homes ripped apart roads blocked in the northern philippines the most powerful storm of the year moves on toward southern china after a destructive twenty four hour as. a low i maryam namazie this is al jazeera life from london also coming up receiving a hero's welcome leaders of an ethiopian opposition party once branded a terrorist group by the government a welcomed back from exile. we have a special report from greece's largest refugee camp overcrowded in facing closure

because of its appalling conditions. and nasa launches a rocket to measure the world's polar ice sheets as global warming continues to melt the glass is. into the program our top story at least twelve people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year typhoon it lost some of its power after it landed on luzon the largest filipino island roofs ripped off homes power lines were downed in heavy rains caused landslides jamila island reports now from the northern province of. typhoon arrived just as predicted vicious with its force pounding over most of northern luzon the early hours saw power and phone lines cut off in the ghetto city in

calgary and province incessant rains and strong winds crippled many of the operations planned by emergency teams. but the destruction here is nothing compared to what we saw when we ventured out of the city. through out to rural communities we saw homes and farmland destroyed access into these remote areas is difficult which means eight he slowed to a right to. like so many places here the town of bugout bore the brunt of the typhoon spirit marine commanders say many people here lost their homes. on. property and with crops in the power lines so. that the high point can be over soon people here tell us they were aware of the forced evacuation order by the government but following it is easier said than done that

is because often their homes and their livelihoods are just in one place and this is all what they've got these are their lives possessions they went through something similar already two years ago a super typhoon hit their community and they've barely recovered. giuditta salah says her small cafeteria was your only means to support you now it's gone and. it really hurts us we don't know where to begin and everything happened so fast and now my business is gone the destruction is similar all across luzon the largest island in the philippines the majority of thai food victims are from small farming communities the impact has yet to be fully assessed and the cost counted the philippine government says efforts to help our will and do we but from past experience filipinos know it's never enough they've barely had much before the thai

food and now they have you could list. to look at al-jazeera book out of the province nor the philippines well hong kong and parts of southern china are now bracing for severe weather as typhoon mancow travels across the south china sea is expected to make landfall on sunday with wind speeds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour hundreds of flights have been cancelled in hong kong while all ferry services across china's guangdong province have been suspended the chinese government has issued its second highest storm alert. members of a rebel group once banned in ethiopia have received a hero's welcome in addis ababa one thousand five hundred fighters from the aroma liberation front had been in neighboring eritrea for the past twenty six years their return comes after prime minister ahmed remove the group from

a terrorist bomb at vaal has more. the jubilant crowd in the each open capital addis ababa on saturday supporters of the or more liberation front welcomed lead it out if saw home after years in exile in neighboring eritrea around fifteen hundred or less fighters accompanied him among the welcoming party the or left general secretary because despite his frail condition the fact that mr doubt and his are biters be. in for the past seven years i am now well. heroes this saves a lot about how my. very sure that all. of the largest ethnic group in each opiah vote for decades they've been complaining of political marginalization liberation 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 regimes in each opiah as an oppressive and demanded self-determination for the oromo the oil f's been banned for years labeled a terrorist organization by the ethiopian government in july if you know piers newly elected prime minister 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 any form process. zimbabwe's government has banned public gatherings in the capital harare to try and prevent a spread of cholera twenty five people have already died from the disease the

deadliest outbreak in a decade residents in harare say poor hygiene on the streets has contributed to its spread from harare herron metasearch reports. are also heard from blocked and burst pipes flows through glenview a poor suburb of harare rubbish piles of nearby another 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 druid's should be should be cleaned. the congo and big issue do 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 the roar silage and 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's old images of seven hundred eighty million by its customers which money if it 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 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 they say and they are only companies companies with the relationship with the

council of the show's council managers councillors of shows in government to lay down some of the pipes in these pipes cannot 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 prices the number of deaths from color and other water borne diseases will continue to rise. and egyptian court has arrested the former president hosni mubarak's two sons on charges of insider trading and kemal mubarak are accused of illegally benefiting from the sale of a national bank of the ruled egypt from one thousand nine hundred one until the revolution of two thousand and eleven when he was replaced by the democratically elected in hamad marci the to argue back in court next month. iraqis

frustrated by months of political deadlock following may's election could finally be getting a work in parliament but there are concerns that control of iraq's politics may be swinging towards pro iranian parties matheson explains from baghdad. after months of political deadlock since the last election iraq's parliament may be growing into gear m.p.'s have finally elected a new speaker of the house he's mohamad a sunni muslim with strong support from the parliament's pro around the shia coalition and. they were aided we need to unify our efforts some members of parliament can reach political consensus and choose our government capable of facing the serious security and economic challenges ahead other posts are expected to be filled soon including the president who will be kurdish according to political tradition he will ask the leader of the biggest parliamentary bloc to be prime minister and to form

a cabinet there are three main blocs to choose from the pro iran shia coalition headed by former prime minister nouri al maliki and heidi who is head of the fetter bloc the umbrella body for shia armed fighters the pro-u.s. bloc of prime minister high that our body and the iraqi nationalist bloc led by the influential shia cleric knocked out al assad or he won a majority in the may elections but the result wasn't accepted by the rest of the parties there are two countries who are going to be very interested in what happens in iraq it's called iran and the united states it's well known that iran has a lot of influence in iraq's politics and in its daily life but in recent days there's been a backlash against the level of that influence the u.s. has supported by mr hyde at all about it because he is in his turn pro united states but also because the u.s. sees him as a moderate the can pull together a fractious iraqi government. if however high that all about he loses his power

within the iraqi government it may come that the u.s. two loses its influence in iraq. and the government riots recently in basra were directed at politicians including prime minister buddy protesters in the oil rich south blamed political corruption and negligence for failing to provide jobs as well as the collapse of their water and electricity supplies. the offices of local shia armed groups backed by iran who set on fire. but of a nuclear iran has been pushing for a consensus to choose the speaker and his two deputies that would guarantee its interests in iraq the u.s. wants an independent iraqi government and a stable political process away from iran's influence there is an apparent conflict of interests between iran and the u.s. over iraq's political future iraq's political problems are far from over but the apartment of a house speaker is a step towards

a solution rob matheson al jazeera baghdad still ahead. i'm lawrence lead in poland where ten years after the financial crash the german economy continues to go from strength to strength but what cost to other european countries. and flying high while staying grounded visitors to a london museum a treated to host a bellini experience without believing the building. however the skies are opening up nicely across a good positive year of nasa plenty of september sunshine coming through still some showers over towards the eastern side of the continent though just around the black sea you cry west is out of russia or up towards the baltic states clear skies for

central pas but a chance of one of two showers around the a dramatic and still some rather lively showers over towards that western side of the med just a foot to that he said side of spain that'll be the case as we go through the next couple of days over the next couple days you will see wet and windy weather sweeping its way towards the british isles with gusts laws the dry weather to go on through sunday twenty two celsius the fall on the base of peace the yes into those northern areas but for central pos there's a sunshine twenty four degrees for the ana basin places of rather heavy right at times over towards that eastern side of year up sixteen celsius seventeen celsius there for moscow it dries up it brightens up as we go on through monday so looking even better still fun to try to central areas that we go with first signs of our wet weather pushing up towards and scotland the still a few showers there just around spain and portugal in those showers still a possibility of somewhat weather across the fog west of africa but for most is fine and dry.

it was a big problem because it was different people with the scent of night clothes for him be rude in the married miss universe hugh was a boy of character on the other ruthless operative thing for the palestinian cause some israeli intelligence sources claim the plant operation in four years that was really trying to find him and kill him al jazeera world examines the life of ali hassan salaam the hunt for the red prince.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories now at least twelve people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year grooves were ripped off homes power lines downed and heavy rain caused landslides on the main island of luzon. members of the once banda roma liberation front of received a hero's welcome in the ethiopian capital addis ababa. they return from exile after twenty six years in neighboring eritrea and iraq's parliament has named sunni politician hamas as its new speaker the move paves the way for a government to be formed four months after national elections. when the united states tropical storm florence is slowly weakening authorities warn that it's still causing catastrophic flooding in north and south carolina the storm has knocked out power to more than nine hundred thousand homes and businesses and at least seven people have been killed forecasters say the storm which is almost five hundred kilometers wide is moving very slowly

a christian salumi joins us live now from the banks of the cape fear river in five hill north carolina kristen what's it like over there. well as you can see the rain is just coming down it's been doing so here for the last twenty four hours what's happened as the winds have died the storm has stalled creeping along at barely three kilometers an hour dumping in some places as much as fifty centimeters of rain which much with much more expected in the coming days and that's raising concerns about flash flooding mudslides and rivers spilling over their banks which is exactly what they're worried about here along the cape fear river and in fayetteville north carolina where i am residents who live within a mile of the river have been asked to evacuate even though some areas along the coast are being allowed to return home where they were asked to evacuate earlier we

have been here watching the situation for the last few hours and it's remarkable how quickly the river has risen behind me we've seen signs that were visible when we first got here that are now under water and trees and bushes along the sides of the banks of the river that are now underwater as well and officials meteorologists are predicting that this river could crest its banks in less than twenty four hours but what's really remarkable is that it won't peak the flooding won't peak until two days after that is what they're predicting so authorities are warning everyone not to get complacent it may just seem like a bad rainstorm but with so much rain coming in for so long they're really worried about the potential for accidents most of those deaths that occur in a hurricane like this are from drowning and from we've seen that with nearly seven people killed i'm sorry it leaves seven people killed so far related to this hurricane and they're warning people not to take the warning it's too lightly to

stay alert and in touch with officials one fema official described this storm like a being stocked like any turtle but that's not to downplay just how serious and how dangerous this particular storm is could be very precarious for people living you very much christensen amy at the banks of the cape fear river. carolina. well now greece's largest refugee camp is being threatened with closure because of its of palling conditions a camp on the island of lesbos his home to some nine thousand asylum seekers three times its capacity authorities say overcrowding there is led to uncontrollable amounts of waste and sewage. reports from moria camp in the last boss. 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 we had a most of them. 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 because 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 other christie 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 know longer picks the olives that used to give him half his income and. i come every day and i catch them inside i call the police there's nothing they can do. this cannot protect us greece is like a vineyard without defense but the refugees don't want this anymore than he does judge is here because the taliban nearly killed him he just wants to finish his

degree in psychology this country don't anything. we don't want hot water we don't want anything we don't know their food we just want to let us leave this camp to be ok you know if i could find a job for you could could the rent a house ok no problem. living on. the scorpions yet this is the foreseeable future for our lee and eleven thousand refugees on the island jump. lesbos. rwanda's president paul kagame has ordered the release of an opposition leader in jail since two thousand and thirteen accused of terrorism they try and get there is one of more than two thousand prisoners who sentences have been commuted prominent musician kizzy term he go is also being freed he was jailed in two thousand and fifteen after the government banned a song he released about the one thousand nine hundred four rwandan genocide. well

now it's been ten years since the global financial crisis a period which caused the world to fall into the worst recession in a generation one country that's been particularly hit hard is greece for years it's had strict austerity imposed in exchange for bailouts to service its debt a policy largely driven by germany but the german government has little remorse for its actions as lawrence lee reports now 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 a 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 around 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 banks 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 but it 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 li al jazeera ballin. the u.s. space agency nasa has launched an advanced space laser into orbit it will be used

to measure how much ice remains on earth as global warming continues to shrink the world's classiest the launch comes at a time when some climate change projects have been cancelled by the u.s. administration it will morgan reports three to one. nasa is calling its most advanced basely their launch on saturday i said to i have time flies a light will are based on a billion dollar mission to find out how much of the earth's ice is melting as the climate of worms. 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 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 these things is to go 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 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 ice had 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 al-jazeera. virtual reality is taking users to new heights in london an exhibition in the case capital means visitors can now take flight in a hot air balloon without ever leaving the ground but it's not just for fun developers hope the technology can have practical applications as well jessica baldwin explains. seven meters in soaring in the atrium of the design museum all things to brainwaves the weather balloon is controlled by visitors minds their electric brain pulses power the robotics which ultimately control the textile airship and now we're going to. 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 sort of going out over

kensington and yeah you just you just feel a bit like a balloon you sound very low in every so amazing but the trick is to relax the more relaxed your state the more bass 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 a balloon you're like oh wow dorsal 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 london. there's plenty to see here as well as our website for comment analysis and video on demand you can watch us live there as well al jazeera dot com. quick recap of the top stories this hour at least twelve people have been killed in the most powerful typhoon to hit the philippines this year what began a super typhoon that lost some of its power after it landed on news on the largest filipino island grooves were ripped off homes and power lines downed heavy rains caused landslides significant. property and drops the forward lines so. that the fight will be over soon.

or hong kong and parts of southern china are now bracing for severe weather as the typhoon travels across the south china sea is expected to make landfall on sunday with wind speeds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour hundreds of flights have been cancelled in hong kong while all ferry services across china's guangdong province have been suspended. and other top stories members of a rebel group once banned in ethiopia returned home to welcoming crowds in the capital addis ababa the leader of the aroma liberation front to our left out and fifteen hundred fight has been in neighboring eritrea for twenty six years earlier this year prime minister abu ahmed remove the o.l.f. from a terrorist group has been pushing for self-determination from the people since the one nine hundred seventy s. . zimbabwe's government has banned public gatherings in the capital harare to try to prevent the spread of cholera twenty five people have already died from the disease the deadliest outbreak in

a decade residents in harare say poor hygiene on the streets has contributed to its spread. and egyptian court has arrested the former president hosni mubarak's two sons on charges of insider trading and gamal mubarak are accused of illegally benefiting from the sale of a national bank the rule egypt from one thousand nine hundred one until revolution of two thousand and eleven and iraq's parliament has elected a new speaker paving the way for a government to be formed sunny politician hamad the was previously the governor of iraq's anbar province is backed by the pro runyan fatah bloc led by the former prime minister nouri al maliki over the top stories i'll have more news for you a bit later on in about twenty five minutes time do join me then coming up next it's the listening post.

that has charlie and i'm manic monday on wall street there's a big choppy headquarters here carrying out their career auctions by hostile. for. the last. you know. shakespeare trust. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're of the listening post here are some of the stories we're covering this week the financial press didn't quite see the crash coming ten years ago are they better equipped to alert us to imminent economic disasters now another powerful media man is taken down by the me too movement on the trail of fake online accounts and bolts pushing an agenda of regime change in iran and the need for more make the vote for the ages just. what

can a government do.