we're going to talk about that but as we go towards thursday going to be seeing that air of low pressure make its way towards western russia and things start to clear up a little bit we do have a isolated areas of pockets of rain right across the region nothing too bad but we are going to be seeing still some lower clouds across much of the region too well here across the west unfortunate for paris you did have a nice day there on wednesday twenty one degrees but now coming down to about fourteen degrees as we go towards thursday with rain in the forecast there well cross the northwestern part of africa we are talking about clouds here across morocco but as we go towards the end of the week those clouds really begin to expand and we also get some rain out of it anywhere from iraq over here towards parts of algeria we are going to see in calls for showers in algiers could be seeing some rain as well which when you went to greece there tunis we do expect to see some rain in your forecast the temperature of twenty four.

top of the top stories here it. read israel is president says he'll prosecute those involved in what he described as an attempted coup meanwhile the opposition leader

. has called for more protests on wednesday he claims the president doesn't have the support of the armed forces it's. a standoff between protesters and the military in sudan continues sudan's ruling military council there's also protesters not to take the lower into their own hands the opposition movement there is accusing the army of clinging to power. a sixth round of talks between the taliban and the u.s. is start here in qatar both sides are trying to find a framework for peace in afghanistan. u.s. president donald trump is considering declaring the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization that could bring sanctions against the group and any companies or individuals who have dealings with it a senior official in washington said egypt's president abdul fattah el-sisi urged president trump to make the move during

a visit last month mike hanna reports. an implacable enemy of the muslim brotherhood receives the warmest of welcomes at the white house egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi has long been pressing president trump to take action against the organization which along with the liberal opposition has been the target of a massive crackdown by cc's forces in egypt this after the muslim brotherhood won egypt's first democratic election in two thousand and twelve. before being ousted in a military takeover the following year the white house choosing to support the autocrat rather than the democratically elected whistlin brotherhood he deposed the president has consulted with his national security team and leaders in the region who share his concern says the press secretary in an e-mail and this designation is working its way through the internal process among those in the region clearly not

consulted president earlier one in turkey who's a strong backer of the muslim brotherhood all countries like to near zero and morocco where the organization is an integral part of the democratic process in both tunisia and in morocco. the muslim brotherhood affiliated parties are represented in the parliaments and their major players and. to the extent that they fall under this designation it would be common possible for the us government to have diplomatic relations with them it would be hard for them to have contact with them allies that are likely to have been consulted include israel and saudi arabia that sites cut a support for the muslim brotherhood as a reason for the ongoing blockade of that country. but the apparent to peace meant of countries like saudi arabia may be only one reason for the trumpet ministrations deliberations another is domestic the decision to outlaw the brotherhood would play

well to president trump's political base which is deeply distrustful of any movement that features the word muslim. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. iran's leaders say they're prepared to fight for their right to sell oil in the face of tough u.s. sanctions battle ready warships and patrolling the high traffic strait of hormuz but the reigning in official saying if they count sell oil through the strait no one will the same measure all the ripples from the strait of hormuz. was shot to as the deadline approaches for oil waivers to expire there's been an increase in the frequency of defined statements from iranian leaders attacking u.s. sanctions in a speech into one on tuesday iranian president hassan rouhani made a promise on. america in the next few months will see that we will continue to

export oil they may close one path but there isn't just one tool there are six other doors they're not even aware of we must export our all powerfully in the face of u.s. pressure. so for iran has responded to u.s. economic pressure with rhetoric at home and diplomacy abroad but since the u.s. said it will not extend sanctions waivers to let iran sell oil to its biggest clients iranian leaders have started hinting at slowing traffic in the strait of hormuz an estimated twenty percent of the world's oil passes through these waterways the mere mention of the name can move markets and raise concerns in global capitals while leaders say if iran can't use distrait to sell its oil no one can they also say they intend to keep the shipping lanes near their shores wide open in everyone's best interest but behind balanced remarks in the waters near iran's southern coast are battle ready boats this is as close as we can get to an iranian warship the navy takes the security of its vessels very seriously especially around the waters of the strait of hormuz where boats like this have the

job of policing traffic in the waterway but also looking out for american warships . at any time there are dozens of cargo ships visible on the horizon giving a sense of how much traffic these waterways see on a daily basis. the message here is iran considers itself in charge of these waters in the middle of all this is the small but strategic hormuz island in the seventeenth century it was home to a fort for the portuguese navy one local guide says it's still the perfect place to monitor and control traffic in the strait some living here worry a conflict could make their quite island a flashpoint already going much yes we are concerned if it happens nothing will remain here families and lives will be destroyed he knew and others doubt it will come to that the national command of god namely that such father hasn't been any conflict here as long as i remember i don't have any concerns maybe some people do

but as far as i can remember nothing has happened to make a sparrer. this coastline doesn't have any hotels and it's not teeming with any beach goers the scenic island remains largely in developed perhaps by design we're at the southernmost point of hormuz island now and the waves washing up against this rocky beach that water is from the strait of hormuz this is the strait just here and it is a very picturesque setting there are tourists that are coming through and buses it is a very nice place but make no mistake for the iranian government this place serves the function of a pressure point backed into a corner iran's leaders say they will respond in the u.s. will be to blame for whatever comes next the point is centuries old places like this as a reminder that they faced foreigners at their shores before and if pushed they can do it again zain but the old zero hormuz island in the strait of hormuz off of iran southern coast. japan's new emperor and now he has addressed the nation for the

first time soon after ascending to the throne and the empress says he will rule in accordance with the constitution and what to world peace in japan and across the world he replaces his father and married. emperor akihito who on tuesday became the first to abdicate from the throne in two hundred years wayne hay has the latest now from tokyo. it was perhaps fitting that the gloomy where that of choose day when the abdication ceremony took place for emperor akihito gave way to sunshine on wednesday for two very brief ceremony is to welcome in the new era of emperor another heater the first ceremony involve the transfer the handing down of imperial regalia ancient treasures that are handed from emperor to emperor in a second brief ceremony as well we heard from the emperor for the first time speaking publicly and then comments from the prime minister shinzo are there

welcoming in the new era on behalf of the japanese people so what can we expect from this new emperor not a veto is fifty nine years of age the first japanese emperor to be educated overseas having spent two years at oxford university in the united kingdom his wife imprisoned muster colson spent time studying at harvard and oxford university she is a former diplomat so potentially they bring a uniquely global international perspective to the imperial family that we haven't seen before but i think overall we can expect that emperor not hito will very much follow in the footsteps of his father as far as a an official in through meant ceremony we won't see that until october that will be a much larger elaborate affair involving invited international guests and then the emperor and empress will parade through the streets of tokyo in the back of an open top car. israel is expected to demolish more palestinian homes the high court has

ruled that sixty houses in occupied east jerusalem should be knocked down palestinians say israel's trying to settle as many jews as possible harder abdulhamid reports. it's been several. days but he still can't come to terms with his loss and is a better car knew the house would be destroyed he received a demolition order saying it was illegally built but the document didn't specify when it would happen. the demolition old is a reply to only on us palestinians they are allowed to do whatever they want they can put up a prefab house where they want this is what puzzles me why do you think they don't give us construction permits or why because they want us to get fed up and leave the area his house is one of sixty others threatened in this in one neighborhood of east jerusalem diminished capacity says they were all built without permission people living in some way live on the edge of jerusalem's old city which

palestinians consider as part of the capital of their own future state now there is a feeling among many that over the past eighteen months israel has been carrying a more aggressive policy when it comes to demolition orders and many would tell you that that's ever since president some they cleared tourism as the capital of israel . we development plans for the area we're drawn back in the one nine hundred seventy s. a large part of said when has been designated to be as a natural park so diminished the palette he says construction is forbidden to tarski is a human rights activist he says the plans also include renaming syl when as the city of david sometime in the future but that's not all the plan has different stages the first stage is freeze and don't. just in construction but also israel has is very aggressively trying to change places like say one word like

twenty five thousand palestinians leave it wants to change the character to be israeli jewish and there are many aggressive moves by settlers in the area the first israeli settlers to move into over this house that was in the late one nine hundred ninety s. there are now about a thousand two hundred settlers living in the area but bad muscle on the nerves of all that was born in sin one and has seen the demographical changes in his neighborhood over the past thirty years both in and of itself it come a lot look at the cameras there are at every corner when i go up with my wife or even when i'm at home i feel i'm in a reality show like big brother when they go out to have protection and i'm not to move until they pause and they say drusilla is united it's not israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu newly reelected and with the backing of president donald trump is in the process of forming what's expected to be the most right wing government yet in israel's history palestinians fear that will translate into more

pressure on them but at the head meet in occupy clusters of them. take a look at the top stories here it out there that is why. president. an attempted coup meanwhile the opposition leader is calling for more protests some wednesday. tuesday saw some of the most violent clashes between the opposition and the supporters of president. a lot of violence on the streets but in the end not much has changed president nicolas maduro remains in power and he appeared late on tuesday on television from the presidential palace saying that they were able to defeat what he called an imperialist big move on part

of the united states who is controlling what you can see there being a puppet of the opposition. the standoff between protesters in the military and sudan continues as both sides remain at old saver how the country should be governed the military council which is currently in charge has warned the protests is not to take the law into their own hands but they accuse the army of clinging to power and they want a civilian government. any round of talks between the taliban and the u.s. is choose to begin here in qatar the u.s. state department has said its voice zalmay khalilzad is in doha to meet representatives of the afghan group it's a sixth round of talks between the two sides who are trying to find a framework for peace in afghanistan. the white house says it's planning to designate the muslim brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization this could bring sanctions against the group which

says it will continue to work in line with its moderate and peaceful thinking. japan's new emperor and now though he has addressed the nation for the first time since ascending to the throne the empress says he will rule in accordance with the constitution and what towards peace in japan and across the world. all right europe today those are the very latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera i'll be back in about thirty minutes with a four news bulletin but coming up next here it is there. al-jazeera. for you. mozambique is hit by two powerful cyclons in just six weeks and aid workers are

struggling to help millions of people they say not enough money is being pledged so is the world ignoring another disaster in africa or have done is lost interest in helping this is it's a story. hello and welcome to the program on iran con mozambique is reeling from two of the strongest storms ever to hit the country aid efforts were already stretched after cyclonic in march which killed more than six hundred people and then on thursday cycling kenneth made landfall killing another thirty eight and the forecast is for more heavy rain which will worsen the flooding over the next few days the u.n. says around two million people gently need drinking water food and medicine but international donors have been slow to respond if at all one senior u.n.

official says if this happened anywhere else in the world the response would be very different. we are in an incredibly difficult situation right now so the response to cycling and i was just over twenty five percent funded when tropical cycling kennett hit so already we had maxed out everything that we could do with the funding that we had available for a tropical cyclone it died then we have a new site plan and let's be clear this is not something that is a small addition to an existing crisis this is a new crisis if this had appeared anywhere else in the world it would be a whole new response and that's how we're treating it here it needs new funding and we need that desperately we need it now. let's bring in our guests nicholas finn is on skype from pemba one of the worst hit areas is save the children's response team leader in mozambique in johannesburg david not seen it on the stand to nationals research for southern africa and on

skype from florence the heart to tell a more specialist on peace and security law and governance in africa welcome to you all i want to begin with you nicholas finney and pemba clearly two psych loans in six weeks has meant that all of the idea organizations not just yours very stretch what are your immediate needs right now. yeah well thanks thanks for that yeah this is a really tricky situation our immediate needs right now are to respond as quickly as we can with emergency relief materials to those who have been impacted by cycling kenneth struck on thursday we have to do that without bringing capacity out of the cycle of die response which is underway in central mozambique. cyclon that landed here on thursday a really bulldozed coastline of north mozambique in a place where they're not used cyclons people weren't so had for this including the

humanitarian community we've been really stretched response so far first priority get some emergency shelter meet materials on the ground second priority get some food on the ground third priority try to create a safe and clean environment for people but it's taking time the logistical hurdles are massive at the moment we've got bad rain we've had flooding following the cycloid roads have been blocked helicopters couldn't fly. i could give you a long list maybe i stopped there. to hear some discussion is you do you have enough money. is that a problem fully absolutely not we didn't even have enough my phone died the u.n. appeal for that cycle stands at twenty eight percent of its target currently this

in comparison to the disasters on a similar scale means that mozambique has been hard done by by the international community is getting less than it deserves and it's a country that needs a lot of help in this situation so the site when it dies appeal was already in a bad condition and we were very worried about meeting the basic needs that what now needs to happen is whilst that problem is solved in laos more money comes in in central mozambique starting up a new operation in response to cycle in kenya there is no appeal target set by the united nations yet that's still being developed and the floods are still unfolding so this situation in the north of mozambique in cabo delgado and nonpoor province is is evolving by the day. it is up to the international community to raise all of this so you make the point that the pledging levels haven't been discussed yet those targets haven't been signed yet i want to bring in. more in florence

mozambique his aids perhaps unique in all of the countries in africa like a guest from florence said in that they're not used to this type of disaster hits in that country however this is much more than just the type of disaster of this at the country there is some sort of don't know fatigue that is going on right now a lot of people simply overwhelmed by the amount of crises happening in africa over the amounts of years i mean we're talking since the one nine hundred fifty s. the international community has been sending aid to africa and they've getting very frustrated that eight there are issues of corruption in various countries of nepotism of aid not reaching the right people how much of this is donor fatigue and how much of it is simply the fact that there isn't money out there to give to a disaster like this well. i think clearly. not from. our side not.

all are. but. ultimately hard to. do on this government fareed. if this ultimately and send throat is out of this is it governance fair i've lost. and then it must be going to the government and other governments it's our government our feet are. aware of that the zoster match runs out. of africa and the far off luck. in eastern. africa and. the patient to the east in terms of predicting preventing responding and even necessary abducting to the situation all these kind of results that would have. this similar

disaster has happened ten years ago. and sadly in two thousand and one listens to take out of army prepared in terms of responding to this the stakes ask for the sense that government is out to be honest also look for the least these assets turning. a crisis a human security crisis where it is displacement because in this it the second of course even though you didn't come out on solidarity they don't know how many gas get that out situations when african countries including me would not be able to respond to effectively even if you did have predicted and trying to prevent some of the disasters and even days then he could be your enemies cost in the african union and how the. united nations the you and international community has

to shows only unfortunately this level of the little slowly dying he is not his last. thought of the past and to get wild caught the need to go. you know more. talk more. about organizations. all the underpinning about it is i'm sure you know you're going to see the european union on the us which it is it is all you know now cause they are most interested in continuing migration any costs they are putting out on migration or i would. call these are these crime. let me just take it from johannesburg david you've been listening to both of guests that a number of years ago i was speaking to somebody from the department for international

development the british organization that helps foreign countries and there was an enormous amount of frustration that a lot of the money that they were giving seemingly was disappearing and there was a number of cases of corruption being brought against many places in africa has had an impact on donors giving aid is there a frustration that actually the aid might not be getting to the people that need it most that it might just be disappearing into the coffers of the very rich. and italy the behavior of the muslim become government has not necessarily inspired confidence in the international community among daughters in particular it also has not inspired confidence in mozambique among its own citizens we can recall recently the former minister of finance in mozambique. was arrested in south africa with him

a rest why aren't by the united states in the wake of the two point two billion scandal of secret debts illegal debts that were contracted without the permit. of the parliament which is what the constitution requires so unfortunately the government has not inspired confidence and if you're familiar with the media in mozambique the recent a single day that passes without stories of misappropriation of funds from donors also from the taxpayers and without you know those stories are not coming into the surface so unfortunately that is the reality. that's what's going on in mozambique the other thing that i would like to hear in this conversation at the preexisting conditions prior to the arrival of these natural disasters

if we take a look at a cup delgado cup there god do is the province with the highest rate of might have mud houses and other structures built on precarious material we also have large portions of the population isolated in villages that are not easy to reach. it's very difficult to cover you know what the areas in rural areas because there's not infrastructures in the roads are poor with their communication systems are poor and you also have to keep in mind that the epicenter of this disaster god is exactly in the areas where you know of the extremist talks of been taking place and where the government has been prohibiting the media and journalists from reaching out and report on what's going on

so the information is trickling in but i can guarantee you that there is a lot of destruction a lot of death probably injury that has taken place that we still don't know because the government hasn't been allowing the media and journalists to go to this area to report on what's going on your list many incredible let me just bring you in here nicholas this we've heard a lot of you know there is the government restricting this there are african governments that perhaps aren't doing themselves any favors by restricting the media by not putting attention on it and by not dealing with this nepotism and this corruption that seems to plague any natural disaster that happens and that's a real issue but i just want to ask you this question where are we when it comes to international donors clearly there is money if you take a look at the case of notre dame in france when up and down within days billions of

dollars were raised through the private sector for that particular disaster yet here we are in africa another disaster people force or it could have been managed much more better yet the money isn't. absolutely and i want to just so so come back to one of the points that the second speaker made you know clearly mozambique's been affected by. it and cited disasters in the past and there is some level of preparedness there but let's just be clear on what's just happened in the last two months six weeks ago mozambique was hit in hit by the strongest cyclists ever to hit a country in the southern hemisphere in terms of story corps records last thursday they were hit again by well it's now leap frogging the last one as the strongest cycler ever to hit a country in the southern hemisphere so we're talking about super litigious we're not talking about a regular occurrence that you know should be run of the mill for

a government to prepare and respond to whatever the state of. the government service is generally we're talking about an unprecedented disaster which is not been seen on recent historical record before and we've got to ask ourselves is this climate change in action the climate scientists would say well one of the predictions would be that they might not be more cyclons but they might be stronger and they might strike out of the normal season. and they might also strike in different places that's exactly what's happened here in capital garda and i hope the scientific community can control a conclusion on this very soon what marina in florence and let me bring you in let me bring you in her insurance we've heard that there are you know a number of reasons why this is taking place and why it's unprecedented both climate change and the fact that the government has actually failed but it's

a bit more than the reason that there is a frustration on behalf of the donors to give money to african countries because they feel that they are corrupt and the money isn't getting there that there is an issue here isn't. yes i think that is in my opinion lists in terms of levels of the sponsor that is not austrian then the continuity of the government bows in terms of access to media into the software. com to believe do we know from history beat extreme. drop's that calls in the hundreds of columns if in some cases of the medians of people affected in a different process where you how accountable government at least if use the problems the difficulties otto i notice it and also the international economy he takes care of that in terms of. putting down at least the patient. on the

crisis and that is us now in this case we don't have that kind of even prepared. us and without that kind of media coverage the government even announcing these high immediate often this crisis outlines then you have a problem now. that being say the international community is not at all needy in the sense that we have some years ago in this nation all so the. two countries begone climate change best so you don't get out and we have a lot of them who were fission. only has no question is about human security affected by climate change and this is an example where the national economy the most likely face and the compromises you make with

a different kind of baby has to suck or a different. china is a i mean one case of migration you may be another down. and how american companies reacted to this you don't know how that is a level of down that is short. or out and the damage done he also deeply established for is not working to a large extent but i'll admit it made me say this or there might be even the most of the got this was sounding your mozambique's government put an end of the moon be kind of government have done this there have been these kind of. home because this is a. government not the reason how many want it and let me bring in david let me bring in david let's say and ahead is this then a combination of racism towards african countries and frustration with african

governments. it's a it's difficult it's difficult to tell you know whether you know we're talking about the problem of racism but let us consider a few other factors here there's been a narrative of africa rising. and in that in that narrative there is this story.