august more than one point seven million people are affected many have lost their homes spending days without food or water two hundred forty two have died in mozambique alone that number is expected to rise the government says fifteen thousand people many of them ill still need to be rescued in zimbabwe the death toll has jumped to one hundred thirty nine and the rain is continuing roads and bridges have collapsed a humanitarian operations more difficult the u.n. says two hundred thousand people need urgent food aid for three months and fifty six people have died in malawi eighty two thousand people are displaced and there enough is of disease understeers marc webb is traveling through one of the worst hit regions he says when during a district in western mozambique first the border with zimbabwe. cycling it i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. so our journey from asking the para.

began in small boats made of tree bark. but then a few kilometers down the road another broken bridge. the cyclamen split central missouri became the island cut off from road access. we met knocking on a fire you haven't seen a husband through for storm mobile networks are cut off and made the crossing to find him. it is good but still what choices do we give what choice do i give. this day something that is happening with the locals the happiness the actual helping us to cross to go and get food to. people to cross to reach loved ones food. so they find whatever ways they can. often be broken bridge we paid to ride him or to have a vehicle we could find most people here don't have the means to travel far like best. when we reach low lying planes but the storm damage is worse than this we

have burst its banks. to the. side so devastated homes have been destroyed crops blasted by the wind and rain field off the field of them completely destroyed so a lot of people here will be very hungry. more than three quarters of mozambicans live on less than two dollars a day many people here subsistence farmers. left in the field with their food for the year ahead. and held. the only sign of it helicopter makes one circle and flies off possibly an aid agency taking a survey and people can only hope they'll soon bring food and shelter. but with so much damage to the roads it'll have to come by air. the last broken bridge just before to morrow has been made possible with some blown down cables. and tonio as

the money's trying to reach the town check on his family. hundreds of died. i'm a survivor but i have suffered too much not just physically but also psychologically traumatized is the first time i've seen it so i close this now people can travel a little family to trying to reunite many people are still missing it will take a long time for mozambique to recover from cyclonic dying malcolm webb al-jazeera insists and the district. zimbabwe the floods cut our communities and damaged roads make it hard for them to reach help her with us or travel to copper where many are still looking for their missing relatives these rocks and boulders they never used to be here this used to be a busy bustling busy center and then cyclonic happened leaving behind all this destruction all the stiffness station and all the grief the water was so powerful

it managed to drag parts of a bridge which was nearly a kilometer away from the area is shows you how strong the raging water was now people are trying to find out how many of their loved ones are dead and with the people who are who are missing we don't know exactly how many people are missing but what we seen throughout the day is people coming going through these borders walking through these parts trying to figure out was this the place where my house used to be if it was is a possible that maybe someone i think you may be missing may be buried underneath the borders or buried underneath the mud if they know it's going to take a long time for officials to come here and remove all this debris if it ever happens right now the focus for rescue operations is that they want to find as many people alive as possible they want to try and get food and medical supplies to people as quickly as possible we've seen a lot more helicopters flying around the area and

a sign that perhaps more people will be coming in to the place but in this particular area they said so far they have received no direct help from government officials or from aid agencies in terms of food blankets clothes etc but they are hoping that comes soon for the moment though it is a moment of grief families or survivors have managed to come back to the area trying to find out more about their loved ones and some are even trying to rebuild their homes and try to move on their lives. in australia mass evacuations are taking place across parts of the northern territory ahead of a powerful cyclon military planes are being used to transport people from remote areas to the city of darwin cyclon trevor is expected to make landfall on saturday as a category five storm emergency services are preparing for heavy rain and a strong storm surge a state of emergency has been declared in our gulf country aside country tracks across the gulf of carpentaria the bureau of meteorology is forecasting that

sockeye might lean from between borroloola and grid island during saturday night as a category four severe tropical cyclone at least six people have been killed in several explosions in the afghan capital kabul most two dozen others were injured after three remotely detonated devices went off one of them was planted in the washroom of a mosque at the tax code side with new news celebrations. six people have been killed in a factory explosion in eastern china thirty more being treated in hospital for serious injuries a blast happened after a fire broke out at a pesticide factory on an industrial park in the city of young chang buildings were knocked down by the power of explosion with a shockwave also blowing out windows in there by residential districts. and he's one hundred people have died in iraq after the ferry they were traveling on capsized in the northern city of mosul around two hundred people were on board the vessel which was traveling on the tigris river it was carrying families to

celebrate you know ruse and many of the victims are thought to be women and children that's a shocker name reports from baghdad. hundreds of iraqis were celebrating the no rues holiday at an amusement park in mosul when tragedy struck first. images on social media reveal a distressing sea after a ferry carrying an estimated two hundred people capsized a distraught husband and father begs the police to take him to the banks of the tigris river and now i don't know if they might have worked my family through the water right now my wife and my daughter and i'm asking the police to be a right to go to the other side but they will give me one. zero bystanders were screaming some were jumping into the river to try to rescue people and some passengers could be seen swimming furiously against the swift current. in the immediate hours after the ferry capsized the death toll kept rising the

ministry of interior noted that many of the dozens of victims were women and children the iraqi prime minister has called for an immediate investigation into the cause of the accident however iraqi civil defense says it appears it was due to the ferry carrying more passengers than the maximum capacity recommended this ferry accident appears to be unprecedented in iraq it's also yet another misery to be endured for the people of war ravaged mosul who have already lost so much natasha going to aim l jazeera baghdad thousands of people are expected to attend friday prayers in christ church to pay tribute to the fifty victims of last week's mass shooting at two mosques a call to prayers will be broadcast nationally followed by a two minute silence while funerals took place on thursday to bodies were nice to families our minister to send auden has announced strict new gun laws in the wake

of the attack. live from. what can we expect an event today. well obviously a significant day not just because it's the one weekend of a series of because it's the first time the muslims in this city have come together all important friday prayers now the al nor mosque which is the one that was attacked first the bigger of the two that was a fact attacked last friday it's behind me there had been some hope that it would be able to be reopened by this friday today for friday prayers but the mayor of christchurch were on television a couple of hours ago saying it's just not ready they have done all the police work inside and the forensic work has been completed and they have been cleaning it and trying to replace carpets and so on the damage with bullets and blood but they haven't got is in a state where they can take in the number of people they're expecting at these friday prayers seven states

a big friday press actually will be held in the park directly opposite the mosque and they're expecting hundreds if not thousands of people to come to that not just muslims but people in christ church more broadly wanted to come down to show their support as you say will be a national two minutes silence at one thirty two pm local time here in christ church that's just over three hours from now and that will be followed precedented by the muslim call to prayer being broadcast on radio stations and on television generally speaking this a lot of support for that this is the paper the press here in new zealand today almost completely blank page except for some arabic writing of the translation by peace and then at the bottom in the small writing you may or may not get to see that the names of all fifty victims of last week's attacks the youngest was just three years old the oldest seventy one and i was privileged to have been invited to his funeral.

in the life nabil loved motorbikes so. his sons arranged for members of a club to lead his funeral cortege nabil was the first and at seventy one the eldest person shot and killed last friday in christchurch witnesses say he greeted the gunman at the door of the al nor mosque not realizing his intent his family is profoundly proud of his spinal words of welcome on thursday hundreds of people came to the muslim section of christ churches memorial park cemetery to pay their last respects and reflect on his life he was the first african in new zealand any search to accomplish a mosque in he built the allure mosque in is the founder so many people are being buried this week there's a marquee at the cemetery in which to conduct formalities the greeting of and

grieving over nobby's body here's why died in teary youngest granddaughter his wife distraught and a friend comforting one of his sons after the funeral. this is now the when he first came to new zealand a young engineer who established a business mending damaged cars he made a success of life in new zealand many friends helped carry his coffin. graveside more tears and more prayers eleven victims were buried before nabi thirty eight more to follow all on our identified after days of investigation by police and a coroner now doubt not be used to be lowered gently into the ground. after all the trauma and then the bureaucracy of the last week finally isn't about how the doubt now being died but rather how he lived who he was what he

did and the legacy he's leaving behind. that legacy includes five children and knowing grandchildren and the memory of a kind man dad had a good heart a loving father and welcome even what it is. a good man for muslim relies on. for our firemen a big loss let's make. haji daoud will forever stay here but online his final words are now troubling him. so a very tough day for his family and of course for the families of the other forty nine victims about hoff have now been buried all fifty have been identified so those who haven't been buried yet will those will come in the next few days not just

interrupt news events prime minister announced a raft of changes to gun laws will hear about those in a moment she will be here in christ church for the call to prayer for the two minute silence and she is expected to make some comments in the park beside me as well now this is beginning to gear up now for what is expected to be a major event i haven't seen security this tight and dreams of a new outside the normal for quite a few days lots of place here there was he taking no chances and laurie's just behind the camera arriving with lots and lots of traffic cam so they're expecting it to be a big event here in christchurch and then a significant one not just for the most in population before all new zealanders to tell come to terms with the last seven days andrew thomas seven forty live there thank you very much. mentioned new zealand's prime minister has moved quickly to change the country's gun laws are to last friday's mass shooting or military style semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles are effectively banned immediately

when haye has more cross church. less than a week after fifty people were murdered prime minister just announced changes to gun laws that she says will make new zealand safer today i'm announcing that new zealand will ban all military style seamy order medic we can we will also ban all assault rifles we will ban on all current capacity magazines we will ban or pads with the ability to convert seeming automatic or any other type of firearm into i'm military style seamy or domestic weapon i just don't expect the laws to be passed in three weeks and in the meantime the weapons have been reclassified meaning owners will have to apply for new licenses the message from the prime minister to those gun owners is don't bother trying. the gunman who is alleged to have attacked the mosque sport assault rifles legally with

a license he then modified them using parts he purchased online he was able to fire multiple rounds quickly the guns he used will now be illegal and the loophole he took advantage of to modify them closed on monday as cabinet met to agree on the law changes the owner of new zealand's largest gun seller held a media conference in christchurch he said he had previously sold four guns to the suspect in the attack but couldn't be sure if any of them we used last friday and he wouldn't be drawn into the issue of gun laws to buy differently will continue as it appears will more life but this particular diary is not of their out of the gun debate the government says it will buy weapons off owners in a plan things will cost up to one hundred forty million dollars some have already started handing this back to the police but with no gun new zealand it's not known how many are out there i see only the last week or so a lot of people been buying up lots but i mean. they are going to have to look at

themselves especially the hard stuff mayor and relinquish them and that simple i think it's a step on the right direction something must change spaced on the last experience i know some people could see this is a reaction. cross reaction because of one person the consequences and what we've seen is this terrible and something must change the prime minister says the new laws are just the beginning she says one star past will be a broader review of regulations to try to ensure new zealand never sees another mass killing wayne hay al jazeera christchurch. and watching their news hour still ahead we report from the philippines where a growing number of children in manila are struggling to feed themselves. brazil's that former president michel terrorism rested in what's become latin america's biggest anti corruption investigation. and a former colombian football star arrested on a u.s.

warrant for suspected drug trafficking pool will be here with more on a story. we got plenty of warm spring sunshine into central parts of europe at the moment which was the west actually really didn't quite nice to be had got a little bit of disturbed weather just brushing the fall north of the british isles but that aside slipped in pretty good as we go on through the next couple days because high pressure is in charge the law says spring sunshine further respond not quite done with winter just a little bit of snow in the forecast the western side of russia just to sells his for moscow cold even for moscow and a fair bit as snow as you can see but at the central areas seventeen celsius there for vienna going to seventeen all right save for paris and also for london they say

and see for madrid will see some warm sunshine here as you go on through saturday picking up to around twenty by then but just notice it cools off a touch of freshens up across england wales and scotland along with much of the addict gets up to ninety eight celsius or pleasant weather coming through here eastern parts drop a little three celsius moscow so no great improvement down towards the south wrapped around seventy in athens with plenty of sunshine still a little bit of rain to get out of the way across northern parts of algeria for friday going on in seas sassed a process guys do come back but still a few shows that the. rewind continues to care bring your people back to life. with updates on the best about zero as documentary the struggle continues book. to. use distance revisiting return of the lizard king we went on the cover on

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they're going to run to the top stories here. a year leaders are expected to announce later whether they'll grant an extension to the date the u.k. is due to leave the block which is currently just over a week away. u.s. president has vowed to recognize israel's sovereignty. from syria in a tweet that said the good on heights is a critical strategic area the security of israel and for regional stability. rescue teams in mozambique extended their search for cyclonic die survivors who are still trapped in flooded areas cycling has killed at least four hundred people in malawi zimbabwe and mozambique. china's president xi jinping is in italy for the start of a three day visit the main aim of the trip is to sign an agreement three it's really into his so-called belt and road trade plan multibillion dollar project is designed to link china with the west by new road rail and sea routes

revolutionizing their trade potential it's been heavily criticized by the united states in twenty thirteen president she had asked his grand plan to connect the world to the belgian road initiative which aims to link china by sea and land with asia the middle east europe and africa a number of a used states have already signed a memorandum of understanding with china during hungry greece and poland italy would become the first g seven country to back the initiative if it signs in him or you the belgian road initiative is expected to cost more than one trillion dollars it's designed to boast the sales of chinese made goods and services around the world but the u.s. has called it a valid g project and fears that it could potentially lead to death traps for the nations involved. during this last year john ever and is a former senior british diplomat at the embassy in beijing thanks very much indeed for coming in so this kind of job offensive with the chinese and in italy what does

it really stand to gain from this money effectively remember the turnbull trying to deal with the bridge collapse in general last august ever since then the crumbling state of italy's infrastructure has been a real political hot potato in this league and they won the italian government bids to spend its way out of this problem was blocked by the e.u. they've had to look elsewhere for italy and the chinese are offering a lot of money in loans and so i mean the the u.s. is very suspicious of china's motives and they've they called it a kind of vanity project and essentially said it's a debt trap italy is a very highly indebted countries is it a debt trap or to do a lot of people would say this is a poison chalice and a lot of other countries who've taken part in the belgian road initiative found that the debts think are unsustainable those attorneys will shock way back into the seventeen westry lanka actually had to hand over an entire port to china in repayment of debts that it couldn't meet so yes there's

a big issue that i mean the chinese have defended they've said that the chinese foreign minister saying the belgian region is cheap is by no means that trap but an economic pie that brings real benefits to all parties i mean presumably the short term they get the roads in there and the infrastructure does appear does it will they will start to does appear though it is almost always built by entirely chinese labor one of the other big criticisms of the build a road initiative is that it creates very few local jobs and people feel excluded from pretty projects in their own country so you mention the fact that the telling government was unable to spend its way out of the for the general bridge reconstruction was bought brought by the e.u. but so what is the you doing to try and you know turn a tip to the to the belt and ridge appeal i mean as i see this is part of money out there so people will want some of it what's the e.u. doing to try and. counter that the e.u. hasn't yet reacted formally to the italian government's move towards china and of course as you said in your introduction hasn't yet signed the memorandum we've got

sitting ping in room today but the ink hasn't get it the paper of course the e.u. right now has got a lot on its plate today is brics and they haven't sake and on top of that waiting for them to say we're going to do you think so yes and at the same time the e.u. is trying to recast his policy to china to take a firm line against what it sees as sovereign encroachments and then you've got his italian bombshell is about not entire surprising that the e.u. hasn't yet come out to say what is going to do so what about the u.s. and they they've criticized china for this effort but and they've they said they've got a development fund as a countermeasure is that something that's going to be appealing is that a carrot given the scale of the projects that china is involved in so far can the u.s. counter what's already happened well yes it can although a lot of people are counseling the united states against doing that because they regard the boat reduced to a terrible to see a blunder from the chinese point of view not just from the point of view of the

countries who receive all these loans a trillion dollars as you said duction is a lot of money and what actually does china gain from this in real terms and if it's not quite all it's cracked up to be should the united states in any case be following suit going abroad thank you very much indeed for your expertise thank you thank you. now brazil's former president michel tema has been arrested as part of a massive corruption investigation or peroration carwashes looking into latin america's largest corruption scandal a temper was detained in his home city south power of news programs showing a police vehicle carrying the former leader he served as president from twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen and is the latest in a series of high profile figures caught up in the five year investigation into the state oil company petrobras temora has consistently denied any wrongdoing the new genre has more from korea in brazil. so dramatic scenes outside the house of former president michel temari and sell power though where

a special task force is part of the wider operation carwash. arrested him in the early hours of the morning they since flown him to rio de janeiro the state of rio de janeiro which is at the center of the investigation accusations that bribes were paid in relation to the building of a new kilo power plant the angra three in rio de janeiro state two former ministers who served in michel temperament time as government his former chief of staff and the former energy and mines minister also also lost to be arrested and several other people linked to the case all along has denied any wrongdoing in this case all previous accusations made against him while he served as president of brazil from the middle of two thousand and sixteen to the end of two thousand and eighteen he said there was a campaign against him and managed to escape those accusations enjoying presidential immunity that has now gone since he left office at the end of last year was this a part of

a much wider investigation the operation called wash operations been going on now for five years hundreds of politicians from all parties business people implicated including the former president in the through the silver. was predisposed to risk president rousseff or she was in peached on corruption charges so this is something that's current president promised that he would fight political corruption that now seems to be the case that this operation is ongoing. and more information likely to emerge in the next few hours and days. venezuela's interior minister says opposition leader. chief of staff was part of a terrorist cell that planned attacks are better or is in custody after a raid on his house in caracas. says the arrest is a sign of weakness by president nicolas maduro. in a tweet to us have just called for mayor to be released saying those involved will be held on account held accountable. just under an amputee as more from caracas.

venezuela security forces raided the house. at two am on thursday they've searched through the house and his belongings for three hours they also broke into the house of a neighbor who is also a supporter of the opposition the neighbor is the one who first accused the venezuelan forces of actually planting weapons and a greenie in my house to justify his arrest now the leader of the opposition spoke later on thursday obviously condemning the raid and saying that it was in that act that didn't bring any political value to might do it and to actually show the just how weak it was the also insisted that the opposition will not be deterred by these acts and that they will continue challenging bhutto's grip on power the united states also condemn the raid the. united states'

security adviser said that this action will not go unchallenged the secretary of state of the united states michael impale also said that those responsible will be held accountable we're going to have to see if indeed the u.s. will do something about this what we're probably seeing here is a feeling emboldened by having survived this series of very strong challenges against that rule and now moving forward in this crackdown against the opposition so far they have been careful in not attacking their rectally or the people in their silk circle they evidently feel that they can start doing that now and they are testing the resolve here of the united states and the rest of the international opposition that support. challenger i gave my daughter. more antigovernment protests are taking place in albania as capital tirana thousands of opposition

protesters tried to enter albanians parliament building on thursday they're accusing the government of being corrupt and having links to organized crime the main opposition party relinquish their seats in parliament last month and according . as more interim or. new position brought us here in tehran are peaceful with minor incidents protests or are in front of the all being on parliament asking for is ignition of prime minister adorama and his government four weeks ago the opposition members of the parliament love their seats the blame prime minister is here armor for corruption and ties to criminal groups will be indian prime minister said he's not willing to resign and he will continue to lead the country until the end of his mandate in two thousand and twenty one it is unclear if the political situation will damage i'll be in the spirit to join the european union meanwhile there's a growing dispute over

a large scale coastal land project in the country the albanian government is pushing ahead with construction in an effort to develop tourism but ethnic greek landowners say the state is forcibly taking away their land john troublous has no enemy only but ego was barely saddened when she witnessed the deaths of six greek soldiers fighting fascist forces in world war two they operate on her thumb stood now she feels she is facing a similar author of terrorism and the fight is once again over her land. beachfront property in the bay of humana albania's most valued resort area but the government refuses to recognize her title to it it has much of the beach front property in this valley state owned and plans to hand it over to developers. i have the title deeds this land was bought in one thousand nine hundred eighty three my father offered a different piece of land in exchange for it because his land was smaller he also paid eighty nine gold pieces and that the papers are all signed now the authorities

tell me i'm not the owner i've submitted the papers to court they're just holding on to them these people are critics. but he is one of hundreds of ethnic greeks who stand to lose one hundred thirty seven hectares of beachfront property stretching down the southern albanian coast the government claims the land last november in a cabinet decision that wasn't ratified by parliament or signed by the president the greek minority omonia party wishes to challenge the cabinet decision in court but it can't because albania's court system is crippled by a major shake down that has seen most supreme court and constitutional court justices dismissed for corruption this hiatus in the judiciary could last for years but development is carrying on the government is expropriating greek property at a rate which it has ordained of two and a half dollars per square meter money which the greeks aren't even bothering to claim.