standby for even bigger waves a huge storm surge is due in hong kong as typhoon one court pushes the city to its highest alert. the local mine peter w. watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead the death toll expected to rise and many lives to rebuild in the philippines after the typhoon wrecked homes and leaves many towns cut off. a deadlock broken in iraq as its parliament finally elects a new speaker. and finally uses tempting to revive a language spoken fluently by only a few thousand people. huge

waves are expected to be pushed into hong kong in the coming hours by the storm that's already left twenty five people dead in the philippines the city is in complete shutdown with the highest alert level in place that's a typhoon ten signal a storm surge bringing wave several meters above high tide is expected soon typhoon man court has already blown down cranes and shattered windows in high rise buildings across the city as it passes close by many main roads have been blocked as dozens of trees have fallen with winds of up to two hundred ten kilometers an hour businesses are closed all public transport has been ordered to shut down nearly a thousand flights have been delayed or canceled has just gone four pm local time in central hong kong where looking at live pictures from hong kong island the weather office is saying waves are three and a half meters have already been recorded in victoria harbor sarah clarke is our correspondent. first in central hong kong sarah they're expecting this one to get

into the record books i guess. at this stage they say it's the worst in more than a decade i mean the t. tand it's the highest and most powerful signal on the right are we had one last year but nothing like this and i think it is time it's called many people by surprise as you mentioned it's great to have it across hong kong harbor here in front of us we just watch the ship adrift and rice down the harbor so when that actually hits something or crashes into something they'll be more damage as you mentioned high rise buildings have had their windows blown off or blown out i should say roofs have been torn off so this certainly this with those preparation in place a few days ago the government did say prepare for the worst and this is it appears to be what we've had at the moment still a t. test that will stay in place for the rest of the afternoon however it has passed to the eye of the storm has now passed on home and it's heading southwest where are

they expecting the most severe damage. well look at some of the low lying areas in the outer regions what we call the new territories some of those areas have been inundated with severe flooding some of those villages were evacuated in preparation for today's typhoon but so we're now seeing a lot of images and video shared on social media which shows hotels homes flooded people being evacuated and removed from these areas and also we've seen as you mentioned before some of the high rises in the residential buildings the windows have been blown out so i think it's quite widespread and quite extensive the damage right across from. the level of preparedness like. all of the government were estimates before we are prone to talk things installments in hong kong the government prepared us of and on friday i mentioned that they would activate the emergency activation plan which is the response plan

so we were told to stay indoors we were told that this typhoon would be a big one but even so i don't think anyone expected it to be as bad always as severe as it has been and that the sheer strength of some of the the we are reaching up to two hundred kilometers an hour in places that's a wreaked havoc for about the harbor off shore and in some of these high rise buildings as we all know it's quite the urban density here in hong kong is intense so even some of those areas that are protected have been damaged in this typhoon as you're talking to a sara we're looking at pretty scary pictures of cranes being blown off roofs and also windows that have clearly they've had duct tape or cellotape sticky tape on them but hasn't been strong enough how good are they at the cleanup operation. the cleanup operation as a mix of the it's quite common to have a typhoon at this particular time to be a good indication that. number one is no one of the streets to stop with the

emergency response teams and no. actually out there inspecting the damage yet because the worst of the still in this still assessing the typhoon but i think this time it's going to take longer to clean up some of the buildings behind me which are well constructed and well known globally in hong kong they have had their windows blown out so i guess as i mentioned the destruction is quite widespread quite extensive so the clean up i'd say i would take care of thanks very much. well in the philippines at least twenty five people were killed by the same weather system court we can slightly after made landfall on the biggest island luzon in the early hours of saturday it has left a trail of destruction there in the northern province of country jaan. is there. typhoon monk 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. 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. property and wood crops the power lines. we expect 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 it's back 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 are well and do but from past experience filipinos know it's never enough they barely had much before the typhoon now they

have even less. to al-jazeera the province north koreans are turning our attention to the middle east because iraqis could finally be getting a working parliament m.p.'s elected a new speaker on saturday ending months of political deadlock following maze election but concern is growing the control of iraq's politics maybe swing towards pro iranian parties matheson reports 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 mohammed a sunni muslim with strong support from the parliament's pro around the shia coalition and. 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. who's 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 our solder 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 iran and the united states it's well known that iran. 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 it 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 was set on fire but of in italy me and iran has been pushing for a consensus to choose the speaker and his two deputies that would guarantee its interests in iraq and 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 who the rebels in yemen say the united nations has agreed to help get injured people out of the country they say a memorandum of understanding was signed in talks with u.n. officials in amman but the saudi led coalition fighting the goofy's in yemen has not commented on the agreement last week the talks meant to take place between the yemeni government and who the rebels in geneva collapsed before they even begun under simmons is monitoring that conflict from neighboring 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 lease ground a signing a document which they who these say amounts to a memorandum of understanding and 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. here's a conflict in south sudan have left more than half of its twelve million population in need of food aid many have been forced to leave their homes and aid organizations say fighting makes it hard to reach those in need to them organize the story. this is a regular scene at sub a hospital in south sudan's capital juba children suffering from severe malnutrition come to this world every day to be treated one of them is agnes a russia's baby girl that he's been sick since he was six months i tried to feed him but where will i find food you have to buy food here in juba you can't farm if

there was money i'd buy food to feed my kids if not we go to bed hungry. agnes's daughter is just one of the hundreds of thousands of children unicef says are suffering from severe malnutrition here five years of civil war has left seven million south sudanese relying on relief supplies tens of thousands have been killed since president salva kiir accused his then vice president riek machar of attempting a coup there weren't economy makes daily meals and affordable to many including millions of children says the outbreak of war in twenty that we have never seen this number before in twenty eighteen with limited two hundred seventy thousand children suffering from c.b.s. kidman to be sure this is a huge number and if we done this point quickly we would lose all destroyed. but aid groups have complained repeatedly to the government about being blocked from reaching those in need by the worrying sides. the latest peace deal has been signed

to end the fighting and pledges made to allow humanitarian access to. witnesses that assigning say much needs to be done to ensure that's happened safely with the signing of this revitalized agreement we should publicly acknowledge it is but one spear on the road to peace but one which lays the foundation for all that follows. agnes hopes that the peace deal works so she doesn't lose her child to hunger a hope shared by many mothers whose children are starving he will morgan al-jazeera still to come here on al-jazeera celebrations in ethiopia as the government's peace moves allowed leaders of a band opposition party to return home plus. fears that one of europe's biggest refugee camps could be shut down if the government fails to improve living conditions. by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera.

hello again welcome back to international weather forecast well here across europe we are looking at fine dry conditions here across much of central europe and that's all due to an air of high pressure that's dominating keep everything relatively dry for the next few days plenty of sunshine across that region not so much up to the north west we do have a front coming through right now across parts of the u.k. coming into france over the next day and we're going to be dealing with what is tropical storm hellene coming in out of the atlantic now it's just off the chart right here on sunday but as we go towards monday the storm edge of this way to the northeast and we are going to be seeing deteriorating conditions across ireland northern ireland as well as scotland particularly on tuesday so this is them is going to go subtropical but really the winds are still going to be the same the rain is going to be very heavy across that area we're going to be seeing some power the power outages and possibly a little bit of localized flooding across much of that area but for the rest of

europe looking quite nice here on monday pearse twenty seven and zurich is going to be seeing about twenty six degrees for you well here across northern africa we are seeing a lot of clouds and rain here across parts of morocco as well as into algeria that's going to stay the same over the next few days we're going to see those temperatures and edges maybe thirty degrees for you then over to tunis a hot day for you with temperatures thirty four. the weather sponsored by cattle and he's. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human kind in the twenty first century and they are nuclear war climate change and technological destruction facing realities whatever is there to fear is not in me it is in the people of your canada hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

welcome back let's just give a quick reminder of our top stories so far today a storm surge with waves of more than three and a half meters expected soon in hong kong as typhoon man caught has now made landfall the city is in complete shutdown with the highest alert level in place for only the fourth time in twenty years. twenty five people were killed as the typhoon hit the philippines on saturday the homes of hundreds of people have been destroyed in the northern province of cover youn and so remote areas are now cut off. while north carolina is bracing for even more destructive flooding there a storm florence continues to dump heavy rain on the eastern u.s.

coast eleven people have died since it made landfall on friday kristen salumi has the story. florence arrived in the carolinas and like an unwanted guest refused to leave the storm continues to pound both states with a brain swelling rivers you know somebody said the other day it's like being stuck but turtle this thing will not move up the coast it will not get out of the way and we continue to just get copious amounts running to 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 on moving water emergency management is sharing flood projections with 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 can get pretty high for now there's not much they can do but watch and wait kristen salumi al-jazeera fayetteville north carolina. members of an organization once banned in ethiopia have been given a hero's welcome on their return home a rumor liberation from toledo would gibson and fifteen hundred fighters return to the south about twenty six years in exile mohammad well as more. jubilant crowd in

the each european capital addis ababa on saturday the supporters of the or variation from wellcome leader doubt if saw home after years in exile in neighboring. 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 there are doubts and he are biters be. in for the past seven years i am now well. heroes this saves a lot about how my. very short on. 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 regime. 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 hope is newly elected prime minister i'll be ahmed granted an amnesty to all dissidents if they denounced violence and agree 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 one hundred violent or disease. refugees stranded in bosnia say they've been beaten strip searched and robbed by croatian police seventeen people interviewed biologists eras of the abuse took place during attempts to pass into croatia bosnia as emerged as

a new route into western europe since the e.u. tightened its borders critias interior ministry denies the allegations. the largest refugee camp in greece is facing closure at the end of the month public health officials described conditions on less valse as unsafe john psaropoulos has the story. 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.

have been problems. even when they have some months ago a medical report from the last week that. 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 he no 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 they. 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 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 our lee and

eleven thousand refugees on the island. lesbos. people have been out on beaches around the world for world cleanup day more than eight million tonnes of plastic ends up in the oceans every year and it was hot reports now from senegal's capital. it is a big operation in this small beach in senegal 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 site 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 find but 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 protected and cared for. malaysia is trying to revive a language only three thousand people can speak fluently malaccan portuguese came into existence two in the sixteenth century florence louis now reports from malacca . the ruins of a fortin malacca stand as a reminder of the portuguese presence in malaysia in fifteen eleven they captured the coastal city and ruled for over a century before the dutch defeated them when the portuguese left they left behind more than just buildings film a nursing home is descended from the portuguese she still speaks the language of her ancestors malaccan creole portuguese derived from the portuguese with words

borat from other languages and a grammatical structure similar to the mill a language all here to do was in year zero two of the second it's also known by its colloquial name poppier christian but it's in decline spoken mainly by the older generation so saying host art and using social media to pass on her knowledge when i was a model for work before it is seem younger. was then war crime bomb young soul is good morning how are your soul giving. yourself courage to carry your new will be learned a simple few words into something. her brother michael wrote a book together with other language experts to help people learn christan. formal instructions are rare it isn't taught in schools and exists mostly in oral form we

have survived for many years we've got our culture our language religion and our and identity and saw we cannot use elements. like many other malaysians of portuguese descent the singers have their roots in this neighborhood in malacca this is the portuguese settlement home to about one thousand eight hundred people descended from the portuguese academics say the community here has provided a haven for the language the children grow up hearing it being spoken if not at home then maybe at a neighbour's house. on weekends children come for classes at cerro santa maria as house was herself born and brought up in the portuguese settlement. she teaches dance and cooking too with instructions in papua christan to preserve not just the language but other aspects of her culture the language has also caught the attention of academics

we've got to think beyond we go to think about the perhaps they can value but done by the people right the community can find ways to share their knowledge their language share their own perspectives dest doris' i think a very part of. the older generation of malaccan portuguese are counting on the younger generation to keep the language alive florence li al-jazeera. malaysia. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories kong is now being hit by typhoon one court the city is in complete shutdown with the highest alert level in place in the next few hours a storm surge bringing waves several meters above high tide as expected the storm has not done cranes and shattered windows in high rise buildings across the city sarah clarke has more now from central on cong. a t ten is currently in force in hong kong which is the most powerful on the radar signal i was caught early this

morning and is expected to stay in place for at least another few hours we're experiencing terrain to wrangle force winds of up to one hundred ninety five kilometers an hour storm surges there's also been a lot of flooding in low lying areas around other new territories roads are being closed public transport is being shut down so you can almost say the city i ease in virtual shutdown itself simply because of the sixty's extreme weather conditions i'm in what seems to be deteriorating throughout the afternoon the government has got preparations in place it's call it's triggered it's a mixed action plan and will be monitoring damage of the next few hours before arriving in southern china the typhoon killed at least twenty five people in the philippines has left a trail of destruction in the northern province of color young many people living in remote rural communities have lost their homes while the government is still trying to assess the impact iraqi's could finally be getting a working parliament m.p.'s elected

a new speaker on saturday ending months of political deadlock following may's election who the rebels in yemen say the un has agreed to help get injured people out of the country civilians are struggling to cope after three years of fighting tens of thousands have been killed thousands more are in desperate need of medical help a member of the russian activist group pussy riot has been flown to germany for medical treatment after what the group says was a suspected poisoning pietro vessel off was hospitalized in moscow on tuesday with symptoms including a loss of sight but still off from two others fifteen days in jail for running onto the pitch during july is world cup final those are your headlines up next it's talk to al-jazeera also use and. millions of dollars has been stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe when his days exclusive access to this cutthroat underworld through a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera.

hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the country with the rules largest known oil reserves in israel. until six years ago it was one of latin america's most prosperous nations but when the price of oil plummeted the exodus began first the wealthiest class left by plane followed by middle class professionals. now with a hyper inflation rate that's almost impossible to measure it's the turn of those who can only afford to leave by bus or by foot and they're leaving in astonishing numbers going south to other latin american countries to neighboring colombia.