that will need us the most ok all the best michael michael charles from international federation of red cross and red crescent societies thanks for your time and you very much. to another tragedy now in the northwest of the continent in nigeria three story building collapsed in the commercial cup its own leaders local media and rescue officials see many children were trapped in the rubble this footage shows one of the children who was food free the top floor of the building house the private elementary school with about one hundred students. now for decades the oil rich niger delta in southern nigeria has been spared of violence went viral and groups fighting for a share of the region's natural wealth in cities like worry in delta state oil theft contributed to rum punch criminality and a number of environmental problems one man who got caught up in crime is thirty one year old at riga he was jailed for robbery oil theft and dealing drugs but i still have used funny explains he's now embarked on a new path that successful musician. he has been filling concert halls and jumped to stardom in nigeria with his biggest hit

declared in red unless due to the tropical cyclone he die a specter had to reach that country soon let's talk about what michael chiles from international federation of red cross and red crescent societies who is coordinating the response thank you very much michael for joining as that what exactly are you doing to help the people in mozambique so have you have you rightly said you know we're expecting a tropical storm to heat and it's going to hit a few provinces to find the provinces especially and we have our volunteers on the ground as you know the red cross is well and good based organization and in mozambique we have thousands of volunteers who are preparing who who are one in the community members who are trying to look at them to higher ground and ensuring that you know they safety within the communities fate of this cycle is not as brief as it should be. so a cycle is coming everyone is on a king what exactly can be done to survive a cycle of. well what exactly can be done is exactly early warning so we need to want one the community members we need to ensure that you know they can move to safer ground going to cycling comes we need to ensure that there is proper shelter for th

and as well the politics of it aside the population there need support but just how big is a problem to also dela long as a spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies take the title be with us now hi there thanks for your time to live in this year what is the scale of the problem you're up against there to get aid to the people that need it in venezuela. it's interesting that it's. complex and difficult and it's the. last few days when each point. forward because with each humanitarian access for the international federation of red cross and i mean for some of our we want and squaring off the coast and clinics i mean we do believe that it's one of the i mean you know it's at the moment but as well as a big country that how much impact she going to be able to make you think to help alleviate the problems. i mean we know what comforts you know to be very aware that our going to support we're not sold a problem solved i mean it's witness we would try to lower the base for libya itself and but it's. also been going to the problems in minnesota it's going to be solved we know one person out of it anywhere that we can lower the best that we will try to p

we are nowjoined by matthew cochrane — a spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societiesique. how bad is that they are? it is very bad. roads have been cut off. 90% of buildings in beira were damaged or destroyed. it was much worse than had been anticipated. earlier today we started hearing reports of communitiesjust we started hearing reports of communities just outside the city that have been potentially washed away or totally submerged in flood water. i think we may have lost matthew. thank you very much for your time. the headlines on bbc news. the speaker of the house of commons says the prime minister cannot ask mps to vote on her brexit deal again — unless there are substantial changes to it. police in the netherlands say they've arrested a man, after three people were shot dead on a tram in the dutch city of utrecht. this new zealand's prime minister says she'll announce new gun laws within days — following the attacks on two mosques in which 50 people died. scientists in yorkshire have come up with a creative way to tackle problems with water quality in the humbe

well hijazi is the head of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he's just been in mozambique and says the country is a ticking time bomb of disease unfortunately many people their livestock and they left under what many want lost their lives the men but you still to be they covered but i mean why thousands thousands of people that are great meat of everything from shelter to clean water to some of patients. who fought and also psychosocial support because people are coming traumatized many of them children and we remember really example people do you want your money term challenge that we were facing and it could see to respond very effective and the white house says i sill has now been one hundred percent eliminated in syria but on the ground the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say heavy fighting continues around the village of the last territory in syria the defeat of i still would be the culmination of a four and a half year campaign to drive the group out of syria coming up an investigation into the use of performance enhancing drugs among athl

of cholera and malaria and hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes that have no food water or medicine but when the surgery is the africa head of operations for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he says they are still struggling to reach everyone in need. access to news to be a challenging operation we are doing aerial assessments of a three thousand square on the flood affected areas just just identifying the people the support is difficult but we have many many helicopters now on the tarmac here that are going to go into an aerial reconnaissance every day to try to identify those individual affected needs and provide them with the lifesaving intervention they need we're hearing that the roads are opening up now so we're able to get our trucks and own goods that are in vera out to the affected communities but of course the needs are massive in favor a city itself we know that there are six hundred thousand people that could be it but it's fact. mollies armed forces chief and several top commanders have been sacked after more than one hundred thirty four people including women and children were killed in an attack on a village a local mayor says that gunman dressed as traditi

mozambique he joins us from the city of timor you and in geneva we have matthew cochrane he's the spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies gentlemen thank you for being with us i want to start by asking you malcolm where are the aid efforts i mean how would you categorize this given all you've been witnessing on the ground there very good i mean. you know again i'm just wondering i mean where are the aid efforts now in terms of being able to provide the immediate aid that people who are victims of this are in need of. but you know mark you'd be able to kind of a bit more about the specifics certainly what we've seen in the western part of the country people that we see tomorrow night out that. i mean that's not surprising given that most of the right to be cut off. the car is to trap going to work because there is that. stranded people stuck in trees stuck on the roofs of houses . understand little realty there have been to be tried on rescuing people who were stranded. on the barrier to the report from chile where we are now through some of the central regions very hard. luck there how do you get field after field of cr

mozambique he joins us from the city of timor you and in geneva we have matthew cochrane he's the spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies gentlemen thank you for being with us i want to start by asking you malcolm where are the efforts i mean how would you categorize this given all you've been witnessing on the ground there very good i mean. again i'm just wondering i mean where are the efforts now in terms of being able to provide the immediate aid that people who are victims of this are need to. be able to kind of a bit more about. what we. part of the country people know. i mean i know the prime.

the africa region communications manager for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies joins us now from nairobi tell us more about what your team are reporting from the scene there were among the first to arrive there when they. years we are continuously receiving reports in images and footage from beira from the affected areas and what we can say now is that this kill of destruction is massive we have been important that about ninety percent of the area has been completely destroyed and what are they telling you about the numbers of potential fatalities and and indeed the mass displacement that must result from such devastation years so the physical impact of the twenty's begin to emerge we can see a lot of destruction in terms of houses but the human impact is not here to clear. according to official reports about sixty eight people have died in the a thousand more than one thousand more have been injured so we have to note that this number is likely to change because one of the challenges it workers are facing now is mainly about access most of the roads have been d

time cases of cholera have already been reported in berra as well as a rise in malaria infections and hijazi is head of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies he's just been in mozambique and says the country is a ticking time bomb of disease clearly many people their livestock and their livelihood under what many were lost their lives and by the still to be recovered but meanwhile thousands tens of thousands of people that are in great need of everything from shelter to clean water to some of day ssion to hygiene to food and also psychosocial support because people are coming traumatized many of them children and women can't really even be simple people the huge humanitarian challenge that we are facing and it could see to respond very effective. arkan webb has been to a village affected by the floods west survivors are waiting for. this community is in desperate need of help about half an hour's walk from here is a river and all of the ground between there and here is completely flat and it's completely flat very far beyond this shortly after the cyclon hit mozambique this area was affected by lethal flash flooding the water was coming in

situation and i thank you so much for speaking to us and i see the secretary general of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies joining us there from johannesburg thank you for your time. there's growing condemnation of the u.s. president's plan to recognize the occupied golan heights says spot of israeli territory russia says any change in its status is a violation of united nations agreements iran and syria have also criticized donald trump suite in which he said it's time the u.s. recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights the territory was captured from syria more than fifty years ago it's estimated twenty thousand israelis live there as well as twenty thousand syrians stephanie decker has more from the occupied golan heights well all the international attend to now here are the israeli occupied golan heights it is all in the language the international community recognizes this is occupied syrian territory while u.s. president donald trump now indicating that the united states.

of cholera and malaria as hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes and have no food water or medicine jamie listserver is the africa head of operations for the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies he says they are still struggling to reach everyone in need. access to news to be a challenge operation we are doing aerial assessments of a three thousand square on what that area just just identifying the people support is difficult but we have many many helicopters now on the tarmac here that are going to go into an area with constant every day to try to identify those individual affected eggs and provide them with a lifesaving intervention i mean we're hearing that the roads are opening up now so we're able to get our trucks in on goods that are in bera out to the affected communities but of course the needs are massive in they are a city itself we know that there are six hundred thousand people that could be it but it's fact. twenty four hours after cyclon trevor a battered australia's northwestern coast residents are being hit by another powerful storm cycle in veronica's been described as a new powerful and moving it's currently staggering along the coastline bringing heavy rai

he joins us from the city of timor you and then geneva we have matthew cochrane he's the spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies gentlemen thank you for being with us i want to start by asking you malcolm where are the efforts i mean how would you categorize this given all you've been witnessing on the ground there very good i mean. i'm just wondering i mean where are the efforts now in terms of being able to provide the immediate aid that people who are victims of this are. but you know mike you'd be able to kind of a bit more about the specifics certainly what we've seen in the western part of the country people that we see tomorrow night out that. i mean that's not surprising given that most of the right to be cut off. the car is. playing to it because larry it's not because of stranded people stuck in trees stuck on the roofs of houses actually understand. there have been to be focused on rescuing those people who were stranded. on the barrier to the report from the chile where we are now through some of the central region it's very hard. luck there how do you get failed after failed the crops completely ob

he joins us from the city of timor you and then geneva we have matthew cochrane he's the spokesperson for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies gentlemen thank you for being with us i want to start by asking you malcolm where are the efforts i mean how would you categorize this given all you've been witnessing on the ground there very good i mean. i'm just wondering i mean where are the efforts now in terms of being able to provide the immediate aid that people who are victims of this are. but i'm sure matthew would be able to tell a fib about the specifics certainly what we've seen in the western part of the country people that we see to my know how to i mean that's not surprising given that most of the right to be cut off. the car is. playing to it because larry is that people stranded stuck in trees stuck on the roofs of houses. understand little realty there have been to be focused on rescuing those people who were stranded. on the barrier to the reports from particularly where we are now through some of the central regions very hard people have lost their houses their heart just fills up the fields of crops completely ob

say as the head of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies he's just been in mozambique and says the country is a ticking time bomb of disease. unfortunately many people their livestock and they left what and what many were lost their lives and by the still to be recovered but meanwhile thousands thousands of people that are in great need of everything from shelter to clean water to some of patient to hygiene to food and also psychosocial support because people are coming traumatized many of them children and women can't really even example people a huge humanitarian challenge that we were facing and it could respond very effective well as you were saying a week on and a staggering number of people a still stranded in mozambique but many local residents are doing all they can to help those trapped by the floodwaters as al-jazeera is for me the minute now reports from the city of the area. this is a domicile immense fourth trip to brew z. in two days the fisherman is using his boat to risk you as many people as he can who are stranded in the flood hit a

beira in mozambique by caroline haga, a communications delegate for the international federation of red cross and red crescent societiestremely busy time. can you just give us a sense of what is happening where you are? i am currently in beira, our operations centre, but it's... we're dealing with that severe here. operations centre, but it's... we're dealing with that severe herem what way? a human at terrien crisis... -- what way? a human at terrien crisis... —— and humanitarian. a cyclone already displaced thousands of people here in the city of beira. we have another emergency which is... which is that the rivers have ove rflowed is... which is that the rivers have overflowed and we have huge flooded areas here were people are trapped in trees and on roofs of houses, and that's the priority now... it's a very difficult mind. i'm going to attempt one more question if i may. what is it you are doing and what is needed most? what the red cross is doing at the moment is trying to bring shelter, assistance, trying to bring shelter, assistance, trying to bring hygiene assistance and also trying to... to save the people w

the secretary general of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies joining us there from johannesburg thank you for your time. there's growing condemnation of the u.s. president's plan to recognize the occupied golan heights spot of israeli territory russia says any change in its status is a violation of united nations agreements iran and syria have also criticized donald trump suite in which he said it's time the u.s. recognize israel's sovereignty over the golan heights the territory was captured from syria more than fifty years ago it's estimated twenty thousand israelis live there as well as twenty thousand syrians stephanie decker has more from the occupied golan heights. well all the international attention now here are the israeli occupied golan heights it is all in the language the international community recognize that this is occupied syrian territory while u.s. president donald trump now indicating that the united states will be officially and this is what we expect next week when the israeli prime minister will be traveling to the united states a

and mud. al-jazeera zimbabwe. the secretary general of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies he visited mozambique early on friday and says the country's sitting on a sanitation time bomb. i visited yesterday one school fifteen classrooms six dialects but three thousand people in that school the school itself is flooded. and we're sitting really on the water and sanitation ticking bomb and we're all afraid of the sea water borne diseases develop and we working together with many other partners including with the government to improve the quality of those shelters and help people as much it is possible to recover some form of dignity and safety but is urgent limited shelf. temporary when it is possible have been people to start rebuilding for the long what is urgently needed also is of course water sanitation and hygiene facilities which is the best way to prevent water borne diseases and it is not i need it because many have been lost and they are under water and. they are the number of children affected many. lost their parents right now we will find the links for some parents

been reported in the mozambican city of the era as sea is said of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies has just been in mozambique and says the country is a ticking time bomb of disease unfortunately many people their livestock and they left what under what many were lost their lives the meant by these people to be the covered but i mean why thousands thousands of people that are great meat of everything from shelter to clean water to some be patient. to food and also psychosocial support because people are coming traumatized many of them children and we member can really be there for people who you want you money term challenge that we were facing and it could respond very effective. algerians have been out in force for a fifth successive friday calling for regime change and for president abdelaziz beautifully to immediately step down they rallied in the capital algiers and smaller cities across the country as more of the president's former allies abandon him but if weak of bowed to the protesters last week by reversing plans to stand in elections for a fifth time. the white house say

country most of them in lebanon in jordan in turkey iraq and egypt we can speak now to francesco rocca who is president of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent society is joining us from that conference in brussels. how many people do we think that two billion dollars will actually help when we're talking about so many syrians in need. but it's very difficult to identify the right figure so when you talk about about money our experience on the ground is that while in the last months we ceded the fight is decreasing and so we are able to reach more areas more needs are coming out so while these are from some someone the condition to say the emergency is over it is not over a paula there is a huge need many people is really desperate the needs of everything you saw there the role of the red cross red crescent is try to support our water food psychosocial support and in the recent weeks that we are still working. in their whole camp there are about sixty thousand new refugees in ninety years indeed and there are specific problems on their associated with the with the women and children for the most part are in that camp but i'm just wondering if that m

a team from the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies said that ninety perhere the event was taking place. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy reports. last night confusion and disbelief over how a group of young people trying to enter a disco ended in disaster. terrible, just chaos. young ones hysterical, the whole night, ijust cannot believe what has happened. just after 9:30pm emergency services were called to reports of casualties outside the hotel. it was soon declared a major incident. one of the teenagers died at the scene, two died later in hospital. absolutely stunned and shocked. there we have people out enjoying themselves on st patrick's night and it ends up in tragedy. the hotel had been hosting a party to celebrate st patrick's day. police believe a crowd outside had been pushing to get in but are still trying to work out exactly what happened. preliminary investigations show that was a crush towards the front door of this hotel and in the crush people seem to have fallen. we are examining now to see if the people who have fallen are those wh