station would help more people than live day to day rather mathison disease. 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 it's called monk it's gathering strength off the philippines thousands of people moved away from coastal areas on one of the largest islands in luzon but home to more than fifty 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 rhode island jamila just get us right up to date on 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 with the distance from the national government

there are national officials here are showing everyone that everything is in place when it comes to preparation for a bike when i am in one of the local law elementary schools that have been turned into an evacuation center for those residents living in low lying areas and villages around the river here and there are about one hundred families here in the situation is all across. several areas in luzon and it is expected to make landfall early saturday morning but if that band really the claims that the government is well prepared will only be felt basically once the type we have been told as you know even here in this evacuation that if there were just a rain there is already flooding and it is expected though that the impact of this bible will be about much more a much later months later after the typhoon that hit here you get the feeling there that the authorities are coping well enough. so far.

well yes they are because the very basics are still available there is still electricity there is still water but not everybody was willing to evacuated spoken to families who say that some of their family members may be high and to look after their cattle to look after their farmland as you know this is all they have majority of the people here are dependent on farming for their livelihood this is the way this is the food basket of the country and before i think the impact of that by point is the fact that for many months not just critical but emergency response here might also be a gift given the thousands of families who will surely be moving on their livelihood months later after the typhoon hit you'll keep us posted i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much plenty more still to come here on al-jazeera including the world's richest man makes his biggest charitable donation ever.

through tranquil arabian can you. deny it seems and if indeed. some things are slow to change and i'm thinking particularly about the showers have been circulating around the black sea of the last week or so now more recent nails it's a different system it looks the same we've seen about one hundred millimeters the last in the biggest showers in turkey and that continues circulation this line here is a bit different it's a lot of changing if you like it's going to cross so it's and recently produced some decent showers it's going to be there through friday a lot and takes it through all strata that had to be certainly warmer behind it's rather cooler and rather wetter windier in the british isles down to twenty one in paris when the sunshine still thirty three in madrid a shower too still floating around the east coast mediterranean coast of southern spain and the picture you get to saturday. the range broken up is heading down

through hungry towards rumania still thirty in bucharest we're back to twenty in berlin that looks a bit more autumnal than summery now north west africa is also seeing some showers the same system that's producing them in spain is doing its job in morocco and i think throughout today will see a shower to america they don't seem to be particularly big but they could be sundry twenty six in the back at the shows hang around through saturday temps just to reason the good it's still thirty one in tunis. the weather sponsored by cattle peace. ugandan part star turned politician now charged with treason but released on bail and. is the only one that never again the president be taking that rubber tug line e. bobby wiener talks to al-jazeera.

welcome back you're with al-jazeera my name's peter these are your headlines hurricane florence assaulted battering the east coast of the united states now has been downgraded to a category one storm but forecasters say it will still cause major damage is bringing heavy rain strong winds and rising floodwaters to three states north carolina south carolina and virginia. turkey central bank has raised interest rates to try and reverse rising inflation and the falling currency despite strong opposition from the president. the six percent increase to twenty four percent

cause 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 to ease the bank's decision came hours after mr one blamed high inflation on the central bank's mistakes. four hundred laser guided bombs are on their way from spain to saudi arabia after the spanish government reversed its decision to cancel the order the cancellation of the deal last week led to concerns about spanish job . and the future of the two billion dollar contract with saudi warships the u.-turn is angering control activists they say the bombs will kill civilians in the saudi led war in yemen take gould is from friends committee on national legislation she says a stronger message needs to be sent to all the countries which is continuing to supply arms to saddam. it's truly a shameful decision we're seeing with this reversal that spain instead of sending

a red light to and mass slaughter in yemen that spain is changing that to a green light to green lighting the continued indiscriminate killing of civilians and targeting of civilian areas like hospitals and schools and most recently a school bus full of yemeni children so it's truly a shameful decision and spain should rethink this and also other countries should step up to the plate and stop sending more weapons of mass starvation and mass destruction to saudi arabia. we need 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 those spain sent the opposite message with this reversal 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 services intercepted communications and then examine that data and it was looking at how the secret services can ask for communications data from communications service providers found that there was a lack of safeguards and 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 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 dissolved in acid protesters say the attacks on students are a symptom of the surge in violence across mexico meanwhile in the nicaraguan capital managua thousands of people have taken part in an anti-government protests more than three hundred people have been killed in violent demonstrations which began in april to oppose planned pension reforms and in costa rica there's been a fourth day of protest against tax reforms there demonstrators say the proposal would unfairly affect the middle and lower classes the protests of the first major test for the president carlos alberto who took office in may. the two russian men accused by britain of poisoning a former russian spy and his daughter with

a nerve agent say they were in salzburg just to see its famous cathedral but britain's prime minister has ridiculed their appearance on russian state t.v. series m a said that quote lies and blatant fabrications are an insult to people's intelligence need barco reports. the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei and scrip pollin march we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos for. underage girls 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 and they exactly 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 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 an whistlin barre shop 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 stage managed attempt to turn the u.k.'s version of event on its head neve

barker al-jazeera. the world's richest man the amazon chief jeff bezos is giving two billion dollars to start a charitable fund the money will be used to operate a network of preschools as well as funds nonprofit organizations that help homeless families with a personal fortune of around one hundred sixty billion dollars mr best source has previously been criticized for not doing enough for charity. full tuition preschool part of 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 of a team i'm going to identify that we're going to hire the full time team. identify and fire and that and fire and. family homeless shelters. a new report

by the overseas development institute is warning the world is not on track to end extreme poverty by twenty thirty that target was by all the world leaders in twenty fifteen now the world bank defines quote extreme poverty as living on less than one dollar ninety per person per day it affects eight hundred million people today that number is expected to have 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 handed out with a focus on countries which are least able to finance their own public spending. the french president has unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan to tackle poverty in france includes making education or training compulsory up to the age of eighteen and providing the poorest children with a free breakfast the announcement by emmanuel macro aims to eliminate poverty within the decade sonia has more. in

a village in southern france this grocery store is a lifeline for people who struggle financially run by a charity it offers produce and fresh vegetables at low prices the service means the shoppers can afford regular meals and i want as much as and i think the advantage of this shop is that it stops me really hitting rock bottom when you're going through rough patch to stop you for being too low or you don't take something home to live on seven hundred fifty dollars a month after the bills electricity water rent and insurance i have three hundred dollars left on that's why i come here every tuesday. one in seven adults and a fifth the children of france lives below the poverty line that's less than thirteen hundred dollars a month activists say the situation is urgent it's why the french president has launched what he calls a new battle against the scandal of poverty so. this is not a charity because it's not a question of helping people to live a bit better it's all about pulling them out of poverty nine billion dollars will

be invested over four years the focus will be on creating long term of achieve and jobs for people lifting them out of poverty through work and off welfare their focus on more child care and support for deprived school children and also training and apprenticeship schemes the young adults. is also about having enough money so that you can look after yourself feed yourself and have a roof over your head as far as this is concerned the president does not want to increase the minimum funding for survival michael says he wants to eliminate poverty in france within a generation a goal aimed at ending meet and silencing critics who call him the president of the rich sunny day you go 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 humber forest that's close to the dutch border for the past five years. japan's attempting to end the

thirty three year long international ban on commercial whaling despite fierce opposition at the international whaling commission meeting in brazil in the arguments for and against oil hunting japan's become increasingly isolated but japanese will hunters hope a new film will change perceptions about what they've been doing for hundreds of years. 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 taiji. 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 thanks dolphins 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 has made me says saki when it comes to whaling and hunting we will hear 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 touch 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 saki 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 or the town the whales and dolphins and that's something that the inherited from their own sisters 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. recapping the headlines for you so far today here on al-jazeera hurricane florence a started about the east coast of the united states is bringing heavy rain strong winds and coastal surgeries to the states of north carolina and south carolina already one hundred fifty six thousand people without electricity for cost 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 would testify 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 low areas across the strike 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 turkey central bank has raised interest rates to try and reverse rising inflation and a falling currency despite strong opposition from the president wretch up typo to one the six percent increase to twenty four percent caused 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 to ease and one blamed the bank's mistakes for high inflation was before the rate rise. spain's decided to go ahead with the sale of four hundred laser guided bombs to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel the order the move has angered activists who say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians in the ongoing war in yemen. in mexico city thousands of students from its 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 the bodies dissolved in acid protesters say the attacks on students are a symptom of a surge in violence across the country. those are your headlines so far today more news on this channel in thirty minutes up next as talked to al jazeera all season

but by. germany's capital there's a barber like no other. but as he said he changes he's moving with the time. and going on the road. the stories you don't talk to hear told by the people who live there. the master barber of berlin this is an al-jazeera. and. you can. see. he's known as bobby wine ugandan pop star turned politician robert she made headlines after being detained on august fourteenth he was charged with treason

accused of throwing stones at president you are in the seventies presidential motorcade after release on bail to go nani said he was tortured by security forces he was again detained before being allowed to seek medical treatment in the united states amanda gallacher in washington d.c. robert chuckle lonnie's has been released from hospital and is ready to talk about the accusations made against him by the ugandan government his detention and alleged torture. bobbie wind talks to al-jazeera. let's start with the events of last month you were arrested twice firstly for throwing stones at the presidential motorcade and then secondly you were arrested and charged with treason and your driver was shot and killed in what you think was an assassination attempt and then you say you were brutally tortured by the security forces what happened. a lot happened like you said i was

brutally arrested beaten terribly. in the car and charged for the league or. position of a charge that was later dropped by the government itself and then later charged with treason and saw in my opinion it was more of a pass occasion than prosecution but the beating you said it was with an iron bar sounds like it was almost a sexual assault in part from what you've you've said before who carried out and why. the section on the military called this special forces command. that section of the military is charged with guarding the president and he's actually led by the president's son. carried out all those atrocities and i mean beat me with and i admire with them and beat me with the gun bites and squeeze my taste of cause and you know did all unspeakable things to me one commentator

in uganda said that in some ways as unfortunate as this event was it was almost your baptism it's it's given you a higher profile and they said now your supporters will be watching because of your profile what's your next move what do you do now. well we've always been wanting to free uganda but that free uganda should not come at the cost of torture should not come at the cost of mind. you know illegal executions should be good free because our generation feels like the prize as only is the price has only been paid for president was given to. in power we lost more than half a million people in what he said was a liberation now that liberation doesn't make sense to us because we are made with

a brutal force every time we try to raise our voices every time we try to. seek for the change that we know we can situationally deserve no you're here to get medical treatment one of your major concerns is to get your blood tested because you didn't trust what the doctors were injecting you with in uganda will have been a long term effect to your health you think. i don't know still waiting for the results so i can know what is actually in my blood treatment as you can see many of the ones out here. have graduated from using crutches to just a walking skip walking stick physically i'm getting better i wish i would be free in their blood like i'm beginning to be free physically now when you were detained up believe around thirty two other people were detained you say some of those were tortured as well women among them could you have done more should you have done

more for them could you have flown them here perhaps to get medical treatment. i wish i could do it. only still my friends i feel humbled that my brutalization attracted the attention of friends across the world but at the same time i feel ineptitude to the men and women that i have and you are dead similar to each of us in particular the people that were arrested together with me we're so brutalized i remember a lady called cyril she had just had a baby you. biases syrian section but she was beaten so much that even by the time i left you can they sure still passing blood in a private there's another guy called a teco doctor told us doctors told us he will never be able to walk there's another young lady called sold out my dad i lived in those spittle. my family and i myself believe that it was important to save my life because i am lucky to have the

resources that can bring me to america for further treatment i feel like this is a right that everybody deserves and that is why i try as much as possible to use this remaining time as i used to leave to raise my voice to speak for those people to make sure that what happened to me and wapping or what happened to my colleagues does not happen to any other you can now because nobody deserves this i believe what can be done is not just to be done by me. what i have is the voice to raise the plight of you and but i continue to call upon ugandans especially the young ugandans to speak up the more we unite the stronger we will become the stronger we become today the regime seems to be shaking simply because ugandans a more united and it's the call that i continue to call upon ugandans to stand to be resilient and to continuously demand for the dignity that they deserve you're

facing a president. who's been in power since ninety six has removed term limits removed age limits and plans to run again in twenty twenty one how do you take on someone like that that seems to have such a grip on power i know that we are facing a president who came to power when i was only four years but i also know that the population of uganda is over eighty five percent and that the age of thirty five i know that it is many people like me who share the same dreams and aspirations for a better country a country where this city's in will be the true master and the leaders are going to be servant a country where when you work hard you achieve so we share the same pain we share the same operation and i believe that our numbers are not such a lie i believe that the dreams will hold together the aspirations will hold together a much stronger than the fear and terror that has been unleashed to us so much as

president has the guns much as they have the ferocious forces we have the dreams there to hold together and nothing can stop us from achieving what one achieve by running as an independent politician is there a concern that you are not joining one of the main parties you may split the vote or you may so we're called and make things harder by not having join one of the main parties by not adding your voice to someone that's already established well knows joining politics or what anybody would love to call politics i looked at not the divisions that we're having i looked at the plate that we shared together today uganda is split into two types of people they are prisoners and oppressed. so many people are or press through godless of what

political party tribe or religion they belong to many people are even when they belong to the ruling party so our desire as the oppressed people is to redeem ourselves and we know that we are continuously being joined by people from across the divide from all political parties from all tribes and from all religions so what we unite us more is not the identities of the political parties or sections that will belong to no but the desire of freedom and liberty that we have as a nation is what unites us but how do you turn those desires those wishes that longing for change into real political change in your country because the challenges are huge against a president who seems to want to stay in power for as long as he lives well the challenge is huge but we are very very optimistic generation we know that

we have nothing to lose apart from a useless life we know that we are millions and millions of young professionals doctors lawyers teachers who can't make sense out of life we know that we are together with groups our reserve thousands of arid as who are continuously being embarrassed by the way things are going you know we know that even the young people in the armed forces young people in the police and civil servants all desire change now i know you're planning to go back home in a few days' time these treason charges are still standing it seems to me that you're a marked man are you fearful about returning home well. i'll be honest yes. i'm fearful as a person but i don't have another country uganda is my country so i either live

in a dignified country or i be remembered as a ugandan who died trying to make a better uganda you're talking about your own death is that something is a possibility that your aware of as a father with four children as someone who is a loyal ugandan i love my family so much i love my country but i also know that just less than forty eight hours ago one of my best friend was shot dead simply because he dared to speak truth to power so many people day even without saying a thing so it's important for me to raise the voice for as long as i can do you feel like you're qualified to lead these people do you feel like you have what it takes to be a leader i believe that everybody can play a role i'm only trying to play a role as

a person i grew up from the ghetto and i was elevated by the common people the ugandans they gave me this platform and that is why i am talking to you today so i believe that i can only play my role in its tiny position and by encouraging all the millions of you can answer for each of them to keep playing their role you say your playing a tiny role what if that role that's played the scenario means that you become the next president of uganda do you want that job i want to be ugandan that lives in a free uganda it does not matter who the president will be as of now nobody is free i want to be free and every going and wants to be free regardless of who the president is.