just explain the streets to success in the rain like you this is. on i'll just see right. america summer of catastrophe a hurricane threatening record flooding approaches the south as oregon declares a state of emergency over wildfires. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters and. also ahead more than 100000 homes damaged or destroyed the cleanup gets underway in sudan after weeks of flooding. you know she hit a soon becomes your funds new prime minister as the nation faces its biggest economic downturn because of a pandemic. we'll hear from the families of girls kidnapped in pakistan who are

forced to marry and convert to islam. it's endured weeks of record destructive wildfires and now america's summer of natural disaster could be about to deliver unprecedented flooding hurricane sally has made landfall in the past hour and is expected to full force over the hours ahead the category 2 storm is moving so slowly that it's likely to cause days of heavy rain and with it what are being called historic floods there will be winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour and a major storm surge as well power has already been cut to hundreds of thousands of homes and after a saudi hurricane teddy is developing out at sea with forecasters now predicting

could become a catastrophic category 4 storm jay gray has this update from. in alabama. take a look if you can get there and you can see as i possibly can when. the relative. calm that they are that's going to pick up as well and even for completion we're going to feel now for the next several hours 50 year old will be with them is going to really just kind of lingering for all of growth and employment and the river that's just crushing blow through an aerial really from when we get up through the florida panhandle this is a massive system rain and water is going to be the most serious if you are going to feed from storm surge in areas of war that the all storms aren't the only natural disaster affecting the u.s.

several states along the west coasts are still battling record fire and oregon is the latest hot spot and president donald trump has approved its disaster declaration giving it access to more federal funds from. reports. there's not much left of talent in phoenix in southern oregon the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing i've ever seen in my life it's the same up and down the west coast near boulder creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble and covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the so-called bobcat fire is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have

burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to. and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash its making skies hazy as far away as new york portland seattle and san francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started to read that and 95 rather than just that quatermass because that ash in s.t.k. to oregon 50 kilometers from portland police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are unheard of in this part of war those have never happened i mean we've had fires open up in the national forth before they've never been this close to canada and i've lived here 33 years they've never been this close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss has some stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house

is burning it's a total loss is it's not something you want to wake up to. amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and other necessities organizers say so many donations have poured in here they can barely give it all away. people here say they all have to look out for one another oh it is donating all of us fresh veggies breads not anything that we can do to help out families that are in need or no thank you you know with the fires and everything we've kind of need to make sure that we're helping out as much as we can some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by fever will weather but the trees will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now robert oulds al-jazeera has to cater oregon the number of people

affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the knowledge river and its waters recede residents are struggling to clean up and make repairs and borgen reports from hard to. this is what the inside of of the lot his house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has he says he's got no way of training the water out hiring a water pump is costly and he's lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option. my house is about 3 kilometers away from the dial and i've lived here for a number of years. getting a plot to move elsewhere is costly with today's economy and me and my family can't afford it so i'll drain the water and hope this doesn't happen again next year. the lost his home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of in the

southern part of sudan's capital hard to. torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people and it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the land waters have begun receding after nearly 3 weeks and people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of out of tune after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and health facilities have either been damaged or destroyed it's a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this year's rains are unprecedented so dan's government says its focus is on helping those who've been

displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them. we want the government to give us new plots so that this doesn't happen again really who live in the banks of the nile don't have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the root and normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets a new plot this house is all that he has he says he'll do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding he will morgan on his their own hearts and. yes she does souquet has been selected as japan's new prime minister designate it's a problem entry vote confirmed so goes the nomination he's a longtime ally of the former prime minister shinzo r.b.a. who resigned last month for health reasons sugo will now see the emperor's official appointments before he takes office the pride is following developments from the

south korean capital seoul. a change in leader but we're not really expecting a change in substance or indeed in policy. as the right hand man the trusted left tenant of shinzo served him for nearly 8 years as the chief cabinet secretary as soon as r.v. announced his resignation he became the heir apparent and now indeed succeeds him he's being called a continuity prime minister almost an interim basically his job for the next year is pretty much to mind the shop for the ruling l.d.p. before new elections are called and carry forward are those policies we know he's very closely aligned politically ideologically with a whole of the same conservative views especially when it comes to trying to revive the economy so we can expect that sudar will basically carry forward those same polls a so-called arbonne omics policies that were already in place and we already know

in fact from the lineup of his new cabinet that it is basically our base cabinet so that is confirmation if we needed it that sudar is basically going to carry forward the work of his previous us senior palestinian figure say they've been betrayed after the united arab emirates reign signed u.s. brokered agreements to normalize relations with israel there been protests against the dealing gaza and the occupied west bank president donald trump says the deals represent what he called the dawn of a new middle east our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. not the promised peace deal of the century between israelis and palestinians still u.s. president donald trump hailed the signing of the abraham accords at the white house as an historic day after decades of division and conflict we marked the dawn of

a new middle east. the agreement signed between israel the united arab emirates and bahrain formalizes relationships already of place but now includes the opening of embassies it's a pivot point they hope will end old conflicts and lead to new cooperation among israel and eventually even more arab nations to all over israel's friends in the middle east. are with us today. and those who will join us tomorrow i say. earlier in the day trump hinted that other countries will also be signing diplomatic pacts with israel but we'll have at least 5 or 6 countries coming along very quickly. but noticeably absent from tuesday steel siding palestinian leadership the foreign minister of the united arab emirates acknowledge their participation in the agreement require the preservation

of current palestinian land. i thank you for choosing peace and for halting. territories at position that reinforces our shared will to achieve a better future for generations to come. in the palestinian territories there were protests over the deal that also failed to ease the 13 year blockade of people in gaza the human rights activists have like into an open air prison this trump official blames palestinian leadership for refusing to negotiate separately you have the leadership from all of the time and time again refused to engage refuse to engage directly with israel their message is to go to the united nations. the road to peace is not the united nations who through. through through the divisions over the steel also on full display outside the white house. is

a bit of this and they deserve to have a piece. in a bra going to. be in there with the leads. there are also questions in the united states about why the abraham accords are called a peace deal given none of the nations are war there's also concern the so-called peace deal is really a new military alliance of nations with a common interest to confront iran the u.s. congress already promising to scrutinize the d. . particularly over the possible sale of f. $35.00 fighter jets to the u.a.e. but more importantly for president trump with less than 2 months until the u.s. election the accords offered the optics of a foreign policy win for a president behind in the polls and eager for reelection can really help get al-jazeera the white house and just 2 weeks after a qatari brokered deal ended in an escalation of violence in gaza the israeli army

has resumed launching airstrikes into this strip hitting several hamas targets there is no immediate word on casualties that happened just hours after a rocket fired from the territory injuring 2 people in ashdod that rocket was fired at the same time as the ceremony took place at the white house. still ahead on al-jazeera why thousands of refugees in lesbos don't want to relocate to a new shelter after a huge fire destroyed their camp last week. and to glacier is in antarctica are breaking free we hear what can be done to slow the damage from rising temperatures . and there's been plenty of rain across central and northern areas of china over the last day or 2 we've got lots of challenges streaming through the central areas also

across into much of japan here it has been a case of scattered showers and thunderstorms we've had some pretty strong thunderstorms as well across into china but the skies really begin to clear his sunny for the evening sunset the rain actually staying to the south of there we've got very heavy rain through thursday those very wet day in shanghai particularly heavy rain then working its way into these western areas of honshu that will continue to work its way east as it goes through friday so really much of japan seeing heavy rain and some very heavy downpours across a kind of 2 for the end of the week but whilst all that has southwards and east we've got these mostly case guys across china to the north of there animals very heavy rain on its way towards vietnam courtesy of the latest tropical storm and then across into south asia some very heavy rains here really been impacting the central states for the last few days and the northeast of india again some heavy downpours here very widespread across much of bangladesh but all the while it's going to be across much of pradesh maharashtra up towards go drop out so the

heaviest rains will be certainly on thursday by friday still very widespread but the tend to accumulate later in the day so a couple of very wet days across into mumbai. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to mount as a global power develop into the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the state we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and vironment sound energy solutions for future generation the brush fire nearing future. you. oh. oh.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera. has swept ashore on the u.s. gulf coast bringing the threat of record flooding the category 2 storm has already cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and for some people to evacuate the white house has approved oregon's disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to burn out of control in the western states hundreds of homes have been destroyed it. has been selected as japan's new prime minister doesn't know it's a parliamentary vote confirmed sukkos nomination is a longtime ally of the former prime minister. will now seek the emperor's official appointment. refugees being moved into a new camp on the greek island must be processed quickly so they can leave that's

according to the u.n. 12000 people were left without shelter when the giants morea can burn down last week. week 6 people are due to appear in court over the fire as the u.n. representative in greece has asked for european help to how's the residents there are fears the newcomer will suffer the same overcrowding problems as the destroyed sites let's find out more stephanie tucker is joining us now from lesbos stuff and what are you seeing. when we're outside. and you can see there's been a slow trickle of people over the last few days but this is how people are moving their belongings in bags their lives in bags really moving again it's almost like they're having to start over because of course they arrived here by boat many of them over a year ago having set up. you know a camp that even the u.n.h.c.r. had criticised of having a poorly conditions which is why people are so reluctant to come here so yes we've

had a bit of an uptick in people coming here willingly because the greek authorities have said there's no other choice for them especially when it comes to processing their paperwork that's only going to be done once they're inside there but as you were mentioning you know the issues with overcrowding is a problem this is something i put to the representative the u.s. representative to greece was here a little earlier and this is what he had to say. it's not manageable to manage a camp with 5 times its capacity or even times the capacity to insomuch as we speak you need c.r. is a pushing the authorities to actually rate the process so that people do not stay too long in these places this is still our message we hope that any new camp does not go. does not become overcrowded because it's unmanageable. so the immediate issue now is to get those thousands of people off the streets into

this it is a challenge because there is no trust many people simply want to get off this island but i got as you heard there the probe the asylum process is a lengthy one at the same time you have the islanders here already very frustrated with the situation wanting many of them wanting the all the refugees off the island what exists to be a temporary camp and really not wanting them to stay here at all so it's a complicated situation it is tense but certainly at the moment that the you know in the short term all these people need to have shelter need to be provided for we've been speaking to doctors medical attention is an issue those with chronic diseases are not getting their medication it remains a mess really at this point in time and that's why the greek authorities say urging people to come there so they can try and you know provide for them in some way or another all right stephanie decker thank you for that update from. yemen is at risk of slipping away from the road to peace the u.n. special envoy is warning the increase in violence the dire humanitarian situation on the coronavirus pandemic are to blame so to arabia and the u.a.e.

were also singled out for giving nothing to this year's aid appeal or diplomatic editor james bays reports. in his monthly briefing to the security council un special envoy martin griffiths gave a grim assessment of the situation in yemen the only glimmer of hope another effort by the u.n. and the international committee of the red cross to try and arrange a mass exchange of prisoners we expect to see the parties this week and it's absolutely to continue their discussion on the implementation of prisoner exchanges what i hope is that this may to go actually result in the release of some prisoners that some evidence of the implementation of those commitments particularly given the threat of covert 19 in places of detention was

a security council diplomats hope a prisoner exchange would be a confidence building exercise potentially leading to a wider political digits but the news from the ground is not good violence continues to rage in the un's humanitarian coordinator says they've had to cut funding to the most needy in part because the countries of the saudi led coalition have not come up with the money they promised to give the u.n. several the owners including the king of saudi arabia the united arab emirates. who have a particular responsibility which they discharged in recent years and so far and nothing in this year's u.n. . it is a take you let me reprehensible promise money which gives people hope that they made the cope help may be on the way and then to dash. i simply failing to fulfill the promise. the risk of an environmental catastrophe in yemen hasn't

been lifted either the u.n. thought it had an agreement from the who is to send the team aboard the south for the damaged tanker they fear could rupture spilling over a 1000000 barrels of crude oil into the red sea but there's been little progress in the risk of maritime ecological disaster has not been averted jamesburg al-jazeera india's official tally of coronavirus cases has gone past 5000000 2nd only to the us more than 1000 new cases have been recorded on wednesday their true number of infected people is thought to be much higher because of inadequate testing more than 82000 people have died of covert 19 in india more than a 1000 girls in pakistan are kidnapped every year forced to marry and convert to islam prime minister imran khan says the practice must stop trial stop for it as this reports. jali but he and her family are putting startling news they like

generations of hindus along with the partition of india in 1987 have lived in the southern province of sindh in their lives the ali says on september the 10th 3 armed men forced their way into a kidnap her 15 year old daughter got there i don't know what they've done to her if she's alive or not and what about her life jojo 2. police suspect a poncho who is 3 years under the legal age of marriage in pakistan has been forced to convert to islam and marry a muslim man. there are human rights commission of pakistan says more than a 1000 normal muslim girls are forced to convert to islam every year there's been widespread outrage at the practice among muslims and norm muslims in pakistan members of the religious minority communities have protested demanding better

protection their rights. hindus and christians make up around 5 percent of pakistan's $220000000.00 muslim majority population the government is helping to renovate around $400.00 hindu temples places of worship often neglected since the partition of india more than 70 years ago baha'i prime minister imran khan has been praised for a recent program that gives indian sikhs visa free access to visit a shrine close to the border evidence he says of pakistan's commitment to ensuring freedom of worship he says the kidnapping and forced conversions to islam have to stop. you can't simply. reward related how can you forcefully convert someone to islam or force them into marriage either by threatening them or at gunpoint as we have heard incidents like these and sent all these practices are totally under slotnick. attempts of changing the law remain

a challenge in 2016 the regional cinda simply trying to pass a bill banning under eighteen's from converting to another religion some muslim religious parties objected to the age limit. they threatened to besiege the assembly if the governor approved the bill which he then refused to sign into law a revised version of the bill was signed into law in 2019 the religious parties protested again a parliamentary committee on minorities and forced conversions wants to eventually make the law a political across of pakistan. religious minorities struggled through the independence of pakistan with our muslim brothers and sisters but certain loopholes were left in the constitution which they used by certain groups against them we are fully aware and all the parliamentarians from all parties are on one page and will soon constitute a lorry gainst the brutal crimes of forced conversions in marriage.

police believe the statement posted online of kasha saying she was not kidnapped but willingly converted to islam and married a muslim man was forced they say kidnappers often threaten victims into making similar claims or if. they could pass his home her family is distraught the ali says she can't live without her daughter and she just wants her back stratford al-jazeera. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi is calling for an investigation into allegations of mass hysterectomies use of spanish speaking women a nurse working at a facility in georgia reported several detained women did not understand why they were having operations to remove all or part of their uterus the whistleblower says the facility refused to test people with coronavirus symptoms and faked medical

records a detainee at the center likened it to an experimental concentration camp. the chances of a deal on breck's it between the european union and the u.k. is fading that's according to the european commission president or some of underlay and says london can't unilaterally change the u.k. e.u. withdrawal agreement because it's already been negotiated on choose the british m.p.'s gave initial approval to ibrox it bills but the government admits it could break international law it will give ministers the power to modify rules already agreed in the withdrawal agreements to offend targets because most important glaciers are we kidding and they're starting to terra parts scientists say the pine island waits glaciers are being damaged by the warming of our oceans and atmosphere there already contributed to around 5 percent of global sea level rise safford is

an environmental policy specialist at the university of california davis she explains the changes needed to slow the melting process. we actually have known for some time that these glaciers were melting and they were on the track that they were on track to perhaps one day disappear completely but we don't necessarily now was how quickly that was likely to happen and the mechanisms underlying the new studies that are coming out are showing are shedding light on that mechanism and indicating that melting is happy much more quickly and we had expected until recently there is a difference between these glaciers melting and the whole glacial system melting and we also have control over some of these things the fact that the glaciers are melting and that may be may eventually disappear or nearly completely that seems to be something that might be inevitable but the rate at which that happens that i think about it as a runner as you might know there's some distance away but you have control over how

quickly you are slowly you get there and you also have control over how painful it is along the way those translate into we can have control over how quickly we act and how strongly we act to mitigate climate change which will slow the pace at which the glaciers melt we also have control over the adaptation measures that we can take so that the melting isn't as costly to humans. were in tel aviv and the headlines on al-jazeera hurricane sally has swept ashore on the u.s. gulf coast bringing the threat of record flooding the category 2 storm has already cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and forced some people to evacuate jake ray has this update from mobile alabama. take a look at cricket. and you get the effect on me.

so i think that's going to pick up well and these are. the ones that you know for the next several hours mostly it's really really really just kind of lingering. in and. rushing when ariel really leave me out of the florida and well this is a man this grain of water is going to be the most. forward to the storm surge of their readers who are. the. the white house has approved oregon's disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to burn out of control in the western states hundreds of homes have been destroyed japan's emperor has appointed a new prime minister. was confirmed by

a parliamentary vote earlier on wednesday he's a longtime ally of the former prime minister. who resigned last month for health reasons refugees being moved into a new camp on the greek island of lesbos must be processed quickly so they can leave that's according to the u.n. $12000.00 people were left without shelter when the giants morea cam burned down last week there are fears the new camp will suffer the same overcrowding problems as the destroyed sites senior palestinian figures say they have been betrayed after the u.a.e. and signed u.s. brokered agreements to normalize ties with israel there been protests in gaza on the occupied west bank as well those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is up next thanks for watching.

some have called it the shadow pandemic violence against women and girls has increased during the cold $1000.00 outbreak so what should be done to protect the lives and ensure the safety in long term recovery plan this is inside story. hello and welcome to this special edition of inside story in collaboration with the e.u. u.n. spotlight initiative m 40 back to you bill it is one of the most persistent and widespread human rights violations and it happens in every country or.