. >> president benino aquino has asked residents to prepare for the flood, typhoon could strike early sunday and is expected to affect 7.5 million people. well, the number of people with a job in zimbabwe, government is trying to make it harder for employers to lay off workers but economists are warning things are likely to get worse. haru mutasa reports. >> permission to fire workers, he was given no sench package and told to leave. >> the master can do whatever he wants to do for his employees. should there be any silly story or silly case, you find that you are going to be fired. >> reporter: the government intervened, amended the labor law, making it difficult to fire workers and insisting those who get jobs get severance pay. employers say they have to lay off workers and they insist the only way they can get jobs. >> a lot of people selling things on the streets are graduates. >> we anticipate a serious drought which affects electricity production in the past year as well as cop production. we don't have the money we need to import. >> reporter: millions are struggling because o

president benino aquino has visited some of the regions. his administration was strongly criticized during the typhoon haiyan two years ago. because of the country's viability to natural disasters, government resources are stretched. >> i think not just the supplies but also the equipment. in so many different areas. but it is going to be a challenge. >> one of the many communities in desperate need of aid. some of the people here say they haven't received any help from the government at all. so they just have to get on. start all over on their own. jamilla alendoggan, al jazeera, northern phi philippines. >>> canadian election, steven harper is facing a challenge. trudeau and daniel lak is following happenings. good day daniel, what is the mead as people cast their vote? >> it's been the longest campaign in canada in modern times. more than two modifies campaigning, that is twice as much as we usually have. so people have had a long time to think about their choice. the momentum builds slowly. it looks like we have a change in government t

philippines is already one of the biggest importer of rice, the economy has grown since president benino aquino has been elected in 2010. jamilla allendogan, al jazeera. >>> the country's first virtual choir. fly high brings together the individual voices of singers by joining them into one single recording. virtual choirs are not new, but this traditional mexican group has become a real hit with around 150,000 views online. you're with al jazeera. founder of one laptop per child. >> let's make $100 laptop. that was so implausible. >> negroponte co-founded the mit media laboratory - which is credited with driving the multimedia revolution. the research center brings together hundreds of leading thinkers in design, science and technology. >> we had license to do things, which, you know, i can be a

. >> activists are asking benino aquino to determine, al jazeera's jamilla alendoggan has more from manila. >> philippines has a history of accepting refugees, they built a vievietnamese village on the i'l of palao. 90th quite the same. not quite the same. australia has offered over $100 million to the philippine government in a span of five years to take the refugees. something officials here have strongly denied. >> there is an issue of migration of refugees. we can consider, but at the same time, we have to take into account our own resources. >> refugees have tried to reach australia's shores have been sent to hundreds of prisons, in papua new guinea, and the island of narau where conditions of living are hard for many. the $55 million arrangement has been criticized by many. australia has long taken a hard line stand on asylum seekers who stride to reach its shores by boat. its government says the policy is mainly to prevent deaths at sea. >> i want to reiterate today in the strongest possible terms the resolve of the prime minister and myself the whole of the cabinet and the governme