almost sixty thousand people have been evacuated from the chinese island of heinen as a huge typhoon slams into southern china disruption has hit the whole island as the storm caused massive flooding with schools closed and more than sixty flights canceled at the two main airports typhoon it made its way over to the south china sea from the philippines where it claimed thirty five lives. former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn faced the french writer who accuses him of attempted rape eight years ago that was the first meeting between the two since strauss kahn was arrested in the u.s. in may also on charges of sexual assault trust in his accuser were questioned together for more than two hours in a paris police station transcon denies the charges and plans to counter sue for slander. and that's all for now up next our exclusive interview on r.t. this time we meet our. netra but go there with us for that. r.t. sitting down with the world renowned opera star in the trap go and i thank you so much for joining us today. i want to start off by saying congratulations on the extremely su

. >> to the west, just to the north of heinen island. people going to the movies, apparently people going to bars, when there's a typhoon. big difference from what happens over here across the u.s. let's go to some images coming in from hong kong. this is showing you victoria harbor. guess what? cloudy skies out there. but a lot better than what it was a couple hours ago and especially last night when the winds started to kick up. as i take you back over to our graphic, the winds at 120 kilometers per hour, that would be on the weak end of a category 1 you put it in the atlantic. that center of circulation, right towards the northeast of hainan island. it moves towards the west. right now it's a typhoon. it makes landfall in vietnam tomorrow. while it will weaken it will bring heavy rainfall for areas just to the west of hainan. we're talking about vietnam. on the satellite imagery, the center of circulation is just to the north. it will continue to weaken and spread towards the west. there are heavy rains and squalls through areas along