this is. from berlin tonight a warning to the world not to forget its responsibility in syria as thousands begin to head of what could be the final battle in syria's civil war more than thirty thousand people have already fled but for some this kate is not an option we'll meet a teenager who has already been displaced by the war to a refugee camp in syria's last rebel stronghold also coming up brazil's workers'

party declares its candidate for october's presidential election and it's not lula da silva instead former mayor of cell paolo. takes the reins from the political i go off and hurricane florence on a collision course with the east coast of the united states presidents from virginia to south carolina are moving inland bracing for the wrath of a category four storm. gough it's good to have you with us tonight turkey is calling on the world to wake up to what is about to happen in syria in the u.s. newspaper the wall street journal turkish president. writes that the entire world stands to pay the price. a ban of salt on syria's if province and he adds the

consequences of inaction will be immense president everyone's warning comes as tens of thousands of people flee to escape the syrian and russian forces preparing to take the final rebel stronghold the u.n. says scores of people have been killed more than thirty thousand displaced in northwest syria in the past week alone many fear that the assad government will deploy chemical weapons in an all out assault. on many of the people fleeing the adlib offensive are heading north towards the border with turkey. he's only fourteen but omar hussain already knows what suffering is three years ago he fled to this refugee camp in northern it lib disabled traumatised and off and here he found safety he now sells food and drinks from this tent and.

i work hid day and night and managed to earn about a euro a day it's just enough to survive. not. omar's family home was hit by a barrel bomb in his hometown of hama the blast killed his parents and left him barely wounded. now go ahead with a helicopter bombed our house people had warned us about the air raids we were taken to hospital two weeks later i woke up and had the feeling something was missing. here they are saying. then i fell out of bed and i couldn't get back up that had my leg had been amputated. but that closed door. remained in hospital for three months and gradually learned to walk with crutches his body is covered in scars and he's racked with pain he's blind in one eye.

incredibly his youngest sister bushra survived the blast and injured they fled to live together. she had been a model student but school stopped after the bombs fell. i hope i can go back to school one day but it will be difficult i can't leave my brother alone in the tent . eight hundred families live at the camp on the syrian turkish border among them are hundreds of children only basic necessities are available here there's no real education and hardly any medical supplies hope faded long ago it's been replaced by worry of what's to come. we've noticed the air raids have started up again there's a lot of fear in the camp especially among women and children everyone is scared no one knows where to go we already fled the bombs once and that was to hear.

omar and bushra hussein alo don't want to flee again the border to turkey seems impossible and heading to a part of syria under government control is out of the question. i don't know where to go but of course i'd like to leave syria for better care. dreams of a better life he hopes he'll one day get a prosthetic leg and drugs to ease his pain but he is such relief is unlikely. the brazil's workers' party has named a replacement candidate for october's presidential election to take over from the imprisoned ignacio lula disbelief that it falls to former mayor friend though i doubt it will try to dislodge brazil's current right wing government the relatively

unknown donda was due to run as lucas deputy but now takes the reins from the ex-president he reportedly made his decision from his jail cell. hopes a groundswell of support following his incarceration will carry a dot to success lou lou was brazil's first working class president he remains very popular. every morning at nine o'clock it's the same routine loyal followers say good morning to luisa nassi olanda silva. they've been turning up here for the past five months convinced the former president has been wrongly imprisoned they say it's all this who had been legitimately elected with fifty four million votes. their goal wasn't only to remove her but also to keep president lula away from these elections

. the other twenty campers share this conviction they take turns at the vigil here at camp outside the prison where the former president is being held ironically it's a prison lula himself inaugurated eleven years ago he probably never thought that one day he would end up here in a fifteen square meter cell on the fourth floor. lula has many supporters in brazil but he also has many critics like in the city of quoted just a few minutes away from the prison. many here see him as a danger to the country. is popular because he and his party act like populists. it's all based on promises that he never fulfilled when he was a politician but what were you to. brazil is deeply divided politically and socially. it started when the middle class that

traditionally supported lula's workers' party became increasingly disillusioned with his leadership. this research get that balance people who work like i do don't support lula. the will vote on the he subsidizes families cooking gas and whatever else he simply buying the. equal that was bobby's by foreign loon after running as presidential candidate brazil's top electoral court has forced his party onto the back foot still lula's followers remain optimistic that the workers' party can still win. this mr names to come the surveys show that president lula is capable of transferring votes to someone else. you know. we're voting for a living even if the picture on the ballot shows fine and.

with elections just weeks away it looks like brazil's political crisis isn't going to end anytime soon. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the united states is marking the seventeenth anniversary of the september eleventh attacks in which nearly three thousand people lost their lives ceremonies were held at the three sides targeted by islamist terrorists including this one at the world trade center in new york city around a million people have taken to the streets of barcelona to demand kettle on independence from spain the protesters time to market cattle only as a national day protesters are also calling for regional separatist leaders to be freed from jail they're currently awaiting trial for their part in catalonia has failed bid to break away from madrid last year. the people of ghana are paying their final respects to former u.n. secretary general kofi anon his coffin is lying in state in the capital. the

nobel peace laureate who grew up in guyana will be given a state funeral on thursday he died in switzerland last month at the age of eighty . or russia has begun its biggest military exercises since the end of the cold war hundreds of thousands of russian troops have been joined in eastern siberia by soldiers from china and mongolia nato says the exercises show that russia is preparing for a large scale conflict military equipment from all over the country deploys for the largest rail since the fall of the soviet union a demonstration of military strength the likes of which has never been seen before in the russian federation according to the defense ministry three hundred thousand soldiers are involved that's a third of the country's troops thirty six thousand military vehicles and tanks are reported to be taking part as russia tries out its latest technology and for the

first time china is joining the war games until now only very close allies such as ballo groups have been allowed to participate a small contingent from mongolia is also involved. as the drills got underway russian president vladimir putin greeted his chinese counterpart cheating playing at the economic forum in flat yvonne stark the two countries are closer now than at any other time in their history d. to western sanctions russia is looking to deepen its economic ties with china no other leader has met putin more often than she only three thousand chinese soldiers are involved in the joint exercise a tiny minority but the message this sends is significant even if russia and china are at odds on some foreign policy issues such as crimea or eastern ukraine militarily at least they're moving closer together. and now here's a view from outer space of hurricane florence it is speeding towards the east coast of the united states and as you can see this is a very big storm currently

a category four hurricane florence is bringing winds of more than two hundred fifteen kilometers per hour authorities have warned that it will hit america's atlanta coast head on calls in power outages flooding and potential loss of life more than a million people in virginia and north and south carolina have been told to leave for safety. a foretaste of hurricane florence docklands the skies off the carolina coast the main storm is expected to make landfall with torrential rains and winds of more than two hundred kilometers per hour. we are planning for devastation this is not a storm this is not a glancing blow this is a category four category five storm whether you think you're in a safe building if it's not a. you know sort of. hurricane shelter i would encourage you to evacuate.

some one million people have now been ordered to evacuate coastal communities most are taking the advice seriously predicting property emptying supermarkets. and filling their tanks. cars. florence is growing in strength and is expected to hit land sometime late on thursday night at the same time as carolinas authorities urged people to be prepared as the hurricane approaches planning for the aftermath has already begun wherever you are in north carolina get ready for florence. the president request for a federal disaster declaration so that. resources can come quickly. police have reversed the flow of traffic on some highways so that all major roads

lead away from the sea florence the most severe hurrican to threaten the u.s. mainland this year will better the coast with massive waves and storm surges that will also send heavy rain and damaging winds far inland. in formula one former world champion jimmy no will leave at the end of this season he will move to south while ferrari will get twenty year old driver charles. now this remarks the end of a second spell with ferrari the finn became world champion with the italian team back in two thousand and seven this is the sixteenth season for the thirty eight year old and he's currently ranked third in the driver's stand ups. and here's a reminder the top story we're following for you turkey's president warning that the entire world stands to pay the price for an attack on syria as it lived tens of thousands have fled syrian and russian forces prepare to take the progress. you're

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