southeast asia in hanoi was the first international speaking engagement since a united nations report was released last month that called for genocide charges to be laid against me and military leaders for attacks on rigging your communities in rakhine state that report was also very critical of aung san suu kyi and her government for their failure to condemn the violence something she also refused to do here in hanoi there are of cause. we simply too with hindsight might think that the situation could have been handled better but we believe that for the sake of long term stability and security we have to be fair to all sides that rule of law must apply to everybody we cannot choose and pick who should be protected by the rule of law and have to keep repeating because people are very few are interested in that aspect of the situation that in the rakhine there are many many small groups ethnic groups and religious groups and there don't

just the muslims and the kind and the seem to be at the section of much of the world for example we are very small ethnic groups which are fast disappearing but nobody seems to be interested in them and yet they are the ones who could disappear altogether because some are now down to four fingers she was also asked about the case of the two reuters journalists who last week were jailed for seven years. and while lone were arrested last year while investigating a massacre in rakhine state and there was growing international pressure on sun suchi and two governments to grant them pardons it's not a matter of lou they were not jailed because of adjournment they would do in jail because the court has well sentence have been passed on them 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 room 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. so the cow in this half hour of news hurricane florence is downgraded but forecasters warn the slow moving storm could cause catastrophic flooding across the southeast of the u.s. and this placed by drought a portion of a million afghans abandon their homes in search of water. hello we've got another tropical system making its way towards the south china seas ahead of that we do 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 into the fosse

out west of china in the process but the next one that is of course super typhoon mankiewicz and that's going to have an impact on the region or friday coming on into sas day so feeding its way across northern parts of 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 certainly 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 parts of the bingo much of india as you can see a good deal of dry weather and across northern and western parts of the country maybe want to see showers down towards the southeast but the heavier rain 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 he wanted to showers in the pakistan. it. doesn't even need to. be for. i am managing. to. get. my nigerian on al-jazeera.

had enough for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the two men suspected of poisoning a former russian spy and distorter in salzburg in the u.k. have appeared on television in russia insisting they were in the british city to visit its famous cathedral the u.n. warns hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk as fighting between the saudi emirati coalition and who the rebels escalates in the yemeni port city of the data and me on mars leader and son suchi has admitted her government could have handled it range of crisis better after a military crackdown seoul seven hundred thousand people flee the country. nearly twelve thousand people have been evacuated from their homes in southern china after typhoon brought torrential rain to the city of sunshine it's the twenty sora typhoon to threaten china just this year work has been suspended at more than two hundred construction sites and thousands of emergency vessels on standby meanwhile

countries across southeast asia bracing for super typhoon monkhood which is gathering strength near the new. in philippines thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal areas of the from the cubans main island zone the typhoon is expected to make landfall on saturday with wind speeds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour it's expected to be the strongest of fifteen storms which have hit the country this year well meanwhile nasa has released high definition images of hurricane florence as it traveled northwest with one hundred seventy seven kilometers an hour winds approaching the u.s. eastern coast the footage was filmed from the international space station florence is now being downgraded to a category two storm but forecasters warn it could still cause catastrophic flooding across america's southeast and is still a grave threat to life and property a hurricane is expected to hit north carolina's southern coast on friday pulling

a lot of moisture out of the ocean you're already seeing rain bands come along come along the carolina shoreline and unfortunately these rain bands are going to be with us for several days we're going to get we're going to you know for casters are basically indicating feet of rain not inches and in portions of the carolinas and in into her genius so this is a very dangerous storm inland flooding kills a lot of people unfortunately and that's what we're about to see. two days after he praised his administration's response to the hurricane that hit puerto rico president trump has rejected the widely accepted death toll from the disaster without offering any evidence he tweeted that three thousand people did not die and the numbers were inflated by the democrats to make him look as bad as possible a study ordered by puerto rico's government recently found that the category four hurricane maria killed an estimated two thousand nine hundred seventy five people

either directly or indirectly in the six months after it hit its get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly out how could so there was already an outcry after he praises administration's performance in puerto rico because of course three thousand people still deep did die so why these latest tweets do we know what's behind it. yeah certainly donald trump may not have a full understanding of how reporting works with regard to the storm and its aftermath and is sort of bristling and somewhat sensitive given the fact that you know we're approaching pivotal elections in november and so any sort of criticism it appears by this president is something that he and welcomes and it seems particularly hostile and aggressive in terms of reacting and this seems to be further evidence of it just to try and put this into a little bit of perspective where did this this latest number come about the death toll in puerto rico as

a result of hurricane maria last year will initially donald trump is correct initially when he first went there in the number was in the dozens but that's from the storm actually hitting but there was an aftermath where there was a delay in aid because this is puerto rico is an island it's hard to get at there the infrastructure was badly hurt by hurricane maria which made air lifting and dropping very difficult as well and so that number of dead continue to rise given the fact that people didn't have access to food they didn't have access to water and there was extreme heat with no relief so those numbers were revamped to take into account the related deaths and this is what the president seems particularly sensitive about and also is sort of bristling in trying to portray this is a big success because you remember a year ago the united states wasn't just dealing with hurricane maria it was also dealing with hurricane harvey and that was a more successful relief operation because it took place in texas in the contiguous

united states where it was easier for the aid to get in in comparison to getting to an island but the president doesn't seem to understand the complexities of that and it is reflected in his tweet which is now getting a lot of criticism well given this criticism and given as you say that we are weeks away from the midterms is there a sense that the government authorities are better prepared for hurricane florence which of course is the harken facing the u.s. now. right well certainly the government it appears is doing everything it can to warn residents to to stockpile two to put things in place via the military except or in order to respond accurately but the problem is you never actually know what you're dealing with until it hits so the government will tell you fema is the agency in charge of that is making those preparations but again it seems to have a lot to do with politics that the president is lashing out and in fact is very interesting because the mayor of san juan in puerto rico issued his own tweet to

counter what donald trump had to say in fact he said damn it this is not about politics this was always about saving lives almost trying to inject the priority back into this debate as it veers or careens off into the politics mayor who is a lot of experience in the still dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane trying to focus the attention of america and the government where it needs to be and that is with the another hurricane careening towards the united states so that we can really help you with the latest from washington kimberly thank you a state funeral has been hope for the former u.n. secretary general kofi annan in his home country he died last month of the age of eighty mourners gathered at the crime international conference center to mark the end of sri days of national mourning for the respect that the people meant joining his family would dignitaries from around the world including the current u.n. secretary general and to a new. appointed recess more now from across. coffee and an is being celebrated

more than being mourned here in ghana because of his numerous contributions to international diplomacy. of course uplift in the name of garner to the rest of the world not to talk to me father about the passing of coffee and as the current special representative of the united nations general in west africa who has been our deployment for most of his life comedy which i must talk to is about the person of coffee and you are gone inside of you our department and what can a person to say why are people celebrating coffee and today instead of. i think essentially it's because of his gentle nature his humility. kofi was somebody who even if you didn't know him before once you came into contact with him he had this calming effect and he.

took his personality into his job as the i is the ranking diplomat the world's diplomat the one secretary general of the united nations this peace for ten of peace accords the coffee he projected into rather terrible and well i've been very effective and courageous in confronting many of the ills that afflict our world. french president emanuel mccrone has acknowledged for the first time that the french state was responsible for the systematic use of torture during the jury unworn the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's the pressure butler has more on this from paris well this is a very significant statement by him at all michael it is the first time that a french president has admitted state responsibility in the death of morris or dan one hundred fifty seven during the algerian war of independence now more saddam was

a mathematics teacher at the university of algiers he was a communist he was an anti colonial activist and what his widow says is the one evening he was taken away from his home by the french military taken to a prison and then she never saw him again the french military said to her that he had escaped but she never believed them she believed that he had been tortured and that he'd died in captivity well it's only now more than sixty years later that the french president has admitted that morris or died did die that he was tortured at the hands of the french military and it's a very significant statement indeed it closes a chapter for her and it also perhaps opens one one another one for other people because he has said that the french state archives on that period of time will be open so other people other relatives of people who disappeared at the time we have

to find out what happened to their loved ones and whether or not the french military was involved in their deaths for saying in france the president has also unveiled a multibillion dollar plan to tackle poverty it includes making education or training compulsory up to the age of eighteen and providing free breakfasts for the poorest children. if we don't want poverty to be a dead end forever we need to get people back to work because having a job gives them an income which allows them to be proud and to have a normal social life i don't want to plan for poor people to live better i want to give them a choice so they don't feel like they were lying or welfare because that brings humiliation. afghans are suffering drought so severe that a quarter of a million have abandoned their homes this year in search of water and food the u.n. says more afghans have left their homes because of drought than because of war victoria gating the reports. when the rain stopped falling earlier this year many

afghans knew that 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 bhaag province others ended up in this camp for displaced people in neighboring hereat. i'm a widow with two children who came here because we were starving the truck destroyed our crops of wheat the land is to try to grow anything. reduced playful and scarce rains in northwest afghanistan have caused the drought disaster there's a shortage of drinking water and grazing land for cattle. the u.n. 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 i still find it is doing 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 a surviving on a single meal a day many get by on just bread and water so. 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 picture

a gate and be al jazeera. well say in afghanistan the country has its own charlie chaplin who says he is the term and to give people there a reason to smile karim sierra's been performing across kabul in chaplin's trademark oversized shoes id pants cane and black bowler hat the twenty five year old says he has received threats but that is the term meant to bring laughter back to the capital. as one of my goals should the show is to give people a chance to forget their problems such as conflict and insecurity in afghanistan i want people to forget these issues for a moment and be amused. in a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the two men wanted for the attempted murder of a former russian spy and his daughter in saul's very say they were in the city as

tourists appearing on russian state t.v. ruslana bashir of an alexander petro of say they visited the u.k. in march to cecil's breeze a famous cathedral they're accused of trying to poison said gania less script with a nerve agent novacek. well russia's president meanwhile as inspect the troops taking part in the largest war games since the fall of the soviet union and for the first time chinese troops joined the weeklong exercise let me putin says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened russia is a peace loving state. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for yemen says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as intense fighting between the saudi and erotic coalition and who the rebels escalates in the fourth city of a data the coalition says it continues to control a main supply route into the city but who the fighters are downplaying those reports. meanwhile the u.n. is calling for all parties involved in syria's province to stop postal ities so

humanitarian aid can be delivered to the rebel held enclave nearly forty thousand people of reporters who have fled their lips since the beginning of september but nearly three million civilians are still trapped there preparing for what's expected to be an all out military offensive myanmar's leader on sons who cheese says in hindsight her government could have handled it will hinge a crisis better seven hundred thousand rohingya muslims felt fled a military crackdown in rakhine state a year ago un investigators said there were mass killings and gang rapes but suchi speaking at an international meeting in vietnam defended security forces from charges of civilian atrocities nearly twelve thousand people have been evacuated from their homes in southern china after typhoon abody just brought torrential rain to the city of sunshine it's the twenty third typhoon to threaten china this year that's it for now more news in half an hour my nigeria is coming up next hour by.

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and i said. the first time i saw it coming it was actually supposed to be a rap performance we him and his brother. as they were performing on stage the crowd because my university a very vocal crowd they were not just enjoying the rap so much of the time they will like somebody in the crowd just by trash talking them and i remember you know picking on the guy like you do or you can chop struck me because he was with them like just a trust look at this guy and then from that point everyone just and laughing like everybody stay laughing and he just he just stopped the music the music just to pretty much stop before he was now at the start of committee thing and it just might have been this guy and someone a guy would you know to something that in the end he would look at the other guy yeah i was so funny even the guy that we try to stop with laughing really all over

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