kong with heavy rains and powerful winds after leaving a trail of destruction in the philippines. this is live from doha also coming up yemen's who the rebels say the un has agreed to help move the critically injured abroad to treatment. celebrations in ethiopia as the government's peace moves the leaders of a banned opposition party to return home. and one of europe's biggest refugee camps could be shut down the government fails to improve living conditions.

in the philippines at least twenty five people have been killed by this year's most powerful typhoon. and slightly off it made landfall on the largest island of luzon on saturday it's left a trail of destruction in the northern province of. going is there. we are now in one of the many towns in north of province that have been affected by this typhoon i'm just going to show you behind me are farmland that have now been submerged in flood waters hundreds of civilians have been evacuated and those who remain in evacuation centers come from these communities and they have yet to see the devastation firsthand even go there are no casualties in this is that to impact them quite devastatingly that is because it is expected to set them back for many years a similar type would hit them a few years ago and they have barely recovered yesterday once we were allowed to

head out we ventured out and headed straight to a similar hit area here where the government says aid and assistance are well on their way one of the many towns who visited is the town of ago. arrived just as predicted. but it's for spending over most of. the early hours so power and so leinster into the ghetto city into the 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. throughout rural communities we saw homes and farmland destroyed access into these remote areas is difficult which means eight may be slow to arrive 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 we expect that the high point to 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 julio salah says her small cafeteria was your only means to support your family now it's gone. 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 typhoon 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 barely had much before the typhoon now they have even less. of the province nor the. well from the philippines typhoon mancow it has now made its way to hong kong where the territory has issued its highest storm alert people from low lying areas have been evacuated and forecasters are predicting up to one hundred millimeters of rain for sunday hong kong's biggest airline cathay pacific as one travelers to expect up to four hundred cancellations over the next three days. we'll be talking to our reporter sarah clarke in hong kong

a little bit later in the program in yemen who the rebels say the united nations has agreed to help get injured people out of the war torn country there's a memorandum of understanding was signed at talks with u.n. officials in amman but the saudi led coalition fighting the who these in yemen as not commented on the agreement last week talks meant to take place between the yemeni government and who the rebels in geneva collapsed before they even began under simmons has been monitoring the conflict from across the red sea in djibouti . this announcement comes from the who theory rebels and it could amount to a potential breakthrough following on from the failure to get the delegation from the hoot is to geneva more than a week ago they've been in the a money capital muscat meeting un officials including martin griffiths the un special envoy now what they're saying and they've published a picture of least ground day signing a document which they who these say amounts to

a memorandum of understanding they say the hoot is that they have gotten agreement to transport a number of injured people to amman over a period of six months for treatment for serious injuries on the battlefield will yemeni political analyst abraham qatar be a skeptical of the agreement. i don't think any any real thing would happen between these and the un the un would have made an announcement and the coalition and the yemeni government will know about that i feel this is more we have seen time and again that with these fry brocade information and give misleading information that they reach an agreement we don't know what kind of agreement they reached they haven't really clearly said anything about it i think that's a game trying to push back on trying to make the international community pressure the saudis and the united arab emirates from taking over the seaport which is the main seaport that supplies the healthiest himself and i feel like of the saudi led

coalition the supply line the whole feel of the struggle is where they control because that's their main access to you know the water that they meant access to goods and supplies that's the main access to the humanitarian aid that comes through that support and so they will be completely and in a blockade by the saudi led coalition or let's go back to our top story on typhoon monk all of which has made its way to hong kong where the church has issued its highest storm alert this joins us live from hong kong sara so still a very powerful typhoon tell us what you're seeing on the ground as the weather worsens. yes it is a t ten which is as you mentioned it's the most powerful type of harken signal that can be issued it was issued early this morning it's still in force now that the full cost adjusts that the storm is just getting about one hundred kilometers south of hong kong at the mine where experiencing terentia wind and wind. force winds

auction site up to one hundred ninety five kilometers an hour with the storm surges we've got a little flooding writes close so certainly right now where we are in the thick of it and what home is experiencing really one of the bus powerful top students of experienced in some time etc how prepared is hong kong for a storm like this one. the government's been telling people that. was certainly home he's planning to talk things out when there are regular and we haven't talked in season having said that this is certainly as i mentioned one of the most powerful with experience the government has had preparations put in place for some time we've known for days that this type of thing was going to make its way towards hong kong over the weekend as a result they've shut down all public transport of all business is the closest rides of cars and the government as a as now activated its emergency response plan which is by some kind of caught

a model of monitoring the damage around hong kong and at this stage we've got no casualties enough to tell us things have been reported but certainly we'll find out of the next few hours how much damage a home home is in with this top right to saratov in hong kong sara thank you. now members of an organization of once banned in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome on their return home the ramon liberation front leader. and fifteen hundred fighters returned to addis ababa after twenty six years in exile it's all part of the government's new peace initiative mohamed evolve as more. jubilant crowd in the each open capital addis ababa on saturday supporters of the almighty variation from when completed out if the home after years in exile in neighboring. around fifteen hundred or less fighters accompanied him among the welcoming party the aura lifts general secretary because despite his frail condition the fact that there doubt if he is part. of

the. rival like it is that he for the past twenty six twenty seven years and now. heroes is so used a lot about. in this very short. or more are the largest ethnic group in each opiate but for decades they've been complaining of political marginalization liberation front says it represents the aspirations of the or more people it's militants took up arms against the central government for years they described the former regimes in each opiah as 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 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 any form process. or disease while joe ahmed is executive director r m e a media network he says the return of the ls marks a milestone for the country. a historic day need of the most fifty years of struggle in being followed some forty years ago come home. for million people attended today's youth historic day everything is a little more than the american protest into the last four years have been the primary cause of the jane they brought to the rebellion government under the great war and where in the postal tradition to base even trolls cynical milestone

was to learn a great consolation reconstruction in transition to democracy it's exactly time very special day you know i think integration is the only way forward now with. mr hu shown that the rules are how does the interest in transition in the country democracy in keeping the country together this is the most hopeful time this country has ever seen says. there is a lot of excitement i came back here a month ago. have been is in the. optimism this country has is intoxicating there is negotiation there is no discussion go on all corners and the rules are showing that they can need this country they can lead it they can wage this war struggle they can take power and they can control responsibly they can transition the country to democracy yes almost not only in degree but they will in the unite this country for tougher shoprite karen al-jazeera when we come back.

and catherine saw it a lot more are they can you tell us where both made of recycled plastic waste if i'll be telling you like such a milestone for the people here. three two one. and a super cool mission nasa launches a satellite to track the loss of ice around the world on that stay with us. hello the weather is set fire across a good parts of the middle east we've got the showers still lingering around the black sea around the caspian sea just hugging the caucuses will see some wet weather there. of southern parts of russia just around armenia georgia maybe into action by john over the next couple of days but elsewhere it is fine and dry twenty

nine celsius in beirut some a value for jerusalem here hot sunshine into baghdad and also into work you a city warm sunshine warm enough for me over towards the eastern part of it for kabul and into karate warm enough to a cross arabian peninsula little bit of cloud just down towards us a lot of but pretty much everywhere it is going to be wall to wall sunshine temperatures around thirty or forty degrees thirty nine or forty degrees as we go on through the next couple days as sunday and monday here in doha followed try to across a good part of southern africa city a chance to some that weather just pushing through the southern cape over the next couple of days but essentially it does look a little more clout to over towards job twenty seven degrees here betty clapp many a showers into central parts of africa we've even had some flooding into central nigeria and also into mali those showers continue from the gulf of guinea right towards senegal.

al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folke abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with him 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. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on the al-jazeera this year's most

powerful typhoon has killed at least twenty five people in the philippines landslides have been blamed for most of the deaths among coaches now battering hong kong and other parts of southern china. both the rebels and yemen say the u.n. has agreed to transport critically ill people out of the country this year and memorandum of understanding was signed up talks with u.n. officials in amman. and members of the remote liberation front an organization once balland in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome on their return home the group's leader fifteen hundred fighters have returned to addis ababa after twenty six years in exile. now in rwanda the government has released two thousand prisoners among them opposition leader victoire who was sentenced to fifteen years behind bars in twenty thirteen for terrorism offenses she had been in detention since twenty ten when she ran against polygamy in the presidential election i should have it won't i tank see if anybody was supposed to me. andy thanks to president hu give me

disability. to ask him if it is a placebo to go to. prison will stay here because if you seem to did election of your concert today you see that the ticket election would be there is a hope that today it is see the opening of the political space flooding in eastern saddam has displaced more than five thousand people and destroyed twenty six thousand hectares of farmland the worst affected area is my father in the state of good doris dozens of villages are submerged and many people haven't been able to find shelter. in the u.s. the coast guard marines and volunteers are rescuing schools of people trapped after a tropical storm florence slammed into the state of north carolina on friday eleven people are now confirmed dead in the states now bracing for what could be the next stage of the weather system widespread and potentially catastrophic flooding

kristen salumi reports from fayetteville north carolina florence arrived in the carolinas then like an unwanted gassed refused to leave the storm continues to pound both states with a brain swelling rivers you know somebody said the other day a slight reinstall but turtle this thing will now move up the coast to a nice get out of the way and we continue to just get copious amounts of rain the rescue of trapped residents continued in new bern north carolina a city that sits on a peninsula between two rivers residents elsewhere are being warned not to get complacent the risk of catastrophic flooding and mudslides remains remember most storm deaths occur from drowning in freshwater often in cars. don't drive across the ending or moving water emergency management the sharing flood projections for the local officials. if they tell you to evacuated please do so immediately you can save your life the national weather service says more than

fifty centimeters of rain have fallen in some areas with more to come this is one major source of concern the cape fear river meteorologists predict that it could reach flood levels as soon as sunday morning cresting two days later and the flood waters they could linger for weeks with businesses closed and close to a million people already without power some restless residents ventured outside to get a look i am a little bit surprised at how high it is. it's different like i was wondering like how high can they get. up pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina refugees stranded in bosnia say they've been beaten strip searched and robbed by croatian police seventeen people interviewed by zero zero said the abuse took place during attempts to pass into croatia bosnia has emerged as a new route to western europe since the e.u.

tightened its botha's croatia's interior ministry denying allegations of police brutality. greece's largest refugee camp is facing closure at the end of the month public health officials described conditions on last bus as unsafe and have set a deadline to clean it up john psaropoulos met some of those living that. 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 first 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 must of them. the netiquette that that part of the problems.

that have been problems. what he had even when they have betty some months ago a medical report from there must be that. they need to mean that we move on and in the tent city beside the official camp the aid group movement on the ground has built terracing and drainage and provided wife. but new arrivals are spilling beyond this into the olive groves surgeries can provide them with only a top pull and the rope about twenty thousand asylum applicants have arrived on greek shows this year all of them forced to remain on stage in islands while their applications are processed at the moment your rivals 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 he no longer picks the olives that used to give him half his income. 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 a fence but the refugees don't want this any more than he does allissa job 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 want their feet we just want to let us leave if i could lift this camp to be ok and if i could find the chops i could i could already house ok no problem. well living on the jungle the scorpions yet this is the foreseeable future for us and eleven thousand refugees on

the island. lesbos. volunteers around the world have been picking up rubbish from beaches to clean up day the biggest pollutant is plastic it's estimated more than eight million tons of it ends up in our oceans each year but in kenya a unique boat is helping to solve the problem catherine so reports from lamu on the kenyan coast. after two years of trials aras and incredibly hard work flip floppy takes to the water of the indian ocean for the first time. it's built and highly of recycled plastic waste collected from the shores of the indian ocean by kenyans the project's leaders say it's the world's plastic revolution it is really simple we have to end single use plastic recycling is not enough we have to put an end to single use consumption. it's first voyage was around islands in the. famous building. expected to sail

in the coming months making stops in villages along the indian ocean coast those aboard will be allotting communities about the dangers of plastic waste and what they can do to protect the environment but building this boat is not the end game. the team of boat builders say they used experience for the next project we wanted to have a bigger down off long twenty meters and voyage from around the cape town itself but for all this challenge to us we decided drop this problem time so we have seen what we want to plant because most of the material are not deficient. the launch of flip floppy was on the world cleanup day when millions of people volunteered to clean their beaches for twenty four hours the united nations says more than eight million tons of plastic finds its way into the world's oceans every

yeah that's a serious dump truck for every minute. of using plastic in the right perspective you can use plastic but you can't recycle it and today we have seen from rubbish. islanders in law continue to marvel at the pool to build this plastic creation and hope the tidal. wave asia stops washing up their home soon and everyone plays gap part in saving. al-jazeera on the kenyan coast. people in senegal have also been getting involved in the big cleanup and as nicholas hoult found out in the capital dhaka beaches there have turned into a dumping ground for some unusual items. it is a big operation in this small beach and said they've got 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 syringe is 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 the 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 followed in the storm nor do we need to be united to get rid of plastic from the ocean every day we don't five million tonnes of plastic 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 protected and cared for. finally in advance space laser has been blasted into orbit with a very cool mission to measure how much ice remains down here on earth it's

a welcome success for the u.s. space agency nasa after the cancellation of other climate change projects even morgan reports three to one. nasa is calling its most advanced space laser launch on saturday i said to have time faster light 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'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 show up in data with temperatures like i said two i said two is the first mission in nearly a decade that will be measuring ice levels. it's pre-disaster 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 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 manages decide to extend its life but that will depend not on the scientists but some politicians

morgan al-jazeera. all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen address out there dot com that's out a zero dot com. just a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera this year's most powerful typhoon has killed at least twenty five people in the philippines landslides been blamed for most of the deaths the northeastern province of cagayan took a direct hit when monk it made landfall early on saturday. from the philippines typhoon man court has now made its way to hong kong where the territory has issued its highest storm alert people from low lying areas have been evacuated and forecasters are predicting up to one hundred millimeters of rain for sunday alone on kong's biggest airline cathay pacific has warned travelers to expect up to four

hundred cancellations over the next three days sarah clarke has moved from hong kong. to hong kong observatory issue to meet and are considering that the most powerful other bite and at the moment the thing. here i think we've got to mention right in the morning that protect from the landslide the warning to other ways of reaching out to potentially being hit by where we are with. this very little action on. the transports makes a very strong writing out of government service into a business in the shutdown who the rebels in yemen say the u.n. has agreed to transport critically ill people out of the country they say a memorandum of understanding was signed talks with united nations officials senior who the representatives met the un's humanitarian chief in yemen lisa granda in amman but the saudi led coalition fighting the who these in yemen has not commented on the agreement last week talks in geneva to end the conflict collapsed before

they even began. members of the army liberation front an organization once banned in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome on their return back home the group's leader and fifteen hundred fighters have a chance to addis ababa after twenty six years in exile. and refugees stranded in bosnia say they've been beaten strip searched and robbed by the creation police seventeen people interviewed by zero zero zero said the abuse took place during attempts to cross into croatia bosnia is emerged as a new route to western europe since the e.u. tightened its borders aeration officials deny allegations of police brutality well those are the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera off the people of passage and that's a lot of that. millions of dollars is being stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe one of many schemes exclusive access to this country underworld to a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. overthrow and

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