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 rym sarah is an international human rights law research she says this is a positive step for both countries. justice will finally be brooks. i think what this very well coming decision by president macro or is a natural next step to take in that is a very very heavy history it has to be done it had to be done for for the sake of both countries. a lot of mysteries around the disappearances of

people who fought during the war of a jury are mysteries that has not been solved until today mysteries that have been affected thousands and thousands of families and these decisions to recognize be 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 re now starting to look at the roots are found into the history of colonisation and as for our gerri our coming ization has been toxic as 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 unnecessary it's it's the healthier thing you can do and country will maybe a whole start over and on. you know better grounds and

thoughtful board of our people and i hope it will also have the french and a standard to work for because you cannot move forward if you don't have any closure with your past still to come here on al-jazeera the world's richest man who makes his biggest charitable donation of. her own. hello get or welcome back to your national weather forecast for here across europe we are watching some clouds passing through parts of the mediterranean over italy that's provided some rains across the region as we go towards the end of the week and probably into the beginning of the weekend as well also some showers over here towards the black sea and up towards the u.k. we're looking at some windy conditions pushing through some clouds as well london eighteen degrees with mostly cloudy conditions but sadly looks a little bit better for most areas down towards the south are going to sing zurich

a twenty one but clouds across parts of southern france as well here across another part of africa we have rain here to talk about across algeria and across parts of morocco robot seeing twenty six degrees you're seeing some rain showers in your forecast up to the north towards tunisia and tunis we're seeing clouds in your forecast as well and that will continue over the next few days but over here towards egypt well down the now we are seeing some warmer conditions towards us one at forty one because we're not looking too bad at about thirty three degrees there and then very quickly across central africa of course we've seen a lot of tropical activity most of the tropical wave start out here towards western africa and you can see a lot of activity right there across most a cloudy day for you at about twenty nine degrees lego's at twenty eight still staying rainy across much of the region with the temperatures into the high twenty's.

what makes this moment the hero we're living for so. we haven't seen the president this. freedom of speech is. why. that is a perfect formula for authoritarianism in here in the early years the lights are on and there's nowhere to hide let me ask you straight out here is the two state solution now up front brittanie on al-jazeera. recapping our top story so far this half hour hurricane florence a started battering the east coast of the us it's been downgraded to a category one storm but forecasters say it will still cause major damage bringing

heavy rain strong winds and rising floodwaters to three states north carolina south carolina and virginia. turkey central bank has raised interest rates and a bit 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 decision was made despite president opposition to break rises. one of the stories spain has decided to go ahead with selling four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel the order the move has and angered activists who say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians in the war in yemen. ok let's go back to that story we mentioned at the top of this half hour people in southeast asia are bracing for the arrival of a super typhoon it's called man quote it's gathering strength off the philippines thousands of people. been evacuated from the coastal areas and blues on long island

the typhoon is expected to make landfall sense a day with wind speeds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour is for constant to be the strongest storm of fifteen storm systems which have hit the country this year let's get more live from joe miller who's in the province in the blues on the island just take us through where you are what you're seeing what you're hearing. well we've been here since last night and we went around looking at how the local government is actually preparing we are one a local public school that has been turned into a temporary evacuation center for over one hundred fifty thousand families that have been forcefully evacuated from low lying areas from communities living by the river here in providence we've spoken to some of them they said they have been forcibly evacuated but they still have family members who are staying behind

looking out for their cattle and their farmland as you know a majority of the people in this region particularly in the get out of course the full of province are very much dependent on farming for their livelihood so they are expected to take shelter in areas like this one in local schools that have been turned into evacuation centers with spoken to local officials who say that everything is in place that there is those shortage of food that electricity at the moment it remains to be seen how that situation will change in the coming hours you get the feeling they're jamila that given cement he still systems have already battered that part of the philippines in a sense the emergency services were kind of ready for this. while yet. basically relatively through the claim that they are very much really prepared for this as you know every single day forward since two thousand and thirteen have been based on what happened then with this board the

strongest ever the philippines in two thousand and thirteen during the time of former president for the. you know at this point. i think we've lost the line there we'll give it one more go if you couldn't if you can still hear a similar understandably of course communications with you are difficult because of the line because of the weather systems there where are they expecting this storm system to move next what's the vector of the rising water the wind and the rain. not we've definitely lost that in there too jim miller will try to go back to or of course in the coming hours for that evolving story that storm system hitting the philippines news on the island. the european court of human rights has ruled some of the u.k.'s mass surveillance techniques violated its citizens' rights to privacy

the court criticized high tech methods used by british intelligence that were exposed by the american whistleblower edward snowden five years ago the u.k. has three months to appeal against the ruling. the court was looking at how the secret service is intercepted communications and then examine that data and it was looking at how the secret services can ask for a communications dates 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 that had been found by the authorities. the two russian men accused by the u.k. of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent novacek say they were in salzburg just to see the famous cathedral but the u.k.'s prime minister to resign me has ridiculed their appearance on

russian state t.v. t.v. mrs may says their lies and blatant fabrications are an insult to people's intelligence knew barca as the story. the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei in. march we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos for. the conduct of 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 soulsby at the exact time of the poisoning for anything more than a holiday. they have a famous corridor with their the source because it is famous not only in europe or over the world i think it's famous for its one hundred twenty three meter spire it's famous for its clock the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works 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 solsbury dismissed the interview as propaganda delighted the alexander patrol of and was very sure were able to see the world class attractions that soulsby has to offer tweety 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 barker al-jazeera. the world's richest man amazon chief jeff bezos is giving

two billion dollars to start a charity fund the money will be used to operate a network of preschools as well as fund nonprofit organizations that help homeless families with a personal fortune of around one hundred sixty billion dollars mr bacile also has previously been criticized for not doing enough for charity. full tuition preschool story inspired i'm very excited about that because i'm going to operate that that's going to be an operating nonprofit i'm going to hire an executive team there's going to be a leadership team we're going to operate these schools and we're going to put them in low income neighborhoods i'm going to identify with the help with team i'm going to identify that we're going to hire the full time team. identify and fund that in fund. family homeless shelters a new report from the overseas development institute is warning the world is not on track to end extreme poverty by twenty thirty it was sent by all world leaders back

in twenty fifteen the world bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than one dollar ninety cents per person per day it affects eight hundred million people today that number is expected to hog by the year twenty thirty however 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 it's with a focus on countries which are least able to finance their own public spending it's predicted south africa will be one of sixty countries which will fail to meet that twenty thirty targets fourteen million people there are living in extreme poverty to meet 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 rosie. she's

unemployed and looks after four grandchildren with a government pension of one hundred dollars a month. it's too little money to feed for growing boy 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 us of 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 our population growth is higher then are we can on the growth of population growth rate is more than one and a half percent. or economic growth rate as we all know is if they get there if we are in a recession and are sort of salt of that on the back of pickup brace yourself africans are getting poorer according to the o.d.i. the world has managed to more than half the number of people living in extreme poverty and still hundreds of millions like rosie continue. to be a the burden of hardship. al-jazeera. german police have destroyed an activist encampment near a coal mine protesters had built tree houses to try to prevent the mines expansion

into a neighboring forest they've occupied sixty structures in the forests that's close to the border with the netherlands for the past five years. japan is attempting to have a thirty three year ban on commercial whaling lifted the controversial move faces fierce opposition at the international whaling commission meeting in brazil that happens every two years and japan's become increasingly over recent years. has the story. when the cove was released in two thousand and nine documentary won 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 based kill if. the villagers are for traders being besieged by foreign

activists using strong arm social media tactics to get them to stop whaling the film's director says psaki. hunting we. are here only one side. against whaling hunting the core problem. so this is not to propose support the whaling went off in hunting but i just wanted to show the whole picture whale hunts entire 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 whale hunt 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 home 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 tearing 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. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from doha these are your top stories hurricane florence assault it's about to the east coast of the united states now it's bringing heavy rain strong winds and coastal states of north carolina and south carolina already one hundred fifty six thousand people without

electricity forecast as a warning the slow moving storm will cause major damage across the southeast jay gray has this update from carolina 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 intensifies 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 low areas across the fright zone and really places that are going to be inundated with water some areas it may take weeks if not more for that to clear out in teams to get in the turkish central bank has raised interest rates in a bid to stabilize the economy and to stem the ongoing currency crisis the move

helped the lira to gain three and a half percent against the american dollar the central bank in ankara says it will keep interest rates high until inflation starts to ease. spain has decided to go ahead with the sale of four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing the decision last week to cancel that order the move has angered activists to say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians in the ongoing conflict in yemen thousands of students from mexico's biggest university have been protesting to demand an end to campus violence earlier this month two students from the autonomous university of mexico were seriously injured in an attack and in april three students from western mexico were killed and their bodies were dissolved in acid protesters say the attacks on students are a symptom of the surge in violence across the country. ok you are right up to date with all the top stories up next on this channel it's inside story i'm back at the top of the hour with thirty minutes of al-jazeera world news. if.

we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. it's unprecedented in the history of the european parliament the vote to polish a member state. flouting rules on democracy civil rights and corruption the government's attacks on courts and media is seen as a threat so what's next for hungary and indeed europe this is an says story.

hello and welcome to the program of a double whammy for the first time ever do european parliament has voted to sanction a member state hungary's accuse of eroding the principles of democracy civil rights the allegations are so serious it triggered a vote on article seven of the e.u. treaty which means hungary could be stripped of its voting rights viktor orban government says it will challenge a decision that has more from sizable. there was applause as members of the european parliament voted to punish hungry for breaching values for the first time they agreed to move towards article seven a procedure that could lead to put a past losing its voting rights it was nice dodge lawmakers report on hungary then led to the decision we've seen democrat. since two thousand and ten. press freedom. is not guaranteed. in the

academic freedom. is falling down the vote is unlikely to surprise hungary's far right anti immigration prime minister he and the e.u. have clashed repeatedly over the years. victor brand has accused the european parliament of trying to blackmail him to change his ways and in budapest his foreign minister has dismissed the vote saying hungary is being unfairly targeted we like to call your problem and today's european parliament decision was nothing else but pet revenge of pro immigration politicians against hungary outside put a pests parliament anti government campaigners protested. all of i mean there are open talks about everything on tuesday but not the reality here in hungry everything is always about migration it's to full heard gary and and they swallow it by going through their own fears is true it's not

a distortion the government has been changing the law step by step i think because they want to hold on to power. the e.u. will issue hungry with a formal warning before deciding whether to strip it of its voting rights such a move would damage hungary's international reputation but this supporter says it could actually bolster leadership in the long term mr obama be a winner of this. because he can establish a new platform video in the european peoples party and can make new alliances in europe and through that you can increase his influence on the european domestic politics for now pro european politicians are celebrating but their victory may be short lived the voters highlighted the growing divisions in the e.u. that threaten the bloke's very existence and its future natasha butler al-jazeera stroudsburg france. ok so let's

introduce our panel in brussels peter klepper head of the brussels office for the think that open europe in berlin martin michelle director of public affairs at the polish based open dialogue foundation and in revenue in france but is the co-founder of. group of geopolitical studies welcome to you all but please let me start with you when when the e.u. says that there was a serious breach of european values what does it mean exactly. but there are two to be sure it's quite hard to interpret it's it's a very wide concept the e.u. law used to sign and an article in the second article of the treaty of lisbon and they cover a wide ranch of values which are human dignity the human rights the rule of law and when you look at the board that was written by this dodge lawmaker you there was interview you can see that there are actually quite

a bunch of those values that have been breached at one point or another by the hungry in government and so but the main problem being that those that are using their white and white on this find it's also pretty hard to know exactly pinpoint where the issues are so it's mostly a question i think of political willingness rather than strictly like a strategic issue approach ok so martin on the contrary viktor orban says that actually he is the offending european values and i'm going to quote him here he says that this is the first case in the history of europe where a community can then it's own border guards so what what does he mean by that of course i'm looking from the polish perspective and yet to really think how you define european values there are four different perfect there are been there are different for that change but if you look at the treaty. through upload democracy.

human rights that are being violated violated by those states by hungary by by poland of course far from the rubble perspective from the youth of perspective they are in violation of what we all agreed on and of course poland was also had by article seven but this time it was the european commission who voted for that now let me just bring in peter. you know all this obviously at the core of it is the e.u. . it's something that was created several decades ago do you think brothels had also maybe have to change a bit adapted it. didn't use the reality in europe. well if you look at the criticism on hungry i think you can agree with a lot that is being criticised in danger in the rule of law corruption with you

fronts the fact that the government tried to politicize the process to point to judges so all of this is pretty justified but it's these are problems that you have in many other member states for example in romania there has been there have been mass protests against corruption in spain the treatment of the catalan movement think there you can also point at some some problems and put the zation of should issue appointment is i think in many countries a problem so the question is is the european union really the right forum to deal with that and frankly i have my doubts i think the core business of the e.u. is to scrap of barriers to trade to open up trade from the moment it starts meddling in these more sensitive issues it always opens the door for criticism that

it is it is using two different standards there are other international organizations as for example the council of europe that is based in straws burke that for decades now has been criticizing all countries for many of the problems that exists in hungary. ok. do you agree or what's your reaction to what was just said that maybe the european union has double standards to. i mean i could have done the fact that there is some sort of double standard in the sense that no measure of this sort i think it would have been more complicated for spain or italy or france to be. condemned like this by the e.u. parliament however. i do think that given the

number of features from the home going government this particular act of particular activation of article seven was actually made sense and more than that i do think that the you should not only be concerned with the opening of free trade but also with defending its core values and if i might say so you pointed that. you has has existed for many decades now it is true and in this maybe you were so surprised by the fact that article seven was used only for the first time right now because it should have been used many times before the fact is that the corvette has been in power for many years right now and that he's been slowly building his own doctrine his own approach not only to hungary that also to europe which i consider completely contradicts the core values on which the has been found

equivalents which are defined or at least identified in article two and i think it was about time that you or at least those who believe in. the liberal construction of european union did something about it the question is now what are going to be that the political consequences of such a rash action because no one is actually used to the european parliament acting so swiftly and actually making such a strong statement why it's a strictly. their pay and parliament but vision is that it has actually so. gov discussed with hungry several times. their concerns and that nothing happened some actually say that the and i'm putting that question to peter some actually say that the european union let it go for so long to probably with hungry thinking that by keeping viktor orban within the fold they could influence him more

. i think it's a wise decision not to rush into action here and actually article seven or the whole procedure is sort of designed to encourage that is so. it's possible for any country to ultimately veto any sanctions poland has already said that it will and also politically it looks like many governments or quite wary to go to go there ok and. martin of course viktor orban and i think the case is more or less similar in poland the government there also say that it has nothing to do with sibylla civil liberties or core values it has to do with being punished for the anti migration policies of hungry. but there is also a fear i think that viktor orban talked about it during his electoral campaign

about spreading this kind of in liberal democracies around europe which would basically could have a huge impact on the european union wouldn't it. i think that just on their very some point the way that they're trying to frame it or the so then you have the authoritarian. dictator one of these in europe they want to state that they are actually. giving back their position of their country that they should be all big within the e.u. remember all and there's a very proud european country you know seventy five percent. all people who are pro european so they're walking a very thin line and that they that actually europe of course shouldn't be centralized and shouldn't be governed from brussels from or from berlin but they're saying that this is actually the true europe it's with all of holding a strong position while telling the people that until now well and was in ruin that

the narrative but they're using so they believe that if they hold more power they take more power that the country will be actually stronger within the you fall in practice of course they are basically ele anything there that they are ok but is it not at the end of the day the e.u. has been quite upset with viktor orban for a few years now but you do get the impression that it was standing by watching things unfold. hungry gets nearly five point five billion dollars per year about four more than four percent of his g.d.p. comes from the e.u. so why did it take any steps before because i mean you can't have the cake and eat it at the same time right the thing is that it's extremely complicated to act in society you the fact that it is both a set of institutions which are independent and function with their own rules or laws etc and then a certain number of member states who have their own diplomatic and political

agendas makes it complicated to find a consensus and actually act when one of the state goes so to say rogue so i think that explains that that's one of the explanations the other one might be because viktor orban actually show i mean he's been reaching use albums for a long time but he evolved slowly from those congress liberal in the one thousand nine hundred to what you see there which is probably way closer to the far right authoritarian leader and i think this evolution and the fact that he is the new. a country that was part of the eastern bloc countries that the u. has tried to enter great and not alienate since their integration into new extremes why. do you have king institutions and. especially in parliament the conservative groups of which they tore a van and his party to

a few besh it's still quiet. in acts sooner i think it's a conjunction a convergence of a lot of different factors which is often the problem with you that you have to not only do you have to. accord twenty eight states together but you also have to balance this with different institutions which might have different agendas end of never moving situation. ok and martin i see that you wanted to comment on something earlier just. exactly i was just going to add to that i've heard the term double standard already several times. and i believe that's the problem with your young people's party and i think they reached a point when the pression pressure on them is too strong until now that was the reason for the double standard the reason why it took them so long to act because of course organ and those are part of the fifty so. when i compare poland and

hungary i always say that poland is really following the same path but only because poland governing party the law and justice party isn't part of the let's say governing party of the e.u. even be that's why they could initiate article seven procedures much much earlier than hungary on the other looking at the fact that it was the european parliament that article seven this time i think this sends a much stronger message because european parliament that's the people it's not some institution. you're going to parliament has is a democratic representation of the citizen so i think it's actually much stronger and of course very late but still is and they are ok but he says he want to say something but i want to bring peace or first into the conversation and i'm trying to do broaden it out to the rest of europe i mean these two or ben did run his election campaign on a very strong anti migration platform but that's happened in other countries in

italy and in other countries around europe so is it the case that the continent is going through a transformation a society transformation and the e.u. is not able to adapt to that. well as the fairly clear that if you want to create political trouble you need to have mass migration that's proven in any country in the world and indeed this is of course the main driver now behind all these populist movements the migration crisis was of course not caused by the e.u. i would argue that it's mainly the governments of italy and greece greece no longer but definitely italy till very recently that have been failing to guard their their borders but still that what the e.u.

did was to use the migration crisis to sensor allies powers so you basically out food at a number of countries central eastern european countries and decided that within the schengen zone. asylum seekers had to be redistributed it's very hard to do that because it's a passport free zone the shing in zone but still they decided it so of course in reality it's impossible to do it but this created a lot of euro skepticism. what can the e.u. do not make matters worse not try to have these grand plans which can be executed anyway. maybe more than back to the former point what can the e.u. do when countries or corrupt or sliding into a territory or will terrorism i think the number one thing is not to send any resources to these governments we see a lot of waste we see a lot of mismanagement with these european funds and these countries and sense from

eastern europe it's a great thing for them that they are a member of the e.u. but this is thanks to the single market the single market is economically enormously beneficial for them and for western europe by the way but these big transfers half have no. really contribute much to closing the gap almost any economic study has concluded ok so but east. i mean all this is certainly also having not an impact not only on hungary a bet on the p. a new unit south on the european people's party and its future how do you see that unfold you think if you need viktor orban any further he could split and maybe as many fear form another party which would be made essentially of these far right groups that are becoming more and more popular in many countries. actually i

think she might get expelled of the p.p.p. for being able to to leave the party i think it's very interesting that it happened that this article seven vote happened a few months before the two thousand and nineteen actions and it's even more interesting to see that inside the p.p. man fed very who will probably be the candidate of the new head of the commission in a few months actually decided to vote in favor of article seven even though a few weeks up to a few weeks ago he was actually one of the defenders of viktor orban inside the party meaning that he's actually trying to reset or himself and find his balance more at the center of the people by dropping all of them and trying to basically find a larger platform on which he can be elected in a few months so i think that or been being expelled or leaving. he is going to

be a major player if occasion inside the party it's interesting to see as well that sebastian kurtz even though he's allied who is the austrian chancellor even though he's allowed to the far right and his own country actually does about the torben a few weeks ago as well showing that there is a form of this installation from the two of them so he probably is going to build a new alliance probably with material salvini maybe more independent france however the p.p. is centering itself or at least has started to block its evolution towards the far right which is probably good news for mansour baber it's very bad news for many on the trunk was trying to rebuild his national and european image over the european elections by destroying the p.p. or at least sex sectioning it in half and with this move from man to favor and the fact that they too are bent seems. that it seems that the two of them has lost

a lot of. allies inside his political family it seems that if you're actually not going to be so easy to crack and meth was actually going to have a harder time. getting the momentum he wanted to gain insight to to gain your connections that martin so viktor orban lost a lot of his allies within the but at home he is very popular he won the elections with quite a landslide if with all these problems with the e.u. and with the uncertainty about how things will unfold in the coming weeks and months just think he will still have such a strong support i think so i think it's the same situation that we have in poland that's the way the works. whatever happens to or been right now so either it is from from the b.p. or is to say for them it's a win and also i've heard mention before a solution

a possible solution the cutting funds for those countries again this is actually probably the make them the stronger internally that i know that both urban and dutch change ski they will present and the sanctions basically the e.u. and acting revenge because of the countries becoming stronger becoming more independent self-sufficient so i really don't think. neither orban or kaczynski will lose support despite of any actions that you can take against them quite the opposite and feature my last word dear and very briefly because we're reaching the end of the program but i mean it is all quite ironic for the e.u. this institution i wanted to promote civil liberties and human rights is now facing within its own. territory i would say strongman like viktor orban you then flaunt civil liberties who did at that academia who did

try to interfere within the justice system feel that you're going back a bit in your out somehow. well the price of liberty is eternal vigilance and so that's what we see we see even in western europe and the rule of law is not always perfect so this is a permanent process and i think the best that the european union as an institution can do is not financially prop up countries that are in danger the rule of law but then don't engage in double standards be fair for everyone that. doesn't the respect the rule of law and eventually ultimately at the end of the day this is the job of the hungarian and polish civil society this is the job of international n.g.o.s to race awareness i don't think it's a healthy situation were other governments other often ask ill t.

about some of the since alleged take drastic action wrote certain an interesting point the european people's party will meet soon to decide on the fate of. viktor orban and whether he stays within that party or not but that will be the conversation for another show because we have really reached the end of this one third fanks to all our guests be very clear pay martin michelle's key and button support elect call and thank you do for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. into stories from the lead up to how mean and the whole team here in doha by phone now. millions of dollars is being stolen in

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charged with treason but released on bail and. is the only way. that never again when the president be making that robert lonnie bobby wiener talks to al-jazeera. american florence passes north carolina as it threatens to destroy billions of dollars worth of property on the u.s. east coast. makes it no less a dangerous storm. welcoming peter wu watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up

a lifeline for the leader of turkey central bank defies president and raises interest rates to try and reverse the currency crisis. spain decides to go ahead with an arms deal with saudi arabia despite concerns over the use in the war in yemen. and a film that hopes to change the perception of japan's whaling industry. top story hurricane florence has started battering the east coast of the united states now it's been downgraded to a category one storm but forecasters say it will still cause major damage it's bringing heavy rain strong winds and rising floodwaters to three states north carolina south carolina and virginia already one hundred fifty six thousand people without electricity north carolina's governor is warning the storm will wreak havoc for days the worst of the storm is not yet here. with the ease or the early

warnings of the days to come surviving this storm will be a test of endurance teamwork common sense and patience and got a cup is in wilmington north carolina. what conditions here in wilmington north carolina are deteriorating slowly and slowly is the key word in the most fearful word that forecasters here are using because they think that once hurricane florence makes landfall here in north and south carolina sometime on friday it will not simply move inland but it will linger over this spot for potentially forty eight hours bringing with it up to a meter of rain the other big concern forecasters have here the storm surges that are predicted something up to four meters and storm surges that would basically mean all the buildings here behind me all the first floors would be submerged under water now about one point seven million people in this region are under mandatory

evacuation order most have left we've met plenty of locals here that have chosen to ride the storm out when that storm hits they will have no help they know that they will be on their own but this is a life threatening storm but as it draws closer it's getting wider bigger and wetter that's what's really concerning forecasters here they're predicting billions hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage for the people accused to stay here in wilmington north carolina and all the other places that are affected by florida they are taking their life in their own hands because there will be no help once this storm hits so again those two key concerns are that this storm will linger and dump lots and lots of rain that hasn't been seen here in decades and of course that storm surge up to four meters and potentially deadly. ok let's break this one down for you up until the falling out for us is this going to be bad because of the way the storm system is it is anchored just off the coast yes permit the feeding itself has been downgraded to a category one but those countries based on wind speed now wind isn't really

a major concern for her to consider we have the tornado where it's always the water in this case it's not just rain the source of course floods and storm surge in the two together this is effectively a radar picture of a slowly circulating hurrican sitting off the coast if you think about it the winds in this direction means over warm water is picked. moisture from the atlantic has got all that travel and then he throws it down as rain currently on the coast of virginia but only just and that's where the majority rains we come to the satellite picture which gives you a similar sort of picture five hundred sixty three minutes i've been watching this is the last eighteen nineteen hours or so that the average for the year for atlantic beach is about forty so we're easily on the way to having a year's worth of writing effectively a day or two that this is the picture from the point of view of the satellite picture and that's where the storm watch rotating as i say the winds aren't necessarily a major concern there still gusting a hundred fifty cubits rather be some wind damage but then eventually i have to say

it is an eventual thing it will come on land probably still near wilmington north carolina they will probably go south across the border now given it's got no real significant movement and then we can't exactly show will be an hour or two hours or five hours or actually crosses but the city there is peter indicated music keeps feeding itself for that warm water and that's the worry it's going to be over land for at least another day or two and the winds won't be a strength for south carolina possibly even the junior or west virginia there is going to be two days worth of rain is quite low lying area the storm surge of four meters and the waves on top of the another four or five well in the last we in the eighty's and rain will be a huge problem from this point of view now that is the atlantic this is the pacific and it's a similar sort of story so this this typhoon is even worse if you can think about it now it's going over the area of the northern philippines which isn't quite as populated but it's a category five equivalent typhoon with winds nearly three hundred kilometers per

hour so it as it traverses over the next through the northern philippines they will be significant wind damage and equally significant rainfall. rob thanks very much as robot was discussing there is a not dissimilar situation going on in southeast asia specifically of course it's targeting or is hitting luzon island one of the philippines main areas of inhabitation we will get a live update on that for you just a little later here on al-jazeera we move on to turkey where the central bank has raised interest rates to try and reverse rising inflation and the falling currency despite strong opposition from the president. on the six percent increase to twenty four percent cost an immediate rise in the value of the turkish lira against the u.s. dollar the central bank says it will keep interest rates high until inflation starts ticking as the banks decision came hours after mr irwin blamed high inflation on the central bank's mistakes. to those highly arkell numbers or will we not learn

that you may determine interest rates that you don't determine inflation and inflation as a result of the wrongs this the central bank has taken and who pays the price the people with the trades means sitting in front of me we cannot be an intermediary to the usage of an exploitation tool like interest rates my dear friends to biggest advantage is that its problems are not caused by financing our banks are solidly standing tall. turkish interest rates are at a fourteen year high and the value of the turkish lira has fallen to a record load losing thirty nine percent against the dollar this year many factors have caused the crisis including investor concerns about president influence on monetary policy and a growing trade and diplomatic dispute with the us donald trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum imports because turkey refuses to release an american pastor jailed for his alleged links to

a lot last year's pardon me to the attempted coup two years ago joel rubin is a former deputy assistant secretary of state in the u.s. he says the interest rate increase shows turkey has an independent central bank. the fact that the central bank raise interest rates in order to stem inflation is you deal with that change rate with the united states and strengthen the euro that that's a strong sign and western economies need to have independent central banks we can't have presidents a controlling monetary policy that's when economy is really going through its else then so while the economic situation is difficult and certainly this is a good signal to international markets that central bank is taking seriously the fiscal house getting that in order and demonstrating that the management of the economy isn't strong is that the people leaving the finance ministry as well and those advisors around the president they really need to demonstrate that they have a plan to rescue our service economy from this period if they don't that will

decrease international cautions. the turkish military convoy has reached an observation point in the syrian town of moroc in hama province that's one of the closest points to the line dividing opposition fighters and government forces in the northwest of syria preparations are continuing for an expected syrian government offensive against rebels in neighboring province. the iraqi city of fallujah in anbar province is struggling to recover two years after the iraqi army defeated eisel fighters their battle left the city in ruins as well as reconstruction destroyed buildings and creating jobs the local governments handing out compensation but some complain the process is unfair matheson from baghdad. for two years the people of fallujah have been struggling to rebuild much of the city was destroyed in twenty sixteen years iraqi forces battled eisel fighters some residents who live through the devastation say little has changed. electricity and

services the so wake in the city as for the compensation there is now neighborhoods are almost entirely devastated my house is completely destroyed but i haven't received any fair compensation. that compensation is vital for people who've lost jobs businesses and homes they say the money isn't always fairly distributed. we haven't had fair compensation so far our house was destroyed and the entire neighborhood was leveled to the ground compensation is being granted only for those who have ties with the corrupt officials who have no connection or sometimes getting half the compensation they should get volusia in the center of iraq has been a battleground for decades suffering some of the highest casualty numbers in the one nine hundred ninety one gulf war in two thousand and four u.s. forces invaded and fought gunmen from control of the city after the fall of saddam hussein. by spring twenty fourteen large areas had been seized by eisold fighters.

two years later fallujah was freed after a long seized by the iraqi army but much of it had been destroyed. the local government says it's rebuilding as fast as it can and that's giving some iraqis hope for the future but they're different and i'm against it but when we got back to fallujah after the liberation we saw so much destruction and we estimated at least five years for the total reconstruction of fallujah now we're seeing some sort of efforts to rebuild the reconstruction of fallujah as part of a bigger building program in iraq which is being managed from here in baghdad at the ministry of construction and housing budgets are tight and it's up to the individual cities to manage the money to get. new projects are needed to improve things after i sold and also to fix the huge damage that affected the city as a whole this would require much support from the central government. but getting the proper compensation would help more people than pollute to live from day to day

rob matheson. back. let's go back to the top story we mentioned a little earlier people in southeast asia bracing for the arrival of a super typhoon is called it's gathering strength off the philippines thousands of people have moved away from coastal areas on one of the largest islands in luzon that's home to more than fifteen million people the typhoon is expected to make landfall on saturday with wind speeds of up to two hundred forty kilometers an hour is forecast to be the strongest of fifteen storms which have hit the country this year well for more on that let's take you live now to my colleague jim. who's in providence on the island jamila just get us right up to date what's going on there . whoa peter we arrived here last night and we drove around we can see that there have been preparations here being done and led by the local government.