due to make sure she gets to do her job there were several stunning points sammy in this press conference today by a young elite now it's not surprising to hear her be critical of what's going on in myanmar and critical of the crimes that she alleges were committed by me in march army against the rainbow and other ethnic groups inside of me anymore but today she really want to stop further she talked about how the rangar and other ethnic groups are still being prosecuted persecuted inside of me and more that the destabilization inside me and more is affecting the region because there's been an exodus of at least 1500000 refugees who are now in neighboring countries most of them of course in neighboring bangladesh and she also talked specifically about the news that came that emerged yesterday that the u.s. was going to be imposing sanctions on 4 military leaders in me and more and yankee least said we're going to take a listen in the 2nd to what she had to say but she said that simply doesn't go far enough it's better late than never i just want to know why it took

the u.s. so wrong after other countries and i and others have raised this issue if it is listed as 6. general us that should be on that should be sentient immediately. so it doesn't go far enough. it should go further. doesn't go far enough patently there is still bulldozing entire villages in 2019 looks like it doesn't do anything not just enough me and mars miller in military has consistently denied allegations that they are perpetrating acts of genocide acts of ethnic cleansing against either they were hanged or other ethnic groups of course i've spoken to hundreds of ringer refugees that would refute those claims that i've talked about some of the worst abuses that i've ever heard about as a journalist but what we heard today specifically from young uli was that this conflict between some ethnic groups and armed ethnic groups like the are

a common army the conflict that they are engaged in with the top of me and mars armed forces that this is severely affecting that area and that there are thousands of civilians in that area that are that are really caught in the crossfire and the things are getting much worse for them of course she spoke earlier you heard her talk about this internet blackout that was imposed in that area in late june and that is ongoing and she has said repeatedly today that because of that it is very difficult for her to get more information about the violations that are going on the human rights violations and also how badly people are affected by the monsoon season in that area state of affairs thank you so much for covering it for us. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including. the world health organization declares the about al break in the democratic republic of congo a public emergency of international concern. we'll tell you about

a suspected arson attack on animation studios in japan and it's well we'll hear what this boxing legend had to say when his laces rival compared him to a dinosaur. the u.s. president stepped up his attacks on 4 democratic congress women of color while addressing supporters at the rally his racist tweets telling them to go home of drawn condemnation both in the u.s. and abroad the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt described the comments as totally offensive our white house correspondent kimberly halkett reports from greenville north carolina. historic greenville north carolina is a southern town with a diverse economy centered around health care and education so it's not surprising there are many here unhappy with their president's tweets targeting 4 female

congress women of color saying if they don't like the united states they can leave . with. no matter how distasteful many believe donald trump might be across town at his 1st campaign rally since announcing his re-election bid defended his attacks on the. launch new attacks on congresswoman. she looks down with contempt on the hard working american saying that ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country.

omar has a history of launching vision anti-semitic screen. omar responded on twitter to the crowd chanting center back with a poem from american civil rights activist maya angelo still supporters he insisted he's helped communities of color by lowering unemployment. failed vote in the house of representatives to impeach him as a victory and a wanted. polls show a majority of u.s. voters twitter attacks on the congresswoman as an american but polls also show most conservatives support the president's controversial stay. 8 minutes so expect trump to employ more not less race baiting in his reelection campaign as he vilifies the female democratic lawmakers many now call the squad terms tactic of labeling

a group of female congress women is vicious socialist the left wing cranks appears to be part of a broader strategy designed to use american pride 7 to not only hold on to a base of support but also win new voters can really help get al jazeera greenville north carolina. and steve clemons is editor at large at the american political news site the hill joins us now from washington d.c. good to have you with us i'd like you to take a step back and imagine would it have been conceivable 10 years 20 years ago covering even the most difficult parts points in american presidential history to imagine a presidential rally screaming racist comments. well i hate to say this but we've been here before 40 years ago when george wallace was running and. there was an attack against him at that point he didn't win the

republican nomination but he was an overt racist and he was someone who resisted the desegregation of schools in the south so many people don't remember george wallace i do because this is what it is doing well this didn't become the president of the usa didn't even become know many of the republican. is that kind of but that kind of race you know i've never seen a president like this in our modern era but but what i'm going to say is donald trump is george wallace elected and so we've seen this strain of pug nation dark nationalism this disdain for others in our politics before it's been there but it's always been fringe and this fringe element has now become mainstream in the republican party and it just portends an awful election season ahead and i'm very worried because this you know we've read about the rise of fascism madeline

albright has written about the rise of fascism recently and we see that a lot of the elements we've been around this corner before in the 1930 s. in europe and so i think we need to look at history we need to look at what what george wallace was about we need to look at the rise of fascism in the in these other circumstances and we have a president the united states today who is overtly dividing americans remember in the last election he got 30 percent of the hispanic vote it seems to me unlikely he will get that that level of support again he may but it depends on what people's priorities are and right now you're seeing a lot of people turn a blind eye to the most overt racism we've ever seen from the white house ever in our modern history someone who has lived and worked in the us i know there are plenty of americans who don't identify with that kind of sentiment there's plenty of. americans who believe in the same sort of humanitarian human values the own good people do what does this say about the polarization this is having on american

politics and indeed society. i think it's huge i think we're in shock right now seeing what is evolving looking at our neighbors and wondering if they're part of this movement or not and and i think it's created a very uncomfortable part of america now i was just writing a piece that you know let's remember that many of these people. felt demeaned i remember interviewing vice president joe biden when he was vice president said his own party the democratic party had become a party of snobs that they looked down on working people who had been left behind by the gains of the u.s. economy and so if you weren't part of the new york washington liberal establishment or not part of the i.t. boom on the west coast you are somehow a lesser person and it is out of that that i think has become profound anger and

frustration that has fueled this this resentment of people who are immigrants to the country and american citizens and also what we've seen on the national border so this polarization is something we've seen in american politics before but never to this degree also if i could invite you to look at it from an international perspective america is often seen as a role model a standard bearer when you have this level of political discourse does it normalize and set a precedent for other world leaders. well i think it does i think it gives permission if you will to other world leaders to in on al-jazeera discuss this frequently it gives permission to do a lot of things that gets permission to demean the minority political factions in a in a in a democracy even as we see those institutions of democracy crumble but nonetheless it gives permission and says it's ok to see what's happening in turkey or hungary

or many other places in the country where you're having autocratic illiberal regimes grow out of democracies what once were democracies we see the harassment of the detention and even the murder of journalists which are a key part of open societies today and i think that what that donald trump is giving permission to the harassment of journalists and so i think that is giving permission because the united states has traditionally played a role usually it was a role of beacon on the hill as ronald reagan said of a place that was committed to people's basic human rights committed to civil justice and the pluralism that is part of democracy and so in the past republicans and democrats have both stood for those those principles and that seems to be coming undone today and on the international stage i look i'm worried about the international hate i'm worried about the lessons to school kids i'm worried about where they getting you know permission to bully people who are unlike them in the

classes are they getting permission to be violent against others that are unlike them this is this is complicated at the very core of our classrooms our workplaces and so it's both domestic and of course international and i thank you so much for your thoughts on that steve clemons thank you sam. british m.p.'s have just made it more difficult for the next prime minister to push through a no deal bragg's it by suspending parliament a majority of m.p.'s have just voted for an amendment that will ensure parliament stays open in the run up to the october 31st deadline for braggs it joan how joins us live from london journos so they've basically further tied what is frankly to be the next prime minister boris johnson's hands right. yes exactly this is a crucial moment i think for the house of commons particularly for opponents of

a no deal breaks it these 2 amendments passed by a comfortable majority they're both pretty similar amendments including senior ministers abstaining in other words not voting with the government including the chancellor for the pam and and all of this happening as the conservative party leadership contest and does its final days boris johnson all but assured of taking over from to reserve a next week and with his every public utterance johnson seems to be pushing this country further and further down the road towards a no deal breaker which many warned would be economically disastrous for this country and this was the last opportunity m.p.'s had before the summer recess to do anything about that now let me stress this does not rule out or prevent no deal all together that would require a positive act of parliament what it does is as you say sammy tie the government's hands it prevents them from prorogue parliament suspending it unilaterally as boris johnson is believed willing to try and do if they did leave rendering m.p.'s

helpless to prevent no deal from happening either deliberately or by default on october the 31st and it buys them time to try and take more decisive action later the specifics these amendments attached to a rather rather convoluted piece of legislation the northern ireland executive formation bill requiring minister to report back to parliament every 2 weeks on efforts to reestablish power sharing in northern ireland that report back must be debated under these amendments which requires m.p.'s to be sitting through october or at least for a fixed period in october during which m.p.'s may hope some of them to manage to wrestle back control of the business of the house of commons as they did and precedented earlier this year with the help of a willing speaker to try and lay that legislation that would. legislate against no deal altogether but that latter part of the plan has not been achieved here rather they've bought themselves time and so journal help us understand the picture now

parliament saying you can't suspend us parliament has previously said we won't accept no deal brags it and we know from the e.u. stated position at least they're not going to renegotiate dissolve this make another general election or another referendum ever so slightly more likely now. i mean it all sort of generally conspires in one of those or other of those 2 directions certainly the 1st big milestone of course is october the 31st that will be breaks it day unless an extension negotiated or unless a deal is reached there is of course the possibility of trying to renegotiate the existing deal to reason may feel that boris johnson seems to be closing down the room for maneuver on that all around the northern ireland backstop that seeks to prevent a hardboard on the island of ireland he laying down red lines that makes the renegotiation seem unlikely and a no deal more likely but under these circumstances now an extension does look

perhaps more likely and within the within the bounds of that extension given that the arithmetic here has not changed in parliament for a new prime minister boris johnson given that the likelihood of passing that deal looks less likely or as unlikely as it ever has well then the options must be whittled down either to a general election if this government cannot control command the confidence of the house or perhaps in the end be forced into a referendum a 2nd referendum on the question of. fascinating watching all of this thanks so much jonah. at least 30 people have been killed the more than 5000000 affected by monsoon rains and flooding in northeast india water levels are still rising in the states of us some and may go away the government fears large areas of the 2 states could be cut off the mohammad reports. on the brahmaputra river in northeast india

water levels are rising rivers have swelled to dangerous levels due to heavy rains and flooding in many areas of assam state more than a 1000 villages in a dozen districts are submerged millions have been affected and tens of thousands made homeless there's growing concern about the lack of food and water supplies some have been forced to move to higher ground. for the last 4 or 5 days people have to queue shelter in highlands with their cattle. in neighboring bihar state many of force navigate the muddy waters waist deep to get to safety. i'm taking my son back home the situation is dire the divertor group is also broken the roads up lots of the commuters stopped there is no way for people to escape from here except crossing like this there is no means provided by the government either we left our homes to save ourselves we left everything behind we just

managed to take some essential and i'll go the government says a relief operation is currently underway that i want 151000 people are in the relief camps we have. relief camps out of that 27 are the camps where the people are living and there are about 392 camps places where the distribution centers are there. it's the annual monsoon season in south asia but this year's rainfall has been especially heavy deadly floods have also hits neighboring bangladesh pakistan and nepal. pretty 100 ounces here. all right let's catch up with the heat wave right we've got the american hundreds over 100000000 people being affected by the sea wave that is developing across united states i want to show you how it's being set up because that's a big factor on how bad the system is going to be and how widespread it is going to be we have an area of high pressure here across the gulf coast and what that's

doing is bring a lot of moisture in the heat as well as the moisture that's how we get heat index how it feels how the heat feels on your skin and that's going to be the big problem over the next few days 150000000 people right now across united states are risk over the next 3 days because heat indexes that could go up to 44 degrees celsius this is going to go on through sunday i want to show you who's going to be affected 1st here on friday we're going to be seeing mostly in the central plains you can see dallas denver at $36.00 degrees as we go towards tomorrow that heat starts to shift a little bit more over here towards the central areas we're looking at chicago at $34.00 dallas at $35.00 washington at $37.00 then as we get towards the weekend then we're talking about the east coast take a look at what's happening here in new york temperatures rising to 37 degrees on sunday but when you factor in the heat index it's going to feel more like 4042 to 44 degrees so a lot of people that are traveling to all of these east coast cities be very

careful when you're making connections or you're staying in that city it is going to be extremely hot and extremely dangerous in those places. thanks so much kevin now still ahead on al-jazeera and support the young styles of also impressive gains by become that pre-season tour of the united states all the action coming up. education is struggling to keep pace often failing to prepare children for today's world. but some schools the changing the rules are getting out that they can and how they did. with but still missing results. like. giving our. rebel education early learning mexico on al-jazeera. algis you know we're close to god just to me to come down the

trial. is to lie on their expertise sneaks. mcalpin from their traditional music and down to adapt and survive the modern internet. brad just hands the dancers on how to see. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap on headlines iran's revolutionary guards of seized a foreign tanker they say was trying to smuggle oil the announcement was made

a few hours ago but the tanker was reportedly seized on sunday just south of la rock island in the strait of hormuz. the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar says the persecution of the rangar there is still going on she says villages have been burnt down in recent days she's been prevented from getting in to gather information. campaigns in britain have just made it more difficult for the next prime minister to push through a no deal breaker by suspending parliament they voted for an amendment that will ensure the parliament stays open in the run up to the october 31st deadline for breakfast. a suspected arson attack has an animation studio in japan has killed at least $33.00 paid for for hours firefighters searched the building hoping to find survivors they fear the death toll may rise catch up as a day and has more. the fire broke out thursday morning in this popular animation

production studio in kyoto fire and smoke in gulf the 3 story building as rescue teams searched for survivors in and there were some women inside the building firefighters had to break windows to pull them out. many were unable to escape with the rising death toll japan fears of this could become one of the deadliest fires in this recent history dozens were injured others are missing. if you cut it when the fire broke out about 70 people were inside the building so we checked the whereabouts of these people using their mobile phone contacts we also checked the number of the people who made it outside safely what's left of the building is also a crime scene the man in this video is a suspect he's accused of entering the studio employing a liquid onto the floor and igniting it while shouting dye he was arrested and taken to the hospital. he seemed to be in pain irritated and suffering he was also

angry and seemed resentful prime minister she's an abaya has called the fire to a polling for words he offered condolences to the victims and their families as the country tries to make sense of what's happened katia low possibly gone al-jazeera the body of the turkish diplomat shot dead in the northern iraqi city of a beer is being taken back home. costs a and 2 kurdish civilians were killed in the attack at the restaurant on wednesday sound and debate reports from baghdad it was just another meal at this local restaurant in their appeal the capital of iraq's northern kurdish region but soon after a turkish diplomat and his colleague sat down a gunman entered and opened fire. goodish intelligence sources believe multiple attackers were involved but only one carried out the killings the turkish deputy consul general was shot at point blank range and died instantly so far no one has

claimed responsibility iraq's foreign ministry has condemned the incident and kurdish authorities have launched an investigation the turkish president tweeted after the killing i condemn the heinous attack against our consular staff and their real i wish god's mercy for our personnel who were martyred we are continuing our initiatives with the local and iraqi authorities to find the perpetrators as soon as possible the turkish foreign minister says turkey is ready to assist. according to information we gathered a turkish diplomat stationed in our consulate was attacked by 3 people while she was eating lunch in a restaurant a colleague passed away make god have mercy on his soul. with borders extending to syria turkey and iran northern iraq has remained a complicated international battleground in the eastern part iranian forces have been targeting iran kurdish fighters while turkey has also been targeting kurdish separatists in northern iraq the kurdistan workers' party has denied responsibility

after speculation in turkish media since i think this defeat security has been relaxed in iraq's kurdish region many aid organizations run their operations from a real because the northern city is viewed as relatively secure but this attack on the turkish diplomatic team go through the fragility of security in iraq. baghdad well now natasha her name joins us live from. been speaking with eyewitnesses what kind of picture is coming together. sami witnesses are telling al-jazeera about a team of men who were well prepared and confidently perhaps even cavalierly carried out this is the nation of turkish diplomat osman cos say he was inside a turkish coffee shop in an upscale neighborhood in erbil wednesday afternoon unbeknownst to him he was being monitored by a man then witnesses say 2 men drove to the valet got out telling the attendant

they would be just a minute one man with a gun in each hand with inside the coffee shop and began shooting when 2 men at a nearby table customers attempted to hide they were shot as well we're now learning that the turkish diplomats bodyguard was able to fire off a shot he hit one of the suspects in the leg and that suspect left a trail of blood as all 3 of the men escaped no one has been arrested yet though immediately suspicion was cast toward the kurdish outlawed armed group called the p k k or kurdistan workers party they immediately within hours of the shootings denied involvement we spoke to an analyst he says it's an easy stereotype to blame the p.k. k. and that there are many groups including non kurdish turkish groups who might have

a vested interest in sabotaging the relationship between turkey and the kurdish regional government that relationship has substantial economic ties all right natasha one name from a view. me about outbreak in the eastern democratic republic of congo is now a public health emergency of international concern that announcement by the world health organization was made just days after the virus spread to the city of goma a major regional hub on the border with rolanda has claimed at least 1600 lives in the region in the past year catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. after hours of deliberations by the imagine sea committee of the world health organization over the status of a born in the democratic republic of congo members have decided it requires a vigorous international response there is concern about them from. getting away. so far no cases were affected in this city.

these appointments so there has been a recurrence of the tense transformation in beneath that of the geographic expansion. and 500 kilometers. or define for. the meeting was called after preacher where travel to bhutan book about 200 kilometers north of the city of goma to pray for the sick tested positive on his arrival back he died this week at the border between goma and random health workers taking no chances randa has already told citizens to avoid travelling to goma. the w.h.o. committee has warned against closing borders and restricting trade. government officials say many of those who came in contact with the preacher have been

vaccinated and it's unlikely will spread farther but there are still concerns is a key. i can't afford to be afraid because if i'm scared of carrying someone or get no clients that means no money so why should i eat. what will be do now children because of this i'm very watered. more than a 1000000 people leave here and sitting at the tip of lake it's easy to travel to other countries in the region as well as other parts of the. vaccinations in affected areas have intensified this is benny in north kivu province where there is concern that more people are getting sick there's also concern about the disease spreading to uganda health workers in southwest uganda are vaccinating people who could have come in contact with these women who visited the pond where market to trade a few days ago she died of a boiler when she returned home the government says she did not cross

a formal border point where she'd of been screened this is the same region where a child tested positive for a boy last month after his mother took him back to d'arcy to bury his father the child later died adding to a death toll of more than 1600 in the past. catherine saw al-jazeera. shows of kamar works for world vision regional director of humanitarian emergency affairs for southern africa joins us on skype from johannesburg good to have you with us so what does this declaration by the w.h.o. mean practically for people on the ground trying to fight and contain the disease. thank you so i mean this declaration comes at a time when we have been constrained with resources not coming in sufficiently to stay in to stop the disease from spread further spread so it has come at a time when we really need it i'm going to make

a huge difference to work the international told the international edition of to the international attention. and under trigger resources deploying to the region to fight the disease the w.h.o. says hundreds of millions of dollars are needed in order to contain this disease to see that as forthcoming now that level of. definitively i believe that this announcement is going to help us to get those resources but at the moment we don't see any commitments coming through but we're hoping that some commitments will be made because the disease is not just a problem of the region it's not just a problem of the article and uganda and rwanda it has the potential to spread beyond those regions i'm soon become an international problem it is or it international problem but corpse spread beyond those initial countries and that will be a big more and much more are bigger disaster to deal we saw earlier which is if those resources to stem the disease the better will money be enough what

about the issues of fighting in some of these regions which makes a the efforts difficult and the issue of lack of local trust in some cases. sunny green with you might be alone may not be enough but definitely makes a huge difference for example world vision has been occurring the community since decision mrs. get meets and. teaching the people on how the disease is spread and how it can be stopped and how it can be prevented from further in fact how people can prevent themselves from for the infection but because we don't have sufficient resources to me actually. brought in that message submission we have been constrained so having those resources would be. a huge relief to did to disseminate the information the trust from the local communities because.