake news or the worst case of all scenarios a threat to national security is so tight that this law specifically targets so-called fake news online and that's a big issue for the egyptian government isn't president fifi is blamed fake news

for spreading k. off and instability in egypt and july remove from terrorism loss of hope and feelings of frustration or these were in a ground network and that one objective only one objective and that if to move people to destroy that country of course accusing jonathan activists of spreading false rumors in egypt is not new but it is ironic because if the government that is often accused by critics of spreading fake news into if the information i'm going to need for told me that couple to have on the north in egypt has the effect of shutting down any difficulty of the government approved most every media law whether it be the recent recent media law just confirm or the cyber crimes law which preceded it or the terrorism law which preceded it by several years seek to do one thing and that is maximize and amplify government line and doctrine via of her.