arbors on a billion dollar mission to find out how much of the earth's ice is melting as the climate warms i said it's all about measuring elevation and a natural question is how do you know you get the right answer or go out collect

a reference data so i will be ready to compare and evaluate 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 and 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 set 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 its will 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 people morgan are. two sons of former president hosni mubarak have been detained in egypt over the sale of a national bank gamal mubarak the younger of the two is accused of being part of a group which illegally obtained twenty seven million dollars from the deal father ruled egypt from one thousand nine hundred one until the revolution of two thousand and eleven that's when he was replaced by the first democratically elected president mohamed morsi rwanda's president has ordered the release of more than two thousand prisoners opposition leader victoire ingleby

a day after five years in jail sentence to fifteen years for what was described as terrorism offenses she can challenge for government for the presidency musician is the term he goes also freed he was jailed three years ago after his song about the random genocide was banned by the government flooding in eastern sudan has displaced more than five thousand people and destroyed sixty five thousand acres of farmland thousands of villages are submerged so many people don't have anywhere to shelter in zimbabwe the arguments over who's to blame for a cholera epidemic are growing so are the numbers of victims twenty five dead and three thousand sick is the latest casualty count in the capital how to master has more from harare. but also it from blocked and burst pipes flows through glenview a poor suburb of harare rubbish piles up nearby and now the source of disease zimbabwe's 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. very worried. because the. the dreaded should be should be cleaned. the combined big disadvantage should come. 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 there or silage in the houses are really close by they said of 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 dean 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 are looking the. companies companies with the relationship with the council of the show's council managers councillors or government to lay down some of the pipes in these pipes could not sustain the huge population that we now 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 it's 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 cholera and other water borne diseases or continue to rise. well still ahead on al-jazeera a decade on from the events which triggered a global financial crash we look at its legacy day across the world. whoring out of venezuela in search of a better life now the leader of a south american group of nations says military intervention may be needed. how a swimmer who was hailed a hero for saving syrian refugees from drowning ended up in a greek jail. hell a super typhoon man course is no more a super typhoon the eyes closed going across the north of luzon causing us third

about a structural damage with the winds and a fair amount of rain but it's quickly moving therefore though no longer a super typhoon it's still a typhoon and is over warm waters now off the south china seas if anything it'll probably pick up a bit more energy become a little bit more windy which means the outer edges will equally be battered and hong kong could be a one of those outer edges the main rain belt is broad's and it's on its way slowly west woods so it will hit land somewhere in southwest china and then carry on to vietnam now of course the rain bands will fly off all over the place as a lot more rain still come to come for the northern philippines and to southern china probably including hong kong they're treating monsoon is still showing decent showers increasingly that's more in the northeast of china bits of nepal bangladesh but you see more cloud over the open bay bang golan over the land so occasional showers in addition andhra pradesh maybe maharashtra still possibly but to the west

of that it seems increasingly likely this is what you might expect plenty dry and still humid by day around the gulf states. and instantly shifting unicycle receiving change in america tweet the listening takes questions the world's media all will be of the details the kind that cannot be conveyed in two hundred eighty characters or fewer exposing how the press operates it is their language it's their culture it's their context and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored we can have a better understanding of how news is created we're going to have a better understanding of what it means is the listening post on al-jazeera.

watching out zero time to recap our headlines now the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year is killed at least twelve people and left a trail of damage typhoon man quote is now storming toward south china including hong kong. tropical storm florence is killed at least seven people as it continues to creep along the east coast of the u.s. it's causing serious flooding in northern and south carolina copout almost a million homes. two sons of former egyptian president hosni mubarak have been arrested over the sale of a national bank. the younger of the two is accused of being part of a group which illegally 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 singled out china's financial system as one of the bigger risks to global financial stability let's go hide the reports from hang joe part 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 to me 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 of billions of dollars after investing in what are known as peer to peer lending platforms or p. to p.

amid stricter government oversight than 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 of lot of a lot of those dads are tied to the property market and like the recent peter p. 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 at home 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 heard some of those who lost money took their anger to the offices of one p.p. firm protesting out front chanting we want our money back. as a businesswoman and investor joe has diversified her investments not just in t.v. 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. zero now we go to germany which still stands accused of helping wreck the greek economy by demanding punitive a stare at the measures but inside the german government no remorse long sleeve reports from berlin. in the corridors of power in berlin there are reasons to be

cheerful ten years ago the german economy was so well insulated that the big crash was never going to cause a crisis so much has changed in other european countries but not here in the first six months of this year alone the german economy run a budget surplus of over fifty billion dollars that's almost three percent of germany's gross domestic product or annual wealth it's the kind of figure that makes other countries either extremely jealous or absolutely furious it was the german government that demanded after the bank started to fall that the european commission impose new rules on countries like greece forcing them to adopt a hugely destructive tax raising powers in return for bailouts and loans a decade on stagnant economy is in huge unemployment levels of what's left the proceeds went to the banks not the people many economists hold germany directly responsible for bankrupting greece it is very anti democratic approach that is

something that gives assurance to general politicians that there are rules and that they can be here too and that things will work out that and i think that kind of comfort is illusion it is defense germany would argue that if other countries have behaved in the right way in the first place then the wouldn't have been a problem most of the political class here bears few regrets about driving policies which proved so controversial no absolutely not i think that was the only way the fact that we are successful in all these countries shows that this was the right way and it's like in the it's like in the private sphere. if you don't half debt you are a free man and if you have have debt you have to listen to the persons who gave you the money. the one area which germany has suffered from.

in recent years has been the rise of far right populism born partly from economics in poor areas but also from anger toward chancellor merkel's generous asylum policies for refugees this week though the german government announced it was devoting billions of euros to tackle long term unemployment a certain way of diffusing anger germany is able to make these choices in ways others can only dream about lawrence li al jazeera balin. members of the oromo liberation front an organization once banned in ethiopia given a hero's welcome home the group's leader and fifteen hundred fighters returned to its abbot after twenty six years in neighboring eritrea the left been fighting for self-determination for youth e.o.p. is the largest ethnic group since the one nine hundred seventy s. prime minister ahmed removed the left from a terrorism list earlier this year as part of political reforms. is a lecturer of political science at georgia gwinnett college and the political

analyst on political issues about the horn of africa with a particular focus on ethiopia he joins us now by skype from atlanta good to have you with us sir how historic moment is this for ethiopia. it's definitely is historic you know since he came home or prime minister. has been really making sure that the promises of broadening the political space. and this political reform is that they they were really probably see have been very much. being implemented and this is just one to be signed that the country democracy is really moving in the right direction and the fact that mr doubt lives or in their product fighters that have been in exile and struggle against the

regained for the past twenty six on the seven years out of now. heroes just saved a lot about how my views counted in this very short period of planning the state of emergency exits to prisoners have been freed now this is the country firmly on the road towards other democratic reforms would you say or is it too early to make that judgement call. i would definitely say that a lot of the man has to be done because democracy is not something like a product that you make and a given day or even a very short period of time democracy is all about fielding in institutions democracy it's all about you know making sure this institution is. the beacon of freedom and institutions that really really work for the people as opposed to those who are already the followers definitely you see the commitment from the prime

minister and his administration so i was moving you know towards you'll being in institutions and making sure that this democracy caught up in it is not something that the world just to south here in the blink of an eye it just becomes something permanent and it looks like that are working towards it but to right now in a country that's been very much a lowes and a country that's very much controlled by one it's nerds and it's grown and now what we see is basically very much unprecedented now dad's oil there which is more leverage issue front made by the excited the returning just return it and a week or so ago panegyric and nationalist group made by progressive brown and again how it's also reported and before that also there are so many other sort of started in our number one it shows the political spirit is becoming very much broad

in the comedy thing and number two it's also makes you wonder that you know what what's really going to be to pam politics what's going well in what that action you can point to when i'll be moving towards. what are they expect let me jump in there because you mentioned other i think you mentioned ethnic domination by one i think group which they face the the question what about the other ethnic groups what about the problem with all good and i think somalis and so on if you see any signs of desire to make up with all ethnic groups. absolutely absolutely i mean. the last month or so there have been very much amazing going to form a square you know and yes formally now in that if you can some other region now it's called just a somali region with a neat was a name change and definitely the people in that region i've been very much the same to that he said to the political reforms that they've been undergoing in the last

few months since every british prime minister i became to call but also in one thing that we need to look at is the political aspect that meeting took place very much you have one in one sign you can all nationalities this out of many much fighting for their group rights and there are also some panic you can nationalist this was all about creating this national consensus and citizenship to bend politics so in between you have already which is the incumbent political party laid out by. political front later by a prime minister i'll be on that that's been that's trying to accommodate both of these groups so it is definitely going to be very very much interesting because now you have z's political situation whereby everyone is trying to somehow accommodate each other and there is this new feeling that this new political group is and the fact that they have to admire the prime minister and they say they are they trust

the in all show that they are. they enough that they ready to to to work for this country and this very much at sites and it's looks like all right thanks so much for a full set of analysis on that one. 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 one hundred held boosie is backed by the pro raney and further along led by former prime minister nuri al maliki his election indicates the group is likely to have enough votes to form a governing coalition matheson has more from baghdad iraq's parliament has a new speaker is name is mohamed al ho boosie he's a former governor. and he is now the man in the start of the process which will see iraq's parliament begin to take formation over the next few days his

appointment basically triggers a succession a cascade if you like of different job jobs that are filled over the next few days and one of those will be the job of a president that president will be somebody who will be from the kurdish community here in iraq that's part of iraqi parliamentary standard procedure in the president will then ask the leader of the biggest block the biggest political bloc in the iraqi parliament to be prime minister and to form a government now it's still very early days to really say in what way the government is the parliament is likely to be heading whether it's going to shift further towards a more shia and iranian oriented government or whether it will remain centrist and possibly nationalist in the way that many people feel but the very fact this decision was taken a toll today saturday september the fifteenth is significant in itself simply because we've had about four months where the parliament has been deadlocked. since

the elections happened in may which the shia cleric mortada outsider won by getting fifty four seats in the parliament nobody would actually accept that result and as a result there's been a lot of talking and a lot of negotiating going on and part of that negotiating was to delay the appointment of the speaker of the parliament it was of happened back in august but now it's happened today on the saturday whether or not this gives us any sort of indication as to what the structure of the parliament itself as they say is going to be like it's still too early to tell but people here in iraq say when it comes to iraqi politics always expect the unexpected volunteers across the planet have come together to clean up litter washed a short marking the world clean up day the rubbish collected will be used to decorate be choose raise awareness on the amount of plastic being dumped into oceans every day nick hark reports from senegalese capital dhaka. it is

a big operation in this small beach and set a goal to clean up the shoreline it's not just happening here it's happening across the world it started thirty years ago across the atlantic in the united states where a few volunteers started picking up litter on the beach but the litter has multiplied since we find car batteries being washed ashore tires mattresses syringes baby diapers and a lot of plastic the sewage from this city of one point five million people is poured into the ocean it's as if a hurricane had hit the coast and destroyed hundreds of homes but make no mistake this isn't a tropical storm it's humans using the ocean to dump sites out of sight further into the atlantic and the pacific are large garbage patch

three times the size of france. right now is a boat trawling and equipment that will start cleaning up those areas but it's still a long way to go now here back on the beach people are trying to recycle whatever they find. we need to be united to get rid of plastic from the ocean every day we dump five million tons of plastic bags we need to change our habits. scientists say the oceans are the lungs of our planet's just like trees it transforms the c o two into oxygen except it's an organism that suffocating there are species that are disappearing because of the pollution here at stake it isn't just a cleaning operation it's about changing public perception of the ocean seeing it as a living organism that deserves to be both. didn't care for. analysts

take you through some of the stories here now to syria now the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year is killed at least twelve people left a trail of damage typhoon could is now storming toward southern china polluting hong kong and tropical storm florence has killed at least seven people as it continues to creep along the east coast of the united states it's causing serious flooding in north and south carolina and cut power to almost a million homes two sons of former president hosni mubarak have been detained in egypt over the sale of a national bank gamal mubarak is accused of being part of a group which illegally obtained twenty seven million dollars from the deal iraq's parliament has elected a speaker paving the way for a new government to be formed follows months of uncertainty about the country's political direction after disputed elections in may the hum of that have boosie is

backed by the pro uranian for the long led by former prime minister nouri al maliki his election indicates the group is likely to have enough votes to form a governing coalition or wonders president has ordered the release of more than two thousand prisoners being cleared opposition leader victoire going to be a day after five years in jail she was sentenced to fifteen years for it was described as terrorism offenses she had challenge paul could gummy for the presidency. members of the aroma liberation front an organization once banned in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome home the group's leader those fifteen hundred fighters returned after twenty six years in neighboring eritrea the o.l.f. been fighting for self-determination for ethiopia's largest ethnic group since the one nine hundred seventy s. prime minister ahmed removed the euler from the terrorism list of this year's part of reforms those are headlines up front now. getting to the heart of the matter the

three big challenges facing human prine in the twenty first century they are nuclear war climate change and technological disruption realities whatever is there to fear is not in me it is in the people of uganda hear their story on talk to al-jazeera as trump kicks the p.l.o. out of washington and cuts funding to palestinian refugees is this the moment benjamin netanyahu claims victory i'll challenge one of these really prime minister's closest allies. i met the hot sun also on the show the chinese government denies allegations of holding up to a million we go muslims in detention camps and says it's facing

a threat from extremists and separatists but how could that justify such astonishingly we're pressin measures that's our debate but first the israeli government is that much to celebrate this year from the u.s. embassy move to jerusalem to a trumpet ministration that's firmly in israel's corner and continues to penalize the.