flowing in from zimbabwe to the sea and the other is the breezy river which is a short fat flat river which floods very easily is already bad source saturation of the dams are full so we're facing multiple risks that won't affect these people their concern is their next meal and how to rebuild their homes their communities and their lives tony berkeley al-jazeera beera. a second cyclon has made landfall in australia cycling veronica had the west coast near port hedland people in coastal towns are being urged to leave in anticipation of heavy rain and strong winds meanwhile sideman trapper has already been battering the northern coast the storm made landfall on saturday brian is joining us from port hedland where that cyclon has now made landfall what the latest. that's right during veronica is finally now making landfall that it has been a long time in coming that's been the problem with this cycle over did it state

stop only offshore gaining in strength and really working its way down this stretch of the west australian coastline all of this area around port hedland has been locked down now it is what they call a category red alert basically everybody told to stay in their homes stay in their hotels secret textured as this storm passes passes through as you mentioned there is excessive flooding port hedland decided something like i'm going to be millimeters of rain it's expected to have several hundred millimeters by the time this is over to put that in some kind of context that's about a year's worth of rain from this one where the repaint to make matters worse we're also seeing tidal surges as you can see there we're having we are starting to get in the next few hours close to another high tide here that's when we can expect to

see another couple of metres on the sea level rising above its normal level we are well protected here we are told we have the sand berms in front of us but all along this area your thirty's are closing roads and they are expecting a lot of flooding that basically when you look at the just sastre prep. this map of the air you know the worst case scenario is effectively we will become what i looked for a couple of. really effectively. like ok rob we'll let you get out of the rain ride with an update from headlines australia thank you plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including fighting in paris as police have asked protesters from some of the city's most iconic areas. territory in syria u.s. backed kurdish forces say they will hunt down sleeper cells christ church and super

rugby team returns to action after the mosque shootings in considers changing its name peter will have the details in sport. but first details of u.s. special counsel robert miller's report into possible collusion between russia and donald trump's twenty six campaign could be revealed to congress by sunday attorney general william barr says he'll write two reports based on the document he received one for congress another another for the public democrats are demanding the full report be released without delay along with all the evidence muller uncovered since they have a majority in the house they have subpoena power to obtain the report but the president can order the justice department to defy it donald trump's lawyers say they want to look at those findings before they're made public it's unclear whether that will happen. more from donald trump's weekend home in palm beach florida.

on saturday president trump kept a pretty light schedule and kept mostly to himself here in palm beach florida it is mara lago resort he went out and played golf. waved to some supporters that he saw but for the most part though he made no major statements at all it's been silent about the report that everybody is waiting for including the white house now trump is not down here in florida alone he's got his top lawyers here do they're dealing with the case as well as his white house communications staff as well all waiting to respond to whatever the attorney general decides to release about the bugler report the white house says no indication of what's inside this report they tell us they are waiting just like everybody else expected that the attorney general could release highlights of the report to congress now as early as sunday and the

expectation is once that happens it will be leaked to the media and also even before that will be given to trump and then it will become the next stage of what has become this very long process in this entire mueller investigation. investigation is far from the only legal trouble the president faces trumps former lawyer has pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance law by paying hush money to two women who said they had affairs with the president's michael cohen said ordered him to do it to win the twenty six thousand election federal prosecutors are also looking into trump's inaugural committee for spending one hundred seven million dollars in festivities almost every organization trump has run over the past decade is being investigated his private company is facing multiple lawsuits for doing business with foreign governments after he took office and his thirty year old charity is also being sued over accusations its money was misused to personally benefit trump let's speak to victoria bissette issues

a contributor to the brennan center for justice joining us from new york thanks for talking to us on al-jazeera so to what extent do these other investigations pose a much more serious threat to trump than a mile or report. they pose an ongoing threat to president trump and not only do they pose an ongoing threat to president truck but unlike muller many of them may actually result in more than investigations they may ultimately result in civil fines criminal penalties or a variety of other ways he could be held to account for what seemed to be a large number of violations here's the thing though the justice department's policy is that a sitting president cannot face criminal charges so is the likelihood that he won't be facing any charges while he's president please. that's the department of justice's position on criminal indictments against a sitting president but many of the investigations are being undertaken either in

new york state or in other words on a state level which is not bound by the same policy or they are private litigation for example litigation that's been brought against president trump for accepting payments from foreign governments via his hotel in washington d.c. both of those can be proceed against him it seems though i'm sure there's going to be a fair amount of disputing that from the president but both of them at least for now are proceeding and could result in penalties against him. and when you look at the bigger picture here how damaging is all of us not only the moeller rip or. will supposedly be coming out but also these other investigations to the president especially as he eyes the next election. yeah i think that. all of these investigations on a state level on a federal level the private lawsuits have cumulatively damaged the president they've probably damaged his business prospects and in addition they've had

a real impact on his ability to speak to the american public and to be an effective president there's a lot of doubt out there about his behavior and about the potential corruption and potential collusion with the russian government and all of that has accumulated to put the president in a very difficult position as leader of the united states does that resonate though with his base his core supporters who still seem to support him no matter what yeah and and there's there's simply no telling the fact is is that the report when it comes out is is obviously going to have some sort of impact but over the course of the next two years there's going to continue to be a steady drumbeat of stories and of investigations into what he's done so there's no telling what the what the cumulative effect of all of these stories is going to be on his base at the at the end of his first term. but.

meanwhile a large portion of the rest of the american public is deeply concerned we'll have to wait and see what happens victoria we thank you for joining us on al-jazeera thank you donald trump says the u.s. will remain vigilant against iceland continue fighting the armed group wherever it operates until it's finally defeated the president's comments come after us back forces declared victory about whose. territory in syria jamal sale reports from beirut. this was the moments i so lost its last piece of territory in syria kurdish fighters hoisting their flag declaring that the our now we control or that . our forces have raised our flags in booze and have declared the end of this so called cully faith in north and syria this victory could have been a sheep not for the grace sacrifices of our brave martyrs. within hours of victory

ceremony was held in blues and the u.s. special envoy on syria it was there alongside kurdish fighters from the u.s. army has been supporting this critical milestone in the fight against isis delivers a crushing strategic blow and underscores the unwavering commitment of our local partners and the global coalition to defeat isis. the self declared caliphate which one span swathes of syria and iraq has eventually been refused to the town of but whose as it was unable to withstand the might of the u.s. led coalition which bombed it from the skies and the onslaught on the ground of a variety of groups including the kurdish led syrian defense forces the us the af and the turkish back to free syria army. the taking the boos from ice all came just hours after the white house issued a statement announcing the total defeat of the group but even though it no longer

controls land analysts say it's premature to clear the end of the group itself. so what next for syria in other parts of the country where i saw has been overrun the vacuum has been filled by different fighting groups close to the turkish border for instance formally eisel held territory is now under the control of the free syria army a group that anchor approves of while in member genoud but was kurdish fighters have taken over since eisel rose to prominence in two thousand and fourteen the international community slowly stopped talking about the syrian revolution and the struggle for freedom and the narrative became one of defeating i saw in combating terrorism and that's helped us that survive the presence of i saw also discourage many countries from supporting armed opposition groups in the syrian civil war now that i saw no longer controls any territory inside syria the question is will the international community refocus attention on the atrocities committed against the

syrian people by the us or the government and its allies. beirut. emergency services are air lifting thirteen hundred people from a cruise ship at risk of being grounded off the rocky norwegian coast the viking sky sent a mayday call after it encountered engine problems on bad weather victoria the reports. it was meant to be a relaxing cruise. that passengers on the bike and sky say it ended in a terrifying ordeal. the fact that. the ship suffered engine failure in stormy conditions of norway's west coast on saturday afternoon as it drifted towards rocky ground the captain sent out a mayday signal the call to novel is it is clear that it's a serious situation when a cruise ship with over thirteen hundred passengers is in one of northern europe's

worst waters they've managed to anchor the boat so it's lying at rest they've also managed to start one engine there are four engines on board and now they want to start more so they can move themselves thanks strong winds and waves up to eight meters high cools windows to break and water to flow in the passages mostly from the united states in the united kingdom we're told to put on life jackets and wait for help. the bad weather meant rescuers were unable to use lifeboats to take them ashore. if helicopters were said to winch them one by one to safety the viking sky was more than halfway through a twelve day trip around the way and was shed you will too are right in britain on cheese day. it's a trip passengers say they'll never forget but for all the wrong reasons victoria gates and be out there still had on they always there are news hour demanding

a second bricks at referendum hundreds of thousands join the people's vote march in london. chechnya is helping former iceland members reintegrate into society and weeks off being released from prison a refugee footballer from the hurricane makes his return to the pitch as an australian citizen peter we'll have that story in sport. hello again it's good to have you back well here across china we're seeing plenty of rain across much of the country right now things are going to be improving patil we up here towards the north over the next few days take a look the forecast map here on sunday you can see widespread rain all the way from the coast up here across much of the central and north central areas we're on a very rainy day for you out here towards the east not looking too bad only into

the teens in terms of the temperature but for show we do expect to see more rain coming as that system makes its way a little bit more towards east temptress maybe coming up to about seventeen but the rain is coming into play there hong kong a nice day if you with a temperature of about twenty three degrees or here across much of the philippines we are looking at better conditions there where we are seeing the rain though is across parts of a laos as well as into bangkok that's going to be very heavy in most. thailand will be seeing rain particular down here towards full care we could be seeing more rain coming into your forecast as we go from sunday as well as into monday so we're watching that for you as well holtzman city about thirty four degrees as your forecast high and then as we go towards india well we are looking at those temperatures coming up before the monsoon sets in terms of the reaching into the mid to high thirty's with some locations maybe even hitting forty before kolkata attempt a few of thirty five degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar it is. used

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al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news our polls in thailand have opened in the first gen. elections since the twenty four thousand military more than fifty two million thais are eligible to elect five hundred members of parliament but critics say it is a truly democratic since the entire upper house is appointed by the military aid agencies say they're running out of time to reach survivors more than a week. to cross. more than seven hundred people have died and. at least one hundred thirty four full line herders have been killed. in an ethnic

militia. so voting in the first election since the twenty four thousand coup is underway right now but many say the process isn't truly democratic and here's why there are a total of seven hundred fifty seats in thailand's parliament a new constitution allows the military to appoint all members of the two hundred fifty strong senate this means only five hundred seats in the house of representatives are up for grabs now both the senate and the house will select the future prime minister and with the military are ready controlling all the senate seats pro-military parties need just one hundred twenty six seats that's a quarter of the house to reach the overall majority of three hundred seventy six in contrast opposition parties linked to exiled former prime minister talks and shinawatra need a landslide win of seventy five percent of the house seats to form a government that speak to david struck first he's a thai history expert he's joining us live from bangkok good to have you with us what's the most likely outcome of this election. i think i think

probably that the there's a number of parties that have pledged themselves to not form to join any military party and so the most likely outcome if i if i guess right is that the democratic parties will win a majority they may not get seventy five percent but they. they only need in order in order to form a government all they need is to have fifty one percent so it's likely that the democratic parties will win but the problem will come if the senate joining the house of representatives puts into place the present prime prime minister general. and that will cause some real problems because it will be a minority of the house of representatives putting in the prime minister that would be the problem and here's that you recently wrote this that there is

a grim acceptance that the election laws of the new constitution are designed to frustrate the will of the majority and of these legal obstructions prove inadequate then the military has other tricks up its sleeve what do you mean by that what tricks. well you know if the democratic parties do very well there are a number of cases that already are already in play that they could use to dissolve the party or put even put more of the the party member party leader of one of the democratic parties in jail so they could either dissolve the winner or the top two parties and then they would have a majority in the house maybe but it's unclear what will happen if whole party is is dissolved after the elections. was not absolutely clear on that we obviously have to wait and see what happens but let's just say if the anti military

parties win a popular vote the popular vote that is then to win accent does not discredit the legitimacy of the military on the election as a whole and what could be the repercussions of that well if i mean it is something of a. vote on whether the military. over the last four years is legitimate so this is their attempt to make this legitimate. and if they if they lose then you know they're going to be in a hot spot if they start dissolving parties if they put leaders of opposition parties into jail then you know they're going to have a real problem but you know this so this will be rolling out over the next two months before we can really see what's going to be what the outcome might be all right they had struck trust me thank you for speaking to us here in bangkok thank you thank you. now yell of us protesters were banned from certain areas of france

cities after violence broke out last weekend but still six of the streets for the nineteenth week in a row they were trader reports from paris. the yellow vest protesters were outnumbered by the police in paris according to official figures six thousand officers deployed with orders to show zero tolerance to any violence and a five thousand strong march to the sacro curb it passed without incident apart from them trying to tie a yellow vest around the basilica is just. what i saw today was very convivial and we found city buried again in the movement which is house warming compared to last week's events. in suspense this is how the soul of the yellow vests should the people who are speaking exchanging ideas trying to get more political yellow vests seem determined to make sure that their protests remains peaceful and that the reason they're protesting are valid and present

a manual macro must on their questions. their worst sporadic clashes when the demonstrators dispersed but on those significant scale. across the rest of france so the picture was not so peaceful. and nice a seventy two year old woman was knocked to the ground during a police charge and had to be treated to head wounds which were bleeding heavily. and you momentarily a police were forced to use tear gas to try and disperse protesters throwing cans and bottles at them. nevertheless the new police tactics were described as mission accomplished by the french government is all the they've been course our instructions for film this was did and they built order to be maintained and prevented fings from getting i would offend. the biggest show of force was on the seans elisei the scene of seven hours of rioting and looting last saturday this time not a single yellow vests managed to penetrate the thick blue line surrounding the most

famous streets in france and the police only managed to do it because behind the scenes it was the army who were guarding many public buildings david chaytor al jazeera paris italy has become the first g seven country to endorse china's belton road initiative the agreement was reached on saturday during presidential campaigns three day trip to italy the belgian road initiative is aimed at boosting beijing's economic and political reach critics say it will let china gain control of strategically sensitive infrastructure italy needs more trade and investment as its economy is going through with third recession in a decade the un human rights council has condemned israel's excessive force against demonstrators of the gaza border friends it follows a report that said israeli soldiers may have committed war crimes while using live ammunition against unarmed protesters almost two hundred palestinians were killed during demonstrations in gaza last year every week palestinian prisoners have been

gathering along the border fence to demand the right to return to their ancestral lands occupied by israel. and dozens of druze arabs have gathered in the occupied golan heights to protest the u.s. president's announcement supporting israeli sovereignty over the region they carry syrian flags somehow the cards of syrian president bashar assad's an estimated twenty two thousand people of the druze religious minority live in the occupied golan heights. the annual american israel public affairs committee conference is set to begin in washington on sunday a pac is a powerful lobby group and a number of us political leaders are scheduled to speak at the event it comes at a time of unprecedented pro israel measures by the trump of ministration as mike hanna explains. it's a close relationship like none before president trump has repeatedly made clear his support of israel reversing decades of u.s. policy by moving the u.s.

embassy to jerusalem and most recently recognizing israeli sovereignty over the golan heights his decision to unilaterally tear up the nuclear deal with iran another move that delighted israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who sometimes was at a loss for words in proclaiming his gratitude president. and just made history i called him i thanked him on behalf of the people of israel he did it again congress too has played its role in recent days a bipartisan bill introduced in the house denouncing efforts to boycott israel as incompatible with a two state solution despite this there are clear signs of a potential split among democrats with regard to israel new representative omar controversially implied that israel was buying supporting congress

a claim she subsequently withdrew but not before an intense debate among members of the democratic party caucus. the first palestinian american representative in congress russia to try it out in her voice in cautioning against unconditional support for israel. these new positions in the party gaining some traction a number of democratic presidential contenders have announced they will not attend the conference. senior democratic party leaders like house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer will take part in the conference. at issue the votes of jewish americans in twenty twenty in the last election donald trump who just over twenty percent of the jewish vote as opposed to the nearly eighty percent cast for hillary clinton a statistic president trump is clearly intent on reversing to the extent of labeling democrats anti semitic the democrats are very much going to be anti israel

there's no question about that and it's a disgrace that i don't know what's happened to them but they are totally and by israel frankly i think they are entitled to your comments that may resonate in israel with president trump supporters bolstering the prime minister's chances in next month's election but it will be a concern for an organization with a slogan connected for good one that traditionally has been staunchly bipartisan in politics both home and abroad my kind of zero washington hundreds of thousands of people have marched through central london calling for a second breck's that referendum after three years of negotiations it's still unclear how or when the u.k. should leave the european union for many protesters in the capital it's the biggest political crisis in a generation sunnier gago reports from london. they bought central london

to a standstill at a time when the government is power lies by brics it this was supposed to be the week when the u.k. would have begun its divorce from the european union instead. there is more uncertainty more waiting and more anger and the forty eight percent of britons who voted in the referendum three years ago to remain in the u.k. are increasingly exasperated this wasn't what they were promised this was a campaign based on lies and i think people. leaving the european union were actually means was politicians from across the spectrum called for the government to arrange another referendum echoing the demonstrators concerned that the deadlock whether you. voted for europe you know to leave the bush approach will fall to you support i think we could all agree that the talks were being forced on the national interest filmmakers so poor and rich because we cut the strongest make it

a more divided not more you know it. came from all over britain all against the very idea of bricks and given the strength the feeling on show here it's very difficult to see how this can be reconciled when and even if it happens i wanted to remain because i'm european i'm one of a cloud and i want to stay one of a club i don't want us to be little britain. there is a lot riding on what happens over the next few days now the prime minister to resign may face extra time to push through her deal she is facing the political fight of her life one but she may not survive may has blamed british m.p.'s for the bricks and obstacles and that has cost us support for another attempt at a vote on ho withdrawal agreement the marchers insist that nothing is a done deal britain is and will see. of a political crisis not seen in decades there is

a political stalemate it is impossible to predict what happens next but opposition to it here is alive and kicking die any time soon. al-jazeera london kazakhstan has officially renamed its capital norful top on and on or if the results are by a who unexpectedly resigned this president on tuesday on friday dozens of opposition supporters were arrested as they protested against the name change they also say the former president is planning a dynastic succession lining up his daughter to take over after almost thirty years in power the veteran leader called for a new generation to take over the vast oil and gas rich country not our by i will remain head of the national security council the ruling party. but i view it very negatively because the name is done there is a brown and i think it is not right it's all we have no salt on the street no salt on university and now the capital city i think that is. against renaming

us down to your sultan because a stone is a world brand everyone knows the standard for next what twenty seventeen and we always see the international so much later we are happy that they named the capital after the first president and this will stay in history for the next generation to my grandchildren nearly one hundred women and children once part of feisal have been brought home to the russian region of chechnya russians were one of the largest groups of foreign fighters to join the armed group government policy now only repatriates children but still some are trying to reunite their families suffer some reports on the regional capital grozny. that was pregnant with her third child when she and her family crossed the border from turkey to join eisel she says they were lured by videos betraying a land of pure islam but found torture war and oppression instead fearing reprisals from eisel she doesn't want to show her face. there was a lot of injustice there

a lot of evil they not only tortured others those who were not from my school they were torturing that we do schooling there that's why the place fell apart it cannot be called islamic state things that took place there do not exist in islam after sadat's husband was killed she managed to contact chechen operatives and was put on a flight home where she became part of a deal radicalization program and is carefully watched she was one of the last women allowed to return the russian government now only repatriate children much good it is spear of hundreds of parents who come from all over russia to chechnya urging the authorities to bring back their daughters richest in the challenge to the it's harder to stay hopeful for the third year there's no news about the kids the last phone call fatima received from her daughter was in february two thousand and seventeen visit i was in mosul which.