while there are while the search and rescue operations continue those challenges remain remain very difficult and for 4 people what are their most immediate needs what do they need right away right to sue and just about everybody that we've spoken to says that what they want to do right now is get out they want to be able to go to nassau because there's no electricity as you mentioned there's no running water and there's concerns over shortages of food medicine and water we had heard even before but before we were able to arrive in the bahamas the united nations had put out that statement saying that these are shortages that could worsen the crisis without immediate intervention from the international community there's there's concern that because this is an island nation there very soon could be running out of out of food we know that some of the cruise ships for example this is this a country that relies very heavily on tourism so the economic impact of this storm

is massive but we know that some of the the cruise ship operators for example have donated thousands of bottles of water but there is there is more that needs to be done and there's it almost seems as though there is a collective cry for help by the bahamian people for the international community to do more to continue to provide assistance because this crisis really is far from over ok men who are up a lot thank you for giving us that update so that's the situation in freeport meanwhile hurricane dorian has weakened but it's still bringing flooding to the u.s. state of north carolina the storm now a category one is over the atlantic ocean but coastal areas do remain on alert as it makes its way up the east coast at least 4 people have been killed in the u.s. and more than 200000 people are without electricity dorian is expected to reach nova scotia canada late on saturday and gallacher is in charleston south carolina with an updates. well hurricane during has finally moved off the u.s.

east coast after briefly making landfall in north carolina and the outer banks there is taking a north east course that takes it away from all the states that were in danger for so many days remember the storms lots of for almost 2 weeks since it 1st formed about 200000 homes in north and south carolina have lost power they're expected to get it back fairly quickly because there was no damage to the infrastructure basically hurricane during after spending days crawling out the u.s. east coast spared almost everybody there was no damage in florida not in georgia very minor damage here in south carolina or north carolina pretty much dodged a bullet as well so the emergency services working on restoring power there are still warnings in place in places like virginia but ultimately the storm is now headed to canada or nova scotia where it's expected to hit landfall as a category one storm in about 2 days india space agency has lost contact with the unmanned probe it had hoped to land on the moon the 2 lunar missions robotic lander

was just 2 kilometers from landing when communications went down if it had been successful it would have made india just the 4th country to land a mission on the moon and the 1st on the lunar south pole but. when i saw that the communication went off i was watching your faces but this wasn't a small achievement that you can do on a country is proud of you while the program self is still in orbit with a year long scientific mission ahead chandra around 2 is analyzing and mapping the lunar surface from about a 100 kilometers above the lander separated from the main vessel on monday and had been descending towards the moon's unexplored south pole when things went wrong the lander was supposed to deploy a robotic rover which would collect samples. much more to come on the al-jazeera news hour including facebook under fire the social media giant goes under investigation in the us switching sides why none of the candidates and moscow's

upcoming elections are representing president united russia party. in sport tributes are paid south africa's pioneering former rugby player chester williams after he died aged $49.00. but 1st. a tear gas and rubber bullets at a few 100 protesters who surrounded a police station. the crowds blocked roads and set barricades on fire before being dispersed thousands of others held more peaceful rallies rejecting a call from hong kong's leaders to end their movement after a hated extradition bill was killed off demonstrators have denounced the bills with drawl. well after 14 weeks of protests china's central government

in beijing has warned it won't allow the chaos to go on forever and that has people worried about whether soldiers from the people's liberation army will be deployed on hong kong streets when he reports was as protesters have marched and gathered in different parts of the city over the past 3 months. one of the cries has been stand with hong kong. where it's a call to their own people and to the international community to support their action against the increasing control of china that runs hong kong under a one country 2 systems policy of sorts solidarity with taiwan which china views as a rogue province that it will eventually retake well one country and. we urge people. to stay on call land when key used to sell books in hong kong that were critical of the chinese government and in 2015 was detained in china for 8

months this year he decided to leave for taiwan to avoid the possibility of being sent back to the mainland and to hong kong's now withdrawn extradition bill which was the catalyst for the protests. to power of the hong kong government comes from beijing and it's become a dictatorship the people have no voting rights so the government can ignore their opinions and them out of this. there have been protests both pro and anti china in many cities around the world the government in beijing says the movement is backed by foreign powers who want to destabilize china the main suspect is the united states which is involved in its own dispute with china that donald from administration has be on crisis is afraid to go see so be doing is also under pressure not to be seen as he intended me to hong kong if. beijing has warned that it may get to. soon prompting concerns it could deploy soldiers who are

based in hong kong since the start of the protests many world leaders have expressed concern about the situation in hong kong and china to respect the rights of the people here those words of course given encouragement to the protesters but those world leaders know that given china's economic power there's only so much pressure they can apply. for now china seems to be willing to be patient in the hope that the momentum of the protests will fade along with the international attention on the street fighting for the city's future determined to achieve the opposite wayne hay al jazeera hong kong. the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has accused his opponents of making an extraordinary political mistake after they agreed not to back his push for elections next month and he suffered another setback parliament's upper house has approved legislation preventing the country from leaving the e.u. without a deal where it has more from london. he's been struggling to control

parliament and even hundreds of kilometers from westminster boris johnson wasn't having an easy time of it britain's prime minister was in scotland to announce extra funding performers he hasn't got the election he wants yet both photo opportunities like this the campaign certainly feels like it's on the way johnson insists he has no intention of resigning if he doesn't get britain out of the e.u. soon that is not a hypothesis i am willing to go but i want to get this thing done and you know i think the people of this country do and there's an opportunity to be so much more positive about this earlier at a fish market he promised again that britain would leave the european union by the 31st of october we're going to go. opposition parties are continuing to pile on the pressure saying they'll vote against his plans to hold an october the 15th general election just days before what could be britain's last e.u.

summit and is hoping that he'll be able to secure the support of 2 thirds of m.p.'s in the commons to push through a general election and middle tobar over 15th is the day that he's proposing but the opposition just simply aren't going to budge they don't trust him and they want to make sure that this extension is. in place before they agree to anything it's been quite a week the prime minister johnson said. on thursday his only brother resigned as an m.p. a minister saying he was torn between family loyalty and the national interest his majority has been obliterated through expelled 21 m.p.'s trying to stop and breaks it and a bill to stop the country crashing out of the e.u. is going through parliament there's been a small bit to put the government though with the high court in london ruling that the decision to suspend parliament put 5 weeks is legal the saying we can politics is a long time has never felt more appropriate boris johnson is

a man under pressure to deliver the promises he's made and keep some making there may not be able to keep a general election seems likely but the electorate is wary of rex it and he would al-jazeera in westminster an investigation is being launched in several u.s. states into whether facebook is stifling competition and putting its users at risk the new york state attorney general is leading the antitrust probe it's part of a wider check on anti competitive practices among major gentle companies reportedly including google amazon and apple mike hanna has more from washington. most of those investigations are federal investigations that are being carried out in a number of companies particularly google and facebook but this particular move that was announced by the new york attorney general in the course of the day is different a number of states coming together the attorneys general from at least 8 states who

are coming together to jointly probe the activities of facebook at this particular stage now the significance of this is that it is a bipartisan investigation facebook would be unable to say that there are political motivations behind such an investigation now the new york attorney general outlining the probe has said that it's going to be focusing on facebook's dominance in the market and the way in which the starman and squid be misused it is going to look at facebook's use of consumer data about whether it is responsible for the increase in the cost of advertising so it's a widely spread very significant investigation last time a major investigation an antitrust investigation such as this was done on this basis was concerning microsoft 2 decades ago when attorneys general came together to launch a bipartisan investigation so a significant move indeed from moscow's voters head to the polls for the city election on sunday their ballot paper as well so

a single candidate openly running for president vladimir putin's united russia party instead they will be standing as independent candidates for the regional parliament it comes this comes on the back of united russia's declining popularity and large protests against the ban on some opposition candidates stuck fast and reports from moscow. only to president of a beer it's a way that this is an election rally for united russia the animal has often been used to symbolize the ruling party and has been hired here to entertain supporters of this day been called for. but a united russia veteran who has been a member of the moscow duma regional parliament since it was founded in 1903 is not running for her party on the ballot she's an independent candidate running for the money i'm running i'm a member of this body saying i'm a member of this body everybody wants to have a lot of people is there

a problem with your party i know we had any problem i brought out that i am a member of the right and that's all thank you very much. ratings for the party which was founded soon after put in became president in 1909 dropped 11 percent to 28 percent last year after the retirement age was increased a move that led to nationwide protests during last year's regional elections united russia lost for governor positions analysts say the party's very name has become a liability a campaign rally for united russia but not a single party flacco banner and you see the candidates here say they're here to hurt people in moscow and they don't need to use the park its name but say it shows how deep united russia has fallen the usually low key moscow elections have

attracted worldwide attention after more than 30 opposition candidates were banned from running government officials cited administrative mistakes the decision led to weeks of protests candidates and protesters being detained and one leading opposition candidate. going on a hunger strike. this shows that in moscow the opposition is strong enough to cause problems to those in power problems they did not have before when in previous elections candidates were not allowed to run it was fine today it has led to major political event the chairman of the moscow duma here on campaign trail sasa disqualification of the opposition. candidate is not used to mit and calls the election process fear deliberate almost got to do more of the moscow elections a totally legal electoral process is followed the rule of law candidates can be registered according to the documents we saw and court rulings that have taken place they failed to get proper documents although the moscow duma is not seen as an influential body the elections are considered

a task for national elections 2 years from now without a strong party in parliament it could be more difficult for president putin to stay in power beyond his last term which ends in 2024 steps fast and al-jazeera moscow among the stories coming up on the all jazeera news hour plan of actions agreed to fight the fires in the amazon we'll tell you which leader was missing from this crucial summit it's the u.s. economy is slow but steady how the trade war with china is impacting jobs plus. i only welling's in the east of anger word extraordinary when your own is still breaking records and still scoring dogs.

well i'm pleased to say that our can dorian is now pulling away into the open waters as you can see the storm just a few hours ago clearly marked on the storm flouncing blow that for the carolinas the outer bands of the carolinas but as we go on into a worship made its way up into the canadian maritimes pushing in the across newfoundland and it will continue to drive its way further more hoots and east was what it says showers coming in behind that eastern side of canada over towards the plains replace some rather wet weather but for much of north america is fine and dry with plenty of warm sunshine some wants to over towards western side of the u.s. $20.00 cell. for getting up to 20 in san francisco a little more clout here across the pacific northwest into that western side of kind of the 1st time with see some cherry right just pushing in across the high ground across the rockies as we make our way into sunday some wet weather to into the southwest into more because all of a mexico shell is to some of the spells of brazen lava showers a possibility into the great plains into those central areas is disabled fine enjoy

just up towards the east and south dakota as you can see still plenty of showers coming in along the spells of rain from the remnants all the dory and sunshine and showers across the caribbean but lots of fun weather between. thing as i want to finally we're going ask about that but that's not i see where you are not so is there not. one of the out of the bunch is a preacher not the bottom. in part one of these 2 part series al-jazeera explores the world of performance enhancing drugs. sports doping the endless chains on al-jazeera. when the news breaks. when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told pretty

remarkable due to better we had died last week crossing from mexico you know with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports we can read according to the fishing lifea section of al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring more rude winning documentaries and deny any. hello again you're with the al jazeera news hour of the top stories somebody has declared days of national mourning on until the borough of its former leader robert mugabe has died in singapore aged 95 presidents emmerson one god one name mugabe

a national hero but others are remembering a brutal dictator who brought economic ruin. the devastation caused by hurricane dorian in the bahamas is being likened to a tsunami with entire neighborhoods flattened at least 30 people are known to have died across the caribbean nation but officials are warning that number could rise dramatically. india's mission to the moon has ended in silence its space agency lost contact with the mission's a lunar lander when it was just 2 kilometers from the surface it's not yet clear if it crashed or landed safely. let's take a look at some of the tributes being paid to robert mugabe from around the world the kenyan leader or who are kenyatta said former president mugabe was an elder statesman a freedom fighter and a pan african is to played a major role in shaping the interests of the continent amount of courage who is never afraid to fight for what he believed in even when it was not popular.

africa's president cyril ramaphosa said under president mugabe's leadership zimbabwe's sustained and valiant struggle against colonialism inspired our own against apartheid and built in us the hope that one day south africa too would be free and the chinese foreign ministry spokesman said mugabe was an outstanding national liberation movement leader and politicians of zimbabwe throughout his life he has firmly defended the sovereignty of his country opposed foreign interference and actively promoted china zimbabwe and china africa friendship and cooperation with reports on mugabe's life. deliberate to turn into a tyrant the man who destroyed a promising country through his determination to cling on to power. by some but in the end despised by many in zimbabwe of the widely admired across africa as a hero who fought colonialism and stood up to the west. 965.

aeons mrs white settlers declare independence from britain an event that they find robert mugabe's life and still holds his country. the black majority resisted races in the cities and out in the countryside where a vicious bush war raged for years. robert mugabe a teacher turned activist emerged from prison as an articulate leader of the independence struggle we started the war in order to give our country. we have a country they did get their country at lancaster house in london in 1979. and when zimbabwe celebrated independence mugabe the overwhelming winner of elections was in power. and soon showing revival liberation fighters what he'd do to keep it at the belly land in the early eighty's the opposition crushed thousands

killed in ethnic massacres atrocities that were barely noticed abroad. but there was also much to admire racial reconciliation education and health for millions of zimbabweans although later the economy declined and the invasions of white farms in the year 2000 were turning point this time world did notice. people said that this was going to happen it was going to turn into a bloodbath turn into another congress maybe this is a. we're going to have to get out of. it was a coward to destructive process but said he was correcting an old injustice and in many ways still fighting the old colonial power the land is ours we give it to whom we please it's not the business of britain you see to tell us who to give land they

do not wear that those who are given members of my by my party is irrelevant to britain. by now opposition was growing despite murder and many people asian many zimbabwe seemed ready to throw mugabe out they had a new hero morgan chang right who said robert mugabe's earlier cheve man's will always be overshadowed by the years of oppression. do we portray him as the great liberator or do we portray him as somebody who has betrayed the liberation that he fought for. i think the little prevail the 2 rivals ended up in government together although mugabe made sure he kept the real power and chunky violator returned to a position where he would eventually die without being is constantly sharing how hypocritical the west is and africa loves that and for that reason and i think he will be judged alternately as being

a more important figure in africa than simply this party is this part he's a dictator he's a tyrant he's anywhere you want to threaten but it's something more than that he says he's the wrong messenger with the right message. by now his wife grace 41 years his junior had emerged as a political player mugabe well into his ninety's seem determined to go on and on. just. as you know. that the robert mugabe is still there. but not as strong as he thought in the city's anger boiled over a new generation demanded mugabe go it's time for you to resign it's time for you to step down. in the end it was the army that pushed him where he the point grace as his successor a former colleague and then live rival of grace's emerson winning took over it was

more palace cruden revolution although the joy mirrored that of zimbabwe's original revolution 37 years earlier who got the retreated to his mansion bitter to the last we don't deserve. peace we don't. probably because. the real tragedy robert mugabe could never bear da da of his country enjoying a 2nd freedom from his ruinous grip. let's get more on india's apparently failed moon landing and speak to tariq malik he's the editor in chief of space dot com which has been covering this extensively he's joining us from new york and it certainly is on the home page of your website space dot com what are you hearing about what exactly happened well during

the latest that we know is that india got so close to landing on the moon with their victim letter and making history aiming for the 1st landing near the south pole of the moon. everything seemed to be going really really well until the final moments they got about 2 kilometer kilometers above the lunar surface when they lost contact with their probe they don't know if it crashed or maybe redirected itself to a secondary landing site they're hoping to figure that out in the next few hours and days but it was you know definitely really tense in india's mission control busy and a big disappointment after a mission that's gone really really well over the last month to reach them and give us a sense of some of the challenges faced. in this particular operation when landing on the moon. yeah you know during it's really difficult to land anything on the moon over like out of 30 missions maybe 1000 of them or so have

been have been successful you know it's easy to crash on the moon we saw israel crash a probe they were hoping to land earlier this year india was hoping to be the 4th country to soft land busy a spacecraft and then deploy a rover on the surface of the moon you have to you have to reach the moon launch on a rocket and that's a really critical phase you have to enter orbit around the moon they did that. last month as well and then you have to make sure that you you separate your spacecraft from its orbiter or or carrier vehicle india did that earlier this week and rendezvous you have to know how high you are how fast you're moving slow down so that when you reach the surface you're not moving very quickly but you can touch the surface very gently indeed it was really all on board so far for that until that last minute when they lost contact with the with the probe this is their 1st attempt to land a spacecraft on the surface this is their 2nd mission to the moon and so far you know they still have that orbiter in orbit for at least the next year so that part

of the mission is going very well this was kind of in extra reach for india and we're hoping they'll get some better news later on how likely is it that that we do get better news and that communication can be reestablished. well it seems very grim india did shut down their mission control kind of way there are folks still listening for signals but not having any signal from the spacecraft nasa deep space network with antennas around the world also lost contact they weren't hearing anything from the spacecraft that's not the best of signs it is possible that the spacecraft might have been able to lend itself and just lost contact you know they have their orbiter in orbit around the moon nasa has an orbiter as well you can be sure that they'll be looking for that but not hearing from the spacecraft during that critical period isn't a great sign india has resolved to keep at it to to keep listening and to keep

shooting for the moon they do have plans for a 3rd mission later on all right we'll leave it there we thank you very much tariq malik for speaking to us from new york jury ends in south africa are being offered free flights home after violent and team leader in triumph in johannesburg this week nigeria says it will seek compensation from south africa for attack on its citizens south african government has closed its missions in nigeria after a wave of retaliatory attacks. from the nigerian capital abuja. reactions from such an african countries have been swift and angry regarding the events in south africa for example reports from zambia said rioters attacked south african businesses or south african owned businesses in that country in nigeria police have arrested dozens of people in the commercial capital lagos for rioting and also targeting south african businesses in that city similarly there been some street protests in lagos. at

a time when the nigerian government is walking behind the scenes with the south african authorities to try to resolve the crisis nigeria's despite a high powered delegation to meet the president of south africa and people in his government to try to resolve this crisis only a one off of the nigerian government to say that they will seek for redress compensation for victims have been affected by the xenophobic attacks in south africa now business between south africa and nigeria in particular is estimated at more than $60000000000.00 u.s. dollars so both countries up a lot to lose if there is any breakdown in sort of business activities between the 2 countries and ecowas also stepped in to warn that this could affect regional integration as specially you know that african countries are trying to come together and the africa free trade agreement that is expected to take of probably the next one year or so so basically the situation is come on the streets of

nigeria and other parts of africa especially in west africa where they have been some angry reactions from citizens because of the situation in south africa. the leaders of 6 latin american countries have agreed on a regional action plan to deal with the record number of fires leon is on they've signed a pact that also has measures for the preservation and sustainable development of the rain forests brazil venezuela bolivia and colombia are the worst affected by the fires the brazilian president also narrow didn't attend in person instead he joined via video conference critics have denounced his anti environmental policies and the amazon. so much going to get which as they ski says we are aware that perhaps for many decades many of the regions of our amazon were left forgotten or quite simply they were not prioritized i believe that this meeting gives priority to the amazon in our country and it also shows to the world that it is a priority for us to leave it is he believed us because of ideological differences

there are perhaps distances between us but above all this is all the rights of mother earth we respect our differences people have a right to be with her who they want that is not under debate and that is why there is this document we all face this problem wildfires have forced the evacuation of several villages in northwestern spain fanned by strong winds and hot dry and dry weather excuse me the fires have destroyed more than 500 hectares of forest in the i got a region where than a dozen aircraft are helping crews on the ground. the philippine government is accusing the opposition of plotting to oust president roderick go to terra take thousands of people have been taken before the courts charged with sedition allegations they've denied jamila and are going reports from. their politicians priests actors and human rights workers more than 30 of them are accused by the

philippine government of committing acts of sedition inciting people to rebel against the government and other criminal complaints the office of the solicitor general says they plotted with the vice president when he took bread or to destabilize the administration of president did they go to the territory one by one they submitted sworn statements denying the claims the poly was going to have already submitted. on the vice president marillion or the vice president also submitted her own statement all the accused say the allegations are baseless and are simply attempts to silence the scenting voices that are going to station those that administration does not.