supply line between the port and the rebel held capital sana'a now that has massive implications because say the children say millions of children's lives are at risk because of this with food supplies not getting through and other supplies medicine along with the vital supplies for the hooty rebel fighters as this fighting goes on the attempts at getting some sort of dialogue revived by martin griffiths the un special envoy goes on he's in the amount of capital muscat and he's been talking to a delegation of who is the delegation that was meant to go to geneva led by mohammed abdul salam and he has said that some sort of dialogue will continue there is nothing substantive coming out of these talks publicly anyway whether or not he goes on to sign or is unclear but he is destined for riyadh and time is going by at a rapid rate with all this fighting escalating and this critical situation that

gryphus himself warned about the economy plummeting but danger of more deaths not through fighting but through farm in right there for everyone to see but then what does everyone do it is a very very dangerous situation more than eleven million yemeni children are already facing food shortages that's according to unicef representative in the war torn country many said let rely now says the conflict has made yemen a living hell for its children with one point eight million suffering from malnutrition cited led coalition has imposed strange and measures unimportant to yemen to prevent the who these from smuggling weapons but this says slow the flow of commercial goods and vital aid into the country. well meanwhile spain says it will go ahead with the sale of precision bombs to saudi arabia this fight concerns over its role in the war in yemen saudi led coalition air strikes and attacks have

been blamed for killing thousands of civilians during the conflict the spanish government said last week it would cancel the sale of four hundred laser guided bombs but it's not confirmed that it's actually going to honor the two thousand and fifteen contract after riyadh threatened to pull out of a two billion dollars deal to buy warships from spain. sceptic i mean this half hour sixty years on the french president admits state responsibility in the torture of an activist during algeria's war of independence and displaced by drought two hundred fifty thousand afghans abandon their homes in search of the water. hello again it's good to have you back or across australia we're going to be seeing a big change in temperatures here across the by i want to take you to adelaide we

are seeing a big switch in the winds that's going to cause a temperate difference notice here twenty five degrees on friday the winds are coming out of the north of the continent now once we go to saturday well we're going to be seeing a switch of the winds they're going to sub come up from the south so from twenty five degrees your high to only thirteen degrees by the time we go toward saturday and that front going to be moving towards melbourne so showers in your forecast as well but quite nice along the east coast when we sing sydney sing about twenty nine degrees there as we come over here towards parts of new zealand well we're going to see a lot of clouds down here toward south island the north island not looking too bad on the satellite image and we're going to be seeing maybe some clouds for auckland about fifteen degrees but as we go towards saturday well things are going to stay pretty much the same but if we went to sunday we'll start to see a difference with that new system coming into play there and then very quickly appear towards japan well the rain is continuing across much of southern japan osaka twenty nine tokyo radio twenty six but as we go towards saturday the front

starts to move a little bit more to the north and for tokyo heavy rain for you with a temperature of about twenty two and up towards and by at about twenty six degrees there. millions of dollars has been stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe. exclusive access to this underworld to a criminal turned. on al jazeera. that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism and here let me ask you straight up korea is the two state solution now the lights are on and there's no way to tie up fronts which hangs on al-jazeera.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the two men suspected of poisoning a former russian spy and the story. have appeared on television in russia insisting they were in the u.k. city to visit its famous cathedral turkey sends military reinforcements to the syrian town of modoc after the turkish president warned that he will not turn a blind eye to the killing of civilians in a province and the u.n. says hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk is fighting escalates in the yemeni port city of data and saudi backed forces seized the main road linking it with the capital. that the u.s. coast of the u.s. is starting to feel the effects of hurricane florence florence has actually been downgraded to a category two hurricane but forecasters warn it could still cause catastrophic flooding across america's southeast posing

a grave threat to life and property high winds and waves are already bashfully north carolina with thousands of power outages reported along the coast and the gallagher is in wilmington north carolina for us where hurricane florence is due to make landfall on friday. it's moving at around five miles an hour around walking pace it's very very slow but there are two big concerns that forecasters have the first one is the tidal surge that could come up could be as high as four meters that would basically cover up the first floor of all the buildings here behind me the other big concern is that when hurricane florence does reach the coastline it supposed to do that around lunch time on friday it may just linger in this area for as long as two days bringing with it another me too of rains one point six million people have been under mandatory evacuation orders most accomplished wilmington in north carolina where the eye of the storm will hit predictions are correct

a lot of local residents have chosen to ride this storm out they know one such storm arrives two tomorrow they will have no help at all because there are no mergence of service and they will essentially be on their own potentially without any power without any fresh food or water so it is a life threatening situation as a situation that could cause billions of dollars with the damage but the thing to watch is what hurricane florence does when it gets here if it lincoln's here for two days and brings as much rain as forecasters say it could be catastrophic let's get the latest on hurricane florence itself from our weather man kevin corriveau in doha and kevin how account has been downgraded so explain to us why is it still such a threat even though it's been downgraded. absolutely and as we were mentioning just a few minutes ago because it is now moving so slowly that the storm even a category two is going to be in this area that means we're going to have prolonged storm surge up to three and a half to four meters in some areas we're going to prolong wins tropical storm

force winds and hurricane winds and we are going to have prolonged amounts of rain in the same area and of course it is being affected right now this is a wonder whether underground picture right now of what we're seeing with the radar of the storm you can see the well defined eye just off the coast right now so we're still seeing anywhere from all of north carolina from the north down here towards the south is being battered right now by these feeder bands i want to go to a bigger picture of what we're seeing here the satellite image of the storm so here's the storm right here you can see norfolk virginia right on the edge of those clouds down to the south charleston right now is out of it but as this storm starts to regain its path we think over the next few days they could actually see quite a bit of rain so i want to show you what the new stats are with the storm these have just come out from the national hurricane center and the biggest change is the speed of the storm making its way towards land it has really put on the brakes coming close to land so right now

a category two storm we are looking at gusts up to about one hundred sixty kilometers per hour with the movement of the storm is to the northwest at seven kilometers per hour that is a drastic change from just six hours ago we knew it was going to slow down now what the big problem is once it slows down then the question mark is how where does the storm go next so we do think it's going to make landfall and then take a little bit of a turn down to the southwest but after that it's going to be very difficult to really play in its course kevin corriveau a meteorologist kevin thank you for that. well two days ago president trump outraged many by praising his administration's response to the hurricane that hit forest to rico killing almost three thousand people now even top republicans are criticizing him after he rejected the best poll from that disaster blaming it on the democrats our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has the story as

hurricane florence barrels toward the east coast of the united states president donald trump is in the middle of his own storm. using the official death toll in the aftermath twenty seventeen's hurricane maria the puerto rican government says nearly three thousand people died there but trump disagrees in thursday morning tweets he not only disputed the numbers but without any evidence claimed they were being inflated by the democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when i was successfully raising billions of dollars to help rebuild puerto rico trump is faced heavy criticism for his response to maria starting the day he visited when he tossed paper towels to displaced residents the initial death toll was in the dozen but the governor of puerto rico recently raised that number to nearly three thousand after an independent study still this week trump was defiant when discussing the response i think the puerto rico was credible and show of success

the mayor of san juan a vocal critic of the response disagrees he wasn't up to the task and the neglect and the way that he neglected our lines gave permission to other people in his administration to look the other way translator this is a political move by opponents comes during for so alexion campaign november's voters go to the polls to decide which political party will control congress and whether they wish for trump's agenda to continue can really help get al-jazeera washington. 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 and because of war victoria gate and we have 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 kalon 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 think it was a good medicine i'm a widow with two children it came here because we were starving destroyed our crops of wheat the land is to try to grow anything. reduce slow 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 i thought 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 is 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 its 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 big story gates and be al jazeera

french president manuel mccollum as acknowledged for the first time that the french state was responsible for the systematic use of torture during the jury and war in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's that tasha butler has more on that 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 nine hundred fifty seven during the algerian war of independence now more so down 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 what is 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. pro and anti whale hunting nations have been arguing their case of the international whaling commission meeting in brazil japan wants a three decade ban on commercial hunting to be lifted its view has become increasingly isolated over recent years though in the process the story of communities that have a historic connection to whaling have also been overlooked but now a new film hopes to change that as gabrielle in the zonda reports. when the

code was released in two thousand and nine documentary won widespread acclaim and even an academy award but for the japanese in the tiny village of taiji. it brought unwelcome world attention vilification for hunting dolphins and whales. now a new documentary is showing a different side of the people. in a film called a whale of a tale face killers have nor care in the world today stallman's the villagers are for trade is being besieged by foreign activists using strong arm social media tactics to get them to stop whaling the film's director is make gumi says saki when it comes to whaling and hunting we must play here only one side which is against whaling in the open hunting the core problem was a lack of information. so this is not to propose support the whaling with off in

hunting but i just wanted to show the whole picture whale hunts in thai she can be traced back to the sixteen hundreds it's a part of their heritage and religion and they need to survive one will kill could be the entire community for months even today they say the dolphin and whale hunt sustain a community for survival bringing in food and also helping the economy but society says it's also about something more and that people are so proud of their history they are so that's their identity that town as a whaling tone or the town the whales and dolphins and that's something that the inherited from their ancestors it's so important for them to continue whatever the ancestors bring to ring japan is pushing hard to lift the ban on commercial whaling at the international whaling commission's meeting in brazil but for now the people

of thais she feel like at least their side of the story is being told gabriel's onto al-jazeera the riot police in germany have clear the camp of protesters who were trying to stop a coal mine expanding into ancient forest the camp was set up five years ago in the hama back forest which is west of cologne most of it has already been locked by mining company on w e protesters asked that to the legs fanchon until the government makes up the session on the future of coal fired energy later this year . a reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera that two men wanted for the attempted murder of former russian sky russian spy service cripple and his daughter have appeared on russian state t.v. to profess their innocence they said they were merely tourists when they visited

the city of solsbury and much dumber is that. they have the famous or usually the sorcery cathedral it is famous not only in europe all over the world i think it's famous for its one hundred twenty three me to spire its famous for its clock the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works. meanwhile russia's president has inspect the troops taking part in the largest war game since the fall of the soviet union and for the first time chinese troops joined the weeklong exercise letting their putin says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is a peace loving state. turkey has sent a convoy of tanks and heavy vehicles to the syrian town of more take it lies close to the line which separates opposition fighters and government forces battling for control of the rebel held city of it almost forty thousand people have fled the area since government and russian airstrikes intensified last week the u.n.

humanitarian coordinator in 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 port city of whole data the coalition says it continues to control the main supply route into the city but who the fighters are downplaying the reports. the east coast of the u.s. is starting to feel the effects of hurricane florence it's now been downgraded to a category two hurricane but forecasters warn it could still cause catastrophic flooding across america's southeast losing a grave threat to life and property and meanwhile countries across southeast asia are bracing for super typhoon man who which is gathering strength near the northern philippines thousands have been evacuated ahead of the storm which is expected to make landfall on sat thing well those are the top stories my colleagues in the how we'll have more news for you in half an hour stay with us while no one east is

coming up next by. al jazeera is a very important force of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. it's a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe. investors are promised the opportunity of a lifetime so they all ideas they get you on the hook. but instead are left with shattered dreams and financial ruin the white i hide my. i'm sick of saud i'm steve cho on this up sort of one on one east we reveal how organized crime is making millions in the philippines.

it's the business hub of the philippines where multinational corporations turnover millions in annual profits but then the country district of manila has a dark underbelly a sun news i'm making a fortune in duty cash by trading fake shares. just a lot of surveillance report back. in secrecy destroy them private investigators in cyber crime expert can gamble is in the final days of an operation to blow open an organized crime ring run by expect roots in the city. we want to document all the people that they're talking to whoever they have contact with take photos of them we need to figure out who all the associated members of the syndicate lives and.

the fraudsters have gypped investors around the world is why selling them shares the don't exist then stealing their money so who obvious goss' what are their nationalities. they're americans i come from. from new york area new jersey. for almost two years can gamble has been watching them he has the only mails the bank account details and recordings of their voices he knows everything about them. to have any idea that you're on to them not now and you're the stone that stays like that for a walk. oblivious to this covert attention the gang operates business as usual the scammers pretend to be from investment houses in america in real life they called manila. some have filipino wives and children into have lived here for twenty years well a very clever at at what i do at the securities fraud but they're not very clever

covering the tracks. the crime ring is about to be exposed because one of their own his taking a courageous calls informant x. will call him is about to turn on his associates except they don't know it i meet him in a discreet location on the edge of manila. a. good first. informant x. is a man with friends an influence on both sides of the law. and the old guard i'm a freak sort of. that's what i do for these guys there are some programs that come to a try and accommodate it most of the time and we will do that now informant takes is planning to help engineer the downfall of the organized crime gang he works fall and along the way he revealed to me the in

a workings of an international fraud syndicate it begins with him secretly recording gang members discussing their cut of profits from the scam. then his decision to inform on the gang takes an extraordinary new dimension so they see. what's in it hold people document the most damning evidence is here x. is uncovered a trove of hundreds of documents belonging to one of the fraudsters it exposes every aspect of their criminal operation evidence of transactions even their logs or whatever money comes in ingles the documents name the

victims investors from the netherlands south africa hong kong singapore papua new guinea new zealand and australia. one stood out the most where he got scammed for a whole lot of amount. and also say what. we. found from the bustle of manila the provincial center of rockhampton in the australian state of queensland. it's here i find wine brown a hardworking coal mine electrician who should be enjoying financial rewards. right about home on going and that whole every die is hard work i don't see any family for four days at a seven. in early twenty fifth. cash what he believed was a new york based investment broker he thought he was buying shares.

what i do at the model i don't want to keep doing with. apple shells so there are others all the time. but. never bought in wang's money was pocketed the so-called broker went by the name of john paulson . didn't know it at the time but was not a licensed trader even his name was an alias in real life he was an american criminal living in manila. this is the frauds to talking recorded on wind brown's voicemail. study hard place here because. jefferson or taught in a school. like outerwear. so that's john polson john polson bring up there was no one on the world or thought and it was

wrong because. but our remote on our seven or no reason to think it was a scam. the man who calls himself john polson is sticking to a script scammers like emus well proven psychological techniques to entrap the victim's investigator can gamble has seen it all before they're required to get the investor on the hook so the very first calls that mike designed to get that potential investor to to make a small investment. there's the fear script to reassure nervous investors and one code you need to know who i am i'm going to make you very very rich you need to know who i am because on the man that's going to change your life and that of course you know are coming with someone who's very well spoken with an american accent that sounds like he's calling it a wall straight. then you know the the average person is going to believe that.

the swindler john polson is stealing not only money but an identity there is a real john polson he's a successful multi billionaire investor and philanthropist from new york. but the imposter to those who know him is a thief and a thug he's a heavy drug use and. when you see him in you think. i better get out of this close race or else because it's one of those intimidating guys who say one role something bad will happen to you. over the next few months sitting at his computer in manila the fight john polson works on his victim whine brown the astrologist persuaded to buy more bogus shares to the value of seven hundred thousand us dollars his portfolio apiece to do well their health is legit

gentleman. that old knowledge was a market any given you put forward to me it was a good price in the case of wine he he was led to believe that these shares were valuable and that they went up in value and then that leads into another deal which is even more lucrative and so on and so on a lot of these guys have worked as brokers they have worked for my defense some of the biggest firms in the world and that come out of those firms and they've gone to the dark side. to bolster his image is a corporate heavyweight the pertains john polson makes up another company name with a grand tied to the lease seem global partners its headquarters supposedly on wall street it's another lie concealed behind a fake website. so this is the police here website correct at least and go about us oh i thought it was legitimate it was not written for way today they use this nine

because alyse m. is the same name of the number of other organizations as well so again when you google the nine you actually come up with all these legitimate companies then this scamming of australian wine brown steps up a notch after john polson hooks him into the scam and now the gang member takes over he's job to keep wind spending money polson was just the start of the the scam is that it contacted me john paul's disappeared probably told r.t. months after i first started to want him and then again. you know according he came on the scene. there is now a new broker in the picture going by the alias of daniel johnson but he too is an american criminal living in manila not the us. going.

for nothing what. johnson calls constantly to pry more money from one brown. that will never be bought shop interest cost might. not be shall we. and when i might be able to get my hair talks. so tell me about this man. scrub through boyd's whistle for he still probably a member of it also into us is there a certain arrogance about him you know does he think he's a big shot in the philippines. only a certain urgency he thinks rules the philippines it's like. well he's american he lives here with his wife and has children to her he's been in the philippines for years and he's probably one of the mind characters who. probably one of the logic parts in this for. the crime syndicates victims from around the world

who are instructed to make payments to bank accounts in hong kong. for the money is sent to the philippines and within a very short period of time on the money is usually taken out in cash here in the philippines by. like a bank account holders who have control of the accounts on behalf of the fraud gangs for the syndicates and the money is then laundered it ultimately into cash. by now wine brown believes his portfolio is valued at five million dollars and he wants to cash it in but there's a catch the scammers in manila tell him before he can sell his shares he needs to pay us tax the tax money was rather i thought of thousand us dollars but i said i'd apply before you get that get this cash back from what will follow at once why i started to ask for money that i have to cost of the.