there is growing international pressure on sun suchi and two governments to grant them pardons it's not a matter of lou they were not you because of a journey they would get you in jail because the court has well sentence has been passed on that because the court has decided that they had broken the official secrets act so if we believe in the rule of law they have every right to appeal the judgment and to point out why the gesture in this form if they consider it wrong me and my is expected to come under even more scrutiny at the united nations general assembly next week but aung san suu kyi will now not be attending. the two men charged by british prosecutors with two souls for a nerve agent attack say they were there as tourists appearing on russian state t.v. . off and alexander petroff said the visited the city to see its famous coffee drill and the timing of the novacek poisoning was a coincidence the u.k. government says the kremlin agents sent to murder the former russian spy service

cripple and his daughter yulia barker has the latest now from london. it's been very much perceived as a stage managed interview and attempt to turn britain's version of events very much on its head in many ways it's been for seen here is that as a bizarre interview the british government made it very very clear that they know full well that the chances of ever seeing these two men in a court of law in the u.k. is very very slim which is half the reason why they decided to release all of this information anyway they wanted to send a clear message to to russia that they know what russia has been up to on british saw they wanted to send a message also to britain's allies or warning perhaps of what potentially could happen and their countries to this isn't of course the first time that britain has been desperately trying to seek the extradition of two suspected killers is only a few years ago that under a look of void dmitri cough turn the they were accused of poisoning alexander

litvinenko the former f.s.b. officers were singled out by the british authorities under the look of i went on to become a member of the russian state duma and m.p. meaning he's immune from prosecution clearly the u.k. has been down this path before all they really feel that they can do is put forward their version of events that they say is based on fact and based on very strong intelligence hurricane florence has been downgraded to a category two storm as it heads for the u.s. east coast but weather forecasters are still warning of a disaster this is the latest satellite image it's now about three hundred eighty kilometers off shore it's expected to make landfall along the coast of north and south carolina and bring a life threatening storm surge ten million people and i wonder hurricane warning correspondent jim gray give us this update from north carolina. we're starting to feel the very initial effects of this thing the clouds are starting to swirl a bit i want to take you out to the sea here and what we've seen are just some real

dramatic swell some huge waves building out here and that's been happening through the morning here the water getting up further on the beach than it has in the last couple of days and high tide still several hours away here no rain at this point we do expect in about midday and then all of those conditions just going to intensify dramatically for the next twenty four to forty eight hours the track of the storm meandering just a bit we don't know exactly where or when it's going to make landfall and people get caught up on where this thing's going to strike where the eye is going to be important to remember with this storm peter it's a massive system and so the effects of this are going to be felt across the region and for a very long time this system expected to stall once it gets added or near the coast and linger for a couple of days here and so that's going to mean and tense flooding in some of the low lying areas and that storm surge is going to continue to be that and so it

could push huge waves into the inner core of this island and others that are in the strike path it's going to be a rough few days here for a lot of people still to head here on al-jazeera defiance in california the state leads the way on tackling climate change on the white house. and the u.k.'s government office businesses advice on how i was handle a new deal bricks. however we've got another tropical system making its way towards the south china sea ahead of its we have our old area of cloud and brian are all tropical storm that's going to make its way further west was very heavy rain. coming to the fos out west of china in the process but the next one that is of course a super typhoon mankiewicz and that's going to have an impact on the region or

friday coming on into sas day so fading its way across northern parts all the luzon and then eventually it will fade out towards well just to the west of hong kong towards high that that's going to the case as we go on through the weekend so flooding rains set me on the cots here meanwhile we've seen some very heavy rain into the northeast of india and bangladesh as well nothing like that kind of quantity but a firm ounce of disturbed weather just around the apostle of the go much of india as you can see a good deal of dry weather us and across an old and and western parts of the country maybe want to see showers down towards the southeast but the heavier right will be up towards bangladesh will be ha. pushing right across into central areas further north it is looking fine and dry temperatures still getting up into the thirty's in new delhi because she wanted to shallow as in the pakistan.

weather on line this isn't some abstract issue when you need to pay attention to their stores or if you join us on sat rather than stopping terrorism is creating it this is a dialogue and just the community want to add to this conversation we need a president who's willing to be a short while everyone has a voice i'm part of civil society i need but i never get listened to by those in the corridors of power join the conversation. on out to zero. a reminder of your headline so far this half hour the russian president has

inspected troops taking part in the biggest war games as the fall of the soviet union living in tents as the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is a peace loving state which doesn't have aggressive plans. the saudi and iraqi coalition of war in yemen says it continues to control a main route supplying the important port city of who data to the fighters are under playing the report saying they've repelled government forces the u.n. envoy to yemen is set to visit san are to revive peace talks. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for syria says nearly forty thousand to fled it lives since governments and russian strikes intensified last week and osmosis is calling for all parties involved in italy to stop hostilities and express the need for further humanitarian aid to be brought into the rebel held enclave. this is the twenty fifth anniversary of the oslo accords between israelis and palestinians now the deal set out a five year timetable for a two state solution but with each passing year palestinians have seen those

chances receipt very force it has been speaking to three young palestinians who've grown up as part of the so-called oslo generation. it's a sun dappled september day in ramallah families enjoying a public holiday twenty five years since israeli and palestinian leaders signed the oslo accords parts of the occupied west bank have attained limited self-government but a two state solution the overriding goal looks more distant now than it did then i sat down with three members of the so-called oslo generation palestinians who were born around the time of the agreement rita is an activist with the boycott divestment and sanctions movement aiming to marshal international economic pressure against israel for her it was flawed from the start of the twist. well tilt the fruit that. people second place just because it's it's just. people will depart from it think. it's funny that it

was there yeah but i think the structure. of here us are wired a youth member of the ruling fatah faction the agreement was a worthwhile if it was to do what they can do to be also has lots of positive sides to puts us geographically and politically on the international map also the return of some fifty five thousand palestinians including arafat also gave us interim self rule one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders with east jerusalem as capital unfortunately it was supposed to last five years it wasn't expected to drag for twenty five years that's a lifetime of. the accords which was supposed to be the starting point of a path toward statehood were immediately disrupted by a hamas bombing campaign and by the killing of the israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin by an assassin with far right views all the while the israeli right was gaining political ground promoting the inexorable expansion of illegal settlements

on the palestinian side came the split between hamas in gaza and fatah in the occupied west bank and a growing disillusionment with the leadership whose democratic mandate had long expired gin in our boots was once an activist but now she's given up on politics nothing have changed however everything's becoming even worse and worse as a listing and a lot of other palestinians are just fed up of the case and they're getting themselves out of politics and they just want of their life a poll released only to this anniversary suggests nearly three quarters of palestinians believe conditions were better before the two thirds feel the process has damaged the national interest such numbers may be on surprising right now with the us administration carrying out punitive measures against the palestinians and the. specs of a two state solution being at a particularly low at but they also reflect the legacy of what many here believe to have been twenty five last years how to force an al-jazeera ramallah in the

occupied west bank a high level conference on climate change is getting underway in san francisco the it is of the u.s. states and cities will go along with representatives of civil society organizations from around the world they hope to act on their own even if the u.s. government will join them for california fifth biggest economy the stakes are high his world runnels. more intense fires more devastating droughts deadly heat waves with tens of thousands of premature deaths a rising ocean and disastrous floods that's the future california faces due to manmade global warming over the next century according to a major new state climate change assessment university of california scientist stephanie penn's cell helped review the findings the future seems dire if we don't do anything the assessment says heat waves and polluted air could cause up to eleven thousand deaths annually by mid century the pain of climate change will be

felt most acutely by vulnerable poor and marginalized people the poor are going to be hit by the apocalyptic pitch like the poor are always hit by any apocalypse harder and worse aging infrastructure like this major dam that nearly failed last year will be heavily stressed by heavier rains and flooding associated with the changing climate california is already dealing with the biggest most deadly outbreak of wildfires in state history but the assessment says the area burned by such conflagrations will increase seventy seven percent by the turn of the century . and two thirds of california's famous beaches could completely disappear by then devoured by the pacific rising nearly three meters above its current level in response to these dire warnings about climate change california's legislature and

its governor of instituted a new law that would phase out the use of all fossil fuels to generate the state's electricity the law requires california to rely on renewable sources like solar and wind power for sixty percent of its energy by twenty thirty and for using only carbon free sources including nuclear power by twenty forty five it's not going to be easy and it will not be immediate but it must be done california is committed to doing whatever is necessary to meet the existential threat of climate change but with president donald trump's repudiation of the paris climate accord and his efforts to increase coal mining and relaxed standards for fuel efficient vehicles california is taking the lead hoping other states and cities will help it stays off a fiery and foreboding future robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. the british

prime minister to resign me has been holding a cabinet meeting to discuss scenarios for a new deal breaks it the u.k. government is about to publish guidance in case the e.u. in the u.k. will not reach an agreement but the huge chief negotiator michel barnier said on monday he thinks a deal can be struck in the next two months meanwhile some conservative m.p.'s have been recently discussed how they could force mrs made to stand as prime minister who has the latest for us from london. office day morning's meeting was looking at pushing out more of those technical notes that are there to provide some kind of answer in the eventuality of a no deal breaks it for example looking at how vehicle and environmental standards would fare in this scenario as well as looking at issues like mobile phone roaming charges but also ahead of that meeting as well with comments from the bracks it secretary dominic robb stating that if that would be the case and that no deal

would be the scenario that the country went down then it would not be obliged to pay the fifty one billion dollar divorce settlement now this run counter to what the chancellor of the exchequer had said earlier that the british finance minister saying that britain would fulfill its financial obligations i mean while all of this is taking place against a background of potential leadership challenge mrs may the prime minister is facing off some serious contenders with some ministers within her government even calling for her ouster whether she will face them off in time ahead of their party's conference in a few weeks time will be another matter altogether. the spanish government has changed its mind and is allowing a shipment of bombs to serbia arabia after all government leaders announced last week they've cancelled the delivery of four hundred guided weapons control activists say they're disappointed by the u.-turn and they're calling for

a government rethink it. afghans are suffering drought so severe that a quarter of a million people have abandoned their homes so far this year in search of water and food and the u.n. says more afghans of left their homes because of drought than war his rhetorical. when the rain stopped falling earlier this year many afghans knew the trouble was coming but they never imagined that the subsequent drought would be so bad they be forced to leave their homes to survive the u.n. says in the first week of september one hundred twenty thousand displaced people arrived in cali now the provincial capital of baghdad province others ended up in this camp for displaced people in neighboring hereat it was coalition if you will this was a good medicine i'm a widow with two children who came here because we were starving destroyed our crops of wheat the land is to try to grow anything. reduced a fall in scarce rains in northwest afghanistan have caused the drought disaster

there's a shortage of drinking water and grazing land for cattle the un says a quarter of a million afghans have abandoned their homes so far this year in search of water that's five times the number displaced by fighting between government forces and taliban and eisel fighters during the same period more than two million people are at risk of not having enough to eat the u.n. says one hundred fifteen million dollars is needed to help those affected we've now got a quarter of a million people who have been displaced almost certainly because of the drought and this is the number that we thought we would see by the end of this year so we're currently revising our figures but my main message is the situation's extremely serious and we need to act faster now. many families in the camps are surviving on a single meal a day many get by on just bread and water mom is your fine line we've been here for

four or five months and as you can see no one has helped us life is miserable we have no flour no sugar nothing the u.n. and partners are planning to deliver thirteen thousand tons of food to six hundred thousand people in the coming weeks but reaching these relatively remote provinces is another challenge they'll face victoria gate and be algis there are. plenty more news comment and analysis on our website for you is there twenty four seven of course al-jazeera dot com. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories the russian president has inspected troops taking part in the largest war games since the fall of the soviet union but he may putin says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is a peace loving state which doesn't have aggressive plans the saudi an iraqi coalition of war in yemen says it continues to control

a main route supplying the important port of a data hoofy fighters underplaying the reports saying they've repelled government forces kilo sixteen as it's known as one of the main hoofy supply routes linking her data to the rebel held capital the un envoy to yemen is set to visit sanaa to revive the ceasefire talks. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator to syria says nearly forty thousand of lead it lives since government and russian airstrikes intensified last week and last month says this calling for all parties involved in it liberal stop hostilities and expressed the need for further humanitarian aid to be brought into the rebel held enclave the two men charged by british prosecutors with the soles for a nerve agent a taxi they were there as tourists appearing on russian state t.v. off and alexander petroff said they went to the city to see its famous cathedral and the timing of the navi chalk poisoning was a coincidence. hurricane florence has been downgraded to

a category two storm as it heads towards the u.s. east coast but weather forecasters are still warning of a disaster this is the latest satellite image it's now about three hundred eighty kilometers off shore it's expected to make landfall on the coast of north and south carolina and bring a life threatening storm surge ten million people are now under hurricane warnings the spanish government has changed its mind as it is allowing a shipment of bombs to saudi arabia after all arms control activists say they're disappointed by the u.-turn and they've urged a government rethink diplomats and dignitaries from around the world are in ghana for the state funeral of kofi annan two thousand guests were invited to the capital accra to celebrate the life of this former u.n. secretary general the nobel peace prize winner passed away last month at the age of eighty gone as president described him as a quintessential diplomat those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream i will see you've very soon.

al-jazeera. wherever you. hi i'm femi oke a it's a day of checking in on three stories that we're following very closely here on the stream a recent report by human rights watch finds horrific a piece of muslims in china and then how it confronts is moving money singly towards the east coast of the united states imo it could be a lot i'll be looking for your comments on twitter and of course in our you tube shop first though a story unfolding right here in washington d.c. . trump administration will not keep open when the palestinians refused to take steps to start direct meaningful negotiations with

israel the united states supports a direct and robust peace process and we will not allow the i.c.c. or any other organization to constrain israel's right to self-defense. monday the government of u.s. president donald trump announced the closure of the palestinian liberation organization or the p.l.o. mission in washington d.c. the decision is the latest in a whole series of steps taken by trump against palestinian leadership late last year the u.s. recognized to receive them as the capital of israel and earlier this month it announced it would stop funding the un agency the palestinian refugee that provides to more than five million people a palestinian authority spokesman described this latest move i'm going to quote him here as a declaration of war and of quote on the peace process well to discuss all this and more from fairfax virginia knew it i've got the human rights lawyer an assistant professor at george mason university welcome to the stream now in that clip of john

bolton we heard his mention of the i.c.c. and you explain the connection for our audience. absolutely the i.c.c. is the international criminal court in the us has been wary of any kind of international criminal jurisdiction over its military forces in the world since the i.c.c. came to into existence in two thousand and two and in fact the clinton administration was opposed to it and the bush administration entered into memorandums of understanding with multiple states in order to ensure that none of its service members would ever be prosecuted abroad or by the i.c.c. so there is a longstanding hostility towards this international mechanism now fast forward and the palestinians have filed a claim against israel in the international criminal court both for its settlement project in the west bank as well as its warfare on the gaza strip three large scales offensives between two thousand and eight and two thousand and fourteen the

us and israel try to blackmail the palestinian authority and tell them rescind your complaint or will withdraw all money from you the palestinians refused and now we see in john bolton's announcement not only targeting the p.l.o. but taking a direct target at the i.c.c. in order to protect itself and israel sitting basically setting itself up not just as the trumpet ministration verses the palestinians but literally the trumpet ministration verses the entire world the rule of law the international criminal legal system as we know it no i'm just wondering if these closing of the office emotions d.c. it's a metaphor for the relationship between the low and the trump of ministration right now not even a deep metaphor not quite it it's actually lacks any kind of subtlety we should understand this on two levels what we're seeing is the shattering of the doors of a diplomatic process that from the beginning has been a farcical peace process the austral accords better known as the declaration of

principles that are signed in one thousand nine hundred three had a built in flaw from the beginning in that they never guarantee. palestinian sovereignty or state but instead created the facts on the ground that we know today which is the permanence of the settlement project which is the permanence of the occupation and palestinian participation in that has made it possible and given it more life so the shattering of the p.l.o. offices is a closure and you know obvious to the rest of the world that this fake process is now no longer you know nobody nobody is getting dressed to participate in this political theater anymore but the other part that we should be paying attention to is that what this represents is that the u.s. has never been an honest broker in the negotiations and that this is the u.s. is not just complicit but it's a third party in this conflict and the international community never never.

never for them it's never as a never ever ever ever and i'm a lawyer and i'm a lawyer and i take my word seriously so why why how can i say that with so much confidence if you go back since the one nine hundred sixty seven war in the context of the cold war the us decided in that moment that israel would be its most unique and beneficial ally to achieve its objectives through out the middle east and has since then provided it with qualitative military edge to be able to defeat singularly or collectively all of it's all of the middle eastern states and any kind of military battle that's one and the second is protected israel from any kind of international legal accountability now fast forward to the present in the peace process itself the u.s. has made clear and aaron david miller who was part of the negotiations and an envoy for the u.s. in this process has said explicitly that the u.s. has not been a broker and has been

a lawyer for israel now going after the president all the trumpet ministration is doing is removing the been near removing any kind of sense that the u.s. is an honest broker and being really honest about the fact that it is there to ensure israel's interests and to ensure that the international community and international law is not part of resolving this conflict on those terms good i'm glad you brought it to the present because we got this comment here on you tube from someone watching live this is just the who says this is no way towards peace that's for sure someone else on twitter echoing that sentiment says this would be another major mistake from the top administration apart from relocating the u.s. embassy to jerusalem it's a wrong decision for political security and peace reason so updating us to today and what this actually means for palestinians on the ground what's your answer there. how listin eons have been enduring structural violence in the form of and apart regina as well as settler colonial removal on

a daily basis with or without the peace process that is basically put in place in order to alleviate the conscience of the international community and to believe that this is really just the conflict between the palestinians and israel when in fact this is a geo political conflict where the u.s. and israel are together reshaping the facts on the ground in order to create a new status quo where palestinians live under subjugation permanently we should not make the mistake of pointing to the trumpet ministration as being the final death now the us administration has played this role for over fifty years and we should hold the obama administration the bush administration the clinton administration the president should ministration and so on and so forth accountable for these present day circumstances this should compel us to not just oppose what the us is doing to not just impose sanctions upon israel for practicing apartheid but to internationalize the question of palestine once and for all and to take it

out of the backwaters of bilateral negotiations where it facilitates where it facilitates the entrenchment of the status quo and making the subjugation of palestinians a permanent condition we're going to leave it on that excellent point of course the story is far from over so we look forward to having you back on the show from here a report from human rights watch about the treatment of turkic muslims in china some evidence of large scale repression and surveillance as part of a mass crackdown now different our community is in malaysia but want to cover the issue out of china. currently committing a human rights violation to my knowledge. and to education can post if you are not using go are. just yes and it works and we send the rest of heaven and not the christ. yet a much larger in your skill. relation and our. human rights

watch report entitled eradicating ideological viruses china's campaigner for oppression against muslims presents new evidence of the chinese government's mass arbitrary detention torture and increasingly pervasive controls on the daily life of more than thirteen million turkic muslims and estimated one million people are being held in prison camps with no access to legal counsel or due process here's one former detainees story muslim militant. islam and. muslim monkey even then told to get it. right they able to just look. it up let me make it then and so. it was. clear.

from washington d.c. sophie richardson is the china director at human rights watch and in london ryan sam is a historian of islam in china and india ryan and sophie thank you for joining us there's a tweet that i shared out a few hours ago to tell our audience that you are going to be on the show let me share it with you here hard to believe this but it's true china installing q all codes on we go muslim homes as part of mass accused to crack down and then you see what i mean by this rioting can you explain how this works and why would china want to do this to members of their own communities. well the chinese concern about. the resistance and they're convinced that the reason that we girls are unhappy with chinese rule because they have wrong ideas and so they're engaged in a project of. thoughts and of trying to transform leaders into.

more more of a chinese type of. culture so this requires beijing the privacy of people requires track where people live and what they're up to and this you are clued at the door is just one of one of the myriad of. features to. keep track of every individual member of the minority group. so if you want to share this we got from she's not here as r.n. and she's the first of course that pitching this segment of the show she says i think the main issue for me is how the issue is being censored in the republic the people's republic of china having lived there this issue was not even spoken in public and actually i soon that was due to fear of persecution but eventually i realized it's due to them being unaware of it even happening so sophie of course this report will mean that people are more aware what do you think is the biggest

finding from this report. well there are a couple of different issues not least new evidence of horrific abuse is the fact that repression outside the camps is almost as bad as repression inside the camps there are international consequences for people who have family members outside china or people in the africa who are being terrorized by chinese nationals largely to try to get them to come back so to speak to you know the other person's point of a moment ago. people across china are allowed to know what the government wants them to know and the extent that they're given any information about young at all it tends to be on my phobic tend to paint that community in very tokenistic terms and so you know there's there's not much readily available information and well i'd like to think that our and other people who contribute to changing the. censorship

in china is pervasive and so. forth like ours or a program like this one. ryan going back to also to see new evidence shows that china is in the education council weakest spending. what does that tell us a little bit about that. regard evident from the tiny governments quest for construction companies. to these camps and those those requests include plans for camps that would be coming online later this fall or maybe earlier that winter which suggests that even as we speak right now new. turn based on their. criminal charges. so what do you know about what gets

people into the camps what do they have to have done to be taken away oh it's a little having protests you know in the religious ceremony. resisting purchase of peeping in weekly singing songs or evenings it's as little as having family members who. countries like turkey or malaysia or indonesia you know it's very important understand nothing in chinese law that allows for these so these were the tension that people in essentially you know identity and there are. earlier and become the basis of arbitrary or arbitrary detention it's interesting you mention having family members of broad can be a reason to not this is a way they're bulletin who sent us a series of tweets you can see on our twitter feed they read them and why and it's already

a well known fact that the flow of information from east turkistan saying to the outside world is strictly controlled by china state surveillance and censorship apparatus with the help of the band's ai technology this effectively has prevented the news about the vast network of internment camps to reach the global audience through the internet and besides the information blockage by the government self-censorship on social media has become a widespread norm in the weaker community i'm wondering sophie how long do you know that this is going on. i've been working on these kinds of issues for twenty years and throughout that entire time i hope. your friends and colleagues say that they are deeply frightened about phone calls about technological communications being surveilled being monitored you know. having people in the community who are essentially on the chinese government payroll who are surveilling others but i think it's very clear that. even considerably in the last few years

as people try to find out what's happening to their family members inside the country but are also on the receiving end of phone calls from chinese officials in their hometowns calling them and saying you need to come back now you know we're concerned about what we're doing overseas and if you don't come back your family's going to pay the price and i'm just thinking this report is out there this new evidence it's very clear that the living and we've we've known this for some while but we've got to tell us that they're living in it's like almost a george a well again kind of reality for them what happens next what would happen to the international community if they said to china ok you need to stop this. well we're already starting to see some pushback from united states and quite possible with the u.s. congress people speaking out and perhaps the executive branch speaking out which is

under consideration the moment we'll start to see more countries. certainly there has been a lot of a lot of complete perhaps. some governments are stink because of their fear of economic record you should from from china but it seems to me that as as awareness grows that it's going to be hard for governments to convince their own population that they have a good reason to stay silent. on this kind of situation. orwellian word you use this is really really appropriate for them there is no private they left readers and want to be remarkable think that came out in the human rights watch report was a report of someone who has a camera. for her own home we also know about living in the homes. of atrocities and ryan and i think i think exactly what you are

detailing here is what our community's picking up on arm ourselves not a lot shocks me but this report about the chinese government putting q.r. codes on weaker muslim holes certainly has one i think sophie and ryan for being part of this conversation today and as always will be following the weezer story i mean. this is what confronts looks like com let me give you a little bit more detail here it's a category three hurricane which means the winds around one hundred twenty five miles an hour or two hundred kilometers an hour moving slowly towards the eastern side of the u.s. and when it does it's expected to dump catastrophic amounts of rain how do you prepare for. this big and this strong let's say for our community in north carolina has a very good idea. my organizing efforts for hurricane florence are focused on direct giving for three reasons one we know that government and not for profit

led recovery efforts often leave brown and poor people out to direct giving insurers that one hundred percent of what is donating goes directly to those in need and three this also allows resources to reach those in need quickly and immediately when they need it the most. valley is made urologists an owner of the weather consulting and has had to evacuate from his home state of north carolina but still made time to join us here in the stream thank you for that and i want to start with this tweet because we're hearing from people directly affected who will be dr sarah says i have stocked up on groceries i will get gas on my way home or move anything inside that can blow away i'm in line enough to be more worried about localized flooding and falling limbs and until those things happen good books and netflix so for people who are perhaps more directly in the line or the path of this hurricane what's your advice to them what are you telling people. yeah absolutely i

think you know at this point it's wednesday afternoon the storm is coming late thursday in through the weekend and at this point if you're in the path of the storm you need to have finalized most of your preparations at this point whether that's finding higher ground if you're near the coast stocking up on on supplies nonperishable food items gasoline all those necessities that you you would need in order to survive a power power outage that could last as much as two weeks in some locations so certainly we need to be finalizing those preparations now as florence makes its run at us here over the next few days and not something the top tapes ad from your twitter things because when people evacuated it's not just the just drive out and head north away from the storm because thousands of other people are also doing the same thing have a look at what ed was recommending using the attic gas buddy app so that you can work out how do you not run out of gas other practical tips will be what. you know

i think at this point again we're towards the end of the preparation cycle are you saying it's too late if you haven't done it you're in trouble you know we're starting to see gasoline shortages in portions of the carolinas anywhere from about ten percent ten to fifteen percent of gasoline is already out in some of these locations so you know we again you need to be finalizing meaning reparations now because you know it's going to be too late as the storm is bearing down on us as we speak people are already talking about inches and how much rainfall there might be but it's really hard if you're not a weather person to understand what that means what might happen to north carolina and south carolina in the next three days. so a really good comparison here we had hurricane matthew that impacted a lot of the same area including my hometown here of fayetteville. in two thousand and sixteen and that dropped anywhere from ten to twenty inches of rain over a few days span and we saw the rivers rapidly rise we saw

a lot of homes washed away just because of the power of the water so you know we're getting to the situation now where this rain is going to cause issues and you know that's going to lead to flooding not only right along the coastline but well inlet wherever this storm goes right now we're thinking it's going to hit southern south or north carolina and then turn westward into south carolina as we move through the weekend and that slope forward motion is going to lead to a lot of rainfall like you mentioned anywhere from ten to in some cases thirty inches of rain and that's going to lead to devastating flooding and again this is why we preach the preparation for this storm because in some cases if you're your place gets flooded you could be weeks without power and without any access to you know any sort of real food you know you need to have those backup supplies just in case and it's not only just the preparation for the public but it's also portions

of the add community agriculture community in the carolinas that there's a lot of low income areas in these areas and you know that's going to lead to a lot of of heartache if the preparations are taken seriously i'm glad you mentioned preparations there ad of course the president has been talking in recent days he says that these coast is very prepared he also mentioned of course the last year's hurricane maria and said that it was an sunk success what his administration's response was angele says my traumatized relatives and heartbroken dad who disagree with the response to hurricane maria was an unsung success she goes on to say i have a sibling now in jacksonville north carolina who may be leaving the state soon and the fact that she is by the water when a category four is coming it's scary to think about how prepared are these not just the people but the communities the authorities and the states. right and the one thing that's a positive in this situation is the carolinas are used to dealing with these types

of storms it's been a while the last major hurricane to impact this area was actually hurricane floyd in one nine hundred ninety nine so it's been almost twenty years but a lot of these people have have either dealt with a tropical storm or a weaker hurricane and are fairly familiar with how to prepare for these systems but that doesn't change the fact that even if you're well inland you could be dealing with like jacksonville for example you can be dealing with hurricane force gusts and plenty of heavy right we've got thirty seconds left just enough time a distance from this this this track right now that doesn't mean it's exactly going to go in this direction but just over the next couple of days by so that the bottom here through to fry is a this is where how it confronts it's like a land and then he just sits and sits rains so he's expecting to see a lot of rain there as well ed thank you so much for joining us and a reminder to our community if you have a story you'd like to see on this train catch us at we'll see you next time.

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a new spirit guide on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you very much for joining us the united nations says it's shared the g.p.s. coordinates of schools and hospitals with russia turkey and the u.s. led coalition as it tries to prevent what it feels will be a bloodbath in syria's rebel held province almost forty thousand people have fled since jerry and russian warplanes intensified as strikes out of a moving assault to win back what is the final major opposition stronghold. it leap is the most congested governorate in syria more than three million people living there about one point four million internally displaced. it's the situation in libya is really very different to any other area given the composition of including all the fighters an extremist groups that are there and that really brings the need for humanitarian diplomacy for diplomacy folk conflict prevention key element too

of course is that at the moment as humanitarians while we hope for the best we're preparing for the worst. there's been so much international attention on it in the past few days and waste our just want to remind you of what we're talking about here take a look at this at al-jazeera dot com it is in the northwest of syria bordering turkey it's the last rebel stronghold as you can see in green almost completely surrounded by syrian government territory in red the province is strategically important because of on the one sided she has a border with the province of latakia which is where the biggest russian airbase in syria is and on the other side as you can see it borders turkey also the strategic m five highway the main access route to the north of syria passes through ed label as bring in stephanie decker who is monitoring the situation in syria for us from antakya near the turkey syria border seventy we've been talking for days now about this looming all out government offensive on it led where do things stand right now on the ground. well it's been quiet for a it's

a third day with no airstrikes with no barrel bombs as some sporadic artillery fire across frontlines in the south of the province but that's it and i think reading between the lines we can read that turkey has been given more time to work out some form of a deal on the ground with the groups of course it is the guarantor of the armed groups on the ground in live the sticking point particularly the group. known as the mr front and believed by russia the u.s. u.n. and others to be linked to al qaeda regardless of this offensive not having started in full for the psychological impact on the people certainly have people are worried people are expecting something to happen at some point to their has already been displacement as you mentioned and one man we spoke to recently he was fleeing those southern areas when there was that bombardment said that he didn't feel there was any where a safe to go because he felt that the offensive would come and would consume the entire province we heard a call from the united nations humanitarian coordinator today stephanie for

facilities hospitals schools in the to be protected is that feasible just how difficult is it going to be to separate you know civilians from the find is that the syrian government would be going after. well there's a couple of issues with that yes there's been a lot of concern expressed by the fact that the fighters are in these cities in heavily populated cities i mean stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy to syria called for the fighters to leave you have been various calls for the fighters to leave i think that is sort of unrealistic you know there's calls for the what they call terrorist groups to distance themselves separate themselves from other groups it's going to be incredibly difficult how this is all going to play out ali you know the numbers that the u.n. is talking about worst case scenario expecting almost a million people to flee nine hundred thousand seven hundred thousand of those expected to go into opposition areas and the only area as you saw from that map

earlier is just to the north which is pretty much under turkey's control groups that turkey supports turkey's going to keep its waters closed people want to go to safety but certainly if this offensive goes full scale i think it's going be very difficult and many people will tell you people who are experienced who've been in and out of turkey working in it live will tell you that they fear a real bloodbath because of the multiple different groups on the ground they are suspicious of each other guns will be turned on each other airstrikes and again we have seen in the past regardless of coordinates having been given that hospitals and schools and the cities like that do get hit thank you for that stephanie decker live for us in an taqiyya west let's take a closer look now at these multiple groups that are in it is home to about a dozen rebel factions with seventy thousand affiliated fighters these are some of the main ones. which used to call itself i'm not sure from the group said it severed ties with al qaeda in two thousand and sixteen but the u.s. russia and iran are skeptical of that the united nations estimates it has around

ten thousand fighters and then we have an offshoot of that group called harass dina's sought to have two thousand members half of them foreigners there is also the relatively new national liberation front believed to be backed by turkey and includes groups like harare. then you also have groups lie. turkistan islamic party made up of ethnic chinese way course let's bring in marwan to the news great he's a syria analyst and director of the absent for research and policy studies at the doha institute very good to have you with us as we've said there are multiple groups not just one fighting inside it labe right now and these groups are stephanie said are very suspicious of each other how difficult and complicated a battle is this going to be when it actually begins is very complicated this is why the turks have been trying actually over the past few months to sabrina between the so-called extremist and moderates within the syrian opposition as you know it live has become the home of more of the syrian. opposition

factions because you know they have been actually relocated from different. places around the country you'll remember that the regime. in fact took. those groups who have very few was actually to accept to the sovereignty of the regime there they were actually relocated to live and in the same exactly the same had been in daraa in the south and then in the north and in countryside of homs so all these groups actually have been gathered here in this in this part of syria and if so this is why we are having so many armed groups here and they are actually very different in terms of ideology and out agenda in terms of what it was going to come to that we heard from the qatari foreign minister earlier who called on extremist groups to put down their arms who are the so-called moderate groups inside it leave who are the extremists and how difficult will it be to convince them to lay down their office to extremist actually are those who are physically needed by the united nations security council as terrorists

a group such as. awful and of course. as they call it right now is considered an extremist that we have also as you said in your report that we have what was the deal they are an off. short of eisen in fact and we have all sort of took stanley army which is also a concert that an x. there was a group so these are actually the groups which are the push which is mainly on these groups in order to lay their arms down and i mean try actually to find a solution for them because. the duke's actually a country that has been very actually it has been trying actually to i mean to do that because the turks they have really leverage and but have so far failed and this is why to has also does ignited an ocelot or as a terrorist group last week because they feared actually the turks they feel to

convince and muscle to this sort itself to lay down arms. and joined the moderate syrian opposition factions supported by turkey which is a different story here because that the national liberation front actually is an amber alert group that was actually established by the by to keep the i mean the turks actually deployed them together and try to unite them and the umbrella they are considered as moderate opposition groups they are mainly the syrian the for the free syrian army now the syrian government has made it clear it wants to take back the entire province entire province if that happens where these different groups going to go to whether it's the extremists or the so-called this is very it's very it's very complicated it's different from any of our confrontation in syria because this is the last actually place where anybody can go in syria. and this is why it's going to be very difficult for the syrian vision for the syrian government to launch an all out attack on adelaide because as you said in your report actually we

have like sixty to seventy thousand fighters die hard fighters who are willing to die because they have no other place to go some of them autumn or there's a said some of them are extremists the syrian army is actually to launch an attack on edna is going to unite all of them actually against such so this is why if there's an. doc it's going to be bloody long and is going to have very dire consequences for the civilians there don't forget that we have three million civilians they are actually they live in an adlib and this is why it's extremely difficult for the russians to go for an article so that the sea knight is here this is why this city window for diplomatic solution to this it seems that we're now holding pattern right now that everyone is waiting to see that this is not the situation with all of these for now is actually trying to avoid the sort of but it did a confrontation all automatic with asia in order not to create the sort of humanitarian catastrophe and despite the city as always very good to get your insight on the

situation in syria thank you so very much for joining us on the news great now let's bring in our social media producer and to ship out and do a lot of the chat online and in diplomatic circles is how to define these various groups and. yet it's a heated conversation from as high up as the united nations security council we've certainly seen that over the past week as diplomats constantly bicker about who is a quote unquote terrorist and who isn't we just heard that a few moments ago and lots of generalizations are being used by russian and syrian accounts media outlets and diplomats kind of lumping all of these fighters and all of it live the whole province into one of two categories either terrorists or rebels this is from a russian news outlet now the russians are even pushing back on the idea that what's about to happen in it live can even be described as a military operation on tuesday the russian ambassador of a sealy in the business said that quote we are not talking about a military operation here we are talking about and anti terrorist operation in libya.