the me ah, i use extreme flooding in central china forces around 200000 people to flee lying areas. ah, i have them. i have been and this is al jazeera life and go home, also coming up a desperate situation unfolding in the end, mar, a health care system on edge. she has a new wave of cologne. a virus spreads on checks across the country,

seeking asylum, vaccination, the going problem, the us mexico border corona virus, threatening those last night of an occupation effort and a promise of widespread reform books. he's only only half the country. president federal casteel faces a tough challenge. ah, the death tool is maintained from unprecedented flooding, sweeping across central china. at least 12 people have been killed in the city of john jo. whether experts say it's been hit by the heaviest rainfall in generations with more rain forecast, as the possibility of dam in the region could collapse at any time between the u. reports from bay june flood water wreaking havoc across china's her, none province. the damage visible as far as i can see. the army is warning under

the regent. 7 stricken dams may collapse at any time risking the lives of around 7000000 people have downpours, have flooded streets. stranding travelers bring the region to a standstill cause a completely submerged as residents of swept away underground unmistakable panic among these passengers trapped inside a submerged subway car or waste deep waters rising to their shoulders. the emergency crews reportedly opening a hole in the roof, evacuating passengers one by one this terrifying moment, sure as bystanders swallowed by a sink hole with a crowd rescuing this woman. a deafening explosion at this aluminum factory after a nearby river bursts banks the flood water mixed with chemicals. lighting up the

night sky. the government has been upgrading its emergency response. the crews working round the clock to rescue residence inside the flooded homes, and cars increased as an, as ations and climate change has worsened the impact of floods. in recent years. this is the most rainfall the region has seen in 6 decades with no sign of letting up anytime soon. katrina, you are 0, updating the international olympic committee has just been under the next 50 to who's the 2032 summer lympics. oh yeah. i'm sorry. my b, b thirds, it's through the 50, so the games. melbourne. had it in 1956. then of course sidney played host in to me

a new ways of covert 19 infections. a suddenly spread across me and mar, leaving the country's medical infrastructure on the edge of collapse. high profile victim senior advisor and spokesman for the national league for democracy or n l d as died fall in jail after contracts in the virus. a warning, know that tony change report shows some distressing images. on the old issue, emergency medical responders enter a house in east, gone in young, gone by the doorway. a middle aged man sits as if he just dozed off to sleep. in a bedroom, an old man. his father lies unmoving on the bed. both men are dead, suspected victims of coven 19 as it spreads. uncheck a cross man ma. elsewhere, mere mas largest city. they've been cuing through the night to refill oxygen canisters most have to risk breaking the military imposed curfew to get in line

with a weight of at least 12 hours ahead of them. for some, it's too long. my sister has been suffering from coven 19 for 3 days. but while i was queuing to fill the oxygen tank this morning, my niece called me to come home as my sister died, because she ran out of oxygen. now the pandemic is playing the life of a senior and the politician when the spokesman and legal advisor to uncensored chief party, he was jailed by the military following the crew of the contracting covered 19 in prison. he died in hospital on tuesday night. even getting help to those who needed his hard, natty, used to live in young, gone. now she's trying to raise funds for oxygen and aid to send back from neighboring thailand. from the report she's guessing from inside me on my the official death toll of several 100 people a day is a gross underestimate. the volunteers and the ambulance. people say that all the in

young gone alone. 6 to 800 people died every day since last week. so of course, the number that we see from the official shadow of the government. the government is not really reliable across se asia nations and being overwhelmed by coven 19 as the delta variance sweeps across the region. but no, we're the defense is weaker than the miasma. where those charge was fighting. the pandemic had been arrested by the military. no social distancing this young going crematorium for the living or the dead bodies stacked, waiting for the furnace relatives waiting to get to the front of the queue. ambulances empty of their patience and a smoke stack, bellowing black smoke. tony ching al jazeera health authorities of rants up testing in australia with the state of new south

wales and victoria recording a steady vines in cases where the 140000 people were tested in the 2 states on tuesday a single day where chords the largest city and new south wales, sidney has been locked in for the past month. in an efforts to contain the spread. had we not gone into the lockdown a few weeks ago? the 110 number today would undoubtedly have been thousands and thousands. there is no doubt about that. so we've been extremely successful in limiting the spread to what we have today. but we need to work hard to go with 19 restrictions have been extended in indonesia that a serge of infections, their president joker would go to says they'll remain in place until at least july 25th. cases in indonesia are among the highest in the world. run. 50000 reported every day last week. most of them have been linked to the delta variance american's

life expectancy found my a year and a half in 2020. the biggest decline says world war 2. among black and hispanic americans, the drawer was even more dramatic. and average of 3 years. the centers for disease control says it is mostly due to the pandemic. $1.33 americans died last year. more than any other year on records go with 19 accounted for more than a 10th of those death. israel has one of the highest banks nation rates in the world, but the delta variance referred to search infections. now the country has begun giving a 3rd dose over thank seen to high risk patients who the other honey it has more from tell of is it's the last section of the population to be vaccinated. 12 year old and teenagers, they are considered less at risk, but immunizing them has now become a priority. there are socket,

the vaccination because they absorb that the virus, they don't show any symptoms, but somehow in fact that as they're ready. so they are the israel managed to vaccinate its way out of depend demik with more than 80 percent of the population above the age of 40. having received their 2 doses for 3 consecutive weeks, they were no corona virus related death. israel was hailed as a success story and the government lifted social distances rules no matter where required indoors and international travel was allowed to gain. but that was short lived. those returning to the country have brought with them the delta variant, and it's spreading at an alarming pace. accounting for around 90 percent of all new infections. the country is grappling with an increase in daily infections now at a 4 month high. so the government took to bold move of introducing a 3rd vaccine,

a booster shot at the moment available only for specific cases. only patients with chronic diseases or an already compromised immunity system. i, legible for the 3rd jap. that raises the question of how effective is defined the vaccine, the only one available in israel, in the longer term health official say its effectiveness has gone down to about 64 percent when it comes the delta variant. when you look on the long term, and now we're looking on longer term, it was supposed to be reduce a little more chance of becoming infected, even if it was reduce from 90 to 60 as effect, this is p c r positive test positive. but this is not being sick and i'm not really interest of reducing the people

being positive on the p. c. r. i want to reduce hospitalization. i want to reduce mortality. still the government is worried. obligatory face mass indoors has been re introduced and there are new current teen rules for returning travelers. more restrictions could be imposed in the days to come. what happens next is a concern for everyone here in israel. and for those around the world who are closely monitoring, however fully immunized society faces, new limitations of covert 19 the meat of 0. israel police in nigeria say they secured the release of 100 women and children who were kidnapped 6 weeks ago. they were don't say in northwestern's, i'm far as state. heavily on criminal gangs are responsible for space of kidnappings for ransom in the region. the dream has more from boucher what we know

right now he's the 124. people have been released among them h. women, 20 children, and we understand that $100.00 have been released so far and there are $24.00 more to be evacuated. they couldn't, they couldn't have been evacuating them was impossible yesterday simply because of the condition they were in. a lot of them were injured. we understand. and right now, the operation happened in a forest in, for a state bordering 3 state. and these are the key states why the bandits or the gunman have been operating at a report of both of them for i can be and niger states and was seen at tax rising in recent months. and the police are saying that they have not paid ransom for the release of these individuals. and the reports we getting is that these individuals have been collected by these bandits about period of time, from several villages, ends up for right in nyja and kevin state. and they were camped that fill ahead,

so i'll just sarah, bringing a close to 2 weeks of uncertainty. 18 you prime minister has sworn in. and german chancellor anglo merkel visits one of the times worst hits my life. people say age isn't surviving fast enough. ah. hello there. let's dot in se, asia and things are looking rather wet and windy for more than the areas of the philippines. that thanks to typhoon info, which is moving towards taiwan. but we're seeing some pretty heavy rain and strong winds, affecting manila and the surrounding areas. we've got another typhoon that's touched the southern coast of china, and that's what's really wet and windy weather to vietnam. but indo china feeling the full impact of those monsoon rains,

particularly in the west. me and mom and northern areas of thailand being inundated with those rains, but for the south, for malaysia and indonesia, things are looking a lot dryer, but chicago will see some of that wet weather as we go into fried anyhow. move down under its rhonda divided picture. we've got fine and dry conditions to the north of australia. but in the south we are seeing those wetter and windier conditions. we got a weather system sweeping across the south and that springs from storms and showers brisk winds to southern areas of new south wales for victoria and tasmania. it's looking cloudy in perth on thursday, but as we go into friday, the wet weather arrives with that weather system. as we move across to new zealand . it's a rather unsettled picture for the south island, but things will clear as we go into friday. the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. or

small to continue the change all around shape my technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you and your business. ah the me. this is out of the record reminder of our top stories. this are at least 15. 16 people rather have died in severe floods in china's and province. whether experts

say it's a result of the heaviest rainfall in generations before rain forecast as the possibility of them in the region to collapse. at any moment, a rapidly wave of infections are suddenly spread across me and mark, leaving the country medical infrastructure on the edge collapse. experts say the true number of cases and death is much higher than what's being reported. and the international olympic committee has just the nice the next city chosen to who for 2013 summerlin fix will be brisbin present. that will, of course, the, the 3rd just really 50 to who's the games now, the 1st that it in 1956, then sidney played host in see that will for more or less and cross know to andy, riches, and he joins us now from inside the talk, you 2020 the media center, and it looks like the show must go on despite all the recent difficulties. and as

crispin's turn for the spotlights, when nothing ever happens involving the olympics without an element of control. so normally on these occasions when, when we're looking at a future olympics, there's a number of bidding city of the final presentation on a day like this. and then a vote is made. that hasn't happened this time around. this been a complete transformation in the way these 2032 games are distributed back in february. it was announced that brisbin was the preferred bidder for the i. c. and not meant the other interested cities and nations including cattle indonesia, india, they're also bits. percolating in spain and in germany ross to sit on the sidelines . while the i see discussed with principal how viable that was, how sustainable it was, and how cost efficient it could be. because in their eyes, those and the key things heading into the limpid games to try and use existing venues. and only tease the news that are going to cost huge amounts of money.

see the house nation. now, some arguments about a conflict of interest here. thomas bank, the money put in charge of setting up what's described as the future host commission is john coach, who is by chance in australian. one of his closest allies, a vice president within the money, was behind the organizing the sydney, 2000 games. and the man in charge of that house commission being an australian, and funnily enough, hey, we all with, with a host city from australia. so some criticism about the transparency in this process. and really a huge challenge ahead for brisbin to make sure that these games taste sustainable and economically viable since $976.00 and the games and material on average host cities go over budget by not less than 213 percent. so a huge challenge ahead for brisbin he's shown to have brisbin. now give a huge challenge ahead for talk you as well, but more on that on the days and weeks to come and i read, she said in tokyo,

thank you very much in deeds now peruse, president relax has promised changes coming after a long ends of vices. election periods left his teacher and union leader, petro kasteel, has been declared the winner, 6 weeks after the one off. he beats his white way, opponents by just 44000 votes. the official results were delayed by occupations of fraud by losing candidate keiko which he maury, mariana sanchez, reports from nima. there will be differences in an equally polarized country. nearly half of peruvians, superficial cake for humanity are disappointed to the election result. you won the presidency with just 50 point one percent of the vote. the on monday you issued a call for unity. i asked that kickoff would you marie, not to barriers in the way that we move forward and make this the government of all

to be nearing the finish line last week, commodities to produce play to which the presidential palace by force. he said to take over the government and prevent and left wing precedent to take over. so he morty, has asked supporters to protest piece. however, she said, steals proclaim, mission is illegitimate, and accused of your party of stealing votes from her or let her go today. i swear i will not give up. i invite you to put up a real democratic defense. peru needs all social and political forces united to stop communism, defend free press, and democracy who took a theme will not only have to face a strong opposition in congress, but also from party members. right, before you think over the government, the free, better party who represents will meet analysts say its members may demand that

you're implementing radical left wing policies. highly unpopular. among most peruvians, the most peruvian se they're more afraid of their economic situation. nearly one 3rd are no poor them because left more than 3000000 people without jobs, despite the dire conditions, some peruvian say, it's time to put political divisions aside. that was, i think we wish him the best of success we'll have to work together for revolutionary change, for the wellbeing of everyone. without differences in all is one of those who voted for gusty. you say they are less concerned about him implementing any sort of extremist measures. they just want to watch his actions closely and not give him a blank check. with my son just, i'll just see the lima biddle. colombians have been present senior days, the government to mark independence day. the demonstrations and buckets on were led by union events, shouldn't say the policies as president ivan has led to move poverty and inequality

. the government has been criticized for cracking down or protest at home, supporting dissidence in cuba and ally and friend, a former us president donald trump has been arrested on foreign lobby and charges. us justice department says thomas barrack and 2 others are charged with acting as agents of the united arab emirates, brought chairs trumps inaugural funds and helps him get elected. the 3 men are accused seeking to influence us public opinion in favor offer you a violence has broken ice and several cities in runs all rich because of some province. i from the faces of the water shortages continued for the 6 consecutive night. security forces on shore to disperse the crowds, at least 3 protectors were killed at the time of the official from the city of

michaud say, a police officer was also shot dead during the rallies. haiti has a new prime minister after 2 weeks of uncertainty following the assassination of the precedence. the death of juvenile moses, led to paris, struggle, now falling and international intervention arial own re has emerged as the troubled nations, new leader and a garrison reports. the former swearing in of our l on re, is haiti's, new prime minister, is an attempt to end days of uncertainty following the assassination of president. javan. i'm always acting prime minister closures f appeared to be in charge. following the brazen attack on movies, he stepped aside to allow on read to take the reins. the 71 year old neurosurgeon is calling for unity. but he's facing a long list of social and political issues that we will create a secure, reliable, and stable environment to facilitate political activities throughout the country.

we will expect massive participation in the next presidential election. the highest participation of citizens of voting age on re, is appointed his cabinet with the goal of leading haiti to new elections that's being problematic previously leading to my ruling by decree, but hate his future may depend on a free and fair vote. next help up us up with this government wide. think for the people there unpopular, they're only thinking for the elite again at the expense of the haitian people. we can expect anything serious from this government. do why we say to this new government. welcome because to be the haitian people, we want actions from them that we would like the new government to solve the crisis of the country to solve the problems of slum neighborhoods. many haitians see these as dangerous times, an unreason to national backing is regarded by some as a problem. anybody, they sort of back or anoint or push is going to be seen with a lot of skepticism by the haitian people. i think people are,

are very wary about international community involvement in haiti at this time, but of course they want aid, but they don't want the interference and a meddling the movie memorial services to 53 o job anomalies of being held even as the investigation into his assassination continues on tuesday, haitian authorities made more arrests, including people said to be police officers that they appear no closer to finding out why he was killed in the last a cowardly assassination. of the president of the republic constitutes a real national drama. we have a duty to consider it at such, including those in hiding and at any counter conflict. while the international community is pushing, this impoverished nation to hold elections, other se voting won't solve haiti's problems. many key institutions have failed, gangs control large parts of puerto prince and the economy leads and ruins stakes. the haiti couldn't be hired and to galka al jazeera,

the leader of townsend. he has main opposition. party has been arrested 3 mountain boy and 11 other members of the team. a policy were detained and late night. why is my police? they were accused of inciting an unauthorized assembly breach of co with 19 rules. so the ma was funding a conference to demand a constitutional form. german chancellor, anglo merkel has promised to speed up financial support for victims of devastating floods that have killed at least 160 people. federal and state governments are contributing to a 470000000 dollar emergency funds. on tuesday, marco visited, but i feel one of the worst hit time. so people say age isn't arriving fast enough . steadfast and reports with their bare hands and a lot of determination chain. so fallen tears clean up one house after the other.

this story town of batman the i felt so sweet washed away by the power of the swollen river r jeanette dinner and her husband feared a 400 year old house has become uninhabitable after water. inundated the ground. floor to coppell are known as the gatekeepers of the centuries old fortress and work as to guides. i spoke best, but we always told tourists about the horrible flood in 1956 when part of the wolves disappeared. but the one in 2021 is a very special story. i can't talk about it now. perhaps i'll be able to intent in at the moment. i can't. when chancellor, i'm going to america was touring the town. some residents complained she was hampering the clean up. she's blocking everything we now can't use the machines that is annoying has been standing there for a while. this is outrageous. the 30 people you want to continue to work to rebuild or city what words it can be done. thousands of hands are working long

hours to clear rubble from the trees and houses, but after 5 days of hard work from here. so i getting tired and frustrated. i feel that on their own i'm can't rely on help from the authorities. the boomer family will help by 40 volunteers will clear their house of debris in no time. they don't think merck of visit is doing anything to improve their situation. thanks to the cycle for it would only help if she brings bags full of money for those who have lost everything. words alone, don't make any difference. merkel, after 16 years as chancellor will be replaced after elections in september did promise financial support. soon. even the minds on the financial aid must go to the people as soon as possible. he more often than not have nothing more than the clothes say a wearing and a completely reliance on this rapid and are worried. the process of delivering that

emergency 8 will be long and bureaucratic, so for now they rely on family friends and complete strangers that fast and al jazeera blackman's, the belgium has held a minute of silence to mourn. 31 people killed influence in the countries east. the doesn't, sir. still missing. the belgian king and queen joined the prime minister in vivia. one of the hardest hit times, sirens resend it at foreign stations across the country. the for the moment, silence. the whole public transport holders in the capital from okay is from huge one far as burning on the west coast of the us has made its way as far east as new york city. the largest foreign has been burning for 2 weeks in the state of oregon. it's destroyed more than 157000 acres of brush and forest firefighters are still battling the blazes. for hollywood,

producer harvey weinstein has been extradited from new york to los angeles to face a 2nd trial and rape and sexual assault charges. last year. he was sentenced to 23 years in prison in new york for sexual assault and rape. the 69 year old is appealing that conviction and sentence and the milwaukee bucks made history. after securing their 1st n b a championship in 50 years. it was an emotional moment for 26 years old and peter couldn't, paul, who was chosen to see who's you player to think that the phoenix son is 10598 game, 6 of the finals to win the series or games 50. ah, this is al jazeera.