planet earth is here plenty sixty of. the global. this week w. a a. this is. from berlin tonight two powerful storms on opposite sides of the world coming ashore and putting millions of lives in danger hurricane florence has made landfall on the u.s. east coast pounding the region with rain and causing storm surges meanwhile. monk who has now reached the northern philippines where mass evacuations are underway

also coming one of the biggest blows yet to u.s. president his former campaign chairman. today pleaded guilty to criminal charges plus a global to eradicating stream poverty falls short. reports from nigeria where the number of people living on less than two dollars a day is on the wrong. it's good to have you with us hurricane florence has reached the united states states of north and south carolina a picture of devastation is being created as we speak florence which was downgraded to a category one storm made landfall on the east coast of the u.s. battery the carolinas with strong winds and heavy rain the storm is moving slowly and is expected to dump rain on the coast well into the weekend hundreds of

thousands of people have lost power storm surges are being reported and rescue crews are scrambling to save scores of people who ignored evacuation orders. what do you use my as waiter is on the ground force in elizabeth city in north eastern north carolina good evening to you miami did you know you guys where you are you were able to escape before blunt of the hurricane but this hurricane is massive what's the situation where you are. fran we're actually just about to start feeling the backside of the hurricane right where we are the wind is picking up the clouds are moving very quickly as you can see the marina behind me has just been evacuated in preparation for what they're expecting is going to be some very severe downfall the river behind me has been swelling all day and is starting to overflow its banks just here now this is just a small fraction of what happened farther south down the coast in north and parts

of south carolina especially in new bern and wilmington where there are now hundreds of thousands of people who are out of power and a couple hundred had to be rescued from cars and addicks that were being very quickly flooded this morning and we know over a million people were asked to leave their homes have all of those people have the you have done what to authorities have asked them to do. so an authority in virginia who we spoke with yesterday said that yes there are mandatory evacuation zones but the mandatory evacuations actually not enforceable and we were ourselves in virginia yesterday were in what was a mandatory evacuation zone and there were plenty of people who were strolling along the beach walking their dogs in gale force hurricane winds very much in defiance of the order and very simply there are some people who can't evacuate even when ordered to there are elderly disabled people there are undocumented immigrants who are scared of going to government shelters for fear of exposing themselves and

being arrested arrested and of course there are people who maybe have pets they can't take with them and they don't want to leave behind all sorts of reasons that people have besides simply saying i don't think it's going to be that bad and i'm going to stay with my home and my we know that forecasters say the storm will continue to pose a threat well into the weekend simply because of its size and where it is what are authorities bracing for in the hours to come the outlook is definitely the biggest part of the concern for the outlook is definitely the flooding still we are still expecting the massive floods to stay where they are as the hurricane continues to downpour on parts of the carolinas and the story coming up is of course going to be the approximately five hundred thousand people who are now without power in the region what is going to happen to them how are the authorities going to spawn how are the electric companies going to get out to where they are even as the waters start to recede. all right our correspondent on your

sweater on the story for us tonight in elizabeth city in north carolina where they are bracing for more of hurricane florence maya thank you. and on the other side of the planet a super typhoon is now slamming the northeastern philippines packing winds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour more than five million people are at risk from the storm mass evacuations are now underway. the years strongest recorded storm so far beginning to be felt in lose on northern philippines a super typhoon equivalent to a category five hurricane packing winds of up to two hundred five kilometers per hour for reference hurricane florence the storm currently battering the east coast of the united states is a category one. this typhoon can lift because you can't really stand you can even

crawl against these wind that's how strong it is so in many areas many trees that are in the way of the storm could possibly be operated whorehouses even study houses can lose their roofs. more than four million people are directly in man gets path thousands continue to be evacuated that i'm scared i think this is a very powerful typhoon not more powerful than the recent one summer months that's why we're frightened. people are preparing their houses for the worst that the storm can give including farmers typhoon man that will pass through the philippines corn and rice growing hartland were to get to turkey president of the philippines has been asking farmers to harvest what they could fearing a massive hit both food supplies and agricultural sector. experts say this storm is as powerful as two thousand and thirteen typhoon haiyan which left more than seven

thousand three hundred people dead and displaced over five million for now the philippines braces itself. well today another blow to u.s. president donald trump his former campaign chairman paul man of fort hood has pleaded guilty to two criminal counts as part of a deal to cooperate with special counsel robert muller miller is investigating possible collusion between trump's presidential campaign and russia metaphor has pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy against the united states and he wanted conspiracy to obstruct justice last month he was convicted in a bridge in your court on bank and tax fraud charges he was due to go on trial a second time on related charges but today's deal means that most of those charges have been dropped or let's take this now to washington d.c. our correspondent is on the story for us going to you mike is that we got man a for

pleading guilty in the hearing and will now cooperate with the justice department this is quite a turnaround from the way he approached his previous trial isn't it it's a total turnaround claiming his innocence all these months while they were investigating one court has already found him guilty on a council tax fraud bank fraud and also lying to the government this is a big deal and a big blow to the trumpet ministration because he is now willing to cooperate with the special counsel robert muller who is investigating whether there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government and now he's going to be willing to talk something that he has not done in the past and was quoted for as being respected by the president in tweets for not being broken by the government that is now over and we've been saying all day you know this is

a big blow to the u.s. president how could this make things more difficult for president. so it's going to make things more difficult because pollyanna ford is not just some little aide in the campaign no he was the campaign manager he knows a lot the press the prosecution is going to have lots of questions for example what happened after trump tower meeting where donald trump's son don jr got e-mails and said he would love to get dirt on hillary provided by russians man of ford was part of that meeting also how come the republican platform was changed to to change policies on helping ukraine to not help them as much any longer these are very important questions in the collusion probe for robert muller that won't go away. which steps can we expect to be we have member for agreeing to testify in any other

trials that may come about. absolutely so here's the thing the molo probe obviously is not finished it will continue and that's bad news for this president because we have midterm elections coming up in november and he wants this topic to go away and it's just simply not going away there are so so many on the answers i answered questions no matter how often the president tweets this is all a witch hunt and there was no collusion or the correspondent in washington on the story for us tonight michael thank you. well three years ago world leaders made a commitment to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere by the year twenty thirty but a new report just published by the overseas development institute warns that despite that pledge four hundred million people will still be living in extreme

poverty in the year twenty thirty a person is considered to be in extreme poverty if he or she lives on less than one u.s. dollar and ninety cents a day extreme poverty totals have declined globally from eight hundred million five years ago to an estimated six hundred ten million today but in africa poverty is on the rocks the continent is already hardest hit with africans accounting for about two thirds of the total number of people living in extreme poverty. funny even char reports from nigeria tonight the country with the world's highest rate of extreme poverty. a lot of poverty we are passing by people who live in inhumane surroundings need to tour seen one family they were evicted from their heart just like pence of thousands of others in recent years in lagos bus col a father of five was already poor before the eviction but he says at least he had

a livelihood. now we don't have a now no real house no boat fishing no business during the day we can stay here to prepare one meal but at night we have to sleep outside in the rain this is something no human being should experience i mean. today smeal tomato soup and this part of sabah must few to several families in the neighborhood. this is just one family an estimated eighty seven million people that's roughly half of nigeria's population thought to be living on less than one dollar ninety cents per day nigeria has overtaken india as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty. these young men and women are newly minted volunteers in their slums they are being trained how to let others know what kinds of prized

a half before they are evicted the ultimate goal is to stop extreme poverty from spreading i want to change the poverty level in my community and to provide to live we not our communities that means knowing how to mobilize other peoples to that lawmakers do their job and solve the deteriorating situation in slums magen chapman founded the justice and empowerment initiative five years ago she. creates more extreme poverty unfortunately the government is not working with those people hand in hand to eradicate poverty and help them to find a solution to their situation instead the government is putting in place policies that act. city criminalize the the livelihoods of the urban poor and demolished and destroyed their homes the government wants to tune waterfront slums into attractive property it sounds they must be shut down because a breeding ground for crime and tomfool to the environment but for her for flaig its residents on the brink of extreme poverty the slums that's. their home.

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