and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. a large anti-government protest in honduras is capital turned violent with riot police firing tear gas at more than five thousand demonstrators rally coincided with independence day celebrations the protesters are opposed to president juan orlando hernandez his bid for reelection in november suppose two years ago the supreme court overturned a one term limit for presidents. moving to tunisia now the president vera has overturned a decades old banta now allow women to marry non muslim men the move has sparked debate on both sides of the spectrum women's rights activists have hailed it a victory but religious leaders say it's a violation of islamic law. reports. this is to new zealand president. a subsea attending a gathering to commemorate national women's day. what he said is he said he was committed to lifting a decades long ban on women marrying the muslims on thursday he fulfilled that promise and overturned in one nine hundred seventy three law paving the way for women to choose

we're also reporting from freetown on the children left orphaned by last month's deadly landslide in sierra leone. and in sports france dominating davis cup doubles. bangladesh's prime minister will use her speech at next week's un general assembly to demand more international help to deal with the range of crisis four hundred thousand refugees of now crossed into bangladesh in the last three weeks fleeing a violent military crackdown in myanmar prime minister shake has seen or is also expected to request more pressure be put on the government in myanmar. will hospitals in bangladesh are struggling to cope with the influx of people needing help tanveer challenge we went to visit one. i mean karts was our government district hospital every day dozens of rowing a refugees are admitted here with various animals including bullet injury mine explosion injuries this hospital is only two hundred bad and it cannot cope with the influx of refugees patients coming here it is overflowed you can see patients out on the floor that made temporary arrangement what the government need to do is set u

is the situation in freetown. well the recovery situation that you had a month ago with with soldiers and residents going through the mudslide to recover body parts and belonging has seized the focus now is to try to reach the seven thousand five hundred people who are displaced and counts like this one right behind me here they're receiving food shelter and medicine medicine of course to ensure that this doesn't turn into a health emergency the fear is this there could be water borne diseases like cholera so so they're having medicine now a lot of the people i spoke to are still very much traumatized by what just happened you know freetown is a city in the hills there's no escaping this notion that there could be a landslide any time happening the world bank came bank team came over in freetown just a couple of weeks ago and identified twenty nine areas that are at risk of landslides and flooding so right now the priority for the government is to really house the displaced and try to get vince people who are livi

orphans left a few places to turn for help in rebuilding their lives nicholas hock reports from freetown. in the chaos of august this landslide came a few miracles. nineteen months old that is one of them. rescuers found him neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. when i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died in the mud my heart went. to. the recovery effort has stopped an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family home this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction . and. are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the months like they are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind for them. well you know they feel. listened to then many people for example going. but even some of them they have lost. nine members of the. children who suffered a brutal civi

umaru fofana, bbc news, freetown. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.rs and gunmen have carried out attacks on a highway near the southern iraqi city of nassiriya, killing at least sixty people and wounding dozens more. 0ne attacker detonated an explosive vest in a restaurant, as his accomplices opened fire at people inside. a nearby police checkpoint was targeted with a car bomb. a second set of criminal charges has been filed against brazil's president michel temer. the country's top anti—corruption prosecutor has charged him with obstruction ofjustice and racketeering, at the supreme court. mr temer has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and earlier this week angrily criticised the move to charge him. there have been disturbances at arsenal's emirates stadium in north london, after thousands of cologne fans turned up for a match — without tickets. the europa league game was delayed by an hour when scuffles broke out between supporters and stewards. five people were arrested. arsenal eventually won the match 3—i. russian submarines have fired a number o

umaru fofana, bbc news, freetown.vening after thousands of german fans arrived at the emirates stadium, apparently without tickets. outside the ground before the match police formed a line to hold back crowds of fans trying to gain entry. inside there were scuffles with stewards, as the cologne fans made their way into the home end and then tried to force their way to the away section. four people have been arrested on suspicion of public order offences. the match eventually kicked off an hour late. cologne went 1—0 up early on through strikerjhon cordoba's superb lob from a0 yards out. the match is still being played: arsenal equalised. elsewhere, everton lost their europa league opener in italy against atalanta 3—0. two years after the death of the author sir terry pratchett, some of his personal possessions are going on display at his local museum in salisbury. sir terry, who created the discworld series of fantasy novels, sold more than 80 million books around the world. now his fans will get a unique insight into

in is under way to build affordable homes some thirty miles outside of freetown too far says i said to she spent her life savings building this place. from here she runs a small restaurant bringing enough money to keep her family and husband happy. staying she says is a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawk al jazeera freetown want to return now to that developing news coming into us in the last hour of another north korean missile test some reports suggesting test may have traveled that missile rather may have traveled over the japanese island of her qaeda let's speak to craig leeson he's in the japanese capital tokyo right now what is being said in japan about this latest missile test. very little as you said that has been confirmed about the to. identify missile what we do know is that it was launched from somewhere around pyongyang just before. time and that the missile flew across the arm of the card which is the. to the north of japan and it is the physic south korea concerned that in fact took place. to see what kind of a missile it was whether it was in fact a test l

construction is underway to build affordable homes some thirty miles outside of freetown too far says i said to she spent her life savings building this place from here she runs a small restaurant bringing enough money to keep her family and husband happy staying she says is a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. brazil's former president lula da silva is being questioned again by the country's top and to corruption judge who is the front runner in next year's election is facing multiple charges of taking bribes the same judge sentenced him to more than nine years in jail in july for corruption. or so yeah kind of the features i don't accept anyone saying that i'm trying to block justice because if i would not believe in justice i would not be in politics the u.s. government has ordered its departments to remove russian made caspar products from the information systems the department of homeland security says it's worried the cyber security company has ties to state sponsored espionage activities in russia cast perske denies the allegation. for the fi

their parents in the mudslide there are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind of them it was. well known that they feel. listened to then many people for example are going to get. some of them the last. nine. children who suffered a brutal civil war and the recent bold outbreak have found a place they call home here they receive counseling and attend school. volunteers say teenagers suffer the most too old to be called a child but too young to be considered an adult sixteen year old. fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't go to school i want. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. and there have been protests in tunis against a controversial law. ministry to public officials accuse of corruption before the twenty eleven arab spring protests to say is a setback for

staying she says is a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawk al-jazeera freetown u.s. vice president mike pence has arrived in florida over the past few minutes he's there to assess the damage following her. president donald trump will be joining him in florida shortly meanwhile the caribbean islands looking for international aid to help them rebuild following her like the british and american virgin islands have modern nations to help them rebuild but an independent islands like barbuda recovery will have much more difficult as john homan reports. prime minister gaston brown has brought other caribbean leaders to see what's left of the island. it was hit with the maximum force of hurricane brown says help is urgently needed needed today is what i considered to be a mangled wreck in order to restore it in order to rebuild and to ensure that we can relocate about you didn't hear it will take an enormous amount of resources. electricity phone lines of people's homes damaged or gone the situation so precarious the entire populations been evacuated turn which emerged unsca

as a program manager and he the international relief foundation and carrot us in freetown i hope to marry any said that while the government is doing its best with temporary shelter as conditions are dying for many survivors. well as it is right now the government be able to move people from the temporal immediate temporal shelters that they externalised. to different areas you know for those who are coming are mixed and shown and we ama and counting go you actually. to the august disaster to move into temporary shelters within schools schools and community services within the community and now those who are from that area have been relocated to a camp more temporarily and more shut accounts. so these are still not permanent resettlements right where are the people staying tell us more about that and how are they coping a month on from the disaster. well you know the people who actually first of all stayed in school was especially. but since school of already reopened some schools are actually delays they're reopening because. you know i did. the entire displaced people are still in those

construction is underway to build affordable homes some thirty miles outside of freetown too far saysi said to she spent her life savings building this place from here she runs a small restaurant bringing enough money to keep her family and husband happy. stay she says is a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawk al jazeera freetown nasa scientists are preparing to destroy the cassini spacecraft which has been orbiting saturn for thirteen years since its launch in nine hundred ninety seven and seven year travel to the planet it's been sending back invaluable scientific data to seniors now running out of fuel so nasa will send it on a dive toward saturn is expected to burn up in the atmosphere because saturn is so far away the spacecraft last transmissions will take eighty three minutes to reach earth. the mind of the top stories on our zero britain's foreign minister says he believes libya's plan to work towards elections in twenty eighteen is the right time scale boris johnson was speaking at a joint news conference with his u.s. counterpart rex tillerson in london but also

last month's flooding and landslides in sierra leone it is overwhelming orphanages in the capital freetown more than a thousand people were killed leaving many children without parents nicholas hawke reports. in the chaos of august his landslide came a few miracles. one thousand months old sequence that is one of them rescuers found him in the neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. c.d.b. gave me how much he was and i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died his body stuck in the mud my heart went cold and the more the recovery effort has stopped an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family homes this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction. brahim. are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the much like they are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind

month's flooding and landslides in sarah leone is overwhelming often often edges in the capital freetown more than a thousand people were killed leaving many children without parents because hulk reports out from freetown. in the chaos of august his landslide came a few miracles. nineteen months old say there's one of them rescuers found him a neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. when i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died his body stuck in the mud my heart went cold and. the recovery effort has stopped an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud. among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family homes this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction. and are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the mudslide there are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind for them. that. they feel. listened to

thousand people were killed last month after flooding in a landslide hit sierra leone's capital freetown sierra leone's government say some four thousand children have been affected by the disaster and many of them are now or friends reports from freetown. in the chaos of august this landslide came a few miracles. one thousand months old that is one of them rescuers found him in the neck deep in mud much to his mother's relief. and i saw him alive my heart melted but when i heard his father had died in the mud my heart went. numb. the recovery effort has stopped an eerie silence hangs over this vast terrain hundreds of bodies still lie buried deep in the mud among the buildings destroyed were an orphanage with sixty children inside the church with seventy students studying and hundreds of family home this is a country still in mourning trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the destruction . and you are some of the hundreds of children that have lost their parents in the much like they are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. them. listen to them m

the report from freetown on the children left orphaned after last month's deadly landslide in sierra leone and in sports a wreck or victory for new zealand over their oldest rugby wyvil. hello there it's certainly feeling autumnal now in parts of europe the winds are all swinging down from the north bringing in some far fresh air and it's this system here that is the leading edge of that cold air is giving us a very lively downpours heavy rains out of this and slowly it's creeping its way a little bit further towards the south there are some places though where we're clinging on to the summery weather mostly over parts of spain and portugal look at that twenty six in madrid that's fairly pleasant and then that sunny weather is also extending down into the southeast corner of europe with bucharest all the way up at thirty three looks like is still going to stay hot down in the southeast corner even as we head through the day on monday but that system gradually breaks up as it works its way southwards and instead we're seeing this area of low pressure a bit further north and that's goi

their parents in the much like they are now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind of them. not that they feel. listened to then many people for example. some of them the last. nine. children who suffered a brutal civil war in the recent poll the outbreak have found a place they call home here they receive counseling and attend school. volunteers say teenagers suffer the most too old to be called a child but too young to be considered an adult sixteen year old. fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't go to school i want. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to re house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead because hawke al-jazeera freetown now tunisia's president has overturned a decades old band now allow women to marry non muslim men and move to base on both sides of the spectrum women's rights activists have held it a victory religiously to say it's

thousands more have had to leave their homes. 0ur correspondent umaru fofana has been to freetown, toe survivors and find out how they're coping. the scale of this disaster is immense. no warnings, no time to escape. they all died. the whole family, they all died. one month on, a steady stream of grieving people still return to the site, with photographs of those who were killed. the country had never seen anything like it. it's rained for days. the mudslide was accompanied by flash flooding in several areas. with no proper emergency service, volunteers took the lead. chaos ensued. in a matter of minutes on 14th august, thomas lost eight members of his family. he takes me back to the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family home. i started to shout and called for my youngest sister. marion, marion, marion. i heard hervoice, calling... in pain? yes, she was in deep pain. i was so depressed. i started to remove the sticks aggressively. i ran into this place to get a pickaxe, shovel and hammer also bar, to remove the nails from things around and then i started to use my bare hands

construction is underway to build affordable homes some thirty miles outside of freetown too far says i said to she spent her life savings building this place from here she runs a small restaurant bringing enough money to keep her family and husband happy. she says it's a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown police in kenya have used tear gas to disperse young men who broke into a hotel to attack women who were attending an election meeting people who attended the gathering in. of the main smashed windows used chairs and they attacked the cities in opposition strongholds most voters are expected to support raila odinga who's running against the incumbent who are kenyatta in a rerun of the presidential election to a certainty. zimbabwe is bringing in a new voter register head of next year's presidential and parliamentary elections via metric technology will be used for the first time but some people worry that it will only increase the chance of vote rigging reports from. peter first in one thousand nine hundred eighty when zimbabwe won independence fro

construction is underway to build affordable homes some thirty miles outside of freetown too far says i said to she spent her life savings building this place from here she runs a small restaurant bringing enough money to keep her family and husband happy staying she says is a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawk al jazeera freetown. now manners in spain's catalonia region have responded to threats of a rest in their bid for independence spain's top prosecutor says mayors who support an independence referendum must give statements to prosecutors or face arrest more than seven hundred continue to back the referendum which has been deemed illegal out as they were shot at ballots reports. catalonia is mir's a standing firm against threats that they'll be arrested by spain's top prosecutor because of the a bid for independence. i got when i did that but i have nothing to hide when we have to go to declare we will say the same thing we have always said that we owe it to our people and therefore we will continue working so they can express themselves freely in the polls that as

than is underway to build affordable homes some thirty miles outside of freetown too far says i said to she spent her life savings building this place. from here she runs a small restaurant bringing enough money to keep her family and husband happy. staying she says is a risk worth taking at least for now nicholas hawk al jazeera freetown some broadway is compiling a new voter register ahead of next year's presidential and parliamentary elections biometric technology will be used for the first time instead of doing things manually but some people worry it'll increase the chance of voter fraud how much are some reports from harare peter first in one thousand nine hundred eighty when zimbabwe won independence from britain he's participated in every election since then now the eventual commission is compiling a new voters role using registration technology peta has concerns he worries ditching the manual process in favor of technology may not be a good thing for example. the using new technology by the election is to be. the end. of the problems of electricity. it's the first time by mi

their parents in the mudslide they're now under the care of the don bosco orphanage in downtown freetown. in mind for them. that. they feel. listened to then many people are putting something. in the last. night. children who suffered a brutal civil war and the recent bold outbreak have found a place they call home here they receive counseling and attend school. zone tears say teenagers suffer the most too old to be called a child but too young to be considered an adult sixteen year old. fears for her future most young girls in sierra leone her age are married off i don't. know how. the others will stay here for another three months the government has promised to reach house all of them by then but you homes will not take away their trauma after so much loss and destruction these are orphans who are uncertain with what lies ahead nicholas hawke al-jazeera freetown. in zimbabwe the opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has been admitted to hospital he was airlifted from the capital harare to a hospital in johannesburg south africa party members said he was suffering severe after a meeting.

on the night of 1a august, with the ensuing mudslides killing over 1,000 people in the capital, freetownle storm in mainland united states, with a record—smashing one metre, 30 centimetres of rain seen in houston, an unprecedented amount of rain. are there any links with these floods around the world? well, they all involve storms fed by rich, tropical, moist air, which in all cases came over oceans which are unusually warm, with temperatures in the indian ocean, the east china sea, the tropical atlantic and the gulf of mexico all warmer than normal. convergent winds locked the storms into the same location, and concentrated the extreme rainfall over just that area. then, of course, there is climate change. this graph of rain in the united states, using american weather service data, shows that extreme rainfall has become more common since the 1960s. the international panel on climate change expect such events to become more common in a warmer world. it is well—known that warmer air holds more water, so as the planet warms up, these extreme events have the potential to give even more rai

the iath august with ensuing severe floods and mudslides killing over 1,000 people in the capital, freetownm harvey dumped the largest amount of rain ever seen from a single storm in the mainland united states with a record—smashing 132cm of rain recorded at cedar bayou to the east of houston, an unprecedented amount of rain. are there any links with these floods around the world? well, they all involved storms fed by rich tropical moist air. this air, in all cases, had come over oceans that were unusually warm, with temperatures in the indian ocean, the east china sea, the eastern tropical atlantic and the gulf of mexico all warmer than normal. convergent winds locked the storms over the same location and concentrated the extreme rain over just that area. then, of course, there's climate change. this graph of rain in the united states using american national weather service data shows that extreme rainfall has become more common since the 1960s. the international panel on climate change expects such events to become a little more common in a warmer world. it's well known that warmer air ho

now, the mudslide took place in the capital, freetown.in. completely smothering the community below it. a bbc reporter has been to the affected area and sent this report. the scale of this disaster is immense. no warnings, no time to escape. they all died. the whole family died. the whole family, each one. one month on, a steady stream of grieving people still return to the site. the photographs of those who were killed. the country had never seen any thing like it. it has rained for days. the mudslide was accompanied by flash flooding in several areas. with no proper emergency service, volunteers took the lead. chaos ensued. shouting ina shouting in a matter of minutes, on the 14th of august, thomas lost eight members of august, thomas lost eight members of his family. he takes me back to the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family home. the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family homelj the pile of mud and rubble that was once his family home. i started to shout and call my younger sister. then we were hearing her voice,

year, you will remember the flooding and devastating landslides that killed over 1,000 people in freetown‘til hurricane season. they've been spinning up and getting energy across the atlantic and that's part of why we are seeing an active hurricane season which was expected. i know you get cross when i use phrases like global warming, you can tell me off later on. but thank you very much! the pictures, taken at this chateaux in southern france were indeed, said the court, and evasion of the royal couple's privacy. the criminal case has dragged on ever since with two executives and two photographers at the magazine answering charges they violated the royals‘ rights to a private life. the criminal case has dragged on with two executives and photographers at the magazine answering charges they violated the royals‘ right to a private life. at the trial, in may, a lawyerfor prince william said memories of his own mother, princess diana, made the afayre all the more stressful. it‘s exactly 0 years since she died in a car crash in paris chased by paparazzi. the —— 20 years. the sum is damages ma