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every. digging for survivors frantic rescue efforts are now underway in typhoon battered philippines. this is live from doha also coming up more bombs fall on the data as the u.n. envoy arrives in yemen to find a path to peace. if i were to be deported i wouldn't be able to come back for ten years a u.s. professor arrested in a palestinian village due to be demolished says israel is trying to deport him.
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helping refugees instead of buying a new car the story of a peruvian businessman sheltering venezuelan refugees. front aggressive efforts are now underway in the northern philippines where more than sixty people have been killed by typhoon monkhood thirty four of them have died in two landslides triggered by heavy rains in the area of it to go on dozens are still missing villages and search teams there are looking for survivors many families took refuge in a chapel which collapsed during a landslide the typhoon weakened to a tropical storm after it made landfall on those on the island on saturday well jim duggan is on her way to exit on now and joins us on the phone jim there's been devastation in many places just bring us up to date on the extent of the damage and destruction that you've been seeing. well we started our coverage has them exactly
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and we were there two days before the site we saw the preparations we covered the evacuation and we were there when the typhoon made landfall and then we covered the extensive damage in turkey and farmlands choice we saw combs and community power lines of communication by choice and basically farmland submerged in flood waters now this part of think it was basically the last area for a disciple to hit basically and this is the one that or the fronts that is because this area basically is has always been landslides phones and then you know these are there are a lot of small scale mining operations there a lot of areas that should have been condemned in such sounds and it's been now a lot of seeing coming into question basically like whether they were forcefully evacuated whether those structures should have been occupied in the first place but what is really difficult at this point is really the chances of actually finding
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survivors specially that particular area where about thirty people have been eaten have been buried according to local officials they are stretched they are trying to see what they can but even bringing in machines to keep them going through that particular area is difficult so now they have to resort to manual digging and that makes the chances of finding survivors them at this point we're talking to you jim and we're seeing some of the rescue effort taking place just bring us up to date with the challenges that they face in terms of trying to find people. well number one with the facility the infrastructure itself getting all of these arms needed. to bring their number to basically is the time they are stretched for time it is a race against time and perhaps media unfortunately just could be too late because he has been over almost two days since the since the landslide happened on number three there are still. small landslides happening you know that around that
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devastated area which makes the lives of those conducting search and rescue also endangered even their movement difficult discretely the journey is very high up in the mountains of course there's a lot of mist and fog and as soon as the clouds go down it becomes very stark all of a sudden not to mention days that's been going so this is really a challenge and it puts into question also again whether lessons have really been learned ourselves we have covered countless all natural of landslides like this one and the stories are always the same it seems nothing has been done all of this illegal mining operations continue to operate and people really have nothing can sting you so bear the brunt and they stay with their lives basically because if you believe the national government ok not. flex its muscles it comes to this regimen alan jones and thank you very much indeed journalists. now these two people are dead and hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated as monk that makes its
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way through southern china two million people have been displaced by the strongest storm of the year and about fifty thousand fishing boats have been recalled to port forecasters are warning of widespread flooding the storm has brought with it winds of up to two hundred kilometers per hour and torrential rains. fighting in yemen's her data province is intensifying as the u.n. envoy steps up efforts to revive talks to end the three year old civil war who the rebels say the saudi erotic coalition has carried out more than thirty five airstrikes in the past twenty four hours targeting a main highway out of the port city which is a key supply route to the rebel held capital of sana'a government troops backed by the coalition every taken a number of towns across the data province but have not yet reached the city well under simmons has been following the story from nearby djibouti a warning you may find some of the images in his report to study.
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it's an airstrike by the saudi u.s. led coalition. whatever the target may have been this is the result of civilians searching for missing children it isn't a rescue they find wanted dead. or alive i heard of his guilt why is he being killed says one of the men who really are rescued the child's mother the father wasn't in his home when the bomb the girl's name is moot she's carried away by one of the helpers he knows it doesn't end here . the searching continues and samoud spray of the nuffield is recovered and i heard all of this what everyone had dreaded to do the children. were very proud of. these are civilians the little kids are the only words this man can manage it happened on saturday in modern inside
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a province which shares a border with saudi arabia these people are internally displaced having fled the fighting. yemen's turmoil is a lethal mix of the tactics of warfare the tactics of diplomacy from negotiations that could be a touch with that and a humanitarian crisis the fighting isn't just on the battlefield the suffering goes right across yemen and it's getting worse. in the stillness of a remote village in province they're eating the leaves of trees to survive they're cooked and mashed into a paste. i personally i don't you believe this is my cellar has been cut is a main meal for my children even though this was an m h n s and drowsiness why what can we do. now. we cook tree leaves we have no nutrition we will die here we have no one but god this is the nearest medical center to the village where they
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had to resort to eating leaves my nutrition could end up being the biggest killer in this conflict anyone trying to bring peace to yemen may not need reminding of what's at stake nevertheless those without a voice of influence a crying out for help now more than ever before andrew simmons al-jazeera djibouti . the united states has ordered the palestinian mission in washington to close staff bank accounts and clear their offices the trumpet ministration had announced the closure of the palestinian liberation organization office in the u.s. capital last week palestinian leaders are calling it a declaration of war on peace efforts but p.l.o. executive committee member had a national id has condemned the latest move saying the u.s. has taken its attempts to pressure and blackmail the palestinians to a new level the us administration has gone from cruel punishment to revenge against the palestinians and their leadership more in a bomb is
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a senior fellow at the institute for palestine studies he says the trumpet ministration assure him that it cannot bring about a peace deal. i think that trumpet ministration is dealing with the past sitting as if their talents and one of their own will do what we say or or will look the rational route that will that and that seems to be what we're seeing here i mean these people genuinely seem to believe that by exercising sure of their treasure and undertaking more any measures against our citizens or that american presentation family want prisons all on no one they're going to wake up in the past indians will have capitulated fully to the israelis on every item or substance or it just shows the fear a lot of experience with these people and how seriously out of their depths trumps
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local peace. a u.s. professor detained during protests of a palestinian village slated for demolition says israel's now trying to deport him frank ramana was detained on friday after he and others tried to block bulldozers sent to see them access road to the village of harlem our last week the israeli supreme court gave its go ahead to the demolition ramana was later freed and he's been speaking to al-jazeera. i was convinced if i were to be deported i wouldn't be able to come back for ten years and i would not seek out on account of my anymore or any of the people are not not biased in eons i will still work with palestinians if i go to a lot longer want to live none but i was very upset over the fact so you know here i am not illegally here but the police told me i can't come here and that they'd make the decision they have no right to make these decisions the they do these things i don't trust them and here i am the palestinian activist i had to meet me has attended
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a political event in front of being banned from traveling abroad by the israeli government israel stop the seventeen year old from traveling to europe this month to talk about her experience in jail and the palestinian resistance movement to me was freed last july after spending eight months in prison for slapping an israeli soldier and the man in the tanya when you're a seventeen year old palestinian you suffer every day from israeli occupation palestinian children get a wristed killed on a daily basis a checkpoint they have a hard time going to school because of all those security checks they risk their lives on their way to school time for a short break here not just when we come back how donald trump's controversial pick for the supreme court has now run into more trouble plus. they call themselves the seas of penalty on they've lived in this neighborhood for centuries and now they say local authorities want to throw them out on the fashion part in our reporting from southern france.
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hello the big story in the u.s. is still florence of course the shapes disappearing to be honest with a core a tropical depression is really a mass of rain still falling so a slow moving system the most active in the us there still is a big shout out in texas and a massacre in the northwest corner and that significant is us effectively a change of season that's really winter waiting up in british columbia and trying to push it whereas it's much much warmer and of course is to get plenty of tropical air further to the south the reason you've got these green bit not the red bit is just we've got loads of cloud loads a rain so the sun can't do its work and it looks like it's not as warm baka sure you feel tropical the amount of rain certainly is of tropical nature that runs up to the appalachians eventually into new england there's plenty of well a landslide risk and of course plenty of flooding in the carolinas even virginia
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still to come big charleston around texas and moving stuff east towards mississippi and there's the dip we expect to see but it went to the north like bit of winter just a bit of snow on the higher ground of canada and after that's gone through maybe things warm up for a while still got the rain in this streak of the northeast corner so give most already happened this is clearly the wet bit of the u.s. if anything in texas you have big showers are on their way out. the past past. travels the road to mexico raising ecological in the wind. and sharing creative solutions to the country's most dramatic. demonstrating cortines of ideas in the struggle for a better speech. past past. part of the you find in latin
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america seen. on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories this hour rescue efforts are now underway in the northern philippines where more than sixty people have been killed by typhoon monkhood thirty four of them died in two landslides triggered by heavy rains in the area it's about dozens are still missing. fighting in yemen sunday the province has intensified who the rebels say they have been more than thirty five airstrikes by the saudi and iraqi coalition in the past twenty four hours on saturday several children were reportedly killed when bombing by the coalition at their home. on a u.s. professor detained during protests at
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a palestinian village slated for demolition says israel is now trying to deport him from vermont i was detained on friday after he and others tried to block bulldozers sent to see the access road to the village of han he's not been freed last week the israeli supreme court gave its go ahead to the demolition. in the united states storm florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression but it continues to ravage the states of north and south carolina new bern in north carolina was among the worst hit by florence the heavy and continuous rain as flooded homes and daybreak strewn across neighborhoods does not the gallagher reports on new burn the cleanup could take weeks. the floodwaters from hurricane florence still surround some homes in new bern but as they recede the extent of the damage is becoming clear. it will be days before the water is pumped from many of the homes and businesses here months before repairs a complete a lot of work it's. just terrible all over flooded people lost.
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boats destroyed. just crazy in nearby james city many of those living in mobile homes couldn't afford to evacuate others are afraid of looters stealing their positions these flood prone areas of north carolina remain among the most fragile many people in this area say they feel lucky to have survived florence despite the extensive damage but when you consider that scientists say global climate change will make these storms more powerful and wetter in the future the prospects for those living in vulnerable and poor communities like this is bleak everything ensures. francisco morales now faces the financial strain of repairing his family's home without insurance he says and conditioner alone will cost around six thousand dollars. my floor and then it's in there and he changed it.
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to you could build up your office in other parts of new bern power is slowly returning at the local cafe they're helping feed the homeless and make up for lost time and money for his record for five days any dollars good to support it brings us all in the business because we lost everything five. hurricane florence left its mark on new bern but its residents are steadily getting back on their feet the storm may have barely passed but the work to repair the damage left in its wake as already begun and agalloch are al-jazeera new bern north carolina. south korea has outlined the agenda for a three day summit to be held between moon j. and then kim jong un from tuesday denuclearization will be a key issue at the third meeting between the two leaders moon and kim will also discuss ways to ease military tensions and sustain improved relations with iraq mcbride joins us now from seoul with the latest on that upcoming summit rob so this is the third meeting this year between both leaders how important is this one and
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what's on the agenda. that's right daryn growing anticipation here of just what these two leaders might be able to achieve in this their third summit this year and we've been getting a briefing in the past hour or so from the south korean government's chief of staff just about their itinerary it is as you can imagine a very packed schedule the most important elements of which of course will be the one on one meetings between j.n. of south korea and kim jong un there will be a number of different dinners banquet spread over the three days other events and then also of course meetings between the two very large delegations as you mentioned there one of the most important tasks will be building on there into korean relations improving ties between north and south and also to see how far the panmunjom declaration this was the declaration the two leaders signed way back in april which seemed like a very long time ago now just how that is being implemented what they need to do
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further to improve ties also ways of reducing tensions removing the risk of military conflict on the peninsula and as you mentioned there one of the possibly the most important thing to come out of this and the chief of staff except that it is the hardest part of this summit will beast finding some way of moving forward the dialogue between the north koreans and the u.s. on their stalled negotiations over the question of denuclearization but the two sides are do seem to be optimistic as the south koreans will be pointing out they reminding journalists here that the differences between the summit that's taking place now and the last time that a south korean leader traveled north to pyongyang which was way back in two thousand and seven this time the key parts of this summit will be broadcast live in north korea that just simply hasn't happened before now so it does give people here
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cause for hope in south korea there is a building expectation. we have large t.v. screens are being set up in downtown seoul for people here to see this event unfold a large posters of gone up on the sides of buildings hailing this new era into korean relations down rob in terms of the broader picture how the regional players like japan china and the u.s. be looking in on the progress of these talks everybody is following this very closely japan obviously has a vested interest they will want to ensure that any nuclear agreement will include all of the medium range missiles that can reach it china obviously is very interested it regards north korea as being in its fear of influence it doesn't want to be left out in the u.s. is given this whole process a guarded welcome it remind south korea that it cannot improve into korean relations in isolation it has to include something about its denuclearization
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that's what everybody is looking for because far the south koreans are concerned they do seem convinced that north korea is sincere and that the north koreans accept the fact that if there is going to be this did you clear as ation it has to be within the next couple of years we will see well thank you. new concerns have emerged about u.s. president donald trump's pick for the supreme court brett kavanaugh has been a contentious choice because of his conservative position on many issues but now allegations of past sexual assault of raise questions about whether he should be approved particle hain has more. if brett kavanaugh is confirmed he will change the highest court for a generation he will cement it as solidly conservative it's a high stakes nomination that has been controversial from the beginning with republicans refusing to hand over hundreds of thousands of documents from his long legal career this nomination is going to be tainted it will be stain. by
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badly broken process that has shattered the norms despite that in just days it was expected he would get past the first vote and be on his way to final confirmation until this the washington post has a story about what one woman alleges kavanah did to her in high school christine bleakley ford going public the post writes well his friend watched she said cavanagh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one piece bathing suit and the clothing she were over it when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth i thought he might inadvertently kill me said ford she managed to escape and she even passed a lie detector test about the incident which kevin has denied so far frankly your answer has been ambiguous there are calls to bring him back before the senate the last time that happened it was clarence thomas absolutely not the senator nominated
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to the court when anita hill came forward and accused him of sexual harassment he was confirmed anyway many women were angry in the u.s. after the thomas confirmation it's all record number of women run for office since then we've seen the election of u.s. president donald trump the woman's marks the me too movement again another record breaking number of women running for office now the cavanagh confirmation really just stoke the anger that's already out there the politicians are well aware of that with less than two months to go till congressional elections now the republicans who control the senate have just days to decide if they should ignore the allegations and risk a backlash or call for new hearings potentially risking their nominee. al-jazeera washington london's man has called for a second referendum to decide if the u.k. should leave the european union so he com says the public should have a say on a final deal. between the two cars
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a member of the opposition labor party and has been critical of the government's approach to briggs it. now a gypsy community in southern france say its historic neighborhood is being threatened with demolition sark is one of the poorest neighborhoods in france and local officials say it's badly in need of renewal and such a model has more severe perkin your. the sound check neighborhood is a maze of narrow streets and color for buildings for more than one hundred fifty years it's been home to a unique catalan speaking people who call themselves the gypsies of pappy but now they say the city council is demolishing the area and trying to push them out the brutal rip why destroy our history this is our neighborhood we've always lived here together it's a beautiful district so why not make it like grenada will seville somewhere that tourists could come and not be scared of us instead no one helps it's dismissed as a ghetto. in the past three years local authorities have demolished more than fifty
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houses part of a hundred million dollar urban renewal plan they say many the buildings are unsafe but people here disagree is that the middle i've lived in this house all my life i was born in it and they want to destroy i'm scared because if this room in the street i wouldn't know what to do. campbell is part of a group of residents who say the neighborhood needs to be regenerated not demolish he says the councils ignored the area for years providing few services or patooties for people rubbish israeli collected there are no play areas for children three quarters of people are unemployed the longer we wanted to work with the council we want better homes it's a stay in the neighborhood contradict a whole community. some residents say city officials haven't consulted them about the plans but the deputy mayor says they've been dozens of meetings on the projects and. there's never been a desire to gentrify the area chased out the poor population those who want to stay
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can and we will help those who want to move out we're not getting wise in there about building homes that are clean and safe people here say it's not only about breaking buildings it's also about breaking up our community tearing apart generations of family and friends this woman says local officials i asked her to leave her house she thought she'd be gone a few days when she returned home she'd lived in for forty years was gone and she's not been offered another. they demolished my whole house with all my furniture everything i thought i was only living a few days so i left all i have inside most here agree that santa jack and his people are in need of attention it's one of the poorest neighborhoods in france but what they want is to hold on to their rich past and have a say in their future natasha butler al-jazeera. at least sixty migrants have been rescued off the coast of spain on saturday.
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a spanish maritime rescue ship spotted an overloaded raft with people waving and screaming for help officials say everyone aboard the raaf was rescued spain has become the latest point of entry for migrants trying to make their way into europe . now peru's top immigration official says efforts to repatriate hundreds of thousands of venezuelans who fled to other parts of south america are nowhere near enough every day about thirty nine hundred of them arriving in peru as a flee a severe economic crisis in venezuela marianna sanchez went to meet a peruvian businessman who set up a shelter in the capital to help migrants. on the floor. alongside each other more than one hundred seventy venezuelans sharing three bedrooms two bathrooms and every single space there is left in this makeshift shelter on the outskirts of lima. says he feels lucky to be here.
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i feel blessed because a lot of people have to sleep on the street i don't have anything what these people here are doing is great for three says a new peruvian businessman who says he spent nearly thirty thousand dollars to rent and set up this shelter. or use the money to buy the stove mattresses everything i was about to buy a car but decided to invest it here because in exchange you get happiness. in a few months giving us is nearly two thousand venus williams who learned of the shelter through social media have come and gone the only way to make it work with so many disciplines says supervisor. was a physical the space is already too small it's a challenge because people keep on coming on our motto is to never say no we open our doors to any woman. the shelter is now run with the help of private donations to be who has absorbed the long. just number of the nostril and migrants and refugees more than four hundred twenty thousand says the government seventy
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thousand already have work permits but most are taking underpaid jobs such as street bending for many venezuelans starting a new life here has been much more difficult than they imagined so if you have taken up president offer to be flown back home for free role model that there will still nearly two hundred business will have been airlifted in a civilian president to just have been a swims were living and working in slave like conditions propaganda replied the peruvian government all of the majority of them as well as at the embassy are here to request document renewals to be able to apply for work permits nearly two million venezuelans are living abroad straining relations in the region and leading some countries to impose travel restrictions that's a shame says going in. hunger in the city don't have borders countries shouldn't impose restrictions to these people. you're going to see short of american
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states says no country can face this wave of migrants and refugees on the road all governments and international organizations get together to think of a regional plan people like. are already making a difference in a sense i just see that they do. have a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera rescue efforts are underway in the northern philippines where more than sixty people have been killed by typhoon monk what thirty four of them have died in two landslides triggered by heavy rains in the area it's gone dozens are still missing at least two people are dead and hundreds of thousands of homes have been evacuated as mount court makes its way through southern china. two million people have been displaced and about fifty thousand fishing boats have been recalled to port. forecasters are warning of
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widespread flooding there the typhoon has brought with it winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour and torrential rain. vijayan yemens the data province has intensified who the rebels say they've been more than thirty five their strikes by the saudi m.r. r.t. coalition in the past twenty four hours on saturday several children were reportedly killed when bombing by the coalition if their homes were not as states as all of the palestinian mission in washington to close stars bank accounts and clear their offices is just a week after the trump administration announced it would close the palestinian liberation organization office in the u.s. capital. a us professor detained during protests at a palestinian village slated for demolition says israel is now trying to deport him from ramallah was detained on friday after here and others tried to block bulldozers sent to see the access road to the village of harlem r he's now been freed last week the israeli supreme court gave its go ahead to the demolition. and
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u.s. president donald trump is nominee for the supreme court but cabinet is now facing allegations of sexual assault a woman told the washington post she was assaulted by him when she was in high school some members of the senate judiciary committee are supposed to vote on cabinet appointment on thursday and are calling for a delay of south korea has outlined the agenda for a three day summit to be held between boom j. and then kim jong un from tuesday denuclearization will be a key issue at the third meeting between the two leaders whom kim will also discuss race to ease military tensions and sustain improve relations but the u.s. has called an urgent meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss attempts to undermine and obstruct sanctions against north korea. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after viewfinder latin america still children to watch but. millions of dollars is being stolen in
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