jeff harrington explains from doha more floods a possible a winter in the gulf, unlike any other, at least in recent memory. since january 1st, more than a years worth of rain has fallen on cat hurst capital though. huh? in the nearby emerald streets, flooded after another deluge and had put the dubai desert classic at his standstill for several hours. ah. in november, saudi arabia's western coastal city of jetta saw record rainfall 3 years worth in only 8 hours. oh. and it's not just rain. it's been cold enough for snow on the tops of these mountains. a rare event in oman, the why this month's of the year in the gulf are during the winter, and with another still to go. more flooding is possible. jeff harrington, l g 0. doha, and state of emergency has been declared in new zealand, largest city, auckland, sad after heavy rains, cause major flooding evacuations in several areas are continuing. this is now hawkins wet. iss january on records at to japan, which is looking to fast track, the use of robots and drawings to carry out deliveries. they're being seen as a potential solution to

jeff harrington, l g 0. doha. now state of emergency has been declared in new zealand, largest city, all, clint, that's after heavy rain caused major flooding evacuations in several areas are continuing. this is now or cleans with his january on record. still, i had an al jazeera feeling, the financial pain. why a fall in the valley of pakistan's car is left many struggling to survive. and thereby joke of it reaches a record extending 10 australian own finals setting up a shell down ah, with off we go with your weather update for asia and read off the bat. we've got some weather alerts for the indian state of garage or stand some sundry downpours here me see some hail mixed in as well. and then this turn, the beer been gone. looks like it wants to spin up into something this area is conducive to storm developments or continue to keep tabs on that. it's a breezy pitcher for southern st province in pakistan, including could, archie could see windows here about 50 kilometers per hour, and a shield of snow sweeping th

jeff harrington, l g 0. doha still had an al jazeera why b b. c radio has been forced to end broadcasts in multiple languages, often decades. how japan is turning to attack to tackle is low birth rate. and the final sets of us reaches the australian open final. izzy chases is 1st ever grand slam type. ah, the who's off we go with your weather update for asia and right off the bat we've got some other alerts for the indian state of draw just on some thunder downpours here may see some hail mixed in as wall. and then this turn, the base been gone, looks like it wants to spin up into something this area is conducive to storm development. so we'll continue to keep tabs on that. it's a breezy picture for a southern st province in pakistan, including could, archie could see windows here about 50 kilometers per hour, and a shield of snow sweeping through cobble maybe about 10 centimeters in the forecast for you, or monsoon range, cutting across the central philippines. also, northern borneo island and touching the coast central coast of vietnam on satu

and this been widespread flooding in the gulf springing weather reported jeff harrington, who's live here in doha, and quite a lot of rain in doha these past 24 hours. jeff, you know, i am in a desert country fully surrounded by puddles and speaking with locals. they tell me they can't remember a winter quite like this with so much rain. and indeed, since the start of january guitars, capital dough has picked up more than a years worth of rain. so yes, a years worth of rain in less than a month, but i want to take you north of doha right now. we had a water spout, some video to show you. probably think and jeff i, you're showing me this. i am showing it to you to illustrate the intensity of the storm systems that have been over the golf. just be intensity of the rain. so water is felt that's a tornado over the water there, but it wasn't just flooding in doha, in nearby to buy. we've seen some flooded out streets there and in fact the p g, a golf tournaments going on there with that it stands still for a few hours just again because of the intensity of the rain. but i got to put this w

all right, thanks very much for that update jeff harrington in joe ha. japan is looking to fast track the use of robots and drones to carry out deliveries. they've been seen as a potential solution to the country's declining population as rob fried reports from tokyo. japan is a world leader in industrial robots on show with this exhibition in tokyo, the kind of precision robotics that work on production lines globally. and for those companies still wanting to use people. it even provides the add ons to make the workers more robotic. but it's where robots are interacting directly with humans that offers the most excite. but right now, especially in the smart delivery functions, eagerly sought by the service and logistics sectors, encouraging their development. don't know, thanks to the speed of development of many types of technology. we've been able to bring them together in this machine in just a year and a half with their high tech manufacturing, super fast internet speeds under desire to be 1st, it seems east asian countries are pioneering. the introduction of robots in everyday l

some rainfall fell in only 15 hours where the president jeff harrington has more on the flooding rains. in new zealand. sun is shining now, but that daylight has revealed 8 huge amounts of damage across tama key makoto, oakland, l biggest city. so just give you an idea how fast this was. we had heavy rain yesterday, then an a mess of ours. we had 3 months worth of laying at once and then quickly overwhelmed drains flooding streets that was guessing into people's houses. within a matter of minutes, we saw people having to swim from their homes as the flood waters rose, those waters up to almost my neck level. many of those people bravely actually went back into the flood bosses to try and rescue those who couldn't escape on the road and across the sea. our roads and most ways were also covered in water transport, essentially grinding to a halt and much of the sensing many cars had to be totally abandoned as they became submerged under the flood waters. sadly, people have died so far. one of them we understand was kaya kane on the flood waters on oakland north shore. a nother body was fo

well, from all this extraordinary storm in california, let's bring in with the present to jeff harrington and jeff, absolutely no sign of the storm letting out. absolutely. you know, knew that was around christmas, that we really turn the taps on here. and it's been pouring rain ever since. so a number of pacific storms have slammed into the u. s. west coast. this is our satellite picture, so it shows the rain cloud and even now we can see a number of systems right? 12, and there's the 3rd coming rate behind. so we are in the thick of this right now, but this time around, the rain's been particularly bad for so cal, southern california. so darker the blue, darker, the yellow, that's the more intense rain. you know, about 2 hours west of los angeles in santa barbara, we had $247.00 millimeters of brain in a 24 hour period. so i know i'm thrown a lot of numbers at you right now, but all of that to say, half a years worth of rain in 24 hours. so not only southern california, also for no cow northern california, san francisco member, we were chatting about turning the taps on around christmas

here's our weather presented jeff harrington. we've got another pacific storm crashing in to the coasts of california up and down the coast. everyone. these are the details. so drenching rain, san francisco, los angeles, about 2 hours west of los angeles, half a years worth of rain in 24 hours. and we've got some serious snow for this year in nevada, talking about a meter to a meter and have of new accumulation. this is less so a story for oregon, washington state, and canada's british columbia. sure, a bit more cloud cover and a few showers, but nothing like they're seen in california for canada's newfoundland province. specifically the avalon, i think we have near blizzard conditions here, about $25.00 centimeters of snow and wind gusts, anywhere from about 80 to a 100 kilometers per hour. off to the u. s. gulf states, the se, not a whole lot going on. it's a sun cloud combo here, so it's carry on. we're now into central america and some showers around this region, but plenty in the way of sunshine to come south end of south am

jeff harrington proposals it is. see that plume of moisture right over the north island. of course, we've seen some of the pictures as well, just extreme cases of flooding. a lot of people say that they spent the night hearing sirens because of the amount of rescues that took place. also had some canceled flights at the airport. so the effects were certainly far reaching and part of the problem here was that we were tapping into tropical air. we know that tropical air masses hang on to more moisture, and again, that was just dumped over the north island. so again, what is 24 hours on record here? we can also say it was what is january on record and a summer's worth of rain in a day. so again, we were talking about their tropical air mass in the south pacific. this is a continuing landing your pattern. it's been going on now for 3 years, which was quite unusual. so lanyard means that the south pacific is warmer than average, so that just adds fuel to the storms. so here's what i see on sunday. still some more rain to come for the north island. it's also sliding down into t