and you need to remember this particular area of the eastern section of the united states has seen a lot of rain this summer so the ground was already saturated in this rain really has no place to go so this is the track we expect to see coming into parts of south carolina making its way up here towards the north into back into north carolina as a tropical depression and then after that it's going to be moving quite quickly the actual remnants of the storm is expected to go to pennsylvania new york and into new england and bring very heavy rains across that region back to you kevin thank you very much indeed time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back protests across syria's it live as government forces backed by russia plan an offensive to retake the rebel held province plus. i'm scott hi lorraine hahn joe is a city known as a chinese financial technology hub it's also home to the e-commerce giant ali baba ten years since the global financial crisis there's growing concern here about a spike in the failure of online investment firms that story coming up.

how i once again we do still have problems around that southeastern corner of the u.s. of course. florence now staggering along the coastal friend just the last position of the storm at the moment says we go on into sas day because it doesn't really make a whole lot of progress it's still there over south carolina and that wet weather will continue across the carolinas and just pushing up towards the genius as well central areas not seep out because some wet weather into texas having said that we got some wet and wintry weather north of the border into canada just around the rockies nine cell system high in calgary on saturday. coldest of this week i went to sunday just folded. not failing to to warm as we go on through the next couple days when i pick on the other hand that get up to nineteen degrees

a fair amount of powder right at the central pos of canada nothing not a cloud and the rain which is still in a similar area for south carolina as we go through sunday say as we've been saying right through the last few days this is something that's going to be with us for a good four or five days or more meanwhile with same topical storm isaac make its way through the last around to the sas now pulling out into the open waltzes t.v. drama behind. millions of dollars is being stolen in a scanned it starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe one of many schemes exclusive access to this country underworld to a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and three.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. president's former campaign manager has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges as part of a deal with special counsel robert ford agreed to cooperate with probe into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. he's close to the philippines bringing strong winds and heavy rain there were no immediate reports of major damage casualties thousands fled their homes ahead of the storm's arrival. five

people have died as tropical storm florence hit the carolina coast in the united states it's now been downgraded but heavy rain continues to pound and submerge areas crews rescue sixty people in north carolina now the chief of the organization of american states says he's not ruling out military intervention in venezuela. made the comments after visiting venezuelan migrants who fled across the border into colombia but as well as economic crisis forced more than one point five million people to flee the country president nicolas maduro has been accused of voluntary cracking down on anti government protesters. as more from kuta. the head of the oh yeah it's trying to find a more coordinated regional response to this growing exodus of venezuelan migrants that this talk here in the border town of just the first of a few. that you're getting patient of american where holding in other border towns

and only hearing about also in ecuador and breath and the head of the organization of american states we've had some very strong language against the president nicolas maduro and even a government calling it and moral big papers should be said for being a uniquely responsible. economic collapse. and also immoral because because of your willingness to recognize the humanitarian crisis in the country. your foreign minister who was with him also said that they need international help to deal with the more than one million venezuelans that have moved to colombia since two thousand and fifteen. thousands of syrians have demonstrated against a looming offensive on the last rebel held province two dozen towns running against the government hardline sciences the scenes are reminiscent of protests in two

thousand and eleven but. much has changed. carful scenes not seen in egypt for years. in our freedom they see these scenes a reminder of the early days of syria's revolution for the violent government crackdown. before the arrival of countless foreign backed armed groups before russia got involved and changed the course of this war before millions were forced from their homes hundreds of thousands killed before homes in cities were leveled before the fabric of syrian society was arguably destroyed i.

thank you the chant the same as it was in two thousand and eleven. the people want the downfall of the regime i don't know how but today we're here to fight for the demands of this revolution that the regime must go will not reconcile with them whatever promises they make will never trust issues seem the media lies and they say we're terrorists but it's a people's revolution just like when it started well then i was totally out of them but so much has changed seven and a half years on it lib is the last province and opposition control representing the final hopes of syrians opposition syrian government forces and their allies are expected to recapture the province that will be done remains a subject of intensive negotiations between turkey and russia one of the issues how to separate the so-called terrorist groups and the so-called moderate opposition hired to handle sham formerly known as the nusra front is one of the groups labeled a terrorist organization and accused of being affiliated with al qaida turkey is

trying to get the group to disband with no results so far. some sources say the operation will go in phases and could take many months more than three million syrians live in it province their stories often forgotten among the military and political developments but this friday it's the people who came to the streets to say no to military offensive and to say no to living under a government they have sacrificed so much to remove stephanie decker or jazeera and taqiyya. the rebels in yemen say at least fifteen people have been killed by saudi america yes strikes in her data as more violence around keno sixteen that's the main highway heading east out of the red sea port is one of the main supply routes to the capital sana'a which is held by who the rebels under simmons has more. hooty rebel forces say these are civilians caught in the saudi amorality led coalition's line of fire in her data the hooter's say at least fifteen civilians were killed on

thursday evening and twenty injured. this man asks why have these people being killed who to say this is kilo sixteen the main road link between the red sea port of her data and the capital sana'a are controlled by hutu rebels if fully verified these deaths and injuries will add ammunition to a different battle one that was waged this week in the united states congress u.s. politicians convinced by a report that blame the coalition for unnecessary civilian deaths failed to pass a resolution to stop u.s. support for the saudis. further down the road in sabine hospital where supplies are meant to go different images burnt into the fearful thoughts of parents and would be mothers and fathers all across yemen there's no need for confirmation here the

most vulnerable suffer in war in yemen it goes to extremes aid agencies warn that if the supply line of food medicine and other aid stays cut then mounted fission could kill more babies than weapons do it's the united nations official though who explains what's at stake a conflict has made yemen a living hell for its children over eleven million children or about eighty percent of the country's under eighteen population id need of humanitarian assistance they face the threat of food shortages displacement and acute lack of access to basic social services hutu rebels have posted video which they say shows an ambush on government fighters in the saudi amorality led coalition near her data saudi reports say hooters have been fleeing the battlefield. the rebels deny that and there is a warning that food could come under attack on the pretext of coalition claims that

weapons are stored there whatever the truth in this war the attempts to bring calm and some hope of dialogue still rests heavily on the shoulders of the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths he met the hooty delegation that should have been in geneva last week in the yemeni capital muscat on thursday it appears martin griffiths isn't giving up on his attempts to try to build confidence as he describes it between the two sides but they don't appear to want to give up the fighting now mr griffiths has had talks with the rebels in amman they say those meetings ended up with no agreement whatsoever he plans to come to start what will take place remains to be seen but he will end his trip in the saudi capital riyadh but time is ticking on this whole process he knows that and through symons djibouti. three saudi soldiers have died in the fighting along its border against the who thing is riyadh also accusing the rebels of aiming to attack the

around refinery in the port city of just sand in the south the military says it's intercepted a missile fired by the who think it says one hundred ninety five of them launched from yemen since the war began and twenty fifteen israeli forces have shot dead three palestinian protesters along the border fence with garza a fourteen year old boy was among those killed at least two hundred forty eight others are wounded in the weekly border demonstration the health ministry there says at least one hundred seventy seven people have now been killed since the protests began on march thirty. and the israeli army has close roads leading to the village of hana lamarr in the occupied west bank which is scheduled for demolition scuffles broke out between soldiers and palestinian protesters they're angry at israel's decision to flatten the village to make way for the building of illegal settlements israel supreme court gave the go ahead after rejecting an appeal in unusually points to attack the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o as accused who is a bomber era previous as

a john kerry of actively undermining the united states kerry's recently held several meetings with the foreign minister of iran who he worked with on the twenty fifty nuclear deal on pay or describe the meetings as illegal adding that iranian backed fighters fired rockets the u.s. compound in iraq just this week secretary kerry has done is unseemly and unprecedented this is a former secretary of state engaged with the world's largest state sponsor of terror and according to him very you have to take my word for he these are his answers he was he was talking and he was telling them to wait out this administration now it's been ten years since the global financial crisis many analysts are wondering if another one is brewing and if so where will come from the bank of england governor has singled out china's financial system as one of the bigger risks to global financial stability scott tyler reports from hung joe part

of china's massive shadow banking system has recently been facing a crisis of its own similar to what happened back in two thousand and eight. at thirty two focuses all her attention on building her wealth this motivation she says comes from growing up with very little. money is very very important because money come bring me the sense of security i don't want to live poor again. living in hong joe joe embodies the entrepreneurial spirit in the city known for its financial technology industry and home to e-commerce giant ali baba but she and millions of other people in china have lost billions of dollars after investing in what are known as peer to peer lending platforms or p. to p. amid stricter government oversight in the panic withdrawal of funds by investors more than two hundred firms have failed in the last three months p.d.p. firms gather money from investors and then lend money to small businesses and

individuals with many promising high returns on those investments and that concerns economists as the p.d.p. industry in china is the world's largest with more than one hundred ninety billion dollars at play this on the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis for the problem i think it's a had a mom in china for a long time but now it looks especially dangerous because a lot of a lot of those debts are tied to the property market and like the recent crisis much of the borrowing or used to finance their housing market is speculation and she says some aspects of p.d.p. lending are similar to the sub prime loans in the u.s. that led to the two thousand and eight global financial crisis the outcry over the failing p.t.p. companies was so big in july that the government here joe had to use athletic stadiums to how is the complaint centers for the thousands of investors looking to get their money back or simply find out where it went i want some of those who lost

money took their anger to the offices of one p.d.p. firm protesting out front chanting we want. our money back i. as a businesswoman and investor has diversified her investments not just in p.d.p. firms she's lucky as many other chinese have lost their life savings in the crisis but moving forward she has learned her lesson she won't blindly invest her money and will be much more cautious and careful but for many it's too late it's got her out zero. now the london design festival is inviting visitors to pilots of balloon but only using their minds al-jazeera was just a boy when went to fancy. seven meters in soaring in the atrium of the design museum all thanks to brain waves the weather balloon is controlled by visitors minds their electric brain pulses power the robotics which ultimately

control the textile airship and they're going to see. this interview through virtual reality goggles the pilot sees the balloon lift inside the atrium go through the roof and soar over west london you see yourself going out over kensington and yeah you just you just feel a bit like a balloon yourself very low in every it's amazing. but the trick is to relax the more relaxed your state's the more this balloon will will saw and rise so it's kind of based on sort of metaphors around sort of breath and meditation and this idea of like subconsciously soaring and rising it's a fun activity for the london design festival but there are also practical applications it can help those with tents minds learn how to relax and it can revive storing adventures for people who can't move it's also a way for the museum to attract a different audience new visitors who have no interest in sleek scandinavian design

when you see believe you're like oh wow. memories i can i can connect with that it's cool it's the mind pilot is also about a more inclusive future where people with varying physical abilities can become pilots using their thoughts to fly jessica baldwin al-jazeera land. owners of course on our website there what is on the screen address al jazeera dot com. or type a quick check of the headlines or an al-jazeera the us president's former campaign manager has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges as part of a special deal with the council robert muller told manifold agreed to cooperate with the investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election typhon monk which has slammed the northeast coast of the philippines

bringing in strong winds and heavy rain there are no immediate reports of major damages thousands fled their homes ahead of the storm's arrival jim allen duggan has more. communication and power lines. have been cut off. and really. that it's basically made it impossible. to get out and know for sure what is happening in other communities i can only imagine how the situation is like first. by the river. at least five people have died as tropical storm florence hit the carolina coast in the united states it's weakened but heavy rain continues to pound and submerge areas crews rescued more than three hundred sixty stranded people in new bern in north carolina the chief of the organization of american states says he's not ruling out military intervention in venezuela. made the comments after visiting

venezuelan migrants who fled across the border into colombia venezuela is economic crisis has forced more than one point five million people to flee the country president nicolas maduro has been accused of violently cracking down on government protesters in syria several demonstrations have been held to protest against the government's one was in hama the other was a neighboring province the last remaining rebel stronghold in the country the protesters are angry at the government's plan to launch a massive military offensive to retake the territory. israeli army has close roads leading to the village of han alomar in the occupied west bank which is essential for demolition on friday scuffles broke out between soldiers and palestinian protesters they're angry at israel's decision to flatten the village to make way for the building of illegal settlements. all right so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one a one east station that's

a watching. on counting the cost this week ten years later why young people of picking up the bill for the global financial crisis could a seismic economic event be brewing it emerging markets plus behind gated walls bubbles and crashes in the global housing market counting the cost on al-jazeera. it's a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe. investors are promised the opportunity of a lifetime they all ideas they get you on the hook. but instead are left with shattered dreams and financial ruin the white i've tried my. own thickets all on steve cho on this up sort of one on one east we reveal how organized crime is making millions in the philippines.

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

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

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

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

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

what i do other ma don't want to keep doing with todd what. he'll finish. there are under sort of title shares. but if you get. the never bought in ones money pocketed the so called broker went by the name of john paulson when didn't know it at the time but was not a licensed trader even his name was an alias in real life he was an american criminal living in manila. this is the frauds to talking recorded on wind brown's voicemail. her child died a short break here because. geoffrey carr taught english law there are shit like outerwear oh yes. so that's john polson john polson bring up there was

no one on the world or thought and he was wrong because. they were going to hold on a seventy or no reason to think it was a scam. the man who calls himself john polson is sticking to a script scam is like emus well proven psychological techniques to entrap the victim's investigator can gamble has seen it all before they're required to get the investor on the hook so the very first calls that i'm like a designed to get that potential investor to to make a small investment.