hello those big showers around ukraine and turkey of just about disappeared and there are still some pretty big ones wandering around the eastern side of spain southern france for the western bowl in the mediterranean but the active weather the windy wet weather and still bringing with it quite warm there is that over the british isles a picture of twenty three seven degrees in london twenty seven still in paris that when the weather heads off towards norway where it is still raining fairly often on the coast now the big shot of the green blots are still there in spite increasing to they've spread across italy's herself trying to get towards austria but otherwise it's actually turned a little warmer in many places in europe the sun is out by day and those days are getting short of a haven't really changed just yet

a lot lot of shows that you sort of open the west and bowl them out so it links up through the sahara desert and goes down to was martain year eventually senegal there's not much rain there mysa just a few showers up in algeria in particular sunny by day for first time and at twenty eight degrees in robot still thirty three humid degrees in tunis but the real big dimples are still so out the tropics still in the saddle sometimes we've seen recent fighting in nigeria and mali most likely in senegal to. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count folk abene dot . the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with himmler 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 look at the top stories this hour russia and turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone in syria's ablett province to separate government forces and rebel fighters it was announced off the talks between the leaders and sochi. sexual misconduct allegations of threatening the confirmation of the u.s. president's pick for the supremes court the woman behind these claims says she is willing to testify publicly trump says president trump says cavanagh's nomination

is still on track. and rescue is in the philippines is searching for survivors buried under landslides caused by typhoon mangat more than fifty people have already been confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise. in the united states east coast heavy rains are still disrupting rescue efforts in the carolinas to spy authorities downgrading still florence to a tropical depression flash floods along the border between north and south carolina threatening more damage at least seventeen people have been killed where power was power was knocked out from hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses but a major route has now been opened into the city of wilmington which was previously cost off christensen amy sent us this update from riegelwood in north carolina. more than twelve hundred roadways across north carolina have been closed due to flooding some of the major roadways and hundreds of thousands of people remain without power for a while the city of wilmington north carolina on the coast was isolated couldn't be

reached by any roads they were all flooded on the way and including the road that you see behind me here reports now that some of the waters have subsided they've been able to get trucks carrying food in that's a big relief because stores were beginning to empty their shelves and people were lining up looking for places to buy food but the situation throughout the state including in wilmington is still very tenuous at least thirteen rivers that are predicted to hit flood stage have not done so yet that still expected to happen we have evacuations along the cape fear river and other low lying areas affecting thousands of people still in north carolina and concerns that the situation there the flooding there will continue to worsen as the storm continues to move inland and dump rain inland into tributaries that are feeding rivers that are affecting north carolina and other areas the head of the department of homeland security

cares to nielsen is visiting north carolina to assess the damages the flooding situation is not expected to get better for at least a few days the russian defense ministry says it has proof that ukraine shot down flight m.h. seventeen in two thousand and fourteen which killed all two hundred ninety eight people on board russia says the missile that brought down the passenger jet was produced in one thousand nine hundred six and sent to ukraine and was not returned to russia in may a dutch that investigation concluded the plane was downed by a russian made missile which came from one of its military brigades in the city of course moscow has strongly denied any involvement in the crash xandra travers is a security expert and coordinator of the security studies program at the university of geneva he says russian argument doesn't add up. it's very difficult to imagine any other variants than the international investigations have confirmed because simply we have had international investigators on the ground we also know that the

air defense system that was used is actually part of a much larger network so it's not possible and it's ultimately not a question of the individual person who has pressed on a button you need an entire network an entire military radar certain certain network in order to operate such a such a missional and that's that particular time ukraine could not have engaged such a weapon now hundreds of communist party supporters have been protesting in the russian city of light of all stock of what they say was vote rigging in a local election on sunday night where there are ninety five percent of the vote counted their candidate. was leading on the day. it was running for president let him live united russia party by around five percent but on monday a local election commission said taras shango had won by just over one percent. if

european police have detained two hundred people in connection with ethnic violence and around the estate which includes the capital addis ababa off to twenty three people were killed on saturday the clashes escalated after the once exiled leaders of the iran liberation group will welcome back to ethiopia local reports say groups of iran they use looted shops and attacked people from ethnic minorities the jihad waged a four decade insurgency for independence before it was chased out in one thousand nine hundred two. well the roma people make up about a third of ethiopia's population they've long complained of being marginalized by the government in recent years have been angered by what they see as encroaching on their land prime minister ahmed is ethiopia's first around the leader one of his many actions since taking power of this year was to remove the iran liberation front rebel group from the country's terror list but reforms have yet to halt ethnic violence clashes between iran as an ethnic geddy is in the south of the iranian region cause nearly

a million people to flee their homes soon after he took power. will kill university law the law lecturer says a clash is happening at a remarkable time i think what we have seen over the course of the last few years in in you know it is in their own the city or for the server is shocking and also with three pens the book and what makes this senseless while and even more outrageous is the fact that it is hoping that it then when there is such a remarkable liberal democratic opening in the country the same people who sit in communities who need to be either side by side in peace are the time when this country was under oath to tell you who are now turning against one of the other kind when people are able to express themselves more freely able to assemble and make demands against the government. the i.c.c. has given the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo a twelve month sentence for witness tampering but will not go back to prison because of time already served the international criminal court also will ban the

should pay a fine of more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars he was acquitted of war crimes on appeal in june that convicted on the lesser charge of witness tampering neve baka has more now from brussels where is currently staying with his family. the international criminal court has sentenced. to twelve months in jail and fined him three hundred fifty thousand dollars but the court said that this sentence should be considered already served after bamber spent ten years in jail in the hague on only a charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out by his movement for the liberation of congo in the central african republic in the early two thousand that earlier conviction was quashed in june allowing him to be able to return back to the d r c to mount a presidential bid but the electoral committee of the d r c said that he should be prevented from standing as president while this particular verdict was pending well

now that the verdict has been given now that it has been considered already served there is in theory nothing stopping bemba from returning to the d r c to be able to mount a presidential bid but he is one of four opposition leaders who have been prevented from challenging the current leadership the possibility for violence should he be prevented from standing is very high indeed ever since the country gain independence from belgium in one thousand nine hundred sixty there has not been a single peaceful transfer of power. the head of the international monetary fund has warned that a no deal breaks it will have diet consequences for the u.k. christine legarde also called the range of issues still to be resolved daunting and she warned that u.k. growth will be less than half the global average even if a smear of bricks at transition is agreed or brennan explains. at one point in her

news conference christine legarde described herself as a desperate optimist but delivering the i.m.f. latest assessment of the u.k. economy her tone was repeatedly downbeat about britain post rex it so whatever the deal is will not be as good as it is at the moment and asked about the seemingly growing prospect of britain crashing out without a break to deal now clearly we've got worse to happen our assessment is that it would have very dear economy consequences it would be a shock to supply. and it would inevitably have a series of consequences in terms of. reduced growth going forward. increase deficit most likely depreciation of the currency and. you know in reasonably short order mean a reduction of the size of the u.k. economy the bracket deadlines are approaching fast for britain to depart the

european union in an orderly manner next march they really need to agree the e.u. divorce bill by the end of this year and a u. leaders are braced for an emergency summit mid november but the british prime minister theresa may is facing considerable opposition to her compromise proposal the so-called checkers plan and if that is rejected by the u.k. parliament then the very real prospect of a no deal bracks it looms boris johnson resigned from the government over bracks it and has taken to sniping from his regular newspaper column the whole thing is a constitutional abomination he writes and if checkers were adopted it would mean that for the first time since ten sixty six our leaders were deliberately acquiescing in foreign rule the presidency of the e.u. is currently with austria and its leader is visiting paris for talks with the french president. i think that every agree that we have to do everything possible to avoid heartbreaks it and to make possible the strong cooperation between the

u.k. and the european union even after the u.k. leaving the the e.u. chief negotiator michel barnier is in madrid with little to add i don't want to have some sort of i don't go to the door and say number. of we'll. take a bullet at this what he. called a spirit of good cooperation with the final words there mr ban a we'll give a fuller assessment when he brings ministers from the remaining twenty seven member states back in brussels on tuesday. brennan al-jazeera london. who is president has issued a challenge to congress in a dispute over his proposed anti-corruption measures if m.p.'s block his bills to cut corruption in a no confidence vote this current will have the power to dissolve congress something he's already threatened to do a stand off follows a scandal in peru involving judges politicians and prosecutors now sewing needles

that have been found inside strawberries in all six states of australia that's turned a growing health scare into a major crisis for countries for industry out there is andrew thomas has the latest from sydney. this strawberry scare began a way to go when a customer bought a planet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then been reports of eight other incidents in places runs across australia now one or two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been coping incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on supermarket shelves it's not clear that regardless of the cools the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia a huge it's a hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from

a glass of strawberries this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly strong year for production but that means prices what already live with this it's in the demand side the price of a product like this one has dropped to as low as a dollar in the australian state. and in poulter's and exports are having trouble so new zealand's one of its major imports of strawberries supplies half the country supermarkets to say it will stop taking australian strawberries until this crisis is resolved you can find more on that story and everything else recovering right here al-jazeera dot com. just a quick recap of the top stories now the need is of russia and taki have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone in syria's a province to keep government forces and rebel fighters apart russia's defense minister says that means that would be no military assault russian president

vladimir putin struck a deal with his turkish counterpart russia type the one that talks in such a. so we decided to create a demilitarized zone between the rebels and the government by the fifteenth of october this year it will be fifteen to twenty. kilometers wanted rebels must withdraw from there including old news reformed according to our proposal by the tenth of october heavy artillery must be removed from the turn of the machinery domes all removed from the sown by opposition forces the future of the highest court in the u.s. hangs in the balance because of sexual assault allegations christine blasi forward says president trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh tried to assault her when they were in high school and she's willing to testify publicly against him but donald trump says kavanagh's nomination is still on track george kavanagh is one of the finest people that i've ever known. is that outstanding intellect and outstanding judge respected by everybody never had even

a little below average of his record of the f.b.i. as i think i'm through a process six times with him over the years where he went to higher and higher positions. he is somebody very special at the same time we want to go through a process we want to make sure everything is perfect everything is just right more than one hundred people have been killed after two major rivers burst their banks in central nigeria heavy seasonal rains cause the rivers to overflow floods have spread across the country over the last two weeks prompting the nigerian government to approve twenty one million dollars for medical and relief support. and rescue is in the philippines is searching for survivors buried under landslides caused by typhoon one cut more than fifty people are confirmed dead in northern parts of the country teams of people are digging through mud in it's a gone town to try to find dozens of miners trapped in a bunk house off day heavy rain you're up to date with all of our top stories i'll have more news for you at the top the next hour in about twenty five minutes time i'll see then but coming up now it's the strain.

i am for me ok and i really could be anywhere as though freedom forum bringing together artists entrepreneurs and human rights advocates from around the world coming up we chat with two notable speakers for this year's conference that's today on the stream we are live now on you tube so send your questions and comments and link and i will do our very best to get them into this conversation. my name is rose i am i.

been threatened with violence ever since twenty fourteen when she published the personal contacts of her country's parliament on social media the daughter of an activist who was imprisoned multiple times by the father of the current president for missing day freedom has lived her life as an activist on the run launching the hash tag for must go to demand present removal from the office among other social reforms. the deputy leader of the now banned opposition cambodian national rescue party who's been in exile since twenty seven team has been a vocal critic of prime minister hun sen and the cambodian people's party. actions in july but opposition activists dispute the result government has cracked down on political opposition but recently released some distance from prison including see an r.p. leader. so we're very pleased to welcome both. and also mr couper from this year's

oslo freedom forum in new york city to the streams good to see ladies very good to see you. are you are living in exile right now for a politician who is so engaged in your country's history and development what is that like. to be in in exile. however a security and you need to keep your voice heard no matter how far you are from the country let us know as your voice to keep the market alive and that is my plan for people who are not following the progress of what's happening in cambodia or perhaps the lack of progress of what's happening in cambodia can you give us one vivid example of what it is that the opposition party when it was allowed to exist would be complaining about. today campbell ga is a one party state after the last election was first

a sham election. and form look and you know that the khmer rouge regime killed all the two million people including might hammons is a farm. and wants to stay in thailand much longer therefore he had to take out the democratic forces from civil society independent media and then finally dissolving the only opposition party campbell gen national rescue party the party is not only dissolved the opposition leader. and another leader mr kemp is in prison has been in prison for the past year and not believe he has been in exile and we have eight hundred eighteen of us at the top level of the opposition have been banned from political activities that's what this edition right now that we are not going to let him say and he's take

a chance to run to take the country to dictatorship much longer cambodia needs to be back on track with democracy and that is the only way to give people the whole and to. democracy in cambodia to secure there are some questions here about how specifically you can do that to put cambodia back on track as you say this is a tweet we got from someone who says recently i've seen that the opposition's interior is broken it's broken between the two leaders that you mentioned sound rainy supporters and come so close supporters so i want to know how that happened and how it can get back to normal and if there's any hope that they can come back to politics in cambodia so your thoughts for the opposition being dissolved how will they then be able to form that united front. strong support inside the country don't forget that we do. forty four percent of the vote over three million happened

to country and we have a very very strong cambodia diaspora us in europe in the united states australia. on top of that we have leaders who are still very very committed to and do it as well to democracy we have a common goal which is putting democracy back on track we are a democrat. party or we have ideas we have strategies that don't always match so we express ourselves it does not mean that we are broken from inside they want to break us but to the country we are allied with voices are heard and these conversations make it sound like we have broken we are not i just want to show some pictures of this occur when you are more active on twitter at texas that the twenty fifteen i'm going to show them and you can tell us what you what was going through your mind at the time this was an act of defiance that you were doing involving

freedom part very briefly explain what that was. that was when freedom which is like in london it plays where people can express themselves and use it for public expression was closed down because tool many people that were with the opposition were using the plug so they close it down and know we are going to march on to freedom to lunch and to find. them sometimes. the tanks we have to be to show to the jews actually that they are they belong to freedom party and there's no way we should let freedom to be taken by these forces so we have to fight for freedom of expression of battery fee freedom of being and i and most the best time to be alive in

dictatorship is freedom part. and then for our viewers who don't know of course you went to jail in twenty fourteen for protesting in freedom park so i want to bring up this tweet with that in mind this is our alpha who says i can't imagine activists not being immediately put in prison in cambodia if they organize i don't think there is any room at all for human rights activist organizing cambodia anymore many people jailed this last year with really zero substantive evidence at all what would your message be to cambodian still in cambodia who want to organize . keep fighting keep expressing yourself you can do social media you can all have to be compressed titian know that you can and you must express the feelings your ideas just thoughts about correction without having to have to find a way which is a strategy dishing way to work with to fight big day to ship freedom of expression

without going to jail which means telling the truth but at the same time giving solutions rather than attacking dictator saying for the. well cambodia for the whole of cambodia can dictate to say no. but you have to understand mr hood said he's also trying to get workers for example get a fumble it example on his side as well especially to do so you have to play with his game which is to bring the forces behind you which is voices the voices of the you and it to jews afraid because they are intimidated by mr and that is not the way to fight jews actually how and they should be using the voices to social media. with the course advice to cambodians who want to organize tell the

truth and don't be intimidated so i want to share a comment from someone who is doing just that in another country in vietnam take a look at this headline why my cooee vietnam's lady gaga performs in secret in her country she's actually also a participant of the oslo freedom forum and she's often been dubbed lady gaga due to her activism and her style so have a listen to what that sounds like here she is performing at the freedom forum. wonder. so she was actually banned from singing publicly in her country for speaking out about freedom of expression and freedom of speech she sent us

a video comment from the forum and this is what she had to say. i am an independent artist i don't think of myself as an activist i just do things to make people think and act in the new place but in vietnam people label this activism. one challenge is people have certain expectations about what is activism and how activist should act so this makes my work twice as hard. i have to face control from both from the government and from the conservative society period i want to bring you in here you know you heard her say she doesn't consider herself an activist because it raises all types of questions about what is activism and what is an activist look like you relate to

that do you consider yourself an activist i definitely do. i believe that i am an activist because activists are people who are fighting to change the course of things in their community and change the course of things for the better actors are really fighting for a cause and they believe in organizing communities and they believe in citizens voices and that's what i do empowering citizens organizing citizens about if and i am an activist creed i want to show you a picture is a picture of you just a few moments ago on the sage they also freedom form in new york and there's a quote here togo's presence can be compared with a living hell and this is you just talking just a little while ago this is you on stage of a striking picture just behind there would be people who don't know what's going on in togo if there was a description that you could give them to understand why it is that you take so many risks but what that description pray. for my country has been well by the

oldest military regime in africa the very first bloody coup in africa in one hundred sixty tree was conducted in togo and that is a class that we want to break away from my grandfather fought against this regime my father did and i did i feel like dictatorship is the only thing that's been harried seem to go and that is not going to where it is that i want to pass on to my own children. as being ruled by the same family for five decades is just too much in not only being denied of our basic human rights but on top of that this regime has built in terms of the leverage in any economic growth to the country and today togo is in the top ten chorus country in the world and four times prosecutable in my people have been we have made it as the poorest as the most unhappy people on earth. that is that is a very appalling thing and i want things to change for the better because the bill

deserves so much better than what we're having right now under the necessary family i'm looking at protest video right now and what's remarkable about this and this could be anywhere anywhere in the world but you cannot protest in tokyo because why . the government said that they lost two guns last year during a practice that's were confiscated from soldiers and so we find these two guns became not drug test anymore. i hear what you're saying there i want to bring in this comment for you this is boris on twitter who says impunity is at the core of this crisis in togo for half a century one clan is taken over power and lots lots of crimes have been committed is it possible for this regime to accept peaceful regime change you know they have a hashtag in their wanting an exit twenty twenty how possible do you think that is

for rita i think it's all the president depends on the peoples of to go. you know it's about you know fighting to want for change is about as refusing to give up and to give us being determined to go all the way till the end of course it's going to come if not of consequence is what we have paid a heavy price over the past decades so in the future often when he says that he went away just kind of glided over consequences but i know from doing research on you and from going to your twitter feed that the consequences have been high and heavy for you can you give us an example of consequences such as you were getting arrested detained and tortured severely people getting killed soldiers going into holes and beating citizens throwing tear gas in their rooms to force them out so they can beat them and kill them these are headed consequences that the people who have been facing for daring to ask for change of course it's not going to be easy

that is why we keep raising awareness and mobilizing support from what about we can get that our country has been very much isolated for so many reason your friends begin country relatability small one of the smallest countries on the continent as a result we did not get a lot of coverage right instance of the regime he was emboldened by that in two thousand and five when the people of trouble of course for us in the ticking over after his father died. a countryman wears a cute head but nothing has happened there was no consequence whatsoever and like barry said impunity has always given eyes the regime because they feel in boulder by the fact that they can kill as many citizens as they once and nothing will happen to them you talk about being emboldened and i know that you have received death threats but not anonymous deseret you know who they're coming from can you tell us a little bit about that. i have received threats from all over the places from government cronies some ministers in the government. well as an activist

and as a somebody who is fighting i guess addicted to shoot unfortunately there is something that i have managed to accept as being a natural consequence of what i am doing so when i receive distress i just feel like i have little right place and i'm doing a good job because they feel threatened by us the our rule their rule their leadership de germany is try to buy us in a post the only way they can respond to this is by trying to get rid of us and by trying to. silence us so hearing both of your stories mr crow and. people online have lots of questions for you and many of them themselves are activists and others are looking to you for a few answers so this is andrew who sent us a chain of questions that i'm going to pose to you both but i'll pick the one i find the most interesting is number two sometimes the people you fight for are the ones fighting you what's kept them moving in the direction of their goal.

i know you want all the rest yes you know when you are not service there is one very interesting thing the people you are fighting for will fight you the people who are fighting we for five we'll fight you and if we are fighting against we are also fights you sometimes people do not understand the reason behind some.