al jazeera world examines the life of. the hunt for the red prince. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a dam this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes. a powerful typhoon hits the philippines and heads for china while in the u.s. storm florence brings flooding and destruction. iraq's parliament alexis speaker paving the way for a government to be formed just days after violent unrest in basra. image of court orders the arrest of two sons of a former president of the sale of

a national bank. counting down nasa prepares to launch a rocket the study global warming. i'm paul aris with the sport as the rugby championship gets its biggest upsets in nearly a decade with new zealand losing to south africa on home soil. at least twelve people have been killed in the philippines by the most powerful storm to hit this year typhoon made its landfall on saturday and is raging across the south china sea heading towards hong kong and southern china what began as super typhoon man could last some of its sting after it struck the largest filipino island more than five million people are in the path of two hundred kilometer an hour winds roofs were ripped off flimsy homes power lines with downed thousands of

people were moved from low lying areas. is in northern province. we are in by god one of the areas the first bear the brunt of the super typhoon this is about an hour from to get our city but at says is really quite difficult communication and power lines have been cut off but on her way here we bumped into a truck of marine officers several have been seriously injured saw them being brought to the city in ambulances by volunteers the situation in bugout was similar basically all across the region of luzon hours after the typhoon made landfall the government the national and local governments have yet to really assess the full impact of this typhoon that is because many of these areas are in rural areas such as this one we've spoken to civilians who have lost their homes or

have lost their livelihoods and they know basically that life will set them back even further they already went through something similar two years ago and it's taken them time to recover they say what they want right now is emergency relief help food medicine and power typhoon one could see is heading across the south china sea and could strengthen again before hitting southern china in the around twenty four hours the chinese government has issued the second highest storm alert very services across province have been suspended with heavy rain and huge floods for calls for the weekend billboards have also been taken down in case that blown away by winds expected to hit two hundred kilometers an hour. as meteorologists run mckelway is watching the storms how's it looking here this is been big in every way of being the biggest on the planet if you have a look at the satellite picture we saw twenty four hours ago the eye on a map of this gale is clearly visible this way as

a category five typhoon now you know what's happened since then is warm good news not what does run across the northern parts of luzon which is a mountain range valley mountain range so it lost some of its power and it moved fairly quickly which is something of a saving grace because the total amount of rain collected in one of the times hit two hundred forty millimeters thereabouts the outer fringes of rain seventy millimeters for taiwan that's how far reaches by the way and they are is already reforming here is although it lost a lot of its power going towards the mountains where of course it has caused landslides in the northern philippines is regaining it because it takes it from the wall of the water where at least thirty degrees here so says that's not quite a warm boss but not far off it and the one energy goes up into the storm so it's category three already and here's a bit of a problem because of course it's not finished with this it's current statistics give you about two hundred k's is steady wind and it's gusting two hundred forty

that's about how it was when it was over the top of the philippines but it's moving fairly quickly northwest winds its course recently and very recently in the last hour or so has been altered again to take it even closer to home call now it's not going to make landfall in hong kong but it's going to be just down the coast just studying the models and i reckon that the winds over hong kong itself over the harbor are going to be at least one hundred km's they're already flying i think it's banner three which means over one hundred ten when it makes landfall the storm itself or the one hundred fifty kilometer winds with gusts obviously high given the spin of this thing in addition to the rain which of course will lash and will cause some flash floods it is got some tremendous power to lift the ocean to push the water. towards the coastline so in addition to this sort of hundred kilometer wind going through hong kong you could have rising waters and you've heard of storm surge or the same thing happens along the south china coast including in hong kong

. thanks so much while five people have been killed in storm florence as it continues to lash the east coast of the u.s. it's being downgraded from a horrific and and tropical storm but full cost is a still warning of flash flooding across the carolinas and virginia kristen salumi reports from fayetteville in north carolina. even in her weakened state florence packs a punch the hurricane has been downgraded to a tropical storm but it hit the coast of north carolina with strong winds driving rain and a swelling surf weather experts warn there's much more to come i do want to emphasize that this is only the beginning florence is a very slow mover we'll continue to track along the south north carolina and south carolina coastline for the next twenty four to thirty six hours. the storm is slowly moving inland floodwaters have begun submerging roads and seeping into homes

with up to seventy five centimeters of rain expected in some areas a storm surge on the news river north of the eye of the storm brought the most serious flooding so far emergency crews have been called to rescue hundreds who ignored evacuation orders utility workers have come from all over the country to help these are just a few of the trucks that are standing by utility company has warned that millions of people could lose power so far the number is in the hundreds of thousands of the storm is far from over. further inland boarded up buildings and overturned trees but still waiting for what could be the worst to calm christine salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. randi gallagher is in wilmington north carolina how's it looking there now and the. i mean i have to say it's pretty good here if there was a catastrophe of things were going to get worse i don't think they are in wilmington north carolina the cape fear river just at the end of the street behind the camera

has burst its banks there has been some localized flooding there but the rainfall has been pretty light here so i think there's a slight reality check here at the moment this isn't the catastrophe that the authorities were talking about at the moment they were talking about a for me to storm surge which would have been way above the first floor of all these buildings here that hasn't happened but it's important also to remember this is a very slow moving tropical storm now so the winds are only fairly light moving at about walking pace moving inland towards virginia so they're talking about eight months worth of rainfall over perhaps the next two to three days so there is still that chance of localized flooding in the death toll we're now told it's up to seven so we'll have cases and then of people still needing evacuation stuck on rooftops and rooftops and so on then. you know there's no one stuck on rooftops in this scenario and the communities that were the worst hit are in the north part of north carolina where it jumps out into the atlantic the small low lying communities

literally of a few hundred people were the ones that were hit the most where you heard about those rescues which were not looking at a hurricane katrina type situation where people are waiting on their roofs to be rescued and that's simply not happening even here we've seen the paramedics and fire crews patrolling the streets because we simply haven't had that kind of rainfall all that tidal surge that was predicted the storm is still moving very very slowly at about a walking pace it's now a tropical storm with these heavy rains coming and going but so far certainly in this part of north carolina we haven't seen what was predicted. or a clear off his all always a pain though is there's about power lines i think are still down of for many homes what sort of a mission lies ahead. well we have about a million close to a million people who've lost power there something like forty thousand engineers from seventeen different states but they can't really move into big start to begin those repairs until the storm has cleared off for their own safety reasons so it

may be perhaps a week to ten days before we lost power here yesterday before this town the city gets its power back so it's a slow laborious process until people get the power back when the preparations were made well in advance i want point seven million people who are under mandatory evacuation order most did heed those warnings and those that stayed certainly here in wilmington weren't any any immediate danger it's just those smaller communities to the north of us here that really got slammed. right and so much on the gallic on their. the u.s. space agency nasa has launched an advance space laser into orbit to be used to measure how much ice remains on earth as global warming continues to shrink the glasses there comes a time when some climate change projects it was cancelled by the u.s. administration changing point three two one. nasa is calling it its most advanced space laser launch on saturday i said to

a half time satellite will are based on a billion dollar mission to find out how much of the earth's ice is melting as the climate warms i said it was all about measuring elevation and a natural question is how do you know you get the right answer or go out and collect a reference data so i will be ready to compare and evaluate the green laser light from the satellite bounces off of this thing goes right back up to the satellite again super reflective so this things is up in data with temperatures like i saw two i said two is the first mission in nearly a decade that will be measuring ice levels its predecessor i sat launched in two thousand and three operated for six years the new satellites will use an advanced laser and camera system known as atlas to measure how long it takes individual particles of light to leave the satellite bounce off earth and return these tests will be repeated four times a year providing scientists with

a continuous record detailing changes in the ice it's also help them better understand the relationship between the melting ice sheets and the rising sea. scientists have been warning for a number of years that the global average temperature is rising the four hottest years on record have been the last four and the constant reliance on fossil fuels for energy means levels of greenhouse gases continue to mount but the u.s. administration and the president donald trump seems intent on slashing projects that aim to study and curb climate change the i said to mission should last three years but has enough fuel to continue for ten if the mission managers decide to extend its life but that will depend not on the scientists but some politicians morgan al-jazeera iraq's parliament has elected a speaker paving the way for a government to be formed follows months of uncertainty about the country's political direction after disputed elections in may mohamed boosie is backed by the

pro iranian father bloc led by former prime minister nouri al maliki his election indicates the group is likely to have enough votes to form a governing coalition problematic joins me live from baghdad so what does this say about the future for high that our body and who gets to be the next prime minister . sami a colleague of mine was just telling me a couple of days ago that when it comes to iraqi politics particularly always expect the unexpected so it's very difficult to try to give you any sort of definitive picture of what the parliament is going to be like when all the jobs of failed in the process is completed by probably the end of this week let me just give you a brief to answer your question breakdown of what the current situation is in the parliament there is that large coalition of shia coalition which is predominately pro iranian on one side you have a bloc which is led by the shia cleric worked out a saga which regards itself is neither pro u.s.

nor pro iranian guards itself as nationalist and the third block which is led by the current prime minister that all a body whom is regarded by the us particularly as a moderate and is definitely very pro-u.s. now one of the circumstances surrounding the appointment of this particular speaker although he is sunni which is required by iraqi parliamentary process that had the speaker always has to be a sunni nevertheless he received strong support as you mentioned from the shia contingent within the parliament and that's given rise to concerns that that's indicating a possible shift of the parliament away from the the more centrist inclusive policies of that allowed by the towards the shia and ultimately iranian side of the parliament but as i say there's a lot that can change in the course of a week and in the last week in the run up to this particular nomination we've seen a lot of to ing and fro ing in a lot of negotiations going on this morning when the vote was being taken for the

speaker of the bloc led by more titles and some coalition piece walked out now they said they didn't wasn't because they objected to one particular candidate it was because they wanted to give people time to think about the vote that they were about to take they then came back in and the vote was carried out so everybody's going to be watching very carefully over the next few days about how the government is gradually going to form and we'll have a far clearer picture over the end of this week. and what's at stake is not just you know iraq's internal affairs as you pointed out there a lot at stake for regional and global powers right that's absolutely right so i mean they're going to two countries they're going to be looking at this very closely iran and the u.s. now as we've mentioned before iran has a significant amount of influence within iraqi politics and in the day to day lives of iraqis as well but over the last week certainly about a week ago we saw some very serious and violent protests in the city of basra

particularly which were owned one hand to do with allegations or accusations of corruption within the government within business and within the parliament itself but we're also focused to some degree on iran as well some of the buildings that were torched during those protests included public buildings but also private buildings owned and operated by shia groups that work in and around and have iranian backed backing but of course as you probably remember the rainy and close to that in basra was also burned as well that iran is obviously very angry about that so it's very concerned about where this parliament is going to center itself but of course the other side of that of course is the u.s. it's been a strong supporter of prime minister high that of the body for a couple of reasons hietala body has made no secret of the fact that he is very pro united states and he has been a moderate which the u.s.

and other western governments felt was able to pull together a very fractured fractious iraqi parliament however it looks as though at the moment the high that all about these power base within the iraqi parliament at the moment may well be dwindling and of course the u.s. is going to be very concerned that if that goes its own influence within iraq is going to disappear as well right we'll leave it there for now thanks so much matheson. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including a decade on from the events which triggered a global financial crash we look at its legacy today across the world an opposition leader in rwanda has been set free from jail but some third in what the motivation was. alan small to the world's best boxes get up close and personal before their title fight we here with that story.

and egyptian court has ordered the arrest of two sons of former president hosni mubarak over the sale of a national bank gamal mubarak the younger of the two is accused of being part of the group which obtained twenty seven million dollars from the deal their father ruled egypt from nine hundred eighty one until the revolution of two thousand and eleven when he replaced when he was replaced rather by the first democratically elected president mohamed morsy some of warrick sons have been imprisoned since his rule ended a huge crowd is gathered in the theo paean capital to welcome the returning leaders of the once banned oromo liberation front or o.l.f. the group's leader there would be upset and fifteen hundred fighters returned from madison from neighboring eritrea after twenty six year absence earlier this year the prime minister removed the left from a terrorist as part of reforms to widen the political space they are left has been pushing for self-determination for the aroma of people since the nineteen seventies

. in rwanda or jailed opposition leader has been released from prison after an order by the president paul gauguin me retiring go to usa was sentenced to fifteen years behind bars in two thousand and thirteen for terrorism she'd been in detention since two thousand and ten when she opposed could gummi in the presidential election day is one of more than two thousand prisoners who sentences have been commuted prominent musician is the term he go is also being freed he was jailed in two thousand and fifteen after the government banned the song he released about the one nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide. rwanda's president those freed more than two thousand prisoners as i mentioned including opposition leader of acquiring a b a day or two and to be those one of the most prominent critics she's been serving a fifteen year prison sentence her troubles began when she returned from exile in

the netherlands to contest elections in august two thousand and ten just three months later she was arrested and charged with planning to overthrow the government and downplaying the rwandan genocide her supporters say her conviction was politically motivated eight hundred thousand tutsis were killed in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide by hutu extremists and give you a very said that many hutus also died protecting tutsis she wanted them remembered on the genocide memorial. thousands of syrians a rebel held adlib province have been rallying to show their opposition to president bashar assad and other groups there were major gatherings in more than two dozen towns the scenes were reminiscence of protests in two thousand and eleven before the war but seven and a half years later much has changed after decker reports from antakya on the turkish syrian border. i care a full scenes not seen in egypt for years. i.

was. there it. was it. we won our freedom they sing these scenes a reminder of the early days of syria's revolution before 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 for the fabric of syrian society was arguably destroyed. i think 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 a sure jeem the media lies and they say we're terrorists but it's a people's revolution just like when it started well when i was totally out of it 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 qaeda turkey's 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 a 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 just euro antakya. the united nations is warning of the potential for a food crisis in syria's it led province a syrian military offensive against the rebel held province is expected to begin soon already airstrikes have prevented some aid from being delivered spawn's the supply of food may be disrupted the almost six hundred thousand people currently in need of world food program rations in the region. the leader of the regional bloc in south america isn't ruling out military intervention to overthrow venezuela's president the secretary general has been speaking to venezuelan migrants in colombia at least one point five million people have fled the political economic

crisis at home putting additional strain on resources and thereby countries. reports from the colombia venezuelan border was the secretary general of the oas. it's wanted by venezuelan migrants and photographers as he tries to make his way through the simone bolivar bridge. migrants shout freedom for venezuela as others to shake his hand and cry for help. we need them to do something anything we need countries to unite to help democracy and food to be trying to finish. the visit to the colombian border town of kuta is the first stop of a series of meetings in countries across south america strained by the growing exodus of venezuelans a newly formed work group has been tasked to design a more coordinated regional response to this unprecedented mass migration. at

a press conference and said only restoring democracy in venezuela can solve the crisis and that a military intervention can't be ruled out. in one. as for military intervention to overthrow them in dural regime i think that we should not rule out any option because the finity of leader nicolas maduro regime is perpetrating crimes against humanity towards its population and violations of human rights the suffering of the people in this in joost exit as it is driving means that the promise he remains the first option but we can't exclude any action. colombian authorities are asking for financial aid and want the united nations to appoint a special representative to cordon. to the international response almost a million business well and so currently living in colombia but the real number is likely higher as a story to make it more difficult for venezuelans to cross legally new unofficial

and often dangerous routes open up as migrants make their way to countries as far as ecuador imperial this is the scene repeating itself they after day here at the border we've been here just ten minutes and we've seen dozens and dozens of venezuela migrants trying to cross illegally into colombia many of them carry bags try to smuggle meets or scrap metal or truly anything they can sell for real money to continue their journey remember we haven't had anything to eat for four days we bring metal and plastic i don't know how much i will make with this but at least enough for a piece of bread a more structured regional response to the crisis might help struggling receiving countries like colombia but no one believes that unless there is real change in minister that the flood can be stopped alison the m.p.'s. in

zimbabwe the arguments over who's to blame for a cholera epidemic are growing so is the number of disease victims twenty five dead and three thousand six is the latest casualty count from the worst outbreak for a decade in the capital harare. there. are also age from blocked and burst pipes flows through glenview a poor suburb of harare rubbish piles up nearby and now the source of disease the mob is government recently declared a cholera emergency in the capital norman has lived here for nearly fifteen years in that time he says the abnormal is becoming normal every year people get sick over very worried. because the dreaded should be should be cleaned. the combo and the should do comedy in. some households in harare haven't had running water for years people who live here say it's been like this for months you can smell the roar silage in the houses are really close by they

save us a city council to do something about it but despite the cholera outbreak nothing has been done. politicians are blaming each other for the crisis the new health minister of a dime oil has to have the opposition run city council is mismanaged and corrupt the opposition says the government should provide more money for water and sanitation harari city council workers say they need nearly ten billion dollars to repair water sewers and roads the funding is going to be in so much for coming also partly because the customers will use the infrastructure do not pay their bills the city is in it is of seven hundred eighty million by its customers which money if you did come could have gone towards the end of the with the water system this latest cholera outbreak is present investment in god was first a major challenge since he won the election in july residents representatives complain of corruption even the pipes that have been laid underground through

corruption they look at the. companies companies with the relationship with the guns of the show's council managers councillors and government to lay down some of the pipes in these pipes the huge population that we know we have but they took away money this is a bit b.s. money if they need to be held accountable. the government has banned stores selling street food in harare some vendors are growing the order saying is the only way they can look after their families health workers warn if nothing is done about harare sanitation crisis the number of dead from color and other water borne diseases or continue to rise. well let's catch up with all the weather developments it's been a busy couple of days for storms how's it looking in the u.s. right now yeah it looks like a steady state and i'm just hoping that complacency doesn't set in the u.s. because it's not over yet i mean if you look at the radar is it showing at the moment there's a circulation here without

a doubt and we've seen it i mean do you know how fast the thing is moving let me just go back here about the speed that's what the eye is doing at the moment is wandering around about four kilometers per hour so it's not moving very far and that's part of the problem because with the center just onshore it's just this tropical storm as it now is because it's winds are to strong is still drawing up a lot of moisture from a very warm gulf stream this orange line here is continuous heavy rain it's hitting north carolina now we've already seen something of the order of maybe six hundred millimeters in faces here and this more to come and that's going inland of course is going to keep doing that so although we've seen i think recently every direction the strength the wind and therefore the storm surge that is cut to the satellite picture now give you some details of what the storm was is giving us the storm surge in under two meters so when you get a high tide it's two weeks of over it should be but no worse we have seen over three when the thing was at its height when hillary says a severe gale and that's blowing around the center of the storm itself how ever

it's the eventual rainfall is going to be the problem but to try and forecast for us good to go in the directors has something of a fiction to be honest but to try and focus on much rain there will be in this general area that's easier they could still be another another four hundred millimeters something thanks rob still ahead on al-jazeera how a swimmer who was praised for saving many syrian refugees languishing in a greek jail. and it's brought ferrari's drivers around to close the gap on formula one world title leader lewis hamilton a single three. june ring sierra leone civil war nigerian forces were deployed to protect civilians instead some turned on the population in plain sight of a journalist camera police is a name to be. the secret in the peacekeeping force to launch the product completely

a chinese own using his harrowing images international lawyers seek justice for those slaughtered by their guardians peace killers on al-jazeera. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folk abene dot . the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with himmler helped save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count on al-jazeera.

launching of zero time to recap our headlines this hour now at least twelve people in the philippines have been killed by the most powerful storm to hit this year. made its landfall on saturday and is raging across the south china sea towards on kong and sub china iraq's parliament has elected a speaker paving the way for a government to be form follows months of uncertainty about the country's political direction of the disputed elections in may i'm a bill hoboes he is backed by the probably rainy and father bloc led by former prime minister nouri al maliki and education court has ordered. the arrest of two sons of former president hosni mubarak over the sale of the national bank. the younger of the two is accused of being part of a group which obtained twenty seven million dollars from the deal. it's been ten years since the global financial crisis many analysts are wondering if another one

is brewing and if so where it will come from the bank of england governor has singled out china's financial system as one of the bigger risks to the global financial stability and scott highly reports from joe part of china's massive shadow banking system has recently been facing a crisis of its own similar to what happened 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 this 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 in play this on the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis before the debt 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 asked.