one of the topics that has been discussed here over the last several days of these annual meetings of the international monetary fund and the world bank is disaster preparedness now this is something that was already on the agenda before these twin disasters hit indonesia just two weeks ago now the focus has been on how important is to get those local economies going to help the reconstruction effort after what the internees government has announced that they're transitioning from the search and rescue operation today thursday into the reconstruction now it's very important people here saying that they get that going those local economies going to is that will help push forward that reconstruction obviously with this group of financial leaders in one place global issues have also been talked about and trade friction between the united states and china has been a reoccurring theme both from leadership in the international monetary fund and the world bank the focus has been because of this trade friction the economic outlook for the world's economies has been downgraded a bit point two percent over the next two years that is because this global trade

friction between the united states and china primarily but also around the world as well that has a knock on effect world bank is concerned about this because they say elevating people out of extreme poverty is tied to trade friction that's going on right now because of what's been going on it's going to have a knock on effect with poor countries because of supply chains so both bodies both entities saying that they need to deescalate the trade tension that's going on not only does it hurt the countries directly involved but also the global economy and specifically those nations were trying to emerge from extreme poverty still ahead on the most from concern about her mental home life and not as a catalyst for the any challenging one of the crisis has been told me and news in a sign this in your life allan infection to see infectious disease that was supplying this can be cured.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts this are going to take you over here towards the eastern part of mediterranean particularly over here by majorca where we have seen quite a bit of rain in this is what it looked like on the island after all this rain led to flash flooding now the residents are now cleaning up but it was days of rain across that area and cause a lot of problems not only on the roads but also in many many homes as well we're going to be left with a some better weather for the cleanup but unfortunately a lot of that rain has now moved over towards the east we're dealing with it here of course car suddenly as well as the northern part of italy and today is really not going to be too much of a difference as you can see right there more rain is in the forecast let's put the forecast map into motion and you can see over the next few days we're going to start to see that rain start to just a little bit more down here towards the south into the southeast so for parts it's

just a late you're going to be seeing some rain as well northern italy you'll be clearing out but we do think as we go towards the next few days we're looking a much better conditions across much of northern europe in central europe with high pressure dominating and temperatures just a little above average there well here across another part of africa we are looking at some rain as well across parts of algeria as well as tunisia and tunis it's going to be a cloudy day with a temperature of twenty eight degrees. there with sponsored by cat time piece. sweden is his home. northern iraq his timeline. from which he ran. camera in hand he returned. to film he was tiny times to run. a story soon transformed by a chance encounter. the gal who saved my life i witnessed documentary on a disease. good

to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories bipartisan group of twenty two u.s. senators have triggered an official investigation into the disappearance of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul a week ago the washington post says saudi crown prince muhammad. ordered an operation to detain. and return him to. a magnitude six earthquake off the indonesian islands of java and bali has killed three people meanwhile the search for bodies on the way c.r. and has come to an end to weeks after the area was devastated by

a major earthquake and tsunami. now the united arab emirates is a volunteer sanctions imposed in somalia and ever trained according to a report by a u.n. panel of experts obtained by. the as yet on released report highlights the continued illegal construction of an m.r.i. base in somaliland coastal city of berbera as well as the seizure of weapons and military equipment coming through yemen barbara has more. the report has been prepared for the un security council it says that criminal networks in the u.a.e. using iran as a transit point for illegal charcoal exports the exports of groups including the somali based on. an estimated one hundred fifty million dollars. has established an affected state within a state and they collect taxes in old age a town. they also run a. justice so for many citizens

a somali even. when al-shabaab court. is away the report was written by the somalia and eritrea monitoring group a un body that monitors sanctions in the region it says charcoal is shipped from somalia with fake country of origin certificates to ports in iran where its relabeled as a product of iran and put on to small goods to put a hammer ria into by the authors of the report say that both iran and the u.a.e. did not substantively engage with them when they raised concerns of chocolate smuggling weapons in trying to overthrow the somali government nearly a decade now and despite losing territory it still controlled a significant chunk of the country and levis taxes that fund its attacks one checkpoint is said to earn the armed group ten million dollars a year the somalian eritrea monitoring group also says that in some areas has

a sophisticated taxation system that is more geographically diversified and systematic than the federal government the u.a.e. is named in the report for breaking other sanctions that include smuggling weapons bought from serbia and croatia into somalia and yemen the u.a.e. is also building a military base in neighboring somalia and this despite calls by the federal government in somalia to hold construction saying it was a clear violation of international law the report says work on the sites continues somaliland. it is a region of somalia that declared its independence in one thousand nine hundred one following a civil war and remains unrecognized by the international community the u.a.e. has in reply to the allegations its u.n. ambassador says they can't comment because the report is unpublished barbara and get out to sarah story. now to the u.s. . where people in florida are assessing the damage caused by one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall now moving over to neighboring georgia it has been

downgraded to a tropical storm and agalloch of a ports. 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 until 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. in the windows are blown out of the water you got 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 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. even years but michael has finished his destructive path the storm's path will take it north and it remains powerful and dangerous and gallacher al-jazeera apalachicola florida. doctors without borders is calling for

the immediate evacuation of refugees and asylum seekers from prison camps on the order of a stray who has been sending asylum seekers to the offshore detention camps and twenty thirteen last week not his government ordered the medical charity to leave within twenty four hours many children suffering traumatic withdrawal symptom syndrome exist in the semi common so states and able 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 the roof for five years with for many of them no resolution insights to armenia now the country is hosting an international summit for francophone countries despite

only have a go around ten thousand french speakers among its three million population the two day meeting has attracted many world leaders including french president emmanuel mccrum and canadian prime minister justin trudeau let's go to our correspondent robin forestier walker who is joining us live from the summit in the capital yet yvonne so robin what does this organization of the frank are for any and why they meeting in armenia given that very small number of french speakers there. well the organization is perhaps thought best thoughts of. a french speaking united nations. much much smaller compared to united nations but still representing more than a culture of a billion french speakers and then if you add together the member states that french speaking member states it's what we're talking about you know something in

the region of nine hundred million people represented by all these countries put together. we've got over eighty heads of states more than eighty governments here today behind me including. the heads of canada justin trudeau and the french president. and this organization really is about emphasizing the values of the francophone speaking world that's the radius of humanist values values of tolerance and and human rights and also emphasizing diversity is also about. a place where these countries can meet and network and develop economic ties more. than a political why are you nia because i mean it is a member it's one of those countries that isn't really a french speaking country but there are

a great many armenians french armenians part of the global armenian diaspora perhaps as many as seven hundred fifty thousand french living french i mean it's living in france and has has does have close ties and a lot of cultural ties to the french speaking world suit and so they're hosting it . the next couple of days what's what's on the agenda is about how many more countries should be admitted that aren't necessarily. i have those kind of french connections one of which is saudi arabia and given of course the fact that saudi wrote that particularly in the news right now with regards to that missing journalist is this the right time many of these delegates will be debating saudi arabia really to be considered a member or a suitable member for less francophonie robin thank you very much for that for now that is that robin forestay

a walker joining us live from iran thank you now chinese stock markets have plunged to their lowest levels and for years the benchmark shanghai composite has dropped more than four percent on clothes and the last few hours china second exchange dropped about six percent for is being blamed on the u.s. china trade war and an i.m.f. warning about global financial stability. a man accused of being a chinese spy has been extradited to the u.s. on charges of economic espionage younger and soon was arrested in belgium and brought to the u.s. on tuesday is accused of stealing information from american aerospace firms on behalf of china ju is a deputy division director in the james you province of the chinese ministry of state security or and the 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 jews job

duties was to obtain technical information including trade secrets from aviation and aerospace companies in the united states and europe. hundreds of brazilians have been demonstrating in sao paulo against the far right presidential candidates . he is leading the polls ahead of the vote on. the twenty eighth and is expected to win many opposition supporters are concerned about his views on women and minorities. the daughter of former president has been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering opposition leader. party is accused of receiving illegal contributions from brazilian construction company. prosecutors say the money was used in her twenty eleven presidential campaign others have been arrested. now senegal is struggling to can train the world's leading cause of blindness almost two hundred million people around the world live with the

disease most in sub-saharan africa it is curable but needs medicine and well one of prevention programs like los heart went to east in senegal to find out more. it is all a blur explains by more start to help volunteer going to. brush his teeth alone or guinea recognize his own grandchildren. 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 can go blind it's not too late for him is eyelids have turned inwards and are damaging the this is caused by repeated infections it could have been easily prevented if so had washed his eyes regular. but sar does not have access to clean water at home flies landing close to the ice spread the disease to others contagious yet preventable is the world's

leading cause of blindness and if i lose my science completely i'll be useless to my family and i want to end up like other blind young ones abandoned and on the streets begging seen as a burden children with to come often suffer the most but not here at senegal's only school for the visually impaired. the children compensates they have a stronger sense of hearing and of touch surpassing that of the known visually impaired given the chance we see that our students do well in the job market beyond social stigma the un estimates the economic loss globally from untreated coma to eight billion dollars annually sending l. wants to get rid of the disease offering free treatment now at the top is not a doctor but trained by the ministry of health in order to operate on patients that have the symptoms of a coma he's about to cut a small incision only eyelids in order to get rid of the disease despite the

possibility of bleeding or permanent scarring of the eye the benefits outweigh the risks. that it looks as tall as can you see. after a ten minute procedure fifty eight years of suffering comes to an end alone so our walks home gradually lighten colors flood into focus. the headlines on the al-jazeera a bipartisan group of twenty two u.s. senators has triggered an official investigation into the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi it was last seen entering the saudi consulate in

istanbul a week ago the washington post says saudi crown prince muhammad did an operation to detain him and return him to turkey's president has told journalists that the saudi claims of the consulate cameras weren't recording when it disappeared is inconceivable. he finds it very strange why these security cameras weren't working or weren't recording as is claimed by this saudi officials they say that this building behind me even though it's equipped and we see just from the outside these five or six different security cameras so god knows how many are in sight there as well they claim that despite being kids it out with all these surveillance cameras that they were recording on the day that's. something which they're people finding very difficult to believe this comes after the turkish authorities had released c.c.t.v. footage of the different fifteen saudi nationals who are arrived on the same day on

different flights and identified them including forensic experts deal with autopsies a magnitude six earthquake off the indonesian island of java has killed three people meanwhile the search for bodies on the island of said to end of the next twenty four that devastating. tsunami two weeks ago people in florida are assessing the damage caused by one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall in the u.s. coast. trees from the ground and course widespread flooding now moving neighboring georgia. to a tropical storm hundreds of brazilians have been demonstrating against the presidential candidate. he is leading the polls ahead of the valar on the twenty eighth he is expected to. well those are the headlines on the do

stay with the stream is coming up next thank you very much for watching. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm election we'll be talking to the american people looking at the key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles the healthcare system receives women's rights joined us through our group told her for special coverage and announced the u.s. mood time. hi i'm femi oke hey and i'm ali could be after a decades long hiatus why is russia so interested in renewing ties enough with our tweet us your thoughts or leave them in our life 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 one thousand nine hundred schools russia to retreat 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. for some african countries the attention from moscow is tempting so how would this situation develop and what does russia want out of it and 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 part us he's a director at signal risk an exclusively african risk advisory firm also in new york ideality of die here in nairobi based reporter with quartz africa and here in our studio he's a senior fellow at 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 resume. very well with our audience of mine and so i want to start with this one 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 a bath followed so obviously he explains why we see russia in on the african continent now but from your point of view your perspective why do you think are there thank you monique i think definitely be a reference is to russia having historical issues with a continent well into so we did before that but groups do seem its market interest specifically over the last year because of the changing your political dynamics in the continent africa is 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 with the continent from the u.s. administration and i both western and 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 any york and i was have waiting for that connection to actually kick back in after can even just pick up where you left off the xenophobes for a second go ahead les 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 or 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 know

mused also for their votes at the u.n. general assembly and i think the last point is also because of nations with china 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 in occasional debt relief in exchange for a 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 dmn 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 to

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 ahmed coming into power. expects tending or you know a the fall of relations between you know between if you're going to train a rich 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 russia is really engaging more the south 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 has interests in other regions and countries of african continent so these are these are also countries which you heard the thrill nations in the soviet. and girl in baba and south africa and. and also but what i think of our what i see in zimbabwe where i would say oh 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. is interest. 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 value and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat the foreign minister is zimbabwe he sounded positively excited. 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 you know 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 to arrange 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 their economic power has 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 if they can't 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 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 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 i give this one to you. i think the relationship the china africa relationship with the continent we should be. allied to the opportunities and pitfalls of this and also russia's interests in the comp.