and also other countries should step up to the plate and stop sending more weapons of mass starvation and mass destruction to saudi arabia. to see more concerted action going forward we do have we know that the trumpet ministration is planning to move forward billions of dollars worth of arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates we have seen a lot more action from congress a lot of interest in trying to stop those sales and that every bit of pressure does help it sends a strong signal to saudi arabia that support for this war is not unconditional and unfortunately though spain sent the opposite message with this reversal. it's on for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back the man accused of trying to poison a former russian appearance. there with us a. new report says countries around the world are.

living in extreme poverty. hello again it's good to have you back well here across turkey we are which is a very heavy rain shows over the next few days that's all due to an air of low pressure that is moving across the region showers anywhere from all the way back here towards istanbul maybe some windy conditions as well with the terms from ankara about thirty five degrees but here across most of the central area we are seeing some drier conditions baghdad at forty seven quite city at about forty five degrees and really not too much of a change but we are picking up some snow here across the northern parts of india as well as pakistan as well as afghanistan as a make your way down here across much of the middle east we are seeing our temperatures about moderate for this time of year maybe doha about forty one degrees riyadh seeing about forty to mecca forty three aunts friday and then mecca

you're coming down to about thirty nine degrees as we go towards saturday there over towards africa as mar well you can be seeing some clouds in your forecast maybe about twenty six degrees and as we make our way down toward southern africa we are seeing some are partly cloudy conditions turning cloudy for cape town over the next few days we've been watching this front just off the coast really lingering across that region keeping those temperatures low so fifteen degrees there on friday and then as we go towards saturday we do expect to see more clouds in your forecast but i'm just coming up to by eighteen in johannesburg see about twenty seven degrees there. and. you feel they just are you sure glad. i am. back.

with. my nigerian. welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here this hour hurricane florence is starting to batter the east coast of the united states springing heavy rain strong winds and rising floodwaters to three states over carolina south carolina and virginia hundred fifty six thousand people are now without electricity. so the central bank has raised interest rates in a bid to stabilize the economy and stem a currency crisis who helped the u.s. again three and a half percent against the u.s. dollar the decision was made just by president obama's opposition to red sox and

spain has decided to go ahead with selling four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel eagle movies on that activists who say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians. two russian men accused by the u.k. of poisoning a form a double agent of giving an interview to russian state t.v. british investigators say a script about his daughter yulia ricks posed to a nerve agent but the two may not enter fied as suspects say they were in the town of souls break just to see its cathedral the u.k. prime minister called the comments in the interview lies and blatant fabrications is made book. the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei and munch we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos. the man also confirmed their names are the same as those revealed by british police thought to be aliases and that it is them on this

c.c.t.v. footage but they deny they were in solsbury at the exact time of the poisoning for anything more than a holiday. they have a famous corridor with their the source. it is famous not only in europe or over the world i think it's famous for its one hundred twenty three metre spire it's famous for its clock the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works here prosecutors say the men visited solsbury on consecutive days the first day only for a few hours before returning to london the two russians say it was because of the snowy weather british investigators say they were planning a murder the interviews failed to change official opinions in the u.k. a government spokesman said they clear the men are russian military intelligence officers the m.p. for salzburg dismissed the interview as propaganda delighted the alexander patrol of an whistlin barre shop were able to see the world class attractions that soulsby

has to offer tweeted john glenn but very strange to come all this way for just two days while carrying not the chalk in their luggage the interview came a day after the russian president vladimir putin said the man had been found and that there was nothing unusual about them british officials suspect the interview is a carefully staged managed attempt to turn the u.k.'s version of event on its head neve barkha al-jazeera. an anti kremlin activist who is also a member of protest group pussy riot is in serious condition in hospital versa love lost his eyesight and his ability to speak on tuesday he was one of four protesters jailed for disrupting the world cup final in moscow two months ago relatives have told local media they believe he was poisoned the european court of human rights has ruled some of the u.k.'s mass surveillance techniques violate its citizens' rights to privacy the court criticized high tech methods used by british intelligence which were exposed by the american the whistleblower edward snowden

five years ago the u.k. has three months to appeal against the ruling the court was looking at the secret services intercepts communications and examine dates or only was looking at the secret services can ask through communications data from communications service providers found that there was a lot of safeguards in oversights when it came to selecting the traffic for examination and the subsequent going through that's information and also it found that there were not enough safeguards when it came to examining the data had been found by the authorities now for the first time a french president is of knowledge the widespread use of torture by french forces during our jiri as war of independence but emmanuel mike ross stopped short of apologizing about one point five million algerians died in the conflict in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's that has more 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 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 though the french president has admitted that morris or die and 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 were room sarra alarmism international human rights law researcher she says this is a positive step for both countries justice will finally be broke. i think what this very well coming decision by president mackerel is a natural next step to take in these a very very heavy history it has to be done it had to be done for for the sake of our countries. a lot of mysteries around the disappearances of people who fall during the war the jury are mysteries that has not been sought and

here today mysteries that have been affected thousands and thousands of families and these definitions to recognize the using of torture but also to open the archives we'll bring some closure for bar countries so yes it's it's essential if you want to understand what's going on in france right now start at the roots are found into the history of colonisation and that's where our jerry our conversation has been parked because well and has been used against its own people to control them and you know young people today want to move on they they want closure families want closure and i think this step is that council yechury step it's necessary if it's the healthier thing you can do and both country will maybe i hope will start over and on better you know better grounds and hope for both of our people and i hope we to also have the french and ascended to war because you

cannot move forward if you don't have any closure with your past. the u.s. has suggested it may consider visa bans on targeted sanctions against chinese officials over the treatment of muslims engine jiang province and un human rights panel has accused china of detaining up to a million a week of muslims in internment camps where they're being forced to abandon their religion a senior u.s. official was asked if the magnitsky act could be applied it's a us human rights law that allows the president to sanction individuals deemed responsible for committing human rights violations china is imprisoning perhaps a million are we going to use magick act against them thank you congressman for that question the state department is very concerned about chinese tweet treatment of leaders we are encouraging the chinese government through diplomatic channels to ensure that they allow their practice their freedom of religion they respect human dignity but this is a hearing and sanctions are going to say yes congressman when it comes to sanctions

rollouts we are not able to preview what we might do but i can tell you we are looking at the situation and global magnitsky is a tool that we use to curb human rights abuses around the world in southeast asia people are bracing for super typhoon monkhood which is gathering strength of the philippines thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal areas the philippines may not and luzon typhoons are expected to make landfall on saturday with wind speeds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour it's predicted to be the strongest of fifteen storms which is the better of the country to secure it. now a new report by the overseas development and its institute warns the world is not on trying to end extreme poverty by twenty thirty that target was set by world leaders in twenty fifteen the world bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than one dollar ninety per person per day it affects eight hundred million people today and that number is expected to have by twenty thirty but the report says

extreme poverty will persist without increased investment in health education and social protection it calls for an immediate change to how international aid is distributed with a focus on countries which are least able to finance their own public spending. let us put it to the south africa will be one of sixty countries which will fail to meet the twenty thirty target fourteen million people there are living in extreme poverty but the miller went to meet some of them in johannesburg. the sprawling township of soweto is rich in contrast while there is a growing middle class and a vibrant economy many here live in poverty one of those people is rosy. she's unemployed and looks after four grandchildren with a government pension of one hundred dollars a month and knowing that. it's too little money to feed for growing by the money runs out before the month is over we struggle to survive she brings the children to this community center with they have what is often their only meal of the day

government statistics show that poverty levels have increased since twenty eleven with fourteen million south africans now living in extreme poverty surviving on less than a dollar a day thirty million south africans live in poverty that's just over half the population and most of those affected are children while the government launched a national development plan to eradicate poverty by twenty thirty levels are still rising the poorest of the poor live on just thirty five dollars a month spending a third of that on food reported by the overseas development institute says that up to sixty countries are unlikely to eliminate extreme poverty by twenty thirty almost a third of the africans are unemployed often relying on the government social grants to survive but with low economic growth economists say this is not sustainable progress singular on direction and the moment of population growth is higher then

are we can on the growth of population growth rate is more than one and a half percent per annum or economic growth rate as we all know they get there if we are in a recession and are sort of salt of that on the back up at the prices so for africans. according to the o.d.i. the world is managed to more than half the number of people living in extreme poverty still hundreds of millions like rosie continued to be a burden of hardship. al-jazeera johannesburg german police have destroyed them activists encampment near a coal mine protesters have built three houses to try to prevent the mines expansion into neighboring forest they've occupied sixty structures in the forest close to the dutch border for the past five years the activists had asked the mining company to delay development until the government updated its coal policy later this year. japan's attempting to have a thirty three year ban on commercial whaling lifted but the controversial blue

faces fierce opposition at the international whaling commission meeting in brazil and japan has become increasingly isolated over recent years however one has hope a new film will change perceptions about what they do and have been doing for hundreds of years to reports. when the cove was released in two thousand and nine documentary one widespread acclaim and even an academy award for the japanese in the tiny village of taj. it brought unwelcome world attention and 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 these killers have nor care in the world the villagers are for trade is being besieged by foreign activists using strong armed social media tactics to get them to stop whaling the film's director he's make gumi says saki when it comes to

whaling hunting we. are here only one side. against whaling and often 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 we'll hunts in thai she can be traced back to this sixteen hundreds it's 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 whales and sustain a community for survival bringing in food and also helping the economy but it's a sucky 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 town 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. 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. john for a quick check of the headlines here hurricane florence the start of the battle the east coast of the united states is bringing heavy rain strong winds and rising floodwaters to three states north carolina south carolina and virginia one hundred fifty six thousand people are now without electricity it's been downgraded to a category one hurricane but the full cost is a warning the slow moving storm will cause major damage across the southeast jay

gray has an update from count on a beach in north carolina. things are really starting to pick up with this storm i want to give you a firsthand look at what we're experiencing right now heats with rain and the wind look at it right now really intensifying beyond that you can't see it in the dark but the waves are growing as well and this is a situation that's going to intensify as the storm moves closer to the shoreline and then in some areas these conditions are going to continue for two days or more this is setting up to be historic flooding in some of the areas across the strike zone and really places that are going to be and in dated with water some areas it may take weeks if not more for that to clear out in teams to get in one person has been killed after more than forty gas explosions across several towns north of the u.s. city of boston at least thirteen others are injured police and firefighters have been responding to more than seventy incidents in the area customers of one gas

company have been advised to evacuate massachusetts officials are blaming over pressurized gas supply pipes the turkey is central bank has raised interest rates in a bid to stabilize the economy and stem the currency crisis the move helped the lira to gain three and a half percent against the u.s. dollar the bank says it'll keep interest rates high until inflation starts to ease the decision was made despite president opposition to rate hikes. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as fighting begins again around the city of her data it has a key port the entry point for most of the aid sent to yemen saudi erotic coalition and government forces a battling who the rebels for control of the city had been a low level in the fighting in the run up to planned talks in geneva last week well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after my

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