from 71 nations are giving up for the start of the commonwealth games which will be hosted on queensland'sold coast. the opening ceremony takes place tomorrow. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a 17—year—old girl is dead and a 16—year—old boy is critically ill after two unrelated shootings last night in london in the space ofjust an hour. eye witnesses say the girl who died was with friends

also coming up: the commonwealth games kick off on the gold coast in queensland, australia.red are just a jump up 55 years of hatred are just a jump up on the statues. today it is about the promise of a bright future, a day when we hope a line can be drawn under the bloody past. i think picasso's works were beautiful. they were intelligent, and it is a sad loss to ever ready who loves art. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. i'm babita sharma in london. our top stories. african american leaders have gathered in memphis to mark the moment fifty years ago the civil rights icon martin luther king was assassinated. facebook now says as many as 87 million users may have had their personal information shared with the data firm, cambridge analytica. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the strait times looks at the commonwealth games beginning in australia, and reigning commonwealth games air pistol champion teo shun xie lead singapore. the country is represented by 60 athletes in ii sports. in thejapan times, a cute study on macaque

where one of two single six mile cohen is at the university of queensland and a lack of understanding around consent is common among all students women and men a lot the traditional right has jumps out from behind the bushes with trench coat but that's not what the real ripest actually looks like he looks like someone that these young women can trust and who live confided in him i'm going to have a few beers with in him with whom i'm going back to a bedroom with perhaps who have been prepared to go so far but that's as far as i want to go and the answer is all the verbal no one or or nonverbal cues. in the city of brisbane i meet up with stephen foley he's head of simply one of the oldest and most prestigious all male colleges at the university of queensland we realize that we were part of the problem you know we we had young men here at the college for whom we needed to assist finding and a new normal we have had behaviors in the past here that when i arrived four years ago i was appalled and shocked to see a range of them in that spectrum of things we've addressed falls in this resp

farmers fear the queensland coast will be encouraged farmers near the queensland coast will be encouraged is part of a pledge that the australian government says is the single largest investment ever in the great barrier reef. we will be providing money for scientific research, particularly to build more resilient coral, and to deal with heat stress and life stress. we will be putting the money towards better data management so we better understand what is happening to the reef so we can deal with the challenges. we are spending money in terms of working with local indigenous communities, the traditional owners who have such a big role to play. ministers say there will be efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, but they gave no specific details. critics accused them of being hopelessly unable to tackle the climate emergency facing this underwater paradise that snakes down north—eastern australia. the government in canberra has previously set an ambitious target to cut the nation's emissions by 2030. but this is a country heavily dependent on cheap supplies of coal for its power

we grow a lot of capsicums in queensland.ell. we have a big agricultural industry here in australia and one of the things we want to improve is automating that technology and improving the performance and efficiencies. he has also so got two arms in one and a special camera to see what is in front of him. he knows when a fruit is ripe and uses an electric saw to cut it from the stem — or as it's known to only people in this room, the peduncle. it also uses a state—of—the—art deep learning system to detect the peduncle. this is hard because it's green on green. through the deep learning system there's a background neural network, a deep neural network. what you get is activations and we visualise this using a heat map. what that gives us is an area of interest where it chooses the peduncle. once you spot the pepper, getting around the leaves can be fiddly business. this is a new camera system that comprises of nine different camera lenses at different depths to give the impression of a human looking around leaves. it is powere

farmers near the queensland coast will be encouraged farmers near the queensland coast will be encouragedticides into the sea. it is part of a pledge that the australian government says is the single largest investment ever in the great barrier reef. we will be providing money for scientific research, particularly to build more resilient coral, and to deal with heat stress and life stress. we will be putting the money towards better data management so we better understand what is happening to the reef so we can deal with the challenges. we are spending money in terms of working with local indigenous communities, the traditional owners who have such a big role to play. ministers say there will be efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, but they gave no specific details. critics accused them of being hopelessly unable to tackle the climate emergency facing this underwater paradise that snakes down north—eastern australia. the government in canberra has previously set an ambitious target to cut the nation's emissions by 2030. but this is a country heavily dependent on cheap suppli

in fact, we have put into place a plan with a queensland government, faced by the world heritage committeeerything possible to strengthen the health and resilience of the reef so it can be around for future generations to come. with a large domestic resources industry. you referred to the carmichael mine and its more than 300 kilometres inland, ina dry, its more than 300 kilometres inland, in a dry, dusty part of queensland. we obviously have a major coal industry and a number of countries around our region depend on how coal for their energy security is we will continue to play a role in the energy sector at the same time as we are taking concrete, positive steps. you yourself have come under scrutiny. use a you have sold your political soul for the sake of ministerial office, that you don't believe in this global warming stuff. how do you address the sort of criticisms that are being addressed at yourself in the government? actually, the person you quoted their is somebody who doesn't believe in climate change themselves and from my perspective, i have been on the record for more than a

thank you so much forjoining us from queensland.the resignation of the british home secretary amber rudd, after weeks of pressure over the government's treatment of caribbean migrants who arrived in britain in the 19705 or earlier. alex forsyth has the background. it was the windrush scandal that marked the start of the end for the home secretary. days of damning headlines about the treatment of migrants who lived and worked in britain for decades. when will the government get a grip on the windrush crisis? good morning. amber rudd under increasing pressure for her handling of the story. home secretary, will you resign over windrush? but in the end, it wasn't windrush directly that led to her downfall. on wednesday, mps quizzed amber rudd about the government's wider approach to immigration. a key focus, is trying to get immigration numbers down and illegal migrants out. and that's when the home secretary said this. targets for removals, when were they set? we don't have targets for removals. she was summoned to clarify in the house

be honest in australia's top end but the tropical cyclone in the flow has been off the coast of queensland for about twenty four hours it's been giving rain and was gale force winds to the coast in the cars got one hundred thirty millimeters of rain is three days enough for funding but not exceptional now in the next twenty four hours the storm vanishing cycling through its course is proper i just more or less stays where it is a guarantee drifts a bit further north towards townsville so makai will still get patted this part of the queensland coast is going to be wet in contrast to the rest of australia was actually a nice bit of laura's first early winter. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from around the world that celebrate the human spirit against the. flow. of al-jazeera selects express yourself. to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories china has escalated its trade dispute with the united states and also an additional tariffs on american goods at some point saying to have some twenty five percent on one hundred six u.s. products incl

hello there is still a tropical cyclone off the coast of queensland has been steady for about twenty four hours it's not particularly bad it's got big disco quite intense white sentiment is now are there and if anything it'll probably slowly decline in strength moving very far so unfortunately some of the coastline is going to be continuously battered by gale force winds only go force winds have some pretty heavy rain which of course an increasing swell is very big ways for to you had two days you seen very little movement by even just slightly north was again so that part of queensland coast but a write off really for the sas reason you want sunshine twenty one in melbourne twenty six in sydney and about the say in perth is not quite so springs anymore either now there have been or there is the remaining circulation of what was a tropical cycling they went through fiji and. longer otherwise the cloud is just fairly frequent showers curling back and away from new zealand if you're in new zealand enjoy the sunshine twenty two in oakland sixteen christ church that's quite naturally con

hello there is still a tropical cyclone off the coast of queensland has been steady for about twenty four hours it's not particularly bad it's got biggest got quite an intense white center because now are there and if anything it will probably slowly decline in its strength business moving very far so unfortunate one some of the coastline is going to be continuously battered by gale force winds only gale force winds had some pretty heavy rain but of course an increasing swell or at least very big ways to tell you had two days you seen very little movement by even just slightly north was again so not part of queensland coast but a write off really for the sas region you want sunshine twenty one in melbourne twenty six in sydney and about the say in perth it's not quite so spring anymore either now there have been or there is the remaining circulation of what was a tropical cycling they went through fiji in tonga otherwise the cloud is just thirty frequent showers curling back and away from new zealand if you're in new zealand enjoy the sunshine twenty two in oakland sixteen trust chur

now to the commonwealth games and a5 is under way on the gold coast in queensland.ier our reporter was sipping coffee and showing us the papers. now he is on his way to the lawn bowls. it looks lovely and i wish i had a surfboard they are now. well, i have been having a morning surf and now a bit of a shower. in all seriousness, i just wanted surf and now a bit of a shower. in all seriousness, ijust wanted to show you how close the venues are too real life here in the gold coast. that is one of the reasons why i think these games will be so successful. we are in the centre of town. beaches there. crossing over town. beaches there. crossing over to the other side of the road, we will see how close we are to the lawn bowls. they are the centre of attention this morning as we have gold—medal games on all day. we began with wales versus scotland. later on we have south africa versus australia. the south africans are quite good and lawn bowls and australia, of course, wanting to make amends for that triggered series not long ago by winning gold here for their home nation

don't forget, for all the action on date two of the commonwealth games on the gold coast in queenslandon that one. the 200 metre freestyle heats go off shortly. the south african champion looks to become the swimmer who has won the most in commonwealth games history. he has the overall mark of 18 in his sights. you just remember london 2012, don't you? his father had cancer issue is over the past you also, so many people are wishing him on to get to that mark. don't forget that everything, you can go to that website and see that and everything else of course on the website. but an hourfor me everything else of course on the website. but an hour for me and the rest of this sport survey team, goodbye. —— for now. hello. thursday always was set to be one of the best days of this week and so it proved and our weather watchers were very much out in force, probably encouraged by the fact that it was such a glorious day all the way from scotland to the south coast and across the irish sea and into northern ireland, but that's really rather cruel to use that particular picture to bring you the

our reporter is in queensland.sult of the england— new zealand netball match we were talking about. what does that mean? well, it means england have won that game. their last group game. it means that new zealand are in danger of not qualifying for the semifinals. let me put that in context for you. new zealand have traditionally been one of the top netball teams in the world, and since its interaction at the commonwealth games, they have never failed to make the commonwealth games, they have neverfailed to make it the commonwealth games, they have never failed to make it to the gold—medal game. they have either one gold or silver, but right now on the gold coast they are looking at other results helping them out. they have to get through now on goal percentage. they will be looking to see how malawi get on, and they beat them sensationally a couple of days ago, and how uganda get on. the likelihood is they willjust ago, and how uganda get on. the likelihood is they will just scraped through to the semifinals, wher

queensland is the only place found.he turtle is this article buried the lead, as you said, because the other feature of the turtle is the fact that it breeds through its through them.oops basically one orifice to do everything. it is in danger of going extinct, the real reason it is in the press. it was on the list of endangered species. there were quite a few reptiles from us tell you on that endangered list, which highlights, according to the paper, but there are serious holes in australian legislation when it comes to protecting reptiles, and that's because they are not working as manic animals like mammals and birds, getting the come -- the attention. although i would say that turtle is pretty charismatic. annette: i would say he looks like a punk rocker. it's hard to keep a straight face. to does appear to be disagreement because this is naturally very serious story about the fact that animal endangered,indeed but whether charisma helps save animals from extinction. right, because this final story coincides with another story about a study actually that found that when people see

the youngster had been the subject of a large search after she wandered away from her home in queenslandains. meet max. 17 years old, blind, half deaf, but a hero. a large search party had been called in after three—year—old aurora wandered into the bush from the family home in rural queensland. by the end of the day, there was still no sign of the toddler. really hard last night, really disheartening at 2am when everyone left and we were standing alone in the darkness, knowing a three—year—old was in the cold. the search resumed but by this time aurora had been missing in dense bushland for 16 hours. she wasn't alone. i yelled out and heard her voice. she recognised me. i thought it was a bird at first, yelling back "yes". i got to the top, the dog came to me and led me straight to her. she told me she slept under a rock with the dog or something. i'm just glad that the dog didn't just leave her. max, loyal to the last, had saved the day. at three years old, i imagine the child would be very scared through the night and cold, and you would really hope the dog was good company and they k

mike is at the carrara stadium in queensland for us this morning.the drone of the hoovers, a bit of music a few moments ago, and out there in the centre you can see some of the youngsters, 4000, volunteers from around the region that have been picked for the time of their lives tonight our time to take part in the opening ceremony at head of the 21st commonwealth games. this is the ca rra ra commonwealth games. this is the carrara stadium, it used to be a swamp because this area is surrounded by lakes and rivers and claims to have more waterways than venice. they did a good job a claims to have more waterways than venice. they did a good j! rugby years ago to turn it into a rugby league, rugby union and aussie rules stadium, it normally holds 25000 and you can see the extra seats to make it 35,000 watching tonight, but the main emphasis is on those watching worldwide, 1.5 billion on tvs around the planet and this will be an historic games. overall i found this stat surprising, nearly a third of the world population will be represented over the next

our reporter chris mitchell has been to meet one of the most colourful characters on the queensland bowling sport, but you could be wrong. i have come here in the suburbs of the gold coast to find out a little bit more about how they've play lawn bowls in australia. it is not what you might expect. let's go in and take a... a closer look. junior, i challenge. three bowls each, one end, for $5. what do you reckon? yes, i will play at. he was going to win? i won't give it to you. can i borrow three bowls, is that all right? i have got to beat junior, $5 going on this. first ball, here we go. they didn't tell me about...! you tell me about the bias now! you're telling me that, you know, it is over the last ten yea rs 01’ you know, it is over the last ten years 01’ so you know, it is over the last ten years or so that things have really started changing for long balls? yes, it has become more of a young man's sport. just to get more involvement, i suppose, to get a lot of people back into the game. you're nervous, aren't you? what is the most exciting one ball smacked you have been involved in?

noisy raucous night off broadbeach, with the crowds being entertained by the jungle giants, one of queensland'slar bands. just as noisy a few miles away at the stadium where there have been medals for the home teams in the athletics of all colours, as alex reports. one moment you are celebrating becoming the latest gold medallist for your country, the next the bubble is well and truly burst. this is the moment is arnel hughes was told his commonwealth dream had turned into a nightmare —— is arnel hughes. a title he thought he had snatched in the most rheumatic of circumstances. , verde being chased down by richards. zharnel hughes falters, did he hamper richards? the official said he did, plenty for hughes to learn from. that is the rules, would like to see him clean it upfor rules, would like to see him clean it up for different reasons, now it has cost a commonwealth medal. he was going to win the race. it is disappointing, he has massive talent. one man who capitalised was northern ireland's leon reid, his fourth place finish upgraded to bronze. afamiliar a familiarface a familiar face on a

party had been called in after three-year-old aurora wandered into the bush from the home in rural queensland. by the end of the day, there was still no sign of the teller. >>t is 2:00 in the morning when everyone left and we were standing in the darkness knowing that a three-year-old was out in the cold. seasumed, but by this time armor was in dense bush land for 16 hours. wasn't alon thoughtlled out to her -- it was a bird at first. the dog came to me and let me straight to her. --should totally she slept she told me she sleptn on a rock with the dark. reporter: max, oil to the last come had saved the day. i would imagine she would be very scared and cold and you hope that the dog was good company for the child and kept her warm. reporter: auro is a and well, and the hero of the day has been de an honorary police dog. timeor max to relax. now for some royal ba news. it's a boy. earlier today, the duke and duchess of cambridge welcomed their third child into the world. the baby boy was born weighing s.ght pounds and seven oun he is fifth in line to the throne and the youngest sibling to prin

so really giving rain to some of us along that eastern coast of queensland at the moment and things are going to get worse over the next few days they could be some flooding here as well adrian. a flea against us thanks this is the news out there is still to come on the program we'll take a look at some of the extreme methods that libyans forced to use to get fresh water . changes in the air in ethiopia as the country swears in a new prime minister. on top of make history against chelsea follow me here with the details later it's. on counting the cost of crude futures contract was launched in china this week find out what it all means for the dollar and oil producers a look at africa's biggest companies plus technology under scrutiny the latest on our digital data economy. counting the cost on a disease. in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time. as iraq. well again you're with a new cell for about zero a

this is the scene live from queensland in australia. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news.sh delegation to the international chemical weapons regulator the opcw has dismissed russia's proposal for a joint investigation into the salisbury nerve agent attack as "perverse". officials said the idea was a "diversionary tactic" by moscow. the opcw has been holding an emergency meeting at the hague,— an emergency meeting at the hague, at russia's request, to discuss the poisoning. the government has strongly defended its belief that russia was behind the nerve agent attack in salisbury after the head of the porton down defence laboratory said it could not confirm the precise source of the substance used to poison sergei skripal and his daughter. anna holligan reports. what was the substance, where did it come from and who planted it? theresa may told parliament the attack involved a military—grade nerve agent and that the only plausible explanation was that russia was culpable, an allegation moscow has repeatedly denied. yesterday, the head of britain's military research centre at

specialists show how a queensland lavatory producing biological and chemical weapons.nt, we have very strong partnerships with thejordanian law enforcement come with everything going on around the world it is important to have this capability and work together. more than 40 people are set to have been killed in the chemical attack near damascus earlier this month, the syrian opposition released this year appeared to show the aftermath of. syria's government and russia, which now control the area, deny using chemical arms. this military training was actually planned before the suspected chlorine attacked in douma in syria. but military officials here say recent events have proved that the threat from chemical reckons, weapons in the region is all too real. jordan has joined other arab countries condemning attacks. there were protests against retaliatory strikes on syria by the us, uk and france, and calls here for a political solution to end the bloody civil war. this phase is the most delicate phase forjordan because logically after eastern ghouta, the concentration of

the $80,000 gram prize with these guys come from the australian centre for robotic vision at the queenslandtour of their laboratory i expected a conservative welcome from studious scholars. ok. let's go and see. after you. how fitting that an award—winning robot should have its own robot butler. all of these robots require some degree of specialist knowledge. all of these robots require some degree of specialist knowledgem all of these robots require some degree of specialist knowledge. is a specialist is not there on the day it is hard to get the robot to operate. pepper, anyone can book are out and start running it. if you wa nt out and start running it. if you want to see it in action, select an item on my screen. let's try the marbles. hague, please fetch the marbles. hague, please fetch the marbles. a robot is telling another robot how to be a robot. cartman has three axis of movement and works like a arcade court. it has two hands. a suction group and a pincer. he chooses which one to use depending on which item he needs to pick. there are many different ideas to be brainstormed and p

there is a tropical cyclone north of here, in fact further north you go in queensland, the worse gets is the sunshine coast, the gold coast, the sun, sea and surf but today, it is very blustery. there is a lot of threatening cloud around. that is not what the tourist pr companies won't really, that would be a nightmare for them, you have to feel for them. not only that in the run—up, in the last couple of days, the organisers have had a couple of things to deal with that they would rather not have been dealing with. you have had the indian syringe scandal, that has been closed with, there was no doping involved but it was understandably not something they wa nted understandably not something they wanted to deal with. and i understand today that the police are dealing with a formal complaint from inside the athletes‘s village, this includes a mauritian island it and a tea m includes a mauritian island it and a team official. the police investigation is ongoing. let me harp on about the weather, it you know how we english like to go on about the weather. it is important factor, we not j

scientists from queensland say millions of coral in northern parts of the reef were killed by the rises threatened with ecological collapse. you can now experience differing levels of pollution from five different cities all under one roof. it is part of a new art installation that has been unveiled in london. visitors can wander through pods that re—create the fumes and smells of cities including new delhi and beijing. our arts correspondent, david sillito has been finding out more about the air that we breathe. my name's michael pinsky. and this is an artwork. and this is an artwork? .it doesn't feel good at all. for me it smells good. does it? the air they are breathing has been created by chemists and perfumiers. it is called living diesel, and it is a careful reconstruction of the smell of london. wow... you like london, don't you? yes, i love it. wow. it is a combination of both combusted and uncombusted diesel. it's two different kind of diesel types. people aren't going to be buying this for christmas for their loved ones. there are five pods and it begins with... what am i sni

from 71 nations are giving up for the start of the commonwealth games which will be hosted on queensland'she opening ceremony takes place tomorrow. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a 17—year—old girl is dead and a 16—year—old boy is critically ill after two unrelated shootings last night in london in the space ofjust an hour. eye witnesses say the girl who died was with friends in tottenham in north london — when someone opened fire from a passing car. her friends say she was killed for no reason. these latest attacks come amid concern about rising violent crime. 47 people have been killed in london in the first three months of this year alone. 31 of the victims were fatally stabbed. that compares to 116 murders in london for the whole of last year. our community affairs correspondent adina campbell reports. a community in mourning. today, family and friends remember 17—year—old tanesha melbourne who died ina 17—year—old tanesha melbourne who died in a drive by shooting last night. the teenager had been with friends, shortly before she was shot from a car near northumberlan

from queensland here's our sports correspondent natalie pirks. front and centre.d reconciliation and friendship. the parade of nations that followed was as colourful as it was celebratory. it now gives me the greatest pleasure to declare the 21st commonwealth games open. it has not all fun and games, though. critics here have called these the "stolen—wealth games" and the sport has been described as a poor man's olympics. and here goes usain bolt! but not for the greatest sprinter in history. bolt will be here to cheer on the jamaicans and in europe before the games began, he told me he still believes in their importance. it's a championship, you have to look at it like that, you know what i mean. if you're going to go, you have to take it seriously. you know what i mean. i think you should never go to a championship or anything and say, "oh it's the commonwealths." no, it's a competition. here on the gold coast around a500 athletes will compete in 18 sports. seven of which have para events. they have come from 53 countries, making up a third of the world populati

hello again cyclamen iris has reformed is just off the coast of queensland and it doesn't look like the eye of the storm will hit us however there's plenty of cloud already across us and plenty of heavy rain too we're also expecting some pretty strong winds that storm gradually sinks its way southwards so the eye of the storm staying offshore but still throwing plenty of wet and windy weather along that coast that could well give us a problem with flooding as we head through the next few days further towards the east we've also got another cycling with us as well this one form to just to the south of fiji and this is what it looked like in fiji you can see those people there obviously trying to cross a road that's turned into a river now that storm looks like it should stay away from land but it's still generating plenty of showers across this whole region so for many of us in tonga and also fiji it looks like we're going to see some very heavy downpours as we head through the next few days for new zealand though it's quite different we've got a trading front is just making its way nort

pulling away might just catch the old rope showers just or happening along the coastal shores of queensland but for the most part it is looking fine dry and sunny and pretty warm getting up to twenty eight celsius in adelaide similar temperature there for sydney and also for brisbane twenty degrees in melbourne but as we go on into sunday those temperatures picking up further so we could touch three in adelaide lots of warm sunshine around then further west we could be up to around twenty one in perth should at least be last fine and dry here as you fought in try to into much of new zealand but some thought and we'll see some rain just sliding its way in as we go on through the next day or so at least for a time seventeen celsius in christchurch twenty two in all clear and then increasing cloud just spilling into the far south of the country as we go on through sunday twenty celsius there for all to hear it does stay five and dry with warm sunshine still a little bit of warmth to the sunshine across japan over the next day or so take it getting up to twenty one degrees but some cooler weath

again to where we should be weather wise is still largely fine shop potential is increasing on the queensland coast and certainly rain seems likely in tasmania as a spin of that you'll see and possibly in melbourne looks dr most of the places still twenty one in perth much the same come friday so far i know as well as it was would be it in short there's an improvement in the weather in northern new zealand all clint was really quite stormy you see the cloud is still there but he's on its way out slowly but a mass coming to south island so across church very limited to twelve right on the west coast but the sun's out in oakland seventeen degrees here it's a little bit more light to be bright rolls and sunny i think come friday but this is an improvement in things the tension tells half the story half the story if the sun is out doesn't offer you good doesn't it. it was simple years for every gang member you will find in a climate of fear rhetoric is easily abused the poor food lines investigative new initiatives to combat gangs simply being used to target the undocumented and vulnerable we sta

keeping temperatures down a little circulation the showers also coast of new south wales and southern queenslandthat could be pokey showers as well temperatures twenty seven in brisbane but nothing's particularly warm. picked a bit in perth that twenty three degrees the clouds coming in course easily here there being a bit of rain through gone by monday because it's the next one on the bottom it's right down to adelaide as for new zealand wells nothing much to come out of australia so apart from a bit of an increase in classically a few showers in the south sticking quite fine. a trade war a real war and rising debt find out why the i.m.f. and the world bank risks to the global economy what saudi arabia's oil price and the castro era. but an economic blockade remains. this is the opportunity to understand the very different. people we don't leave. town with. these are our top stories north korea says it will stop all korea and. china and the united states are welcoming the announcement which is being made ahead of summits planned for next month. syrian rebels have reportedly agreed to withdraw f

philippines as well over towards australia and we're watching an area of cloud just off the coast of queensland very closely because this one has now reformed into a tropical cyclone is tropical cyclone iris revisited it's getting very close to the coast it's already giving us a lot of heavy rain we're also expecting some very strong winds from the system as well because the rain's going to be so heavy we could well see flooding as we head through the next couple of days meanwhile for the south should be fine for us in melbourne there at twenty two degrees and force in perth will be the rounds of twenty five now out towards the east we've also seen a cycle over here that worked its way away from fiji and it's still giving us a very heavy rain behind it to you of cloud plenty of showers being dragged along to further south and the cloud is disintegrating as it works across new zealand. oh and the benefit of people. so bad they see being polled in all these. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. watching out there let's recap the top stories for you this hour the

very active weather for northern australia is still tropical cyclone circling off the coast of queensland it will likely affect tang's phil and all areas slowly to the south over the next two days that's an onshore breeze big waves and of course a large amount of rain and you can see quite clearly which means the rest the constants you know so relatively dry and absolutely dry as well temps just got twenty four inter-city one nice spring says nice but in late year was still twenty one in melbourne and there's the rain still showing itself on a dying tropical psycho during thursday after new zealand that is fine but if you are in fiji say goodbye to the tropical site which still when the tonga. combining art and technology. to challenge soviet era methodologies. through making creating and performing. turning a generation of children. into the trailblazers of tomorrow. after school armenian part of the rebel education series at this time on how do you see or. welcome back you're watching out as a reminder of our top stories israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has suspended a deal wit