been to india before al-jazeera examines the violence of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear may because partition borders of blood . this is al-jazeera. you know this is a news hour on al-jazeera fully back to live from our world headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the german hospital treating pregnant critic alexina bonnie says is evidence he was poisoned but his life isn't in danger. donald trump heads to north carolina where the republican party has kicked off its convention to formally nominate him as its 2020 presidential candidates. i can't work. yourself out 42 to hold of 51 innocent people

their only crime your arse off their relatives and survivors recount the horror of last year's massacre at 2 mosques in new zealand prosecutors say the white supremacist gunmen plan to cause maximum carnage also this hour hundreds of thousands of families displaced by to wrenshaw rains and flash flooding in yemen. and on pieces to this sport it's a hero's homecoming football in munich off to winning football's european champions league for a 6th time. thank you for joining us we begin with breaking news just use our from germany and the berlin hospital treating russian opposition leader alexei in a balmy says test results indicate he was 4 days and now vonnie was flown from

a siberian hospital in an induced coma on saturday is a long time opponent of russian president vladimir putin he fell on a flight on thirty's say doctors in russia earlier had said that no poison was found in his system as bringing our correspondent in berlin dominic kane who joins us now live so doctors saying that. was probably poisoned what more they say and what do we know about his current condition. his current condition is that he is in the coma he is there's no immediate threat to his life but the doctors here in contrast in stark contrast of the situation with what was said what the doctors almost of the doctors here very clearly say that what they found in his system is a toxin belongs to what are called holy mysteries inhibitors those are effectively that something which works inside the human body inside the central nervous system

to control muscles in the body now they are treating the patients treating alex in other knee with actual pain which is an anteater they hope will work to counter the effect of these colonist or is inhibitors the point is this is affecting his motor neurons and that that those are effectively the ways that human bodies move muscles that sort of thing the interesting thing here is that the doctors in the show hospital behind me they're saying they don't know what effects this condition will have had on mr nava need for the future they are not sure quite when if you ever is able to recover quite how full his recovery will be the things you take from this is the doctors are clearly saying there is a toxic poison in his system they're trying to treat and not sure exactly what it is and that is in stark contrast to what those doctors in arms were saying those

are the ones who treated mr van the 1st yes and the german government dominic has also spoken about madonna's condition for the 1st time since he was flown to berlin but they're being very cautious about directly blaming russia. yes it's interesting the government spoke of germany but also the french government in the shape of president emanuel mccloy a few days ago were very concerned about what has happened to mr and they wanted they wanted to know what was in his system how it got there what could be done about it and that's something you it's definitely echoed by the german government too we know that heiko must the german foreign minister a social democrat politician who is meeting his ukrainian counterpart earlier today was speaking about the situation regarding mr. it's very clear that governments in western europe in the european union have grave misgivings about what has happened to him the question now will be is it possible for the specialists here in the show

it's a hospital to nail down exactly what which of these colon esther is inhibitors is actually in his system what's important there is that there are certain nerve agents that's chemical weapons which contain the sorts of substance that would engender the sort of reaction that mr the has shown now there's no proof of that just yet and there are other drugs in that sort of thing that are available which could explain the condition that mr have on the has right now but the fact that the doctors here have been so clear about what they think has happened to him and the source of and using well it's very suggestive of what they think is going on here thank you very much for that dominic kane and live for us there in belin.

the process has begun to formally nominate donald trump as a republican candidate for november's election the us president has left washington d.c. for the republican national convention which is being held in charlotte north carolina the 4 day long event to screw szell for trump's bed to reverse his slump in opinion polls as he struggles to toggle a coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic woes spin trailing his democratic rival joe biden in the swing states expected to determine the outcome of the vote can we hawk it reports from washington. for president phone march political rallies the 2020 republican national convention was supposed to be donald trump's campaign crescendo helping him cruise toward reelection in november. but kovac 19 and social distancing his dash trump's plan to accept his party nomination of thousands of bag a hat wearing supporters. drops claim of creating jobs has also disappeared as

thousands of businesses of closed permanently millions of people are out of work and the stock market has seen historic gains wiped out we did it we built the greatest economy of this to the world and now i have to do it again. you know that is. that's right that's gone testing me trump blames china for not halting the virus but a majority of americans blame him for a mismanaged coronavirus response that's hurt trump in the polls with weeks until the election he trails his democratic rival joe biden. problem is after 4 years in office people now know what to expect from a donald trump administration and it's really tough for people to not think about a reelection campaign or as anything other than incision about the incumbent and so

i'm not sure that the playbook that works for trump and 2016 is going to work this year in 2020 with a few new ideas some people are accusing the president of employing scare tactics to round up votes at campaign stops trump says if biden is elected taxes and crime will go up the stock market will go down but when it comes to his own campaign promises his vision is a clear what are your top priority items for a 2nd term but one of the things that will be really great you know the word experience is still good i always say talent is more important than experience i've always said that due to the pandemic most states will allow voters to mail in ballots instead of in person voting trumps arguing with little evidence that mail in ballots are open to fraud democrats say trump's insistence people vote in person during the pandemic is an attempt to suppress the vote with both sides accusing

each other of breaking the election results of the 2020 vote are uncertain will tropics upset if he loses as he has always said he'll see what happens on and make a determination aftermath donald trump is counting on the republican convention to inject new life into his lagging reelection bid he's planning multiple appearances before pared down crowds of supporters at a week long event that kicks off in charlotte north carolina and culminates here at the white house on thursday when trump will officially accept the republican party's presidential nomination kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house let's bring in al-jazeera is. alan fischer now at the white house for us alan everyone of course waiting to see how this convention will be different from the democratic convention last week that many people thought did very well what can we expect from the republicans and president trying. well this is going to be very different from

any convention that we've seen before 1st of all it is going to be titled 2020 the g.o.p. convention the g.o.p. winning the grand old party in american political term for the republican party very rarely has the candidate received top billing we've also told the normal party platform of policy objectives well that's just been scrapped with a general endorsement of donald trump's a medico fox platform is asked on sunday night what his plans were for his 2nd term and he said well we're going to build on the things that we've done and do new things have lead a bumper sticker so he's got to articulate what that is going to mean i don't know so we're going to see from donald trump not just once not just twice but 4 times he slotted to speak every single night of the convention for how long we're not entirely sure that is unusual normally the convention the candidate says thank you after he's confirmed as the candidate and then trails his big speech on the final

night of the convention this time or be on thursday but we're told donald trump wants to speak every single night of the convention so that will be different too so forget what you saw last week this is all going to be different for everyone. right and as this convention gets underway as senior trump adviser is leaving and also some well known republicans are backing joe biden. well one you could have expected the other perhaps not the one you could have expected is that on the day that the republican convention kicks off then there would be people who will be brought by the democrats who say that they are going to vote for george biden and surprise surprise among them are some senior republicans including jeff flake former senator from arizona and also john warner who is a former senator from virginia several years ago and know there are a few current lawmakers who also say that they are not going to support donald trump they are actually going to support joe biden kellyanne conway that is perhaps

perhaps more of a surprise that it was announced on this sunday evening before the convention she was the woman who ran donald trump's election campaign from about july august 4 years ago the 1st woman to run a national campaign she got a job as a senior advisor to donald trump has been very much one of the public faces of the trumpet ministration often appears on the driveway that you see behind me after she does an interview with her favorite network and then will answer a few questions she says that she is stepping down to spend more time with her family and to wrestling lee enough that comes at the same time as a husband john george conway who is a prominent republican lawyer who has been behind the lincoln project which is run many many anti trump ads he said on saturday he was also stepping away from twitter for a while it's understood that the couple have got personal issues that they have to deal with but the fact that the came on the 1st day of the republican convention is

perhaps a little bit of a blow to donald trump particularly as she is due to speak during the convention we are told that that is still going ahead but certainly those are not the sort of headlines that donald trump would have worn as he makes his way down to north carolina you'll be there in the next hour or so thanking the delegates of actually showing up in person because you remember that for the longest time they were always going to. the convention in carolina then moved to florida and that it was going to be part virtual part in real life so no we're getting that mix but donald trump is going down to north carolina to see thank you to the delegates who are about to confirm him as the republican presidential candidate is if that was a surprise to anyone all right thank you for that alan fischer live for us here at the white house while democrats are concerned about trump's attack on mail in voting right now are they grilling the head of the u.s. postal service on capitol hill no way to joy fielding questions from

a house committee over whether he's changes to the postal service could have delayed the delivery of mail in votes resin donald trump has look to restrict made in voting saying it could impact the legitimacy of november's election. on capitol hill for us joins us now live on the news hour so we heard what the postmaster general testify last week before the senate panel is he saying anything different now before house members. well he's repeating much of the same police saying that it is his sacred duty to oversee the delivery of this election mail he vowed last week and again this week that these ballots will be delivered on time he said that the operational cuts that had led to some of those mail delays were predated before his arrival on the job less than 70 days ago and he vowed again that this election mail in which the vast majority of americans are expected to vote by mail in this election he said that this would go smoothly on part of the u.s.

postal service now certainly though that is not appeasing the minds of most democrats we saw just on saturday the full house coming together to vote on passing legislation that would prohibit these operational changes from taking place until after the pandemic it's notable that $26.00 republican members of the house joined democrats on that gas vote but public is hardly united on this we're seeing partisan statements on today's panel before the house with republicans defending lewis to joy saying that he is the one being targeted by partisan attacks politically driven attacks on part of the democrats and we know this bill that passed the house on saturday is likely dead on arrival in the u.s. senate and president trump has tweeted that this bill is what he calls a money wasting hoax the u.s. is expecting heidi a surge in 1000000 ballots in november how big are the stakes in terms of the

elections integrity. well people are expecting millions of ballots being cast by mail by 1st time mill vote by mail voters and the fear is that that could lead to technical errors on part of the voter and coupled with these delivery delays by the u.s. postal service it could mean delayed ballots that are uncounted and the big picture here is because this white house position is so hotly contested we know just looking at 2016 that a mere few 1000 votes in key swing states can determine the outcome if you look at the state of michigan president trump one that just about 10000 votes in 2016 or the washington post analysis that saw this year michigan threw out $10000.00 mail in ballots in the primaries so the fear is that this would make a difference and specially chain up to this point as my colleague kimberly halkett has been reporting you know president john has been sowing distrust in this

electoral process by having by saying over and over again these unfounded statements that mailing voting by mail can lead to massive fraud so the question again is whether or not he would accept the results of it's a close one certainly would be a test of american democracy to see whether voters believe the results when they come in thank you very much for that live for us on capitol hill. some breaking news out of india where a building has collapsed in western india rescue as i said to be searching for at least 70 people who are fear after this building collapse the 5 story building contained 47 flats and it collapsed in the town of mahad south of india's financial capital move by at least 15 people have already been pulled from the rubble and taken to hospital which of course bring you your more on this breaking news story when we have more information. and there's lots more ahead on this news hour

including west african leaders are in mali trying to solve its school crisis will have a live update on all the latest developments plus electricity blackouts for large parts of syria as an explosion damages a pipeline supplying gas to power stations and in sports milkiness celebrations the japanese driver has just won the indy $500.00 for a 2nd. to. to. the opposition coordination council in bella rules says it's committed to the goal of forming a transitional government despite police detaining 2 of its members around 5 around 200000 protesters defied soldiers deployed in the capital minsk on sunday to again demand the resignation of president alexander lukashenko is accused of rigging his reelection earlier this month which continues his 26 years in power there speak to

alexandra soriano court froze a journalist based in moscow joins us live alexandra these anti-government protesters turned out in record numbers again on sunday in bello rules despite warnings and the presence of the military how is this all being viewed by the kremlin. well you see there was also seeing this pictures of these massive protests are for people coming in massive numbers despite the army being on the street in full gear they also saw president of belarus salix on the local shank or marching up and down his residence with a gun in his. underage son also armed and in full gear and this morning the spokesperson the russian president the president wanted me to discover said that when it comes to the via police violence against the protesters

that is the internal matter of the belarus and that russia shouldn't be interfering in that method and not going through he also said that russia is not in contact with anyone from the opposition or coordination or council he also says the discount store has members death are and to russian and that they are politicians in belarus they're more appealing to moscow in a sense to this day are for close ties to be kept with between these 2 countries far more appealing and these people are according to him than anyone in the coronation council he also said that it's actually repeated that russia is very much against direct or an environment of meddling from abroad into internal affairs of belarus so these are the things that moscow actually keeps on repeating when it comes to belarus clearly showing that they are on the side of a look at schenkel and what we had to days that 2 presidents actually spoke again

and according to the kremlin websites it was look at shanklin forming 14 on what measures he's taking in order to normalize the situation in his country thank you very much for that alexandra so janowicz got tried live there from moscow. to new zealand now and the gunman who murdered 51 people at 2 mosques last year has faced survivors of his attacks in a courtroom day one of brenton tyron sentencing hearing has begun with harrowing accounts from survivors and families of some of the victims talent has already pleaded guilty to dozens of charges he could be handed new zealand 1st life sentence without parole when he reports. under heavy security brinton terence was flown by the new zealand air force back to christchurch the city where he inflicted so much pain on so many since the attack the australian has been held in a maximum security prison in oakland where once the sentences handed down he's

likely to spend the rest of his life there was also tight security at the court where terence will sit for the next few days facing and listening to the victims and their family members oh my god but. hearing all was beyond the lives of our lives everyone. every day it was his son was one of 44 people killed during friday prayers at the el nor mosque where terence began his assault with 6 high powered guns he then drove across town to the lynwood mosque and killed 7 more before he was arrested he streamed the attacks on the internet and did earlier uploaded a manifesto detailing his obsession with white supremacy and his hatred of muslims the court heard he wanted to inflict as many fatalities as possible and burn down the mosques afterwards he'd studied the floor plans in advance and targeted the

mosques when he knew they would be busy the planes timed intreat was to ensure the maximum number of wishes would be present if it analyzed the mosque layouts to the tune likely exit routes fleeing was not usually lost. survivors spoke of his failure to achieve his goal of spreading hate and sowing divisions oh. come more you know. room. after a surprise guilty plea in march terence sentencing was delayed because of coronavirus restrictions despite the lack of a trial the judge said he wanted those affected to have this say in court to help bring familiarity and closure that painful process is underway and dissent and is likely to be handed down on thursday when hey al jazeera power is being restored in syria after a major gas pipeline explosion left large parts of the country without electricity

firefighters have now put out the blaze on the gas line northeast of the capital damascus this was a scene just a few hours ago there are no details yet on what may have caused the explosion but the oil minister is suggesting it could be an act of terror well let's take a closer look at where this happened the 1200 kilometer gas pipeline delivers not sure gas to syria from egypt this u.s. power stations in southern syria the explosion hit a section of the pipeline between the towns of and to mayor around 30 kilometers from damascus and that cause a drastic drop in gas pressure to nearby power stations causing some to shut down. in a harder is monitoring the situation from beirut in neighboring lebanon she says a question now is what cost the blasts. syrian authorities the syrian minister of oil suggesting that this in fact was a terrorist attack he did not provide any further information he didn't point the

finger at any particular group and so far there has been no claim of responsibility the area is under the control of the syrian government in fact there is no rebel presence for miles the closest rebel position or it is that is further south and in the province of but even there there's a low level insurgency and it is the government which has the upper hand now of course there is i still i still is present further east closer to the border with iraq in central syria or an area known as the bad so james jeffrey suggesting that this is the work of i still the syrian government saying this is a terrorist attack but without providing further information. the former chief of staff of the president of the democratic republic of congo has been moved from prison to hospital. spotty says his contract had covered 19 and he's having

breathing difficulties a hospital doctors say his health is under control comair is appealing his 28 jail sentence for fraud he supporters say his sentence is politically motivated. to where talks aimed at ending and solving the country's school crisis continue after months of government protests soldiers' cease fire on tuesday and the rest said president. after 2 days of meetings between coup leaders in west african mediators military commanders are reported to be considering allowing cater to return home the army says it also wants a transitional role in mali. is following developments from nigeria's capital abuja so i understand some progress seems to have been made but can we talk about a breakthrough just yet what's the latest from bucko. now be musically ali the situation right now is that this meeting is about ending in the next 30

minutes probably they will run of the meeting and some key points have been agreed upon by the 2 sides the echoes on one side and the new military rulers of mali the most significant of course is the fate of president brian borcherdt kaita reports we just receiving from by michael indicate that on the request of course the military leaders have now agreed to allow it brought in but what the kids are out of prison to attend to his health it was also decided that whenever he gets well enough the course is given a guarantee that he will be returned back to money on the issue of transition nothing has been agreed yet. the military leadership there in mali insisted that this is a decision that should be taken by molly ins and not them or ecorse so for that for the time being that is left aside now they also requested i mean the

military leaders also requested that course should ease sanctions imposed on money in the wake of the cool those sanctions including shutting and land borders with mali spend the money from decision making bodies of the economic community of west african states as well as of course cutting or financial flows from member states of course into mali so these are some of the things that have been agreed upon so far after 3 days of discussion thank you very much for bringing us the latest on the situation in mali. still ahead on news hour citizenship for officials and politicians classified by the e.u. as high risk for money laundering and corruption and al jazeera investigation on the same passports by cyprus in past years from south here's some of the biggest wildfires in california history could be about to get even worse we'll have

a live interview and in sports be back on top of the wild golf address in johnston winston by 11 shots in boston the well. hello things slow to change usually in this part of the world is hot and dusty and usually dry in the middle east with assistant tali true around the coast of among other cloudmark generate a share or 2 up in the mountains or 2 down west in yemen as well as the law should be his hobby which is his permanent drizzle over cost situation that's failing and the breeze is just about to pick up out of iraq and then towards qatar this time you are to get dry dusty breeze which is nice or you get nothing at all in this humid between the 2 at the moment so long as forecast i think we can see that

stuttering failing come back again for a couple days thursday and friday. the shot of building into nice clumps now which tend to produce local flooding in nigeria and i think in both how we get to choose day will be further west towards the kid the faster and then they go off shores the atlantic and you can see the orange shows you the depths well indicates the depth of the shells and their full potential even for flash flooding in africa south of all this as winter chugs on you get those winter fronts going cross the cape where they've gone through so much more to come i don't think but in cape town the might see a shower or 2. times i've been coming all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why the 21st century began with

extraordinary economic growth across much of latin america. but since this whole today in 2008 there's been a political shift to the right on a continent where socialism once thrived to. a chilean politician goes on a journey to me leading left wing figures to understand why that politics have lost ground so dramatically. in latin america a giant in turmoil on al-jazeera. to the point. the or.

her again you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera i would need for lee back to pull out remind of our top stories the berlin hospital treating russian opposition leader alexei in a balmy says tests results indicate he was poisoned it says his life is not in danger but he cannot without any long term effects of ami was flown to germany from a siberian hospital in an induced coma on saturday. rescuers a searching for at least 70 people who were feared trapped after a building collapse in western india a 5 story building which contained $47.00 apartments collapsed in the town of mahad south of the financial capital money by and the process has begun to formally nominate donald trump as the republican candidate for november's u.s. election u.s. president has left washington for the party's national convention in charlotte

north carolina is currently training his rival joe biden in the polls. and for the 1st time a u.s. secretary of state will address the republican convention from outside the country is in israel promoting the u.s. brokered deal between israel and the u.a.e. to normalize ties. i want to come here today in part to congratulate the prime minister will travel to the emirates to meet with them and congratulate them to what's taken place here is deeply consistent with what president drop set out to do create a more stable more prosperous middle east this is a really good step in that direction canonic relationship between the emirates opportunities for innovation and science travel between these 2 places will now be open and that's important it's important to create between israel and this arab state this opportunity. this is been brokered by president trump with your assistance and it has been a boon to peace and to regional stability i think it holds

a new era where we could have other nations joint we discuss this and i hope we'll have good news in the future. there is harry fawcett was following the news conference from west point. as you heard from from both men then was to emphasize the common interests in the region both on combating iran as they see it trying to buttress more support for the u.s. position and the israeli position to extend arms embargoes and get the snap back of the j c p o a deal in place despite the fact of course the united states pulled out of the j c p o e p o a iran deal also to talk up what has just been done between israel and the united arab emirates in terms of the normalization deal and as you heard from pump a 0 to try to to persuade more such countries to follow through to follow suit he

will be traveling to sudan to bahrain and to the u.a.e. on this trip potentially other countries as well and for the u.s. administration it's also an opportunity to talk about what has been done so far in terms of moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital the recognition of the golan heights the recognition you just talked about as far as the united states is concerned that settlements aren't per se illegal despite the fact that as far as international law is concerned there's a broad consensus that they are it's worth noting that this is the 1st day of the republican national convention in the united states later on on monday and controversially pompei will be making a speech from here with the backdrop of jerusalem into that convention remotely that isn't something that's been done in the past by u.s. secretaries of state went on official government business abroad so that's

potentially why he was emphasizing those points at the end of his remarks just now . black eyes matter protesters in the united states are enraged by video of another police shooting the. officers are seen shooting a black man 7 times in the back jacob blake is seriously here in the hospital and overnight curfew was imposed in kenosha in wisconsin democratic presidential candidate joe biden says shooting the shooting of jacob really calls for an immediate investigation and the officers involved must be held accountable saying in the u.s. at least 7 people have died as wildfires continue to rage in northern california hundreds of thousands of people are under evacuation orders and authorities have renewed their warnings for people who have already left their homes to stay away firefighters expect the fires to get worse with more lightning storms forecasts as bring in rob reynolds in los angeles for us so rob what's the current situation.

well the fire situation here in california is pretty dire tholian and according to the weather forecasts it may be about to get worse as 2 dozen major fires burning across the state and hundreds of smaller ones the main fires some of the largest in california history are burning in the san francisco bay area and along the central coast near santa cruz approximately 2200000 people have been told to evacuate as you mentioned at least 7 people are now dead in these blazes and some 700 ohms destroyed 40600 actors at least have been scorched by these blazes and the fires unfortunately are minimally contained the outlook for the next several days is not very positive in terms of fighting these

fires weather conditions are converging to create dry thunderstorms these are storms in which the precipitation generally evaporates before it reaches the ground but the lightning does not so lightning strikes could ignite more blazes and with this front coming in there will be additional gusty winds which help to spread the fire what resources rob what manpower being deployed to fight the fire it's. well there are resources being poor it into california from other states and from the federal government there are over $14000.00 firefighters now on the front lines according to california is fire agency cal fire reinforcement crews have arrived from arizona months hanna nevada texas and utah and 200 members of the national guard have been ill put on active duty in order to support the firefighters the

military the u.s. military the pentagon that is sending aircraft in support now another problem folly is air quality and this is a very serious problem because there are millions and millions of people who are not actually in danger from the fire but they have to breathe the smoke and the smoke has created some of the worst air quality conditions on earth in san francisco people i've spoken to in san francisco say that just stepping outside their apartments or homes is like walking into a campfire so authorities are telling people as much as possible you should stay home particularly people who have respiratory conditions and firefighter authorities health authorities are also reminding people that the masks that many are now wearing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus are not sufficient to

prevent the small particles from wood smoke from entering the lungs so a kind of very serious double whammy right here with storms coming in and air quality getting worse thank you very much thank you for that rob reynolds reporting there live from los angeles now fires in california and 2 tropical storms opposing a back to back threat to the u.s. state of louisiana tropical storm marco is to make landfall mate on monday and the governor says want to want to have time to recede before tropical storm norah ask me passing over the caribbean it's already responsible for 11 deaths that had to gallagher is in miami for us so the potential risk of double trouble 2 storms over the gulf of mexico on day one of the latest predictions highest. well for a while focus 'd is a saying we were going to face an unprecedented situation of 2 hurricanes slamming into the coast of louisiana but it doesn't look like that is the situation at the moment let's deal with these storms individually mako is now

a tropical storm that in the next few hours will start impacting the coast of louisiana before moving slowly westward towards texas that is good news because it's been downgraded to a tropical storm so it won't bring much rain there is a danger from storm surges but really all eyes are now on tropical storm laura that is trucking along a southern coast of cuba at the moment but once it hits those warm waters of the gulf of mexico it is expected to ramp up to a category one or possibly even a category 2 storm which then may hit anywhere between houston and texas and new orleans and louisiana that's the real danger here because as you said there is this double whammy effect of the tropical storm marco impacting the coast then followed potentially by a hurricane perhaps later on this week so how bad could it get and what sort of preparations are underway. well both in texas and louisiana

a state of emergency has been declared in various counties people are being told to do what they can for the tropical storm because that's not as dangerous as a potential hurricane in the form of laura but a category 2 storm hitting that coastline could be very dangerous indeed you've got places like new orleans and houston both low lying cities both have seen many hurricanes in the past and being devastated by them so really all eyes are now on the potential for tropical storm laura to hit the gulf of mexico be fueled up by the warm waters of the gulf of mexico and potentially it in a very wide area between those 2 states as potentially a category 2 storm so people in that region being told to watch the storms very closely but of course all this being made worse by the fact there is a pandemic and typically people move either east or west in this situation if laura picks up to a category 2 storm that will be very much complicated by the current pandemic but certainly authorities in both those states now watching the potential for hurricane

law to form in the next couple of days thank you for that update andy gallagher live for us in miami florida in yemen wakes have to rancho rain and flash flooding have forced 350000 families from their homes at least 130 yet many have died in the deluge aid organizations already struggling to help millions hard hit by the war under increasing pressure mounted on reports. this is what's left of the family home his neighbors are being helping him collect anything that's worth keeping a way to go heavy rains brought flash flooding to this region of western yemen washing away whom's and devastating families the mother was already an orphan lost his 2 remaining family members. my aunt and uncle have drowned in heavy flooding and they disses a great loss to me as they raised me after my parents died i don't know what to do now but rebuild our home and my life again. but there are also stories of

survival this 80 year old tells us how we managed to ski both through water broke through a recently built flood barrier. i grabbed my young granddaughter and held on to the huts wooden ceiling but i couldn't reach the other girl and after the flood filled the room up to my chest the water submerged my granddaughter under my name then i asked god to help us for the sake of those 2 innocent children and right away the water went out and we survived. according to u.n. agencies at least 130 people have died in the flooding since late july with an estimated 350000 families displaced across 13 provinces. among them people like hussein who fled the saudi your quality and bombardment on his village of arab near the saudi border with another. as

a last sale after reflowed their village and leaving behind everything that we had we have settled here near a cemetery in an open way it's the recent floods have swept away some of our goats that we depend on to survive these are hard days. this natural disaster terms that a time when millions of human he's struggling to survive after a years long civil war nearly half of humans more than 30000000 people need immediate assistance you are now fishers say the conflict has led to the deaths of $85000.00 people from famine and the recent month long floods have worsened an already dire situation this part bringing damaging floods there is an upside to all the rain it's giving farmers much needed water which the normally have to pump from the ground and it's the saudi monarchy led war that has led to

a severe shortage of fuel making irrigation expensive how about bob al jazeera from the province of her data alcon hours. al-jazeera has investigative units has found a government a cyber assault passports to senior officials and politicians who are classified as high risk for money laundering and corruption by the european union the findings are in the cyber space as a large scale leak of documents taint by al jazeera in our 2nd report deborah davis reveals the country made millions of dollars selling citizenship violating e.u. untie corruption rules. fighting in the afghan parliament that began after the narrow election victory of miramonte ramani a speaker of the lower house he's a former general who became a businessman. what's not been public until now is that 2 years earlier romani paid

2 and a half $1000000.00 to buy himself and his family so-called golden passports from cyprus. among 2 enough 1000 names we've seen in confidential government papers many new cypriot citizens hold official positions in countries where the original citizenship makes it difficult for them and their money to move freely around the world mohammed jamil c.e.o. of his family's business empire is a member of saudi arabia's general investment authority. has his family company and sits on the saudi arabian monetary authority as an elected or appointed state representative they defined as politically exposed persons or peps on the international financial regulations definition includes relatives. so tom mccarthy is a pep as brother of the former lebanese prime minister najib mikati even if an

individual is honest being a pet is considered a legal liability a risk of being corrupt or corrupting others you have access to public resources sitting on a government contract and. mission to make decisions in that sense. we've identified more than 2 dozen high level political figures from russia ukraine kazakhstan china and vietnam as well as the middle east who've already paid for citizenship who say no new ace represented the united arab emirates in foreign trade deals and moved in influential circles as a pep he'd now be banned from buying a cypriot passport and a tie to rules on who is fit to be a citizen nicholas norris the interior minister said cyprus was functioning in absolute transparency but he didn't explain why pep super already bought passports

would be allowed to keep them. separate davis al-jazeera london. and more findings from the cyprus papers will be revealed through the way care on al-jazeera t.v. and al-jazeera dot com and part 3 will be looking at how more than half hours and russians have bought cypriot passports in the last 3 years it includes business leaders close to president putin and those wanted for corruption fraud and money laundering as on tuesday from $10.00 g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera. and sports is next on the basketball action from the n.b.a. playoffs including a dramatic victory for the dallas mavericks. tampa's

force i hear very much in munich has returned after winning european football's most prestigious club crown for 6th saw him it was splashed down after touchdown as the german team's plane arrived a short time ago and in the age of coronavirus it was a subdued welcome for the homecoming hero's fans who were urged to stay away from munich able to avoid the risk of transmitting the virus in what will go down as an extraordinary season by and beat parasangs a man one nil to win the champions league 85 days later than planned and in a portuguese stadium without fans by and certainly have plenty to celebrate they're the 1st team to win all their champions league matches in a season and it's not the only silver way they've been celebrating they've completed a lucrative treble of also clinching the german cup and bundesliga titles that mr

ever managed was on this is with us i have to say that you don't just win 3 titles overnight it was hard work i remember in november the papers wrote that no one fears this point team anymore that no one respects it and how bad they are i think the growth they underwent is sensational there is a nice saying which goes success and we rented and the rent has to be paid every day this is something the team shows every day with the attitude on the pitch i fans are now rating the spying team as one of the best and they're expecting more success as they celebrated in munich i thank flick for leading the team to the triple. the mood was very different in paris where riot police made 158 a racist says p.s.g. fans clashed with officers france's interior minister says 16 officers were injured 12 shops attacked and 15 cars vandalized here police raided

a bar to remove fans who were watching the game without wearing lost or social distancing barcelona lost out on a place in that final to buy in munich and it's been more bad news for the spanish club a new signing a middle m. piano which has tested positive for corona virus bosnian moved to boston from the ventus as part of a deal agreed in june bos to say he's isolating at home and feels well but he won't be able to join them for another 15 days. there were fears of a corona virus outbreak among n.f.l. teams with 77 positive tests reported on saturday but now it appears to have been a mistake by a lab in new jersey reports in the usa all 77 of them have come back negative on retest 11 teams were affected by the initial positives and at least 10 players with some training sessions altered as a result it's not been confirmed exactly what caused the area to the n.b.a.

playoffs and the l.a. clippers thought they'd done enough to beat the dallas mavericks they were leading by a point with just seconds remaining but then this happened. i . just. i. feel incredible finish well you couldn't see it she scored 43 points and crucially tied up the 7 game series a to reach. we have confidence is the beginning you know obviously it's confidence even more now we have confidence in the beginning like i said you were interview if you don't believe you shouldn't be here but we believe this is the beginning and we're here to try to. the defending champion toronto raptors stormed into the eastern conference semifinals norman powered school $29.00 points as they thrashed the book brooklyn nets to complete the 1st 4 games sweep in their history it was wonder the bad news of carr lowry limping off with an ankle injury in the 1st quarter but the raptors are on track to defend their title they'll be up against

the boston celtics in the same ways the celtics completed a sweep of their own against the philadelphia 76 ers kemba walker scoring 32 points in game 4 and jason tatum adding 28 points and 15 rebounds. dustin johnson is back on top of the world golf rankings off for a huge victory on the p.g.a. to the american dominated the northern trust just outside boston to win by 11 shots finishing off the tournament with an 8 under par round of 63 he was 30 and overall it's the largest margin of victory on the p.g.a. tour since 2006 by phil mickelson wanted to live in by 13 shots. is something you know i'm very proud of being number one of the world and. i like to stay there for a little while obviously it's been jumping around about your last last few months your last thing goes never want to stay there for quite some time and. another goal

managed just to see how are concerned number one. former japanese former one driver tacoma sato has won the indy 500 for a 2nd term plan. there were no fans for the 1st time in $104.00 runnings because of the pandemic there were plenty of incidents out on track with cause sitting on fire and several big crashes including one with just 4 laps left plenty of debris to to clear up which meant they wasn't enough time for a proper restart so the race finished under caution with sato taking the checkered flag ahead of scott dixon sort of celebrated with a drink of milk there is a tradition that goes back to 1956. and some of the world's best tennis players continue their preparations for next month's us open the 2 top seeds of the w.t.f. western and southern open have been knocked out will then be 3 catalina pliska for crestor to russia's veronica could their month of earth who's a rank 41st in the world 7564 in their 2nd round match while australian open

champion severe kennon was left shocked by a frenchwoman ellie's call a. her 1st win ever top 5 player in 2 years 6176 meanwhile in the men's tournament reigning a.t.v. finals champion stefano city pass breezed through to the round of 16 with a 6163 win over kevin anderson a number 4 seed will face either john isner or john millman the next is a years ago until the delayed paralympics in turkey or the city marked the occasion by lighting up the sky treat our in the paralympic colors with the message together we can all win as a tribute to japan's health workers fighting coronavirus tokyo's governor once the games serve as a symbol of people coming together to overcome a difficult situation. that's all sports news for now i'll be back here again later with another update for me thank you so much for that peter that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera but do stay with us plenty more world news coming up very

shortly after this very sharp like. a selfless act human bravery 10000 precious pieces of literature rescued from being burnt to ashes in a besieged sorry. al-jazeera world meets the bosnian women and a man who risked everything to save their written heritage. the love of books on al-jazeera. in

2008 al-jazeera documented a groundbreaking ski. propound some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities 'd. we return to see how the students and the scheme helping change the face of india. super 30 announces iraq. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with the eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of army engineers dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying

to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. the german hospital treating kremlin critic alexei navalny says is evidence he was poisoned but his life isn't in danger. i'm fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha also coming up donald trump arrives in north carolina where the republican party has kicked off its convention to formally nominate him as its 2020 presidential candidates 3 leading opposition activists are detained in bed it was a day off.