go to isa war dot com. the northern philippines feels the full force of time monkhood it is now storming towards southern china while tropical storm florence floods the united states east coast as well. everyone i'm come all santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera now says latest supercool mission is to keep a close eye on the earth's melting icecaps detained in egypt two sons of the former president hosni mubarak over the sale of a major bank. in ten years since the collapse of the lehman brothers investment bank triggered the worldwide financial crash who's still paying the price today.

for the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year has killed at least twelve people and left a trail of damage now it is heading across the south china sea towards hong kong and southern china what began as a super typhoon did lose some of its sting after it landed on the largest island in the philippines roofs were ripped off flimsy homes and power lines were downed as well thousands of people were moved from low lying areas jamila island duggan is there for us she saw what happened in the northern province of. we are in one of the areas first there and. the super typhoon this is about an hour from to get out the city but at says is really quite difficult communication and power lines have been cut off but on our way here we bumped into

a truck of marine officers several have been seriously injured started 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 well now the chinese government has issued its second highest storm alert as typhoon monkey heads for southern china ferry services and

ground on province have been suspended with heavy rain and major floods forecast across this weekend billboards have even been taken down in case they are blown down by winds expected to reach two hundred kilometers an hour meanwhile we've got hurricane florence which has actually been downgraded to a tropical storm but there are still concerns of flooding as it moves across the carolinas in the u.s. dumping heavy amounts of rain some areas have ordered people to leave their homes as the waters rise and more than half a million people are without power the storm is being blamed for at least seven deaths as well north carolina governor roy cooper says the storm is bringing an epic amount of rain. the flood danger from this storm is more immediate today than what it was then when it made landfall just twenty four hours ago. we face walls of water at our coast along our river across formally. in our city and in our tale more people now face imminent

threat than when the storm was just offshore i cannot overstate. flood waters are rising if you are watching for them you are risking your life well andy gallagher is reporting for us from wilmington north carolina he sent us a little earlier it's an area right in the path of the storm 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

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 with we're 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 the 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 have seen what was predicted. in other news an advanced space laser has been blasted into orbit for the critical mission to measure how much ice remains down here on earth not as light as launches keeping a closer eye on shrinking glasses is a welcome success for the u.s. space agency following the cancellation of other climate change projects ever

morgan has more details three two one. nasa is calling it its most advanced space laser launch on saturday i said to a half time satellite will 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 was all about measuring elevation and a natural question is how do you know you're getting 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 these things as data with altimeters 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 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 manages decide to extend its life but that will depend not on the scientists but some politicians morgan are. with us from washington now ron richards is a senior policy analyst with the think tank center for american progress it's nice

to have you with us ron what strikes me with this project and i wonder if you'll agree is that this seems to be going into space. for the quote unquote right reasons you know there are choice talk of exploring the moon again or going to mars but this is something which benefits earth right now that's absolutely correct you know this is a satellite that's going to be providing data that solves a major problem that we have and how is the world going to react to climate change and i mean how earth's system is going to respond to climate change so we can better predict what exactly is going to happen in regard to sea level rise and other changes that are a knock on effect a warming climate how big a deal is it that this take off today actually even happened because everything from this administration which has been in power nineteen months or so is not quite climate change denial but certainly climate change is not

a priority. that's that's absolutely true and i think that i say to has sort of the good fortune of predating by quite a bit the current administration you know this is a project that as cool as it is understandably took a very long time to prepare i think it was initiated in two thousand and ten so we're talking about an eight year investment that had really advanced particularly far before the current administration assumed power so it's going to go up there and i'm using very basic terms but it's going to bounce lasers off the earth and keep checking the thickness of the ice how valuable is that sort of information for us and i guess i right now you can't talk about climate change as something in the future can you that's that's very true and that information is very valuable for planning purposes but i think that one really key issue to point out here is that what this satellite is monitoring is the symptoms of climate change how fast ice is melting we're seeing attacks on science the trumpet ministration in various parts

of the government and i think that a lot of the focus is not so much on this sort of monitoring what the symptoms of climate change are but really trying to interfere with data that explains to us what the causes are which is human emissions and how more carbon in earth in the atmosphere is going to change the way. that the whole world behaves do you think we'll see more programs like this in the future given what you've explained about how yes this program predated the current administration but if you know going forward what's the chance of more of them getting off the ground . certainly well you know in the short term it's really uncertain because there are other projects on the horizon that are again fairly far along in the development phase i think that the current administration's attitude toward science their proposed budget cuts i think that they have overall tried to reduce in their requests to congress budgets for climate science by almost twenty percent and

billions of dollars of money that they're trying to cut out what that's going to affect our projects that are still on the drawing board now the kinds of data that we know we need to be collecting as the climate starts to change in the future so afraid that there's going to be probably a bit of a hangover in what we see with regard to satellites being launched to investments being made to new technological advances being uncovered that's going to last possibly into the next decade run richard's with us from washington great talking to you thank you thank you very much. former president hosni mubarak are in prison facing charges of insider trading. mubarak along with at least seven of those are accused of making unlawful profits related to the sale of a national bank both denied breaking any financial trading rules we spoke to so hot as these from the egyptian american rule of law says the arrests may be to stop

them from becoming involved in politics again. well the timing is not quincy dental because in the last year and a half particularly in the run up to the two thousand and eighteen presidential elections. or seen multiple times in public in ways that made them appear very connected to the people and down to earth and at a time when the economy has been struggling and it's affected many egyptians from the upper middle class all the way to the poor because the subsidies are being removed inflation is high wages are stagnant and so many egyptians reminisce and lament the days of the mubarak era from the economic perspective so when demand i let come out in public and are spotted and it's all over social media this signals to the regime that they may be seeking to get back into the limelight and to political life and if there's one thing that is clear about the failed revolution

have two thousand and is that although democracy didn't take root in egypt what did happen is that there was a change in the governance structure the old regime that was within the mubarak's inner circle including his sons is out. in the news a head to head presidential pardons in rwanda and opposition leader was among two thousand prisoners for. an ultimatum for the greek government improve conditions or one of europe's biggest refugee camps could be shut down. and other remains little to say whether wise about this part of the world the near middle east there are still shells in the very edge of your screen tempting tempting for afghanistan you'd like to see him and they're not far away but the

most significant ones been around turkey the circulation of the still reza the warm black sea enough will be repeated across the caucasus as well otherwise it's dry and hot forced to baghdad forty six down in kuwait doesn't show very much sign of changing we go forty seven in the forecast for q eight come monday and there's not much for prevailing breeze so given that it's fairly light humidity still quite high from southern kuwait down to the u.a.e. which is to be expected it shows itself rather more encouragingly with the heavy still blowing inside out i would she's months of cloud and drizzle and green on the ground a nice site and not repeated anywhere else in this peninsula now is the change of season takes effect in africa there's been some significant rain in angola recently in the sunday assy but this clan is a little bit more disappointing is just covering the scrotal bit in south africa doesn't show much promise in the point of view of dropping rain in that they you

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top stories for you once again here on al-jazeera the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year is killed at least twelve people and left a trail of damage typhoon monkhood is now storming toward southern china including hong kong at least seven people killed as tropical storm florence continues to drench the east coast of the united states it has been downgraded from a hearken to tropical storm but forecasters warn of flash flooding across the carolinas and virginia and two sons of egypt's former president hosni mubarak are in prison facing charges of insider trading and gamal mubarak along with at least seven others are accused of making unlawful profits related to the sale of a national bank but both deny it breaking financial trading rules. iraq's parliament 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 el. is backed by the

pro iranian fatah blog led by the former prime minister nouri al maliki the speaker election indicates the group is likely to have enough votes to form a governing coalition here is rob mattson with more from baghdad. iraq's parliament has a new speaker it is name is mohamed al ho boosie he's a former governor of a province 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 when 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 and 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 matata 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 is still too early to tell but people here in iraq say when it comes to iraqi politics always expect the unexpected. it has been ten years since the start of the global financial crisis and many are wondering if maybe another one is brewing and if so where will it come from the bank of england governor a single that china's financial system is one of the bigger risks to global financial stability and scott had to report some hung joe part of china's massive shadow banking system has recently been facing a crisis of its own and it's 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 the 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 of lot of a lot of those dads are tied to the property market and like the recent p two 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.d.p. firm protesting out front chanting we want our money back. 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 and 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. and from asia to europe germany in fact which to some still stands accused of helping wreck the greek economy because of its demands for punitive will stare at the measures but inside the german government there seems to be little remorse ten years on lawrence lee 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 but 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 lee al jazeera well in. rwanda's president has ordered the release of more than two thousand prisoners the presidential pardons include the opposition leader victoire in kabera she has served five of

a fifteen year sentence for what were described as terrorism offenses after she challenged paul kagame a for the presidency musician kizzie to me he go is also freed he was jailed three years ago after his song about the rwandan genocide was banned by the governments. and in ethiopia members of the oromo liberation front an organization once banned have been given a hero's welcome home the group's leader and fifteen hundred find his return to out a sob about after twenty six years in neighboring eritrea mohammad vall has the story. jubilant crowd in the each european capital addis ababa on saturday supporters of the all money from will come home after years in exile in neighboring every two years i don't fifteen hundred or less fighters accompanied him among the welcoming party or left general secretary because despite his condition the fact that. you and he are biters at me.

like it is that we aim for the past twenty six twenty seven years i am now well. heroes this saves a lot about how my. very sure that all. of them are just ethnic group each opa locka for decades they've been complaining of the look of marginalization. front says it represents the aspirations of the almost people it's militants took up arms against the central government for years they described the former regime. that oppressive and demanded self-determination for the oromo the oil f.'s being banned for years leave them to the top of a school going to buy the open government. in july if you know piers newly elected prime minister i'd be ahmed granted an amnesty to all dissidents if they denounced violence and agreed to talks involving government leaders from the ethnic to the

political situation remains volatile there were violent confrontations earlier this week provoked by internal rivalries some fear groups that have seen their long standing status undermined by the political changes are determined to disrupt the reform process. or just. follow one of europe's biggest refugee camps ingrates could be closed by the end of the month if the government fails to improve the living conditions there the morea camp is home to nine thousand asylum seekers which is actually three times its capacity don't stop us met some of the people staying there. this is a bus room in morea camp there's a laboratory for every seventy two people and the water doesn't always run the streets between the tents and housing units smell of fetid waste water this iranian woman shares a tent with an afghan family and gives the children lessons in farsi since there is no education for some three thousand children in the camp the government provides

one doctor for moreas nine thousand residents but doctors without borders have set up a surgery outside the camp for women and children the government could move sick and vulnerable populations off the island but this year hasn't done so without a must of them. netiquette that that's part of the problems. that have been problems. but they used what he had even when they have betty some months ago a medical report from there must be that then in that sense they need the remove and in the tent city beside the official camp the aid group movement on the ground has built terracing and drainage and provided wife and elektra city but new arrivals are spilling beyond this into the olive groves surgeries can provide them with only a top pole and the rope about twenty thousand asylum applicants have arrived on

greek shows this year all of them forced to remain on east asian islands while their applications are processed at the moment new arrivals are looking at waiting periods of fourteen months before their first interview. because like others here this afghan family has stripped all of trees to cook forced to forage refugees create problems for local farmers one of them shows me his carpentry workshop looted and burned his house was stripped of plywood refugees used for shelter you no longer picks the olives that used to give him half his income etiquette like i said i come every day and i catch them inside i call the police there is nothing they can do greece cannot protect us greece is like a vineyard without defense but the refugees don't want this any more than he does judd is here because the taliban nearly killed him he just wants to finish his degree in psychology this country don't owe us anything. we don't want hot water we don't want anything we don't want their feet we just want to let us

leave if i could lift this camp to be ok you know if i could find a job for you could i could orencia house ok no problem. living on the jungle the scorpions yet this is the foreseeable future for ali and eleven thousand refugees on the island jumpstart ople us al-jazeera lesbos. so much money to the headlines now on al-jazeera the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year is killed at least twelve people and left a trail of damage type in mankato is now heading towards southern china and hong kong meanwhile at least seven people have been killed as tropical storm florence continues to drench the east coast of the united states it has been downgraded from a hurricane but forecasters warn of flash flooding across the carolinas and

virginia north carolina's governor roy cooper says the storms bringing an epic amount of rain. the storm is more immediate today than when it was then when it made landfall it's twenty four hour which. we face walls of water at our coast along our river across formally and in our cities and in our tails or people now face imminent threat then when the storm was just offshore i cannot overstate the flood waters are rising if you are watching for them you are risking your life to sons of egypt's former president hosni mubarak are in prison facing charges of insider trading. with at least seven others are accused of making unlawful profits related to the sale of a national bank both deny breaking financial trading rules.

of the final don't you tube and advanced space lasers been blasted into orbit with a cool mission to measure how much i sermons down here on earth not as late as launch is keeping a closer eye on shrinking glassy as it follows the cancellation of other u.s. climate change an object was in iraq's parliament selected a speaker paving the way for a government to be formed this is after months of uncertainty over the country's political direction after disputed elections back in may my home i'll boosie is backed by the pro iranian fatah block which is led by former prime minister maliki you have to deal with the headlines here on al-jazeera inside stories next.

the wrongs of its colonial past for the first time since the war of independence in algeria sixty years ago a french president admits freedom fighters were systematically. recognition of what he calls crimes against humanity change anything this is inside story. of the program. it's an admission of guilt that's been shrouded in secrecy and denial.