visited evolution years live from berlin hurrican described by forecasters as extremely dangerous hits florida eric and michael is moving inland from the gulf coast with winds of up to two hundred twenty kilometers per hour both are still half a million people to leave but the storm still takes many by surprise also on the program president's trump weighs in on the mystery of the missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and to the saudi consulate in istanbul more than a week ago fears about his fate a multiplier. and life on death row many people facing execution

experience isolation and torture during the final days this is the focus of this year's world today against the death penalty. i'm phil gale welcome to the program we begin with a storm that forecasters have described as extremely dangerous that's wreaking havoc in florida officials are warning of a life threatening storm surge and still most hoth a million people to move to higher ground or can michael is race a category four he said to be the most powerful storm to hit the region for more than a century. hurricane michel reached wind speeds of nearly two hundred fifty kilometers per hour as it made landfall in florida's panhandle. governor rick scott reiterated

warnings of the storm's danger as it blooming from the gulf of mexico. again michael is a deadly category four storm this is the worst storm of the florida panhandle seen in more than one hundred years. remember we can rebuild your house but we cannot rebuild your life. about four hundred thousand floridians were told to get out of harm's way fournier floodwaters toppling trees and blown off roofs or just some of the storm's hazards panama city beach is among the low lying areas under orders to evacuate but not everyone was taking the warning of unimaginable damage seriously before the hurricane struck. just to hunker down we've been through so many storms and the media sometimes gets things a little bit crazy and you know people jump and run and you know and they should do that but we've just been through so many that we're comfortable staying so we're going to and we've got enough food in generator gas so will be just fine.

now it's too late to leave the affected coastal regions. a number of families needed to some of the roughly fifty emergency shelters just in time. let's get more from. who joins us from miami florida welcome to day people preparing for michael's arrival. i mean with regards to how big or barren it's more based on location here so in the florida panhandle i would see the majority of the empire coming in from this category for the evacuation zones are deemed mandatory and versus by curation sones are going throughout georgia and the carolinas are deathly showing two different types of preparations since storm is moving very quickly we're seeing a lot of evacuation towards the west majority of people and more inland are staying with it. and i was sort of preparations are all thora to making for this.

well thank you to president dahl trump in this regard we sorry to have federal and also states preparations being not only prepared but also having a state of emergency being declared by him federal and our state enforcements and our response teams are definitely gearing up and getting ready to respond and get to the people as quickly as possible for now we're staying in the western states trying to seek shelter during this time and then be able to get back in help out as much as possible to order residents in the panhandle so how is the current expect you to progress. well census is a fast moving storm it's is expected to die down as it moves more inland and north and closer to the carolinas which was just recently affected by hurricane florence hopefully it dies down quickly before making more impact in towards in the inland and getting back over to that area though the bike that few weeks ago so it's god's

will and then will be able to get through the storm pretty quickly so a full cast as the producing with this could michael would move across central georgia later tell us about preparations there. now georgia since it's not so much of a majority of the time the hurricanes go into georgia in already died down significantly you can get down to category one of the tropical storm. majority of georgia residents and the preparations are much more relaxed comparisons of order and especially for and have a right now there's definitely one of the first times a day for us in something this country becoming their way so we're just hoping that they're going to go over and in a statement that the federal and state level response teams are paired over get over georgia as quickly as possible good talking to thank you for joining us nicholas snyder in miami florida thank you u.s. president donald trump says he has spoken with saudi authorities at what he called the highest level of seeking answers to the mystery of the missing saudi journalist

we cannot let this happen to reporters to anybody he said tomorrow he hasn't been seen since he went into the saudi culture that in istanbul more than a week ago took officials have said they believe he was murdered inside the building this image by turkish media allegedly shows journalists. looking into some of the consulate the last time anyone saw him eight days have passed and there are new traces of marabouts. say they believe a saudi arabian hits to fifty nine year old media outlets published proposing to show the suspects a rival the day before went missing before his disappearance he worked for the washington post during a self-imposed exile in the u.s. . there he wrote columns criticizing saudi arabia's new rule as the washington post supports the view that saudi arabia captured him and says that u.s.

intelligence knew about the plan to capture the columnist the u.s. denies any formal each president says he has talked to high level saudi authorities to demand answers over the case and it's a very sad situation it's very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of meanwhile saudi arabia remained silent as the alleged c.c.t.v. images ran on news shows worldwide it has yet to prove its claim that he left the saudi consulate by a back till. that are some of the other stories making news around the world turkish coast guard is searching for twenty five migrants believed to be missing in the aegean sea after their boat capsized and sank eight bodies have been recovered reports say an iraqi woman on board swam ashore and raised the alarm. prosecutors in peru have detained opposition leader keiko fujimori as part of an investigation into money laundering this is according to for jurors lawyers looking at video of

her testimony a year ago in front of a parliamentary inquiry into alleged illegal political contributions from a brazilian construction for. hundreds of people have marched to the gay pride parade in the cause of those couple of pristina it was the second year running that l g b t activists had organized the event cause of us of parliament to passed anti discrimination laws in two thousand and four that activists say i'm gay sentiment is still common in the mainly muslim country. and more than fifty countries around the world still use the death penalty but human rights groups say people facing execution often subjected to dehumanizing treatment and even tortured today on the sixteenth the world day against the death penalty we look at conditions facing convicts in the final days. carried dean long the sixteenth person to be executed in the u.s. this year his death by lethal injection was recorded and meticulous detail

he turned his head left and mouth several words to the peers a number of witnesses including the words i love you he said at ten twenty five am . at ten twenty seven am he started breathing heavily and then at ten thirty nine and twelve seconds the curtain went down possibly into the process took about fifteen minutes total. carried dean moore had been sentenced to death as a twenty two year old for the murder of two taxi drivers he spent thirty eight years in prison awaiting his execution which was pushed off seven times. there are currently more than two thousand seven hundred inmates on death row in the u.s. they typically spent more than a decade in prison before they are executed. during this time they're generally isolated from other prisoners excluded from prison programs and restricted in terms

of visitation and exercise spending as many as twenty three hours a day alone in this cells. the united states is the only western country to still uphold the death penalty last year twenty three people were executed. but execution numbers in the us are declining and they pale in comparison to some other countries in the world among the fifty six countries who still have the death penalty and use it iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan top the table. but the country with by far the most executions is china. chinese authorities don't release any figures regarding the death penalty. television images like these of a former police chief being sentenced to death for murder and bribery last year are extremely rare q if you think we've been through most trials happen behind closed

doors and chinese authorities maintain almost total secrecy over the number of people sentenced to death amnesty international estimates that the number of death penalties in china is in the thousands. that would mean that china executed more people last year than all the countries in the world put together. in contrast to the us the time a prisoner spends in jail before their execution is often only a few months. but conditions for death row prisoners are often inhumane. a shackled to the wall and tortured. amnesty international has also cited reports of prisoners being executed without being able to say goodbye to their families. who took in some sport they trophy awarded to the winner of the tour de france is missing after it was stolen during a cycling exhibition in the british city of birmingham well cyclists guy and thomas is the trophies current holder having won this year's tour he's appearing for

things to return the trophy known as the all misfortunes it had been put on display of venues across the u.k. and was taken from an event late last month when it was left attended. colombian authours is have launched a campaign to stop tourists feeding pigeons in the capital bogota they want to limit pigeon numbers in one of the city's most popular squares arguing that the birds remain historic buildings with their droppings and put people's health at risk. to some people pigeons provide companionship swapping food for their affection. to others then nothing more than rats with wings flying transmitters of disease simone boulevard the great liberator here is not shy to give them a perch on busy weekends more than three thousand pigeons flock to the square bearing bolivar's name they're tempted by the treats on offer by enthusiastic

tourists others aren't so sure. they'll to guess what i think this is a health issue here in bogota they should have a bit more control police control as well i'm not saying they should ban feeding pigeons but they should have a bit more control over the corn for england they might. put one london uses hawks in paris contraception as new solutions to control numbers is this is what you think you. see. it in the us but more than the focusing on the people not the pigeon education three street theater. we're asking people not to feed the pigeons. that's because by feeding the pigeons in the square we're making them sick . they're getting sick because of overpopulation there's a large population of pigeons about the list of sort of. pretty scenes like this

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