this is submerged cars but the biggest threat may be these tiny little surges that continue to get pushed in by this powerful storm that say authorities could be the biggest threat in the hours to come the recovery here will take weeks months or even use but matthew hasn't finished its destructive course the storm's path will take it north and it remains powerful and dangerous and gallacher all jazeera apalachicola florida a man accused of being a chinese spy it's been extradited to the u.s. on charges of economic espionage. was arrested in belgium and brought to the united states on tuesday this is a case of stealing information from u.s. aerospace firms on behalf of china jew who is a deputy division director in the province of the chinese ministry of state security or m.s.s. the m.s.s. is the intelligence and security agency for china is responsible for counterintelligence foreign intelligence and political security. one of shoes job

duties was to obtain technical information including trade secrets from aviation aerospace companies in the united states and europe the daughter approves former president has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering opposition leader keiko fujimori's party is accused of perceiving illegal contributions from brazilian construct construction giant out of breath prosecutors say the money was used in our two thousand and eleven presidential campaign nineteen other people have been arrested a direct is at the center of political scandals across latin america so at on al jazeera bangladesh is the main opposition party is leaderless for the second time in less than a year. losing your sight losing your life out infectious disease that causes blindness candy store.

from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. and we've still got quite a few showers across the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is picking them up very clearly as they work their way in for the east impose the mediterranean and then work up towards the caspian sea want to see shop showers in with that cloud as well and they'll be a few war as we head through the day on thursday towards the east and it's largely dry weather force here but the temperature is easing a bit now marty now it's up to par to just of eighteen degrees i mean further towards the south and here in doha the temperature is just slipping away a little bit now so thirty seven or thirty six will be the top temperature over the next few days this blob of cloud though is all storm is making its way towards the south coast of oman maybe across into the southeastern parts of yemen the track is still very uncertain but it does look like the wet weather will start in the southern parts of a man as we head through the day on thursday into friday so that's when we'll start to see the outer fringes of that rain i mean further towards the south and we've

also got a few showers in the eastern parts of madagascar one of two of those are likely to be rather lively but towards the west there's more dry weather to be found here further toward the west still in force in durban thirty degrees will be our maximum quite a warm day for us then for cape town will only be at around eighteen a good deal of cloud around at times too and as that system works its way eastwards it'll pick up bringing heavy rain. there with sponsored. news. when they're online. or if you join us. no one has a back story like you are. tired of seeing negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice. to bring them into the so join.

these are the top stories twenty two u.s. senators have written a letter to president that will force the administration to investigate human rights abuses by saudi arabia and also raises the possibility of sanctions in reaction to the disappearance of saudi journalist. alive entering his country's consulate in istanbul over a week ago. as we mentioned that was where he was last seen this video at the consulate uncertainty still surrounds the investigation into his alleged murder. have agreed to let them. know when or if that will actually happen.

to the u.s. state of georgia. and florida. most powerful to hit the united states records began. following. the later bangladesh's main opposition party has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a two thousand and four grenade attack against the current prime minister. was tried in absentia because he remains in self-imposed exile the court sentence nineteen others to death over the same attack the reports. in this crowd a some of those injured in an attack in dhaka more than fourteen years ago. they're still angry one of the chilling thought of the one not a good man must be taken back from london and he must get the punishment which was going by the court no one should be spared all must be punished to recruit a man fled bangladesh for london in two thousand and eight and now leads the

opposition bangladesh nationalist party he was tried and convicted in absentia the criminal conspiracy and multiple counts of murder for the two thousand and four attack. as then opposition leader shaikh has seen a address to a crowded rally in the bangladeshi capital. but the grenade blast killed dozens of people and wounded more than five hundred including his siena who suffered severe injuries and one in she went on to win a landslide victory in two thousand and eight becoming prime minister. her rival can lead a zia the former premier and leader of the now opposition bangladesh nationalist party was jailed for five years in february for corruption she's to wreak rahman's mutha. the court case over the grenade attack has taken nearly fourteen is with fifty two people accused prosecutors say they'll press for rahman to also be handed the death penalty to former ministers and two former heads of the country's

powerful intelligence agencies have been sentenced to hang alongside fifteen other suspects. security has been tightened across the country following the verdict. is needed to be done to provide safety to the people we will do it no anarchy will be tolerated everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. elections in bangladesh are planned for this december. says the timing of this verdict is politically motivated he wanted i. stated that. as the or underground meeting but he has been sentenced to life imprisonment. his party is demanding the release of his mother and an interim government in order to participate in the polls. al-jazeera hundreds of brazilians have been demonstrating in sao paulo against the presidential candidate who is leading the polls ahead of the one on on october twenty eighth and is expected to win and the left wing supporters are against his

views on women minorities and gay rights. the white house has accused the venezuelan government involvement in the death of an office later in the capital caracas fernando was taken into custody last week over an alleged plot to kill president nicolas maduro officials say he later killed himself by jumping off the ten for the police headquarters but his party says he was murdered. placed in germany have arrested a man in connection with the murder of a bulgarian journalist victoria mera noble was raped and killed in the northern border area in town of roos she's been investigating alleged fraud with you funds involving businessmen and politicians. to come as the world's leading cause of blindness all of us curable almost two hundred million people around the world live with the disease and most of those who suffer from this are now for a close hawk went to tuba and eastern senegal to find out more. it is

all a blur explains by more sar to health volunteer going to. he can't brush his teeth alone nor going to recognize his own grandchildren. sar is losing his sight every blink is more painful than the other it's true coma an infectious disease that causes a breakdown of the surface of the eye if left untreated sark can go blind it's not too late for him is eyelids have turned inwards and are damaging the eye this is caused by repeated infections it could have been easily prevented if saw had washed his eyes regular. but sar does not have access to clean water at home flies landing close to the eye spread the disease to others contagious yet preventable is the world's leading cause of blindness and if i lose my sinus completely i'll be useless to my family i don't want to end up like other blind young ones abandoned and on the streets begging seen as a burden children with her come often suffer the most but not here at senegal's

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a ten minute procedure fifty eight years of suffering comes to an end alone so our walks home. gradually lighten colors flowed into focus nicholas hawke to eastern senegal a former president of the mall deaves to mean a challenging the results of last month's election as parties lawyers file complaints to the high court and the supreme court they say the boat was rigged and fake ballot papers were used in the last two opposition candidate abraham muhammad's ally who is set to hand over power next month a son of egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been released on bail hours after being arrested at his home in cairo adela morsi is being accused of along to a banned group and spreading fake news it's over a recent interview about his father's detention and morsi has been in jail since

two thousand and thirteen when he was ousted in a military coup. doctors without borders is calling for the immediate evacuation of refugees and asylum seekers from prison camps and now rue last week the island's government ordered the medical charity to live within twenty four hours australia has been sending asylum seekers to the offshore detention camp since two thousand and thirteen doctors without borders has condemned the conditions there with children as young as nine trying to commit suicide many children suffering traumatic withdrawal symptoms syndrome exists in the semi common so states unable to eat drink and talk during our time on the island we witnessed an ongoing significant deterioration of mental health among our asylum seeker and refugee patients. this was very clearly attributable to the indefinite nature of detention held on our roof for five years which for many of them no resolution incites mental

health problems are on the rise in every country in the world health organization says depression is expected to become the leading cause of illness by two thousand and thirty but if our no country is investing enough to tackle the problem our reporter chana hall went to sweden regularly voted one of the world's happiest countries to visit an organization going above and beyond to offer help. if the countries of northern europe sweden norway denmark and finland regularly feature among the world appears to then why do so many people report being unhappy sweden alone one in five young women point to rising stress levels affecting their mental health. i think that we have a lot of pressure being perfect. and achieving things and not listening and slowing down. it's expected that by twenty thirty depression will be the

world's leading cause of ill health at the fountain house group of international clubhouses they're focusing on something conventional treatments sometimes overlook the person behind the illness hospitals doctors medications are important but they don't have the resources or perhaps the goals to build relationships and once you get to know somebody you can see beyond the diagnosis. i'm a healthy person here i'm tracy i'm not my diagnosis. people always. ask me to do stuff and i think why they ask me i mean i don't i don't know but i do know and i can help. found a master save me save me i don't think i'll be around it's fun to be in here for. you it began in new york in the one nine hundred forty s.

patients and social workers got together to create a shared community that would ensure those who go to out of the often brutal mental detention facilities of the time it would never have to go back so these are there were three hundred thirty houses that currently are around the world really the united states europe very dominant but a lot of work required in latin america africa asia yes there's still work to do that needs to be a clubhouse in every country. the central thing about the club is model we talk about the need to be needed you need a place where you want to do when you where you are. accepted for who you are. i was home for many years and isolated myself it was suggested to me to come here and i thought what do i have to loose. voluntary to come here and that's very important that you come here because you want to come here not because someone else

saying you have to be here. human model it's not a swedish model or american model and it's why does it work everywhere because people are the same everywhere we need to be seen we need to be loved to be part of something. i don't know how old you zero stalker. armenia is hosting the international summit the french speaking world despite only having around ten thousand french speakers among its three million population the day meeting has attracted many world leaders including the french president and canadian prime minister just. been for a stay walker has more from the capital europe on. you better believe that learning french will be at the top of my list sofia the un's first broke book ambassador recognizing that the francophone world needs to be taken seriously french is after all the world's fastest growing language by twenty sixty five

a billion people will be speaking it according to the international organization of life francophonie but at the francophone business forum some believe this organization is actually a space for talking the international language of money i think is the opportunity for everybody or i mean french people to get some furniture to normal how is very important now is not the language for me reason where do we do business is to win the francophone village you get a sense of what this organization is all about eighty four countries are not just friends speaking ones representing more than i wonder million people promoting peace and prosperity think of it as a kind of french united nations for the armenian hosts this summit has special significance mass street protests brought about a peaceful revolution in may was you government needs friends.

it also needs investments in promising young sicked is like the tech industry after the revolution we have more and more interest from different investors coming to us and being very excited about what has happened in armenia because democratic change also means democratic institutions democratic economic institutions transparent business environment. this is about showing the world that the left francophonie is increasing its reach in the media is open to business robin first you will care. about. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera twenty two u.s. senators have written a letter to president trump that will force the administration to investigate human rights abuses by saudi arabia and also raises the possibility of sanctions it's in

reaction to the disappearance of saudi journalist from all the shows he was last in a week ago entering his country's consulate in istanbul uncertainty still surrounds the investigation into his alleged murder turkey says the saudis have agreed to let them search the consulate but it's unknown when or if that will actually happen. more from washington d.c. . it's not just the letter that's really significant we're seeing such incredibly harsh language coming from u.s. senators former staunch allies big defenders of saudi arabia people like senator lindsey graham saying that if this is true and these are his words they'll be hell to pay so we're seeing a bipartisan growing calls for the u.s. to demand answers and if the answers come back as many fear then they say there will be repercussions. and michael is weakened to a tropical storm as it moves across the u.s. state of georgia it caused extensive damage in florida making landfall as the third most powerful storm to hit the united states since records began play say one man

was killed by a falling tree. at least ten people have died and clash was on the spanish aisle no majorca but waters uprooted trees and buried cars in mud the military has been deployed to help with the cleanup operation. hundreds of resilience have been demonstrating in sao paulo against the far right presidential candidate. he's leading the polls ahead of the runoff vote on october twenty eighth and he is expected to win many left wing supporters opposed his views on women minorities and gay rights. doctors without borders is calling for the immediate evacuation of refugees and asylum seekers from prison camps on our last week the island's government ordered the medical charity to leave within twenty four hours australia has been sending asylum seekers to the offshore detention center since two thousand and thirteen doctors without borders has condemned the conditions there with children as young as nine trying to commit suicide those are the headlines to keep

it on al-jazeera throughout the day also visit our website al-jazeera dot com in the meantime the strain is next keep it or. the nobel committee has announced the joint with this year's peace prize denis mukwege and not to move. i'll just zero has been granted exclusive international rights to interview the winners after the awards ceremony here in oslo in december the nobel interview on al-jazeera. really could be after a decades long hiatus why is russia so interested in renewing ties tweet us your thoughts or leave them alive you choose chat and he too could be in the street. in the days of the soviet union the kremlin maintained strong ties with african

nations but the collapse of the soviet union in the ninety nine thousand schools russia to retreat it would now it appears of ready to once again establish close relationships on the continent in recent months russia has built minute she partnerships with uganda democratic republic of congo and the central african republic the kremlin has also shipped arms to cameroon and has announced plans to build a nuclear power plant in sudan for some african countries the attention from moscow is tempting so how would this situation develop and what does russia want out of it joining us to discuss this in moscow. she's a senior research fellow at the institute for african studies of the russian academy of sciences in new york ro not go potus he's a director at signal risk and exclusively african risk advisory firm also in new york ideality dot here he was in nairobi based reporter with quartz africa and here in our studio he's a senior fellow with the carnegie endowment for international peace working in the

russia and eurasia program welcome everyone to the stream good to have you here this is a topic about resonates very well with our audience on mine and so i want to start with this week from samuel who gives us a little history lesson in bridge he says russia systematically sought to restore the positions of moscow last after the fall of the soviet union and the turbulent decade about followed so obvious he explains why we see russia in on the african continent now but from your point of view your perspective why do you think there. thank you millie can i think definitely there are references to russia having historical ations of the continent well in the soviet era before that but most don't seem it's not an interest specifically over the last year because of the change of culture political dynamics in the continent africa you know is both searching for and being courted by new strategic partners and i think one of the

reason why russia is very much interested in the region is because what we've seen with the drill down in terms of engagement within the continent from the u.s. administration and other western you know statements. they have added he is in nairobi right now helping that we will reconnect. you know what he's from nairobi he's in new york and i was have waiting for that connection to actually kick back in after can even pick up where you left off because any friends for a second guy had less either what i was saying is also a big reason why russia was interested in this is because in the continent as you know the drill down the missing from either the united states of other western states and also for russia itself the diplomatic isolation one reason is a threat of isolation from europe and the us of a most us policies in syria and before that in ukraine crimea so this has pressure going to see african allies not

mused also for their votes at the u.n. general assembly and i think the last point is also because of who she is with child you know china is different which. so russia ever is just cannot focus you know good for china can but what it can offer for instance is alms and occasional debt relief in exchange for and you know we're going to drill i don't cover bands of instructables here and there so the other thing is that you know in the end of africa there's going to be an opportunity to build a new power block that could be considered which will be beneficial for both russia and africa and to talk about the entire continent as if the entire continent is in this with russia d. and mean that. no it's definitely not it's there what we've been seeing specifically is china engaging countries you know that are either dissatisfied with their relations well with the west countries like sudan some barbed wire and central african republic we're also seeing. comes rushing gauge in countries where

these political change for instance if you look at the heart of africa in china recently saying that i mean russia stories recently saying that they were going to establish a logistics base in eritrea that is a very significant development because of you know what's been happening in all of africa and mr abbey homage coming into power. extending you know about the fall of relations between you know between if you're going to cherish djibouti somalia and you know yes i'm really interested in a russian perspective if you could take me around the continent where would you take me to show the greatest area of russian influence. ok here. it is interesting that the pressure is really engaging more this africa and. as for the trade relations for example. russian trade is known as the countries of

the organ of north africa so what also only have interests in other regions and countries of african continent so these are these are also countries which you heard the strong nations in the soviet. and girl in baba and south africa and. also but what i see of our what i see in zimbabwe where i was so i see russians at work what i scenes and other. zimbabwe. russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a platinum resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which russian cooperation. measure common interest ok so

i'll get. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we came. a little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialize it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat foreign ministers zimbabwe he sounded positively to it and he did and i think a very very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lots of you know exciting deals are

signed and then if you look two three years down the road not all of them come to fruition so if when i look at zimbabwe i see basically mining i don't see a whole lot of technology coming from from russia i see much more sort of extract is. and that type of. industries i also see sort of a partner in sort of sort of a political partner for russia sort of globally i mean the way has at times in the past back to russia at the un and i think russia is trying to sort of keep that in with the political change that we've seen in zimbabwe over the past few years to try and sort of solidify that partnership moving forward. one of the biggest parts of this partnership that our community gets pointing out is arms this is live on you tube this is the road who writes them putin is going to use russian military weapons as currency to buy africa there's a lot of skepticism here on line but we also have video coming from someone who has

some specific examples of what that currency might look like this is solomon solomon she is that multimedia digital journalist said b o a the africa division and here's what she told the story russia's making a comeback with big announcements on the continent one of the latest expansions is eritrea forging a security relationship last month with moscow when moscow announced it to build a logistics center on the red sea coast this is the latest effort to forge alliances with countries in africa following multiple trips to the continent by this year by its foreign minister sergei lavrov to discuss military economic and diplomatic partnerships these partnerships have to store clee centered on arms deals arms sales with documented deals between russia and at least thirty african countries between one thousand nine hundred and two thousand and seventeen russia and egypt for example engaged in nearly thirty arms deals so we're actually just

gave us a few examples there but what do you make of those deals this is part of a new world order that we're looking at. you know so i think the interesting thing is what is russia's strategy in africa going to be some relative to the last time that they were in africa you know the economic powerhouse diminished they don't have the same scale as they did with the soviet union so they're going to have to play clever and i think the approach is going to be more of one around energy diplomacy and hard power so that speaks to things like exploration right in hydrocarbons speaks to things like nuclear power and it speaks to armament supplies and sales and we're seeing gradual events in those in those arenas and i think you know taking a step back there is a shift in global geopolitics right so in twenty sixteen we had legs and we had the election of donald trump and we saw a more insular approach from the western world china's influence in africa is very well documented and is looking to exploit the vacuum that exists among some western

powers and now given kind of. global agenda and the fact that he wants to reassert russia as a global player again. you know africa is emerging as another arena and they don't want to miss out on the scramble it i'm looking here. posting here from the now post russia cancels all debts of african countries in excess of twenty billion dollars poor that can't i'm it is a significant amount of debt relief that we've seen africa do and i've even seen figures that are even larger than that over the last couple years but i think just to give a little scale if you look at sort of chinese commercial loans to africa over that same period it's i believe it's in around eighty six billion dollars so i think this sort of highlights a problem that russia is having in that it is having difficulty competing with with with china when russia left the continent twenty years ago it was you know the big the big one of the big players there it disengaged for about twenty years and it's

having a sort of a. sort of unwelcome realisation. it has much less influence that it did before and it's trying to play catch up and it doesn't have the same economic power that it did in the past so i think that's one reason why you see arms sales it's one thing that russia is very good at and it's something that is very attractive to many african countries and all of it begs the question how do citizens of some of these nations feel and their leaders this is someone who rode in on you tube how do the african leaders and people see the influence of russia they also add in china but let's focus here on russia when it comes to investment is it good or bad as a new form of colonization up to get this one to you. i think much like the relationship the china africa relationship with within the continent we should be. allied to the opportunities and pitfalls of this and also view russia's interests in that within the continent within

a broader geo strategic context that should be my opinion because i feel awake yes the idea of recolonisation from quote unquote from china these there talk of a new scramble for africa and african policymakers. should exploit this renewed attention in an advantageous manner rohan you know falling victim to. geopolitical chess i mean we already know about the russian nuclear deal is of africa which has been shot in controversy we do know of mozambique for instance and the russian lender going to be caught in a multibillion dollar scandal there so there is an underwater opportunities african governments are looking to create opportunities to create economic growth and to look for political support from you know whether it's russia or china or other countries but you also have to be cognizant of the problems that might arise from

some of these deals if i can come in. yet yes yes and i think the issue here is that you know there's there's a tendency to paint russian and chinese engagement as as evil relative to western engagement and i think what that does if it's right and absent that who paints that is evil he's saying it's evil. so i mean the terms and conditions that that come with with russian and chinese and isn't in the western media in particular the allegations that it's bad for a country that it's not good for the quality of the growth and all the shady deals which which don't have transparency and i mean dissecting the nature of the of the the relationships at typically these tend to be government to government type deals very similar to the chinese engagement whereas countries like india and countries like japan tend to take a more private sector aren't approach i think you know this narrative what it doesn't focus on is african agency and who do we blame if countries get into dodgy

deals you know they they mortgage their sovereignty and they give up huge concessions and the likes to do partners who are willing to do and do not ask questions if it so that the accountability piece is one that i think needs greater scrutiny whether that's through the media so what society do better leadership from america and i'm also seeing that accountability are you seeing strategic deals being done on the continent with russia because africa has the minerals you've got the minerals you've got the results this. you are the continent the actual everybody wants to come to play with you and the reality is that it's not good enough so a country like kenya is doing this pretty well you know they're using economic diplomacy and they're exploiting their geo strategic location the fact that they've got interest from the east and the west and they're making that work for them but sadly not enough countries are doing that and i think what what

a good policy maker in in many african countries would do it would exploit the interest that you're getting from russia from china from india from japan and use that to maximise economic value so be pragmatic rather than ideological around foreign policy i think is the route to go and that's what's going to going to drive maximum economic benefits. and value over the long answer because you know africa over the longer term is going to have a bigger workforce than china and india it's going to pay a much more meaningful role in global production and consumption and the reality is that it's too big to ignore as a continent so you know what various countries do with agency and how they negotiate good deals for themselves and their people most importantly is what we actually should be focusing on rather than this broader imperial agenda recolonize ational africa. oh yeah i want to bring you back into the conversation i want to show you something if i may this is from alexander caught and alexander tweeted out

this video here it's russian instructors instructing a local military in sudan the lucky well together you have some russian missile i'll take i'm just wondering. what chopping sudan and russia what is the coach ruling the cultural ties because back in the exams and seven children russia was doing really well the soviet union was doing really well with its relationships with the continent there were cultural ties as well. ok. go ahead what other concern is that of course that i should try to develop. as africa in the soviet era probably the cultural ties were much stronger. or we also tried to develop them and. cultural links exactly. even though for example our institute. develops.

links like we always celebrate. first nation celebrations of different african countries. different. we organize a celebration and i would discourage we're going to princes to discuss the topic of problems of this so that country and also our for example. we both russia search on this so that country and publishers and. articles and also one of the areas of cooperation between russia and various african countries is that we provide evidence for african. students including sudan also. it will. show. you.

fifteen. that we've been talking about a little bit earlier on. it could just be that soft power that is why a couple of people online not very many but if you see this as a good and bad thing for african countries this is about on twitter who says russia has a positive impact on africa they are not interested economically but by strength through collaboration so that's one part of an interview i want to go over here to you tube this is someone else who send that back in the day many infrastructural projects were done by russians such as nigeria steel plant china and russia are not seen as these narcissistic western countries that are interesting thoughts here paul i wouldn't have thought of them myself what do you make of them that russia and some extent also china are better more benevolent than their western counterparts well i'm not sure i would agree with that statement exactly but they do operate quite

differently from from the western counterparts in many ways russia is a little bit more transactional. in the soviet era there was ideology related to it now it's not it's not so much and you are seeing i mean i would agree with all that that you do see some russian soft power it's much more now driven by corporate interests the russian corporate corporate. i think i believe there's a russian language and student sudan that's run by a russian company so you're seeing some of these these. soft power institutions but they're very different from what they were before. but i do think you know you know there's a lot of. criticism that you know the west. conditions its engagement conditions teachers on good governance and anti-corruption sometimes it realize you know it lives up to that sometimes it does. but i think for many african countries you know the engagement can be turned off from the west at a moment's notice so i think many countries are looking at. china russia as

a more reliable partner. and i think you particular see this with arms sales you know several countries that have had you know the the west either europe or the united states cut off arms sales they're now pivoting to russia because they don't see that as a likely problem down the road and so. a sort of also would would argue that many african countries rapidly developing economies they want greater global power and they want greater influence over the international system and they see russia and china as partners in that because both of those countries are trying to also reassert themselves in the global power and so i think this is one thing that drives the south african russian relationship sometimes that relationship seems bizarre to me but i think it's that quest to sort of gain greater influence in the world that the tribes that i think. also there's a difference here between willingness and ability right so there's a lot of. you know questions being posed around russia during the soviet era during

the cold war and their engagement then and whether that can be replicated now the reality is that you just don't have the economic power or the military power to do that anymore the global system is changed so you know why it's there may be that willingness to try and reassert themselves on the african continent but certainly in countries where they've had historical linkages with their provided academic and military training to liberation leaders like south africa like mozambique like and go like namibia. you know that they don't have the means to do not anymore so we've got to differentiate and that's why i think the strategy of boxing clever and playing a nice game around energy diplomacy and hard power with a little bit of soft power is one that i think will be most effective so you know if you look at what the rest of the world is trying to do on the. you know the american. foreign policy has changed dramatically and you know their relationship with with africa will be around return on investment yeah europe is largely focused

around security and migration in britain and it is a potential opportunity there with regards to to exploit the commonwealth linkages in the air and are not looking to establish military routes china's going to both broad initiative and the criticisms around it's dead strategy so what are you going to i really want to just end of the russian foreign minister so they level off he really spent a lot of time a lot of energy travelling around different countries on the continent early on this year here he is in june talking about his strategy and what he's up to have a listen well i think we are in the post of west world order but this order is being shaped and it will take a long time. it's a historical people confuse if you want and certain after five or so centuries of them in nation of the collective west as at war it's not very easy to adjust to

a new reality some under a. powerhouse a second number kind of financially and politically china india. brazil african countries are going to be very much on their rights to know i head china africa. china india brazil countries and an african country if you didn't name the individual ones as my pet peeve just right here in the entire continent you cannot write not though because we're at the end of the show but i do want to hear just really could just squeezing now with the community i will end with two tweets two comments rather this one is from you tube who says someone says this next decade of russia plays its cards right its influence will increase by a good margin in line with china summit also as little bit cautionary much harder as i hope our african leaders are taking precautions with these relations so poor an old road that and abdi thank you so much for being a guest on the stream today we really appreciate it really can i always be online

you can find us on twitter at a.j. stream thanks so much for watching see you next time. you get. to.

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under shall carry this is. also coming up four hundred thousand people were to leave florida hurricane michel makes landfall. and it's mental health day but the focus is less on awareness and more on how you can help yourself. twenty two u.s. senators have checkered an investigation over the disappearance of saudi journalist from office show cheeky chappy ministration it now has one hundred twenty days to look into allegations shows he was murdered and the saudi consulate and istanbul and also raises the possibility of sanctions had a call hang reports from washington d.c. well you know i know nothing right and i know what everybody else knows nothing in just twenty four hours u.s. president donald trump went from no one knows what happened to jamal khashoggi to

we need to find out we demand everything we want to see what's going on here it's a bad situation it's a very serious situation for. you this way you do see. what is going on now will be the subject of an official investigation after twenty two senators sent this letter to the white house invoking the magnitsky act it gives the administration four months to determine if the show g.'s human rights were violated and if so by law they will have to place sanctions potentially on people high up in the saudi government the outcry is bipartisan and growing and that this man was murdered in saudi consulate in istanbul that would cross every law. and morality in the international community. if it did happen it would be held if saudi arabia took a u.s. resident. into a consulate and killed him it's time for the united states to rethink our military

political economic relationship with saudi arabia the president has been eager to forge a relationship with the leadership of saudi arabia heralding in the tens of billions of dollars in defense deals but with reports that many of those have not come through the president will be under increasing pressure to target saudi arabia he's not alone just about six months ago the crown prince mohammed bin solomon toured america meeting the most powerful people in the country all now being urged on social media to condemn him. and for the president it is about to get personal after. they wrote this opinion piece in the washington post urging action the president said he'll meet her at the white house soon this was a day that saw the president speak out small public protests in washington d.c. and new york that drew a lot of media attention and angry senators demanding action all signs that for saudi arabia this is not going to go away any time soon. al-jazeera washington

turkish media has released surveillance camera video of the suspects jamal has more on the investigation from istanbul. with every day that goes by more and more information is coming out with regards to what's happened to. the. side from publishing the pictures of the fifteen saudi nationals who the turkish authorities believe form the hit squad that's went after. after he entered that building behind me on that fateful tuesday we understand their job titles in fact this is their identities amongst them is the head of the forensic unit in the saudi defense forces an intelligence officer who used to be based in the saudi arabian embassy in london as well as several special forces officers all flew in on that tuesday now they left istanbul less than twenty four hours after arriving some of them on private jets now these fifteen had booked four nights at all tells nearby but left very suspiciously very quickly that on top of other information including terror

traffic camera video from over one hundred fifty cameras across is the ball and other information that the police have is what led them to the conclusion that he was assassinated i learnt early on that amongst the evidence that is with the investigation is testimony to from inside the consulate at the time that was there which includes sounds of loud scream and shouting as well as calls for help and a sound of a struggle and then sudden silence now the turks have requested to enter the building to search it and despite reports that they were given approval initially what i understand from speaking to sources is that the chore casualties have not been given approval to search it in the way or with the team that they would like on top of that they also would like to search the home of the consul general which is a few hundred meters from here where a vehicle left the embassy off to germany which events about a couple hours it was

a tinted van and went to his house. they've also asked to search some of these vehicles that are registered to the consulates however they have also given approval now one of the theories behind why the turkish authorities still haven't told me come out and revealed all the evidence is because the moments they officially declare this on camera own up to the leaks that have been coming that must be coupled with a political decision and most likely that's will include downgrading their diplomatic relation and possibly even expelling some ambassadors or diplomatic staff here it seems that they're seeing trying to see some sort of way out of this that would maybe make it a bit easier and not make out the fallout so hard but it's all now that's consensus hasn't been reached a deal korea's a former u.s. diplomat and former deputy chief of mission in yemen he says the case stands out because it brings home the brutal nature of saudi rule to the american public. the pressure is building our work quickly and i think it will continue building up

until this administration takes some action. i know that this is very shocking news but at the same time it is rather expected by the author was or no or this regime very busy in which has jailed women activists as flog a young poet for writing something on facebook and as exit. clerics who are being opposition to the one article this regime has also devastated yemen. and was. and this administration have been totally insensitive to the suffering of millions of yemenis so frankly it doesn't surprise me that there isn't would do something like this but doing it to an individual who has become prominent mainstream in the us and worse than

media brings the story home to me and not just in government but also out there in the public and i think the pressure will build up. senators from both parties who are questioning the trump administration support for the saudi amrani like coalition fighting and young men and they want to sure sure and so that is that civilians are being protected some torrent has more from the u.s. state department in washington. well a letter that has been sent to the secretary of state mike pompei o is basically calling into question his decision last month in september to certify that the saudi government and the u.a.e. government are both using the adequate precautions in order to make certain that yemeni civilians are not being killed during the air war that's being conducted against the rebels this certification it was mandated by congress and so the

deadline was coming up in september and so because of the concerns of the u.s. is national security and its financial relationships with these two countries when it comes to weapons sales the secretary of state reportedly made the decision to issue the certification well according to a number of news reports that was a controversial decision both within the trumpet ministration as well as on capitol hill and so what these congressional leaders who are very active on foreign policy have done is asked for a reconsideration of the certification asking for an fuller explanation because they say that especially in light of the august airstrike in which forty young schoolchildren were killed just north of sanaa the capital of yemen they say that they don't believe that the saudi led coalition is doing enough to prevent civilian casualties in the yemeni civil war. r.k.

michael a slammed into the coast of florida as one of the most powerful storms on record it made landfall on wednesday flooding towns cutting power and causing widespread damage it's now we can to a tropical storm as it moves over georgia and gallacher reports. slamming into florida's panhandle region hurricane michael came ashore as the most powerful storm in more than a century when it made landfall roots who ripped off trees downed in coastal flooding left many homes and businesses submerged in all three hundred seventy five thousand residents were told to evacuate but many decided to ride the storm out instead we are concerned that many says chose not to heed the warning but were prepared with search and rescue teams to try to go in and into a became the view from the international space station shows the sheer scale of hurricane michael even as it approached the coast the storm strengthened with winds approaching two hundred fifty kilometers an hour it may be days before the full extent of the damage is known but a lot of people are very poor in certain of those areas and it's very tough for

them to leave in apalachicola there's now the prospect of a massive cleanup operation the tidal surges here have for now receded but the experience for many was terrifying the trade to keep blowing and blowing and it just got crazy i'm renovating right here. and the windows are blown out the water got up the floor level the damage done across this part of florida may run into the billions of dollars but flooding remains a concern as hurricane michael continues to churn steadily northward towards the state of georgia this is what the residents of florida's panhandle will eventually return home to flooded businesses submerged cars but the biggest threat may be these title surges that continue to get pushed in by this powerful storm that say authorities could be the biggest threat in the hours to come. the recovery here will take weeks months or even years but michael hasn't been. his destructive path

the storm's path will take it north and it remains powerful and dangerous and gallacher all jazeera apalachicola florida a man accused of being a chinese spy has been extradited to the u.s. on charges of economic espionage agents who was arrested in belgium and brought to the united states on tuesday is accused of stealing information from u.s. aerospace firms on behalf of china ju is a deputy division director in the province of the chinese ministry of state security or m.s.s. the m.s.s. is the intelligence and security agency for china is responsible for counterintelligence foreign intelligence and political security. one of shoes job duties was to obtain technical information including trade secrets from aviation and aerospace companies in the united states and europe still ahead on al-jazeera accusations of aim.