it's 56 percent of the population. thinks that this and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera 'd. america is a catastrophe and threatening a record flooding hits the u.s. south as oregon becomes the latest state to clear a wildfire emergency. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.n. investigators accuse venezuelan president nicolas maduro as government and security forces of crimes against humanity. more than 100000 homes damaged or destroyed the cleanup gets underway in sudan after weeks of flooding. you'll

see here soon becomes japan's new prime minister the nation faces its because economic downturn because of the pandemic. so then a 2 pronged whether assault in the united states is people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding in another slow moving hurricane sally has made landfall on the gulf coast it threatens to unleash heavy rain and catastrophic flooding and another powerful storm is also brewing in the atlantic that's hurrican teddy and it could hit bermuda as early as this weekend and on the other side of the u.s. coast it's in oregon wildfires are continuing to burn and forcing people out of their homes nearly 2000000 hectares of land has been charred and a federal disaster has been declared and the impact of those fires is now being

witnessed on an entirely different continent traces of smoke have been detected in europe which is 8000 kilometers away. we're going to now from jay gray who has more on hurricane sonny from my bill in alabama well we're still getting a lashing from the storm keep the brain continue to fall here and will be allowed a mammoth and giving you a perk and look at some of the other conditions here you can see the wind is really gusting in and throwing around freezing lamps here we know that trees are down across this city we also know that there's some significant damage to buildings and homes here as you move down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white apple obviously and this isn't going on for hours and will continue for several hours more we're going to continue to see this driving rain across this region the national weather service this morning will likely see historic plotting in many areas as a result of her teen valley it's still a category 2 storm it does seem to be moving

a bit of its strength but not enough to matter at this point and the real issue is it's just refuses to get up and move away and it has moved across the shoreline but it's been no hurry to clear this area and so that's the kind of thing that we're dealing with here right now and we'll continue to deal with for the next 7 to 8 hours or so we know that power is out to more than 400000 people across the region i'm afraid that number is going to climb as well if again we just continue to take a beating this really just the opening of what's going to be a long and very difficult right here. when as i mentioned along the west coast of the united states they're into the 2nd week of battling wildfires and as we reported the state of oregon is the latest hot spot let's hear now from rob reynolds who's in estacado. 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 covered chimneys and burned out vehicles are all that remains 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 evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash it's 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 it and 95 rather than just that quatermass because. 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 florida does it never happen i mean we've had fires you know open up in the national forth before they've never been this close to the canada and i've lived here 33 years they've never been that close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss haslam 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 over this. is birds that anything that we can do to help out families that are in need thank you you know with the fires and everything we 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 the herbal 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. well 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 river nile in its waters recede residents are struggling to clean up and make repairs it morgan reports now from khartoum. this is what the inside 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 hiring a what are 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 nile 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. abdellatif 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 all 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 a lot so that this doesn't happen again really who live in the banks of the mine we 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 the lottery 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 and as there are hundreds and. venezuelan security forces are committed crimes against humanity with the knowledge and support of the president nicolas maduro that is the finding of independent investigators commissioned by the un's top human rights agency their report finds police and military killed and tortured anti madeira protesters they also used tactics including arbitrary detentions the authors conclude the crimes are part of state policy and they were not isolated incidents the findings are based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses and they say the international criminal court should open an investigation for celss a member of the u.n. fact finding mission on the republican venezuela he says the evidence shows that president maduro and members of his government supported the tactics. the findings

are i think very clear that what we see is that in allusion to at least formal policies that we don't live in the normal sense 24 team one an allusion to. the martin name under which many many people were killed due to the serial real association with juvenile groups and the other policy in relation to what amounts to political suppression and the activities that were carried no not called newton organized in many ways on this nation when the looking at things one culture and institution kill and some of the more spontaneous we do find the president and the minister of interior minister of finance and the directors of the relevant organizations of intelligence and morton and they knew of no use and disappeared in these activities and in an ideal situation we were independent and impartial investigations by the authorities in venezuela. it's not ours to.

net remained to the i.c.c. important and injured execute no mandate what we can say is that if you thought it is and then smaller than what do you have to do now quite clearly or those with the nice incentives mind you so those investigations a horrific combination of failures by boeing engineers and mismanagement that is the conclusion of a u.s. house investigation which blames the plane maker for 2737 max crashes that killed 3 $146.00 people the report says a series of decisions by boeing employees led to the crash of a lioness and an ethiopian airlines flight within 6 months of each other report also places blame on the federal aviation administration for what it calls grossly insufficient oversight have the entire 737 max fleet is still grounded worldwide our white house correspondent can we help it has more. yet another report and there isn't a lot that is particularly new here in terms of isolation but what this report is

is the most comprehensive to date in terms of outlining the failures not only on the part of boeing the manufacturer but also on the part of the federal aviation administration or the agency that oversees aviation in the united states often referred to as the f.a.a. what they say in this report by house democrats in the transportation committee is there was a pattern of technical miscalculations management misjudgments an oversight lapses and also a severe lack of accountability when it came to the oversight now what this basically says is there wasn't one singular event that caused these crashes but instead it was the culmination of technical assumptions not only by boeing's engineers but also by the lack of transparency by the management so this is a particularly damning report for the company but also its sights gross mismanagement on the part of the f.a.a. . here on al-jazeera we'll hear from the families of girls kidnapped in pakistan

who were forced to marry convert to islam. and fighting for the hispanic votes joe biden looks to win over florida is the hardest for. hello there very cloudy picture across much of north asia there's also been plenty of rain in the forecast for the last few days this kind of cloud is an area of low pressure working its way through the northeast is beginning to ease a little bit now the heavy rain is further to the south working its way throughout say across these western areas of japan's a very heavy amounts of rain this could produce some localized flooding it will continue to work its way across much of honshu up into. through friday but as it does that things begin to drive across central areas of china but

a lot of that is also to do this mass you can see down to the south and that is the latest tropical storm that is heading towards vietnam taking the moisture on the rains with it then from there we head across into south asia again of course have seen some particularly heavy rains up into the pool for the last few days and they haven't really eased off or got more of that as we go through thursday the northeast of india as well and very widespread throughout much of bangladesh not particularly heavy downpours but of course a so much of bangladesh is still under water but meanwhile we've got through thursday more heavy rains across maharashtra and read it does mean for the next few days it's going to stay very unsettled in mumbai those shows developing again generally late in the day and really through friday extending down the western ghats the right way down south into carola. but. an image can change the way we see the wu if we had not seen this we would be talking about it it can spark mass action or serve the interests of the

powerful he created this longing for a follow up or any act that can obscure the truth this is a legitimate news story that is correct and that talking points are pretty identical it can forge narratives or rewrite through the listening post gives you the full picture on a. better get you watching our desire or mine about top stories and harken sally has swept ashore in the u.s. gulf coast from the threat of record flooding the country to storm has already cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and his 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 state hundreds of thousands of people strike. the u.s. house investigation blames boeing and management for 2737 max crashes that killed 346 people the report also placing the blame on the federal aviation administration for what it calls grossly insufficient oversight entire 77 next week is still grounded worldwide. japan's emperor has formally inaugurated the new prime minister no she he is a long time ally of former prime minister shinzo who resigned last month for health reasons but pride has more from seoul. it's the ultimate victory for a self-made politician yasha he had a super who in a career spanning decades has finally risen to the highest political office in the land. in contrast to many of japan's previous prime ministers his previous sessa

shinzo r.v. included suger does not come from one of japan's elite political dynasties he's the son of a strawberry farmer his elevation means a change in style but not in substance as a faithful right hand man to say he is expected to follow the same conservative economic policies while applying his acknowledged problem solving skills to the continuing coded 19 crisis and the ill fated tokyo olympics that the pandemic has delayed and now threatens to wreck a well known figure on the domestic political stage it was suga as powerful chief cabinet secretary who heralded last year's succession of emperors unveiling the name of the new imperial era. his appointment as prime minister was confirmed at an imperial palace audience with emperor and narrow hito while hardworking and

reliable many believe he lacks the charisma needed for the job in particular in his dealings with other world leaders. that's something that comes naturally to shinzo of a who leaves the office having set a record as japan's longest serving prime minister but i try so much i would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who supported me in both tough and difficult times i submitted a method on the next today the sugar and demonstration will be born again i would like to ask for your strong support for the ruling l.d.p. party sue gars mission is to act as continuity prime minister for the next year before elections are called with japan's. counting problems sugandha needs to prove he has the required leadership skills to do that rob mcbride al-jazeera. refugees be moved into a new camp on the greek island of les boss must be processed quickly so they can

leave says the un now 12000 people were left without shelter when the giant maria come down last week 6 people are due to appear in court over the fight at the u.n. representative in greece has asked for european help to house the residents there are fears the new camp will suffer the same overcrowding problems as the destroyed site stephanie decker has the latest now from lesbos. at the moment this is the only option the greek authorities are saying where they can ensure that the refugees in the migrants have you know food shelter and most importantly where they're going to process their paperwork a lot of people are still reluctant you can probably see them having bought some some things in some supermarkets ahead and then they pull them back to the street where they're currently living those that are not in the camp because the conditions in moria are down or so desperate and we've had a visit here of the u.n. our head of the group office of the u.n. agency that deals with refugees and i asked him you know they themselves have

criticized whether you know he was satisfied with this one but 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 that insomuch as we speak. is a pushing the. 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. become overcrowded because it's unmanageable so it's overcrowded and it's also having to do with allowing these people to leave the island the sense of speeding up their paperwork the other side of the story is that basically the islanders are fed up they've been hosting this population for years now many people many of them want them to leave completely but certainly you know this camp is expanding still the army is expanding its certainly seems at the moment and even the message from the greek authorities is that people are not leaving the island any time soon. the

british prime minister has defended a proposed law that will allow his government to have a right of its withdrawal agreements with the e.u. . insists it will help uphold the u.k.'s economical and territorial integrity he told m.p.'s to support the internal markets bill which cleared its 1st parliamentary hurdle this week the government admits the bill could break international law but dismisses concerns it will will undermine the good friday agreement. this bill is intended to uphold the economic the political territorial integrity of the united kingdom and i believe it to be supported by every member of this house. that's enough and not in barber who's in london he says the british prime minister remains defiant in the european parliament the european commission head sort of underlying quoting the. margaret thatcher the previous conservative prime minister of course saying that breaking international law is not in britain's interest and not in the interest of future trade deals just

a very un subtle hint bars johnson about how she feels about the way he's going about this internal markets bill which passed its 1st meeting here in the house of commons on monday which is coming back next week for a possible amendment by some of johnson's own conservative party are unhappy with the message it sending to the outside world over trust and over future trade deals in parliament today boris johnson was told by the a senior representative of the scottish national party that the proposed bill also snatches back devolved powers from scotland and the devolved nations johnson rejects that he's also hit by carter there's been a stern warning from the u.s. congress that this kind of move could really thwart a future u.s. u.k. free trade deal he's denying that it would damage the good friday peace agreement

which is at the heart of much of the argument more than a 1000 girls in pakistan are kidnapped every year forced to marry and to convert to islam prime minister imran khan says the practice must stop traffic has this report . jali but he and her family a pakistani they didn't lose they like generations of hindus or long before the partition of india and 947 have lived in the southern province of sindh all their lives the ali says on september the 10th 3 armed men forced their way into her home and kidnapped her 15 year old daughter. there i don't know what they have done to her if she is alive or not and what about her life here 2. police suspect pasha who is 3 years under the legal age of marriage in pakistan has been forced to convert to islam and marry a muslim man. for our human rights commission of pakistan says more than

a 1000 normal muslim girls were 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 by the 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 see a. lot 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 on the sly mick. 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 to the age limit. they threaten 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 and 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. thank god passes home her family is distraught the ali says she can't live without her daughter and she just wants her back stratford al-jazeera. hundreds of his edict jews trying to visit a pilgrimage site in ukraine is stuck at the country's border with belarus ukraine is accused by a rooster bag of waiting the standoff every jewish new year tens of thousands of

pilgrims travel to the town one man to visit the tomb of rabbi adama this year they were warned by the israeli new craving government not to travel because of coronavirus restrictions many have now. at the border for days with no food money or shelter a calling on israel to deliver a. u.s. stem across a presidential candidate joe biden has kicked off his campaign in florida he's seeking the support of hispanic voters republican attack ads are painting biden as a socialist a message that resonates in with conservatives from both biden and president donald trump florida is seen as a must win state and you've got to hear reports now from miami. if joe biden wants to win in november as presidential election he'll need the majority of floridians to back him including this state's crucial latino vote says the former vice president knows there's a lack of enthusiasm and deep mistrust of what the republican party calls his

socialist agenda this then is a chance for biden to convince hispanic voters who make of 20 percent of flowers as a lecture it that he's a man down chumps failed hispanic community time and time again and that's not a secret where the tunas heinous act of separating children from the families on our border or his repeated attacks on dreamers are neglecting the people in puerto rico after hurricane maria or his repeated failure to make sure essential workers have the personal protective equipment they need i'm going to be good to go down as almost rest of the president's american history republican attack ads have been hitting home in this battleground state many like biden's politics to nations latinos fled a message that resonates with conservative voters 5th will his administration will lean too far to the left the biden campaigns hitting back spending millions targeting voters with spanish language ads democratic party organizers say the republican party is playing with people's emotions.

when you pop into your ear. meaning. president trump launched his latinos for truck campaign last year and he's continued to court hispanic voters across the country despite the fact that latinos historically vote democratic polls in florida show a tight race between the 2 candidates but many hispanic americans came here to pursue the american dream right came we all want the america i want the american dream we all want the american dream just isn't if you look at what they're asking for it's like the american nightmare that many in the democratic party in florida have reportedly been urging joe biden to pay more attention to the latino. vote for months hillary clinton narrowly lost to president trump here in 2016 that beat the president in support from latinos by a large margin it's long been said that all roads to the white house go through florida both candidates a keenly aware of the importance of the state and its latino vote in this

presidential election latino voters may be the hardest force over and ultimately the most crucial and gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. so this is out there these are the headlines and harken 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 for some people to evacuate. has more now from maybe. we're still getting a lashing from the storm in the brain continue to fall here and will be a lot of them and given your heart can look at some of the other conditions here you can see the wind is really just think it's been growing around the land here we know that these are down across this city we also know that there's simply never

going to damage the buildings and homes here if you move down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white obviously and different been going on for hours and will continue for several hours or we're going to continue to see the driving rain across this region the national weather service this morning will likely be his story wanting in many areas as a result of hurricane charley the white house has approved oregon's disaster declaration make it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to burn out of control in the western state hundreds of homes have been destroyed. a u.s. house investigation blames boeing mismanagement for 2737 max crashes that killed 346 people the report also places blame on the federal aviation administration for what it calls grossly insufficient oversight the entire 7373 to still grounded world wide. japan's emperor has appointed a new prime minister. is

a longtime ally of former prime minister shinzo i mean he 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 people were left without shelter when they jot down last week fears the new count will suffer the same overcrowding problems. the british prime minister has defended a proposed law that would allow his government to override parts of its withdrawal agreement with the e.u. johnson insists it will help hold the u.k.'s economic and territorial integrity a government admits the bill could break international law but dismisses concerns that it will undermine the good friday agreement. all right europe start with the headlines here and odds are more coming up right after the string of now. i am steve clemons i quite like it about these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues

that are shaping the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. i live and work you're watching the stream today we are looking at 3 compelling coded 19 stories from around the well as india's surge in coated cases europe's 2nd wave and also the vaccine trials in the united states hoping to involve minorities so much to do so little time if you see or hear something say something in the you cheap comments and you too can be part of today's show that starts in india. businesses job losses and have also been the justice of mental health. we are actually just and soon.